While the event is being planned within the academy, organizers have invited a diverse group of speakers to address an equally diverse audience, which will include scholars and teachers, professionals, artists, writers, policy makers, social and cultural commentators, community leaders, and young people. In coordination with the conference, a concurrent video show and digital salon is being be curated at the List Center for the Visual Arts. In the ever-changing terrain of new media productivity, issues of race and ethnicity ferment in digital space. Included in this digital salon, video program and soundscape are works by artists who are building digital habitats and laying political foundations through the use of hi-tech documents. Spanning the past 20 years, the program will include experimental film and video, net.art, CD-ROMS, websites and aural mixes.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Race in Digital Space Project is organized by the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in conjunction with New York University and University of California at Santa Barbara. MIT Program in Women's Studies, and the NYU Department of Cinema Studies. Major financial support has been provided by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Microsoft is an in-kind sponsor.