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In conjunction with the exhibition "ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century," November 23, 2001--January 15, 2002, The Kitchen organized a discussion moderated by Judith Donath, an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. The exhibition was initiated by the Sociable Media Group (SMG), which is directed by Donath, and produced by the MIT Media Lab. It premiered in Cambridge, Massachusetts in October 2001.
Donath introduced a diverse panel that included: Richard Kostelanetz and Hyun-Yeul Lee, who presented their "Alternative Autobiographies" (2001) installation; Marshall Reese and Raffi Krikorian, who collaborated on "Van Eyck's Mirror" (2001), a project that also Included Nora Ligorano and Stefan Agamanolis; and Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar and Marc Downie talked about "Loops" (2001), the portrait they developed of the dancer Merce Cunningham.
Donath first outlined the background of the Sociable Media Group, which began with a mission to address the question of how technology is changing what it means to be human. As one aspect of this inquiry, the identity pieces on display in the exhibition were developed over a period of months to Investigate the idea of…
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