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  The Shaking Ray Levi Society
          Presents

          LAURIE ANDERSON

          January 20, 1997, 8:00 p.m.
          C.C. Bond Auditorium, Humanities Building
          Chattanooga State Technical Community College
          TICKETS: $22.50

                            The Speed Of Darkness

          A collection of stories and songs about the future of
          art and technology. Using the models of three places - a
          theater, a mental hospital, and a control room -
          Anderson will talk about how these places are merging to
          form late twentieth century techno-culture. Although
          known for her large multi-media shows, Anderson will
          present an informal evening with only keyboards, violin,
          and digital processing.

          "The Speed of Darkness" is a meditation on the future of
          technology.

          "The thing that scares me is that every day technology
          is getting more global, corporate, monolithic and
          impossible to escape. Recently someone said the saddest
          thing about the fall of the Berlin Wall is that you can
          no longer defect. There's nowhere left to go. And now
          that technology is everywhere in the world - most
          artists - like everywhere else - are having to figure it
          out."

          Among other things, "The Speed Of Darkness" touches on
          the recent trend to combine "work" and "fun", food as an
          analogy for information, cybersex, the role of coffee,
          web sites, and therapies for people who have used too
          much technology.

          For example, there's 'Identity Therapy' which is based
          on the principle that if you don't know who you really
          are anyway, it frees you. I got this idea from some
          friends who work in an office and they said that they
          were getting really nervous form their coffee breaks.
          Every time they had coffee, it made them feel more and
          more driven. It wasn't relaxing at all. So they started
          to have 'Wig Breaks' instead. Around eleven o'clock
          every morning they all went into a small room and tried
          on wigs for fifteen minutes and after awhile they
          weren't really certain aoubt who they were anymore and
          they found this pretty relaxing. So that's 'Wig
          Therapy.'


** I got this information from the Shaking Ray Levi Society web 
** page at http://www.chattanooga.net/SRS/.  They can be contacted 
** via e-mail at shakingray@chattanooga.net or via
**   post office box 21534
**   chattanooga, TN 37424-0534


-- david daniell
   vaps1wd@prism.gatech.edu
   http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/dwd/