[Commlist] Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival launches New Media Art Exhibition RADICAL INFILTRATIONS

*FLEFF Presents “Radical Infiltrations”*

*Online exhibition of artist responses to viral infiltrations before 
Covid-19*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

ITHACA, NEW YORK, March 19, 2020--As its 23rd annual edition migrates to 
virtual spaces to respect public health guidelines to contain Covid-19, 
the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival presents “Radical 
Infiltrations,” an online exhibition of digital media, exploring the 
power of questioning and even challenging infiltrations, such as the 
manipulations of profit-driven algorithms and the relentless rhetoric of 
political polarization.

The exhibition can be accessed on the FLEFF website at 
https://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/infiltrationsnewmedia/

“At a moment when no aspect of our daily lives seems safe from the 
infiltrations of surveillance and monetization, radical infiltrations 
can challenge inequitable systems. Rather than attacking systems from 
outside, radical infiltrations attack from within. When we inhabit 
systems, we can work against their structures of power and claim common 
spaces,” said New York University Abu Dhabi associate professor Dale 
Hudson, who curated the exhibition along with Wichita State University 
assistant professor Claudia Costa Pederson.

Infiltrating physical and virtual environments, projects include 
performances that involve WiFi or community journalism, short videos, 
and Instagram feeds.

Featured artists include Roger Beebe, Yoav Lifshitz with Israeli Pirate 
Party Collective, Amelia Marzec, Vera Sebert, 
studioThirdWorldCollective, Kailas Sreekumar, and Jodi Zellen with work 
from Austria, India, Israel, and the United States.

Three projects have been selected for the exhibition’s jury prizes.

Amelia Marzec’s “Weather Center for the Apocalypse” and Yoav Lifshitz’s 
“Occupy WiFi Project” offer alternative networks for communication that 
are improvisational and provisional. Unlike the expanding power of 
transnational corporations like Google, Amazon, and Alphabet, and 
attendant state control, these new networks hack old and new 
technologies to communication without the manipulations of profit-driven 
algorithms and state propaganda.

Roger Beebe’s “Amazonia,” asks us to think about the damage e-commerce 
does, not only to its workers, but to the environment because of the 
massive amounts of energy required for server farms.

Launched in 1997 as an outreach project from Cornell University’s Center 
for the Environment, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was 
moved permanently to Ithaca College in 2005. It is housed in the Office 
of the Provost as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to 
larger global issues.

For more information, contact Dale Hudson, (dale.hudson /at/ nyu.edu) 
<mailto:(dale.hudson /at/ nyu.edu)> or Claudia Costa Pederson, (ccp9 /at/ cornell.edu) 
<mailto:(ccp9 /at/ cornell.edu)>


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