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Rinehart, Richard
February 22nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized

Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator, UC Berkeley’s Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

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Ricard Rinehart

Richard Rinehart has taught studio and theory of digital art at UC Berkeley since 2000 and has also been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard sits on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and previously on the Board of Directors for New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Richard curates digital art exhibitions and programs for theBerkeley Art Museum, curated digital art for New Langton Arts for six years, and has also curated or juried for ISEA2006/ZeroOne, Creative Capital Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Marin Arts Council, and San Jose City/Airport Project. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, “Archiving the Avant Garde,” a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Richard is also a working digital media artist whose work has been exhibited at Exit Art, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; GenArtSF; New Langton Arts; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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To explain this more precisely, just as Bloom acknowledges in Omens of Millennium that the very prescience of the Gnostic texts would not have allowed them to disappear entirely (and for their persistence, it must be noted, he is joyful), the prescience of Frankenstein similarly renders it a dangerous text to be used and/or abused. Frankenstein’s prescience resides in Mary Shelley’s brilliant dialectic of reality-based faith and scientific dreams. Simultaneously, this dialectic demands attention and theorization and it denies the possibility of polemical resolution. Thus, Shelley astonishingly narrates a meta-prognostication on the formula of science fiction as the imaginative production which can lead to reproductions inside and outside of texts even as she is installing the spark of life into the first of its species. From this critical perspective, even the most conservative efforts to ossify Frankenstein into a technophobic cultural cliché will, like Victor’s pastoral optimism in trying to forget about the creature amidst the sublime Alpine landscape, not succeed in bringing forth the good spirits (whether God or a sacred “Nature”) they summon. Rather, every cautionary invocation of Frankenstein cannot help but give more life, as both Harold Bloom and that rebellious replicant Roy Baty are both fond of saying, to precisely the abhorrent productions and reproductions they desperately wish to kill.
From “Dismembering the Cautionary Cliché: Re-reading the Warnings in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
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