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Title: SWEARING-IN SECRETARY OF DEPT. OF ART &
TECHNOLOGY
US Department of Art &
Technology
Washington, DC
http://www.usdept-arttech.net
Press
Secretary
For
Immediate Release: November 19, 2001
RANDALL M. PACKER TO BE SWORN IN AS
FIRST
SECRETARY OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF ART &
TECHNOLOGY
The US Department of Art &
Technology is pleased to announce that on Friday, November 30th,
Randall M. Packer will be sworn in as the first Secretary of the US
Department of Art & Technology. The ceremony will take place at
9:00 p.m. at the Mt. Royal Station Auditorium in Baltimore, as part of
the Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in
Baltimore & the World release event celebrating their
new edition on art & technology. Pre-ceremony festivities will
begin at 8:00 PM. US DAT Chief of Protocol and founder of the
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Alice Denney will officiate at
the ceremony.
As the Department's first Secretary,
Mr. Packer will work with the White House and the Government to
promote new media initiatives and revolutionary aesthetic and
scientific ideologies intended to help the nation cope with an
increasingly mediated society in these times of crisis. Packer will
represent US artists' interests actively on a range of political,
economic, commercial and security issues, and will reveal dramatic new
measures to confront these issues by increasing artistic production
and critical efforts in the media arts across the nation.
Mr. Packer's nomination was recently
announced by President Bush in his first artist-based initiative in
the wake of recent terrorist attacks and their impact on the national
psyche. Upon receiving the nomination, Packer
has announced that "it is the role of the artist to engage its
government in meaningful cultural dialogue vital to national
interests. For in the words of Marshall McLuhan, 'to prevent undue
wreckage in society, the artist tends to now move from the ivory to
the control tower of society'"
The ceremony is open for press
coverage. Press who wish to cover the ceremony should inform LINK
Media Contact Joy McClure (410.327.4001)
before the close of business on Monday, November 26. Please note that
there will not be a "question and answer" period offered at
this event. Press will be escorted out of the building at the
conclusion of the ceremony.
The Mt. Royal Station Auditorium is
located at 1400 Cathedral Street (across from the Lyric Theater)
in Baltimore.
For previous news releases, see the
US Department of Art & Technology temporary Website:
http://www.usdept-arttech.net
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