As Israel's right to exist is being challenged, Zionism being maligned, and Israel being attacked by those seeking its destruction, this Zionist Artists Project is most timely and significant.
If you are an artist, contribute an essay about your artwork and life for the new book:
Zionist Artists in a Networked World / אמן ציונים בעולם מרושת.
Your autobiographical essay should explore your life and art making in relation to Zionism and the ubiquitous networked world that intertwines life in Israel, life as a Jew in the Diaspora, and new directions in the arts emerging globally in our postdigital age. Chapters should be e-mailed to the book's editors: melalexenberg@yahoo.com or amos.safrai@gmail.com. Submit your chapter as a Word document between 4,000 and 6,000 words.
Editors of this project are Amos Safrai, head of Emunah College and Menahem (Mel) Alexenberg, academic head of the college's School of the Arts, former professor of art and education at Columbia University and Bar Ilan University, research fellow at MIT, and author of The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2011). It is being dedicated to the memory of the late Tzipora Luria z"l who taught Israeli Art at Emunah College and was a distinguished art critic.
The introductory essay for the book by Alexenberg (in Hebrew above and in English below) explores interrelationships between contemporary Zionism, the structure of Jewish consciousness, and art in the networked world of a posdigtial age. Other exemplary essays by Michael Bielicky, Shalom Gorewitz, Menachem Wecker, and Alan Kaufman written for the book are also posted on this blog.
The introductory essay for the book by Alexenberg (in Hebrew above and in English below) explores interrelationships between contemporary Zionism, the structure of Jewish consciousness, and art in the networked world of a posdigtial age. Other exemplary essays by Michael Bielicky, Shalom Gorewitz, Menachem Wecker, and Alan Kaufman written for the book are also posted on this blog.
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Many understand Zionism as primarily a secular movement towards a Jewish State in the last century. From this base, Zionism has morphed into preserving the Jewish State and defending Israel’s existence.
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