From: Charlie Gere - [log in to unmask]
Sent : 9/9/03
To: CSL
Subject: When New Media Was New
Hi everybody
Here is an announcement of a series of talks and seminars to be held at
Tate Modern, organised in collaboration with the School of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London
Apologies for cross-posting
Please forward to anybody who might be interested
Charlie Gere
When New Media Was New
Despite a history stretching back to the 1950s, art made using what are
now called 'new media' has been neglected by the mainstream art world.
This series of talks and seminars looks at the history of new media art
- from experiments with computer art in the 1950s and 60s to the
emergence of net art in the 1990s. It features three curators/critics
who have pioneered and supported new media art over the last forty
years: Jasia Reichardt, Christiane Paul and Peter Weibel. The aim is
look at landmark works and exhibitions in the field of computer art,
digital and electronic media, and internet art, and discuss their
relationships with mainstream art practice and with technological
developments in the wider world.
In conjunction with the three talks, Tate Modern is running a seminar
series on the same topic. Reichardt, Paul and Weibel will each lead a
session focusing on the themes of Cybernetics, Telematics and
Performance respectively - themes that have been central to their work.
The seminars will also feature contributions from other leading figures
involved in the development of new media art today. When New Media Was
New is organised and moderated by Charlie Gere (Birkbeck College),
author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Book, 2002). It is a collaboration
between Tate Modern Interpretation and Education and the School of
History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, and has been
made possible by an AHRB 'Changing Places' research grant.
THE TALKS
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
240 places
Tuesdays 30 Sept, 14 and 28 Oct.
Start 18.30, ends approx 20.00
Drinks reception
Tickets #5 (#3 concs) each event
Tues 30 Sept. Jasia Reichardt
Writer and curator Jasia Reichardt was Assistant Director of the ICA
(1963-71) and Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1974-76). She has
taught at the Architectural Association and elsewhere and published
widely. She is interested in art that encroaches on other fields:
science, music and literature, and has spent many years following up the
connections between art and technology. Among her exhibitions staged in
Britain the best known is Cybernetic Serendipity (1968), a landmark show
about the computer and the arts. In recent years she has spent
considerable time working in Japan.
Tues 14 Oct. Christiane Paul
Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service
organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has
written extensively on new media arts, including Digital Art (2003). She
teaches in the MFA computer art department at the School of Visual Arts
in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology,
while organising a number of shows of new media art in the States and
elsewhere. She also runs Artport, the Whitney Museum's online portal to
Internet art.
Tues 28 Oct. Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel has been head of the ZKM_Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
since 1999. Besides his activities as artist and curator, his
publications about art and media theory earned him international renown.
Since 1976 he has lectured widely at universities and academies in
Europe and the US. After heading the digital arts laboratory at New York
University, he founded the Institute of New Media at the Stddelschule in
Frankfurt-on-Main in 1989. He was in charge of the Ars Electronica
festival in Linz as artistic consultant and later artistic director
(1986-95), and has commissioned the Austrian pavilions at the Venice
Biennale.
THE SEMINAR SERIES
McAulay Studio B, Tate Modern
40 places
Wednesdays 1, 15 and 29 Oct
14.00-17.00
Tickets #45 (#30 concs), includes admission to all three Tuesday talks
Wed 1 Oct. CYBERNETICS
Paul Brown, artist and Senior Research Fellow for the AHRB-funded
Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc... (CACHe) project, studying
early British computer art, in the School of History of Art, Film and
Visual Media, Birkbeck College, and Helen Sloan, Director of Southern
Collaborative Arts Network (SCAN), will join Jasia Reichardt and Charlie
Gere for a seminar on questions arising from her talk.
Wed 15 Oct. TELEMATICS
Giles Lane, founder and director of Proboscis and Associate Research
Fellow of MEDIA@LSE in the London School of Economics, and Josephine
Berry, an editor of Mute, a cultural politics and technology magazine,
and author of a PhD in site-specific art on the net, will join
Christiane Paul and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from
her talk.
Wed 29 Oct. PERFORMANCE
Hannah Redler, curator at the Science Museum, and Sarah Cook,
independent new media curator and co-editor of the Curatorial Resource
for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB) website and listserv, will join Peter
Weibel and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from his talk.
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