and maybe few more: can you curate new media?
and what is new media?
v ;-)
Sarah Cook wrote:
> here's a question: can you curate a symposium?
> and what is art media?
> ;-)
> sarah
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>> ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
>> ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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>> Infomail No 14
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>> ART MEDIA – MEDIA ART
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>> Symposium
>> Curated by Gerhard Johann Lischka and Peter Weibel
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>> Saturday, 19 June 2004, ZKM Lecture Hall, 14:00 to 18.30
>> Admission €8 / €4
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>> Curated by Gerhard Johann Lischka and Peter Weibel
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>> Media and art are terms that are used separately to denote very many
>> different phenomena, but they have also found acceptance in their
>> compound forms of media art and art media. Their applicability is
>> very wide-ranging and subject to very few rules. While that is so,
>> this virtual lack of any restrictions harbours an opportunity. It
>> helps to do away with a rigid assignment to categories and can thus
>> pave the way to a broad understanding of what media and art have
>> represented up to the present and what they can develop into in the
>> future. For it would seem that we cannot dispense with these two
>> terms even if they are now frequently employed as opposites.
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>> Thanks to their widespread use and steadily increasing success the
>> media now not only reach out to every corner of the globe. The
>> significance they have acquired has also enabled them to stand the
>> world on its head in that reality as portrayed in the mass media has
>> achieved the status of primary reality as a supplier of information.
>> If the media constitute everyday reality, art interpreted along
>> traditional lines is the enhancing or transcending of what is
>> customary. Art embodies information that goes beyond time and
>> circumstances. It is moulded into a form that breaks with the
>> directness of reality and opens up avenues that are capable of
>> linking the past with the present to constitute the future, thereby
>> enabling them to coexist.
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>> Speakers:
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>> Sylvie Blocher, Christiane Paul, Maurizio Lazzarato, Judith Berry
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>> For more information please visit our website: www.zkm.de
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>> Contact:
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>> ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
>> Lorenzstraße 19
>> 76135 Karlsruhe
>> Fon: 0049(0)721 / 8100 – 1200
>> Fax: 0049(0)721 / 8100 – 1139
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