Hello Everyone,
This months’ topic is Art and Activism.
Self-organisation, direct action, collaboration and social networks
have long been the characteristics of activism and socially engaged art
practice. They are now the characteristics of much new media art,
within the public realm of the web, and interdisciplinary practice. But
the spheres of discourse still remain distinct.
I’d like to start the discussion by asking: How can curators and
art-activists help facilitate a more inclusive dialogue?
Just to give you a bit of background - I’m doing PhD research with
CRUMB into the relationship between politicised socially engaged art
and new media art; and have been a long time lurker on the list. In
2005 I curated RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture at the CCA,
Glasgow. See www.riskproject.org.uk which included the RISK Academy
Media Lab for art-activists.
Best,
Ele Carpenter
Invited Respondents:
Saul Albert and Michael Weinkove, London, Artists, ‘Let The People
Speak’
http://theps.net http://talkeoke.com
Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, London, Furtherfield, HTTP Gallery.
www.furtherfield.org
Minerva Cuevas-Mexico, (MEX).
Artist, member of Espora.org and Irational.org. Her political practice
is based on technical and cultural projects, her artistic work responds
to specific social contexts worldwide.
http://www.espora.org
http://www.irational.org/mvc
http://www.minervacuevas.org
Leigh French, co-editor, Variant magazine: Glasgow / Belfast. (UK)
Free magazine concentrating on social, political and cultural issues.
http://www.variant.org.uk
Geert Lovink (NL/AUS), media theorist, net critic and writer.
Member of Adilkno collective (Cracking the Movement, The Media Archive);
Co-founder of Internet projects The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture
and
Incommunicado; Director of the Institute of Network Cultures
(www.networkcultures.org);
Professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam); Associate
professor at the
Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam. Fellow at
Wissenschaftkolleg,
Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-6. Web archive:
www.laudanum.net/geert
Aisling O’Beirn, Artists, Belfast, Northern Ireland
www.aislingobeirn.fsnet.co.uk
Virtual Urban, collaborative web project with Marjetica Potrc
www.potrc.org/vu
Kate Rich, Artist
Bureau for Inverse Technology, Feral Trade
http://sparror.cubecinema.com/feraltrade/
http://www.bureauit.org/
Nato Thompson, Curator,
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA).
Curated ‘The Interventionists’ exhibition 2004-5. Co-ed with Gregory
Sholette,
‘The Interventionists: Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of
Everyday Life’ 2004.
http://www.massmoca.org/
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