Dear List,
Just a quick note to say that we will be having a Theme in December:
"Truth to Technology".
And in the meantime, this show sounds interesting, any reviews?
Yours
Beryl
>Extra-ordinary Experiences: A Retrospective of British Media Art
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>Venue: Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany.
>Dates: 10-19th November 2006
>Curated by: Tom Corby
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><http://www.kunst-haus-dresden.de/>http://www.kunst-haus-dresden.de/
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>This unique exhibition presents an overview of British media art,
>covering a period from the early 1990s to the present day. Work by
>the selected artists - Susan Collins, Rod Dickinson, Mongrel,
>Scanner and Thomson and Craighead - enables German audiences to
>explore a representative range of sound, Internet, video and
>interactive works, symptomatic of British media art produced during
>this era.
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>Whilst media art in the form of video, photography and other
>expanded time-based practices, precedes the widespread emergence of
>the desktop computer and Internet, the artworks seen at this
>exhibition places the computer as central to their form. This fact,
>while brute, allows us to draw a useful line between these digital
>"new media" practices and the older analogue media art forms. This
>period is significant in British art history as it describes a
>radical shift in creative investigation that opened up extensive new
>areas of practice (in the form of the Internet and human-computer
>interactivity) and also produced new economies of art production and
>distribution.
>
>In particular a new type of artist was emerging in the UK who was
>quick to confront and exploit the new ways of working and
>communicating described by the emerging technological landscape.
>Characteristically informed by an iconoclastic punk "Do-It-Yourself"
>attitude, these "new media" practices were informed by a desire to
>circumnavigate mainstream art institutional contexts and an interest
>in re-situating new media within wider debates concerning the
>social, political and aesthetic implications of such technologies.
>Following this theme, the exhibition selects a diverse range of
>practitioners, who are united by a consistency of approach in which
>technology becomes a pliant vehicle for creative invention which is,
>in turn, critically motivated, poetic, playful, and formally complex.
>
>Supported by the British Council and the Arts and Humanities Council
>of the United Kingdom.
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Prof. Beryl Graham
University of Sunderland
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture
(0191) 515 2896
http://www.crumbweb.org
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