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> From: Lauren Wright <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 20 March 2006 13:23:00 GMT
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> Subject: [node-l] Tonight! Sites and Para-Sites: Networking Art
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> Tickets still available from the ICA box office (020 7930 3647),
> [log in to unmask], or on the door.
>
> Sites and Para-sites: Networking Art
>
> 7:30 pm, Monday, March 20
> ICA, Brandon Room
> The Mall, SW1Y 5AH
> £3/£2 ICA members
>
> The London Consortium, the ICA and NODE.London present a conversation
> on how networks make artworks in the Brandon Room, ICA.
>
> Why might (or might not) media artists and organisations choose to
> utilise networks to generate and distribute artworks? What does the
> prevalence of networks in media arts reflect about the increasingly
> networked character of contemporary culture and society? What are some
> of the advantages and disadvantages of the network model in comparison
> to other organisational structures? A panel of professionals with
> differing relationships to media arts and its networks will examine
> these questions and invite discussion from the audience.
>
> Panel includes Ruth Catlow, artist, co-founder and co-director of
> Furtherfield.org and HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Practice]
> and a Voluntary Organiser for Node.London; Kelli Dipple, integrated
> media and performance artist and Webcasting Curator at Tate; Shu Lea
> Cheang, digital artist working in the field of net-based installation,
> social interface and film production; Tom Corby, artist, writer,
> curator, academic at the University of Westminster, and editor
> "Network Art: Practices and Positions," recently published by
> Routledge; Helen Sloan, director of SCAN, the new media art agency in
> the South of England; and moderator, Professor Steven Connor, Academic
> Director of the London Consortium.
>
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 [log in to unmask]
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
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