this thread is happening on the spectre list, but perhaps people have
some thoughts here too?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jose-Carlos Mariategui <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 7 March 2006 6:06:11 AM GMT
> To: Chris Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: Spectre <[log in to unmask]>, iberoamerica ACT
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [spectre] How International is Media Art ? The Role of the
> Curatorial Practice
>
> Dear Chris and friends:
>
> I just came up with this interesting announcement of the International
> Symposium on Curating New Media Art. Yes, but it is Western-side
> International Symposium, not a real International one. It is a pity
> that
> though there are so many projects going on at a wide (real)
> International
> Scale, there is still the need to "Westernize" as much as possible the
> arts.
> This is similar to the reasons why in the majority of books on the
> so-called
> history of New Media there is not a single discussion on what happened
> outside Europe, Japan or the USA. This reflects a conformism and lack
> of a
> real consideration of the ways in which new media art has been
> evolving,
> quite successfully in many cases, through out the world, and I say the
> world
> (including the so-called emergent 'others' that in economic terms
> represented in 2005 more than half world's GDP).
>
> So when you discuss of point out questions around 'learning from
> pioneers',
> to what pioneers are you referring, to the semi-blind western sight?
> Is
> that what makes a good curator of media art? I believe that one of
> the
> most important points around the curatorial process is to understand a
> context and the development of a history (in that sense perhaps the
> work/efforts of Oliver Grau are worth mentioning) but lets be OPEN,
> not just
> in OpenSource terms, lets admit that media art and therefore its
> curatorial
> practice is a wide international activity and not just a bunch a
> friends
> that talk about the same stuff over and over again.
>
> I hope we try in the future to talk about the concept of International
> in a
> much more real (or critical) sense, and not just by defining it from
> one
> side of the world.
>
> Jose-Carlos Mariategui
>
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Annick Bureaud <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 9 March 2006 10:42:42 AM GMT
> To: Jose-Carlos Mariategui <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: Spectre <[log in to unmask]>, iberoamerica ACT
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [spectre] How International is Media Art ? The Role of
> the Curatorial Practice
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I fully agree with Jose-Carlos. Last year was the "Year of Brazil in
> France" and the @rt Outsiders Festival was dedicated to "Brazilian New
> media art". In the catalogue, that I guest edited, I included a strong
> focus on the Brazilian pionneers, such as Cordeiro, Palatnik, but also
> Oiticica, etc. We also included 2 texts specially about 2
> organisations in Brazil that focus on exhibiting new media art. It is
> only 2, because ... catalogs have limits in term of pages ;-)
> The catalog, for those of you who might be interested, has been
> published by Anomalie/Hyx and the texts are both in French and
> English. Its title is "://Brasil". All the authors are brazilian. It
> includes texts by the artists in the exhibition and texts about the
> currents trends in Brazil and historical perspectives that I just
> mentionned.
> The exhibition, curated by Jean-Luc Soret, included current Brazilian
> new media art and an historical piece by Esmeraldo (kinetic work,
> without motors but based on electro-static electricity). And it was
> important, as a curatorial statement, to show that new media art exist
> outside the "usual paths" with a high level of creativity,
> understanding, etc. In this case it was Brazil. But Riccardo dal Farra
> has done a whole research (with the Langlois Foundation) on
> computer-electronic-music in South America that encompasses many more
> countries.
>
> Also, on the Leonardo/Olats web site, in the Pioneers & Pathbreakers
> (Pionniers et Précurseurs) project, we have information and
> documentation about Palatnik. I know that this site is mostly in
> French, but still, it does exist and shows that "new media art" is not
> only "Western" and that pionneers were also, in this case, in South
> America.
>
> Annick
>
>
> on 3/7/06 2:13 AM, Chris Byrne at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Art-Place-Technology
>> International Symposium on Curating New Media Art
>> Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT Centre
>> 30 March - 1 April 2006
>>
>> Just ten days left to take advantage of our early bird registration
>> offer: ends on 17th March.
>> Register now and save 35% on the full registration fee.
>> Further programme details and online registration:
>> http://www.art-place-technology.org
>>
>> New media art is a global phenomenon: a rapidly changing and dynamic
>> field of creative practice which crosses conventional categories and
>> disciplinary boundaries, challenging our assumptions about art.
>>
>> - How do curators engage with new media art?
>> - What makes a good curator of new media art?
>> - What can we learn from the pioneers of this field?
>> - What does the future hold for curating new media art?
>> - What common ground exists with other disciplines?
>>
>> These and other issues will be explored at Art-Place-Technology.
>> Speakers who are shaping the practice and theory of curating new media
>> art include:
>>
>> Inke Arns, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund.
>> Sarah Cook, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
>> Pierre-Yves Desaive, Fine Arts Museum of Belgium, Brussels
>> Paul Domela, Liverpool Biennial
>> Lina Dzuverovic, Electra, London
>> Charlie Gere, Lancaster University
>> Beryl Graham, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
>> Ceri Hand, FACT, Liverpool
>> Drew Hemment, Futuresonic, Manchester
>> Kathy Rae Huffman, Cornerhouse, Manchester
>> Stephen Kovats, V2, Rotterdam
>> Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York
>> Francis McKee, Glasgow International & CCA, Glasgow
>> Trebor Scholz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, New York
>> Dimitrina Sevova & Alain Kessi, codeflow, Zurich
>> Paul Sullivan, Static Gallery, Liverpool
>> Simon Worthington, Mute, London
>>
>> Art-Place-Technology will look at historical and current projects by
>> some of the world's leading curators of new media art, and discuss how
>> curating new media art creates interfaces with the art world, museum
>> culture, media, publishing and academia. The symposium also includes a
>> performance by LoVid, and a curator's tour of the exhibition "Howlin'
>> Wolf" by Mark Lewis at FACT.
>>
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