Truth to Technology. Theme of the Month December 2006
In March this year the list discussed The Audio Visual (Video to …?)
and explored how the different technologies of new media (including
sound) behaved radically differently in terms of time, space, and
audience. In August we discussed the preservation of public art.
Currently, CRUMB is drafting a friendly technical guide (see Practical
Resources on the new www.crumbweb.org site to download a table of
contents), and musing on 'how much does a curator need to know about
the technology?' 'how much does the technology effect the very
reception of the work - should we be more true to technology, and less
concerned with trying to shoehorn it into conventional galleries?'
'So, is 'public art' then the way forward?'
This month's theme is co-hosted by Keith Whittle of S/Lab at the
University of Sunderland, and includes respondents from the fields of
public art, from Engage in Sydney
<http//:www.creativityandcognition.com/engage06> and 'out of the
internet': International Symposium in Brisbane
<http//:www.maap.org.au>.
Invited Respondents:
Chris Byrne is Co-director of Art Research Communication, an Edinburgh
based company working nationally and internationally with artists,
exhibitions, projects and critical context. He is also Lecturer in
Contemporary Media Theory at the University of Dundee.
Peter Cornwell, BLIP <http://www.blipcreative.com/>
Tom Cullen, Freelance Media arts Technical Manager and Consultant.
Michelle Hirschhorn is an Independent Curator/Producer who initiates
and manages solo and collaborative arts projects and events, working
mostly with live and technology based practice.
Wendy Kirkup, artist.
Teresa Kwong is an arts promoter, curator and producer for film and
media arts. Currently the Director of the Hong Kong Independent Short
Film and Video Awards (ifva), she has curated programs about Hong Kong
Shorts for oversea festivals/ institutions in UK, Poland and Japan,
etc. Recently she has started producing short films with up-and-coming
filmmakers.
Fatima Lasay is an artist, writer and independent curator based in the
Philippines. She is interested in the social and poitical dimensions of
technologies and in the aesthetics of kaluluwa (knowledge), wika
(language) and katawan (body). Her website is at
http://www.korakora.org/
Manu Luksch. Founder of the London/Vienna-based interdisciplinary arts
production company
ambientTV.NET. Techniques and effects of live data broadcasting and
transmission provide theme, medium, and performative space for many of
the works.
Lizzie Muller is a curator and writer currently completing a PhD on the
audience experience of interactive art. www.lizziemuller.com
Hannah Redler is a contemporary art curator, specialising in new media
and participatory projects. She is Head of Arts Programme at the Science
Museum, London.
Mike Stubbs is Head of Exhibition Programs at ACMI the Australian
Centre for the Moving Image
Steve Symons: independent artist in sound and technology :
consultant/trainer for making and installing systems based artwork.
http://muio.org : http://owlproject.com
Steve Symons: independent artist in sound and technology :
consultant/trainer for making and installing systems based artwork.
http://muio.org : http://owlproject.com
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