hi all
check out the very enticing lineup for this conference: Jon Winet,
Natalie Jeremijenko, Bruce Mau, Francesco Bonami, Anne Pasternak, Peter
Sellers, Lawrence Weschler, etc.
Nice to see new media and fine art curators mixing it up.
As usual, reports from whomever gets to go to Chicago are most welcome
here.
http://symposiumc6.com/schedule/
Symposium C6 - The Art World Is Flat: Globalism - crisis and opportunity
April 26-28, 2007. Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park, Chicago.
runs concurrent with Art Chicago and Artropolis April 27-30, 2007
Globalism is radically transforming our world, creating new political
instabilities, economic interdependencies, ecological stresses and
cultural hybrids. The negative results of globalism have been widely
discussed: the loss of cultural and ecological diversity; the
consolidation of economic and media power; the rise of violent
reactionary and fundamentalist movements.
But there are concurrent trends that suggest hope for a more positive
future. These include a growing awareness of the interconnectedness of
human destiny regardless of religious, geographic or political
differences; the uses of technology to heighten and accelerate social
networks and actions; the realization of the urgency of addressing
pressing, common, environmental, economic and political crises.
For the arts, the crisis of globalism is also an opportunity to
interact meaningfully with visionaries in business, politics, science,
and other arenas
The arts, always a harbinger of change, are likewise experiencing an
unprecedented surge of new aesthetic forms, cross-disciplinary
partnerships, distribution networks, market forces and inter-cultural
exchanges. For the arts, the crisis of globalism is also an opportunity
to interact meaningfully with visionaries in business, politics,
science, and other arenas, and to play a powerful new role in the
transformation of our shared reality and emerging future.
This conference will bring together an international group of
innovative and socially engaged artists, writers, scientists,
technologists, curators, theorists, patrons, entrepreneurs, designers,
and collectors, among others. It will focus on how the forces of
globalism are challenging traditional hierarchies, redistributing
capital, creating powerful new collaborative models, and generating new
kinds of hybrid cultural practice.
Conference participants will discuss questions relating to current
trends, emerging paradigms, and possible cultural futures in three
interrelated thematic areas:
New Capital(s)
Hegemony and Resistance in the Global Cultural Economy
How do shifts in wealth encourage or limit cultural visibility and
diversity? Will new cultural centers emerge, offering new
possibilities? What are the new models of interventionist cultural
practice? Why are new patrons creating alternative structures and
processes for cultural experiences?
No Borders Here?
Cultural Hybrids, Nomads, Refugees
What economic, political and cultural imperatives drive the new
nomadism? How is technology erasing traditional hierarchies and
boundaries of cultural production, distribution and interpretation? How
is the restless peripatetic creative class producing new dislocations,
networks and communities?
Green World
Art for a Sustainable Ecological Consciousness
What new solutions to the ecological crisis are emerging from
collaborations between science, culture and technology? How are green
artists, designers and architects using developments in science,
genetics and technology? What role does culture play on the brink of
environmental catastrophe?
A wide ranging and provocative discussion, the conference will raise
new questions, generate lively debate and offer possible answers to how
we can anticipate and respond to the challenges and opportunities
resulting from the fact that for now, and for the foreseeable future,
“the art world is flat.”
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