Dear List,
So, there's couple of interesting conferences lecture series that have
been posted to the list, are any list members going, and would like to
report back?
TATE MODERN
PVA MediaLab symposium and open debate
ART, LIFESTYLE AND GLOBALISATION
Saturday 7 April 2007
> THURSDAYS@ARGOS
> LECTURE
> 05.04.07 // 20:30
>
> Geert Lovink
> New Media Arts at the Crossroads
> The emerging new media arts genre is in a crisis. Not that 'new media'
> are on their way out. What we're talking about here is a ‘luxury’
> problem: in what direction to grow futher. After an initial period in
> which time and again the question “what is new media” was raised, we
> have now moved to a second phase, in which large parts of the
> population have become familiar with multimedia, cell phones and the
> Internet. However, new media arts still operates in a self-referential
> ghetto, dominated by techno-fetishism. In the meanwhile, the world at
> large has moved from utopian promises about virtual reality and
> cyberspace to a culture of massive use. Taking this 'democratization'
> of new technologies in mind, what are the implications of this shift
> for the 'electronic arts' branch? Should new media artists and their
> (few) institutions seek collaboration and integration with the museum
> and gallery art? Should new media remain a seperate category, with its
> own festivals and exhibitions, or be integrated into the broader
> 'contemporary arts'? Or should we rather further institutionalize the
> new media discipline?
>
> Geert Lovink (NL/AUS) is a media theorist and activist, Internet
> critic and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First
> Recession. He worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and
> India. He is a member of the Adilkno collective and co-founder of
> Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and
> Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network
> Cultures, professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
> and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University
> of Amsterdam. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for
> Advanced Study.
>
> followed by debate
>
> THURSDAYS@ARGOS
> 05.04 LECTURE – GEERT LOVINK NEW MEDIA ARTS AT THE CROSSROADS
> 19.04 CONCERT - TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA & NICHOLAS BUSSMANN / MARCUS
> SCHMICKLER & HAYDEN CHISHOLM
> 26.04 LECTURE - DANIEL ROSENBERG LINE AND TIME
> 03.05 LECTURE + SCREENING - HERMAN ASSELBERGHS & ROSI BRAIDOTTI IN
> THE FUTURE PERFECT
> 17.05 LECTURE - JON IPPOLITO & JOLINE BLAIS ART AFTER INSTITUTIONS
> 24.05 CONCERT - DISCODESAFINADO / MACHINEFABRIEK
>
> ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media
> Werfstraat 13, 1000 Brussel
> www.argosarts.org
>
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House,
Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
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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