Beryl - I think this is potentially a strong model for the development
and presentation of New Media work, in any context, regional or not. New
Media often has a time-base, not only in form, and at the point of
audience engagement, but also in process and practice.
Collaborations between venues and research institutions, are interesting
to look at in terms of being able to support the R&D requirements of New
Media work. Some works will take up to 5 years of research and
development before reaching a final platform for audience engagement
(noting of course that it is likely not to be its first). It is very
difficult for an organization engaged with ongoing public output and
presentation to support such durational processes. Universities and
other research facilities however, are very good at this. Although they
often do not have the physical space or resources to present work to its
best effect, for a wider audience.
New Media is also strengthened by a discursive context. Conferences and
other forms of academic debate or commentary can assist with the
interpretation of work. Helping to provide materials and contexts for
audiences to learn more about the work and its development, as well as
understand how it might be positioned within a wider social, historical
or cultural context. Older institutions often do not have these
interpretation specialisms in-house.
I am interested in the following questions:
Who leads negotiations and collaboration directives? The Artist, Venue
or Academic Institution?
At what point is a presentation venue relevant to the research and
development context?
How do we overcome and negotiate the different agendas of research
output and public output?
The answers to these questions are obviously going to be different in
each case. I would be interested to hear about successful or
unsuccessful models of this type, experienced by the wider list.
Kind Regards
Kelli Dipple
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Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Comments on Digital Aesthetics 2
Dear List,
The Digital Aesthetic 2 conference and exhibition in Preston,
Lancashire: http://www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk/
The exhibition was the second one to occur at Harris Museum and Art
Gallery, and shows an interesting development of a commitment to
including new media within the contemporary art program of a mixed
regional historical museum and art gallery (I was reminded there of
curating the exhibition Serious Games for the Laing Art Gallery in
Newcastle). The second exhibition is more ambitious in scale than the
first, and shows a broader inclusion of the work. The choices of display
are divided into two rooms: the larger included the more cinematic and
wall-based images including Gary Hill and Thompson and Craighead's Short
Films about Flying, and used a conventional white box format with black
boxes for the larger video projections. The smaller room contained the
more participative works including a tree-growing piece by
boredomresearch where users get to design their own tree for a forest
online. With dark-red walls, this space had references to more of a
media lounge where interaction was a little less intimidating.
The exhibition also has smaller iterations around the town, and the
linked conference brought experts and specialists to town. As a
partnership between University practice and research, and a
publicly-funded mixed artform gallery, could this be a sustainable model
for a gradual development curve of exhibiting new media art in a
regional context?
Beryl
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and Culture, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland
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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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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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