Dear CRUMB list,
i'm based at Vooruit in Ghent/Belgium. Vooruit is an arts centre with a tradition in presenting live arts (theatre,dance,music)and always showed a big passion for transdisciplinary work. From that passion we have been inserting work/artists from the realm of media art into our program - in the form of short running exhibitions and performancebased work.
last month we have launched our new website 2.0 (unfortunatly it's only in Dutch so far, it will be in English aswell from september on - it's in it's testing phase right now - betaversion till september). Our aim is to have extra layers of documentation around the program we are presenting and to engage (a part of) our audience in an extra interaction with our program - in advance and afterwards. They can add their documentation on activities that took place in Vooruit. To allow that, the new website uses existing tools like youtube, googlevideo and odeo for communitymembers to upload material. As soon as they are a communitymember they make their own profile and can write recommendations on beforehand and/or reviews afterwards.
to answer more concretely:
"how many of you include video walk-throughs in your documentation of gallery based exhibitions of new media art?"
we have invested in hiring a cameraman on a parttime basis to be able to film our exhibitions and some of the performances we present. we want to systematically offer documentation (and of our exhibitions: video walk-throughs) on our website.
"how many of you insist on having people in the photographs/slides taken of the show?"
the pictures we take are meant to catch the atmosphere of the exhibition and give an idea of the work presented. in that way it is usually appropriate to have people in the picture.
"do you document interaction in the exhibition? how?"
by filming people who are engaging with the work. sometimes it's random audience, sometimes it's staged with a collaborater.
"do you use online photosharing sites such as flickr for exhibition documentation? or do you hope that visiting artists / others might put their photos online and you can link to them later?"
we have inserted youtube and googlevideo for sharing videodoc into our website, we have inserted odeo for sharing audiofiles. what photosharing is concerned we don't use an excisting site like flickr, instead people can directly upload their pictures onto our website.
"have you ever been 'told off' by an institution for putting exhibition installation-in-progress photographs or gallery-installation photos on the web/flickr - and if so was it about infringing copyright on the artists work, or infringing the contract with the artist and the gallery over documentation?"
no, not so far. we are adding a clausule in our standardcontract asking permission to artists to put documentation on our website.
best wishes,
Eva De Groote
Music and media arts
Arts Centre Vooruit
St. Pietersnieuwstraat 23
9000 Gent
Belgium
t +32 9267 2889
f +32 9267 2899
www.vooruit.be
www.vooruit.be/nl/fricties
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