Lynne Hershman speaking at a symposium in liverpool!
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From: Curating digital art - www.crumbweb.org
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beryl Graham
Sent: 02 October 2007 11:36
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Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Fwd: Had to be there conference
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> To celebrate the launch of FACT's online
> archive (www.fact.co.uk/archive) and Re: (Video Postive) Archiving
> Video Positively, an exhibition of video art from FACT's Video
> Positive festivals. We are bringing together leading artists,
> producers and institutes from around the world to consider time based
> media in a digital age.
>
> Had to be There?
> A One-day Symposium
> Symposium dinner 15 October 7.00pm
> Symposium 16 October 9.30pm-6.00pm
>
> 'You had to be there' is the common phrase used when you try to relay
> an experience or event that already took place.
> Did you have to be there? is the underlying question around this one
> day symposium.
>
> Invited speakers will include: Artist and Director/CEO of FACT Mike
> Stubbs, collaborators on FACT's new online archive, A: Database,
> artist and filmmaker David Hall, artist and founding member of London
> Video Arts, Tamara Krikorian, artist, producer and lead on REWIND at
> the University of Dundee Stephen Partridge, artist specialising in
> interactive computer and net based media art, Lynn Hershman Leeson,
> artist and marketer and Director of KiskyNet Media Katie Lips, artist
> collective Superflex, and artist Sonia Boyce.
>
> For more information visit the website www.fact.co.uk.
>
> FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is an organization
> working to champion new and emerging forms of creativity, engaging a
> wide range of artists and others in the development of new and
> emerging media forms.
>
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> We will appreciate it if you can.
>
> Thank you -
>
> Gaby
>
>
> On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:13, Beryl Graham wrote:
>
>> Hi Gabrielle,
>>
>> Yes, I'd love to be involved: How long would the presentation be?
>>
>> I should say, however, that I'm no expert on video in particular and
>> this panel is of video people rather than new media - I could talk a
>> bit about Time and Space in relation to video, and how other new
>> media differ from video, but CRUMB has concentrated more on the
>> challenge of interactive or net art. So it strikes me that I might me
>> more useful to you in the context of "Rehearsal of Memory: Experience
>> is Everything" - I showed Rehearsal of Memory in Serious Games, and
>> have a particular interest in the problems of preserving
>> 'interactive' experiences across both analogue and digital. Perhaps
>> this panel is already covered though?
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>> yours,
>>
>> Beryl
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21 Sep 2007, at 10:04, Gabrielle Jenks wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Beryl,
>>>
>>> Tickets will be on sale from tomorrow from the FACT box office the
>>> number is 0870 583217.
>>>
>>> But!!!
>>>
>>> We were wanting to include CRUMB in some capacity within the
>>> conference. We were hoping either you or Sarah could chair one of
>>> the panels. This seems very late notice, but we were awaiting
>>> confirmations from speakers to make sure the panel could actually
>>> take place, the participants have been very late in confirming.
>>>
>>> The symposium explores the development of collective historical
>>> memories around moving image, video and new media. In this sense we
>>> are trying to move beyond talking about the technical aspects of
>>> archiving and into the questions around how we understand an
>>> analogue culture in relation to a digital context that has generated
>>> a new experience of time.
>>>
>>> We have broken the day into 4 sections:
>>> [Re]inventing the Past: Introduction to the day, Mike Stubbs,
>>> Director of FACT
>>> [Re]collecting Video Art: Digital Memories of an Analogue Past
>>> Alternative Online Archives breakout sessions
>>> Rehearsal of Memory: Experience is Everything?
>>> Pimp my Archive
>>>
>>> We would like to invite you to give the presentation in the first
>>> section - based on your work to date - to explore how we re-conceive
>>> and re-present new media and video art in a digital environment -
>>> this will be followed by a series of much shorter presentation/case
>>> studies by artists who are addressing these issues either through
>>> securing their own histories or through re-presenting artists work.
>>> If you could chair this discussion and bring out threads of
>>> arguments and ideas this would make for an interesting panel.
>>>
>>> We have invited Tamara Krikorian, David Hall, Sonia Boyce to be on
>>> this panel.
>>>
>>> We will of course pay for your travel and accommodation.
>>>
>>> I really hope that you are able to make it and look forward to
>>> hearing from you soon.
>>>
>>> With best wishes,
>>>
>>> Gabrielle Jenks
>>>
>>> Collaboration Co-ordinator
>>> FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
>>> 88 Wood Street
>>> Liverpool, L1 4DQ
>>>
>>> t: + 44 (0)151 707 4438
>>> f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445
>>> http://www.fact.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>> Laura Sillars
>>> Senior Curator (Collaboration Programme)
>>> FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
>>> 88 Wood Street
>>> Liverpool, L1 4DQ
>>>
>>> t: + 44 (0)151 707 4409
>>> f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445
>>> http://www.fact.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 Sep 2007, at 15:43, Beryl Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Gabrialle,
>>>>
>>>> Please send further details of the 16th Oct conference- I'd like to
>>>> attend to cover it for CRUMB if possible,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Beryl
>>>>
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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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gabrielle Jenks
>>> Collaborations Co-ordinator
>>> FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
>>> 88 Wood Street
>>> Liverpool, L1 4DQ
>>>
>>> t: + 44 (0)151 707 4438
>>> f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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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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>
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>
> Gabrielle Jenks
> Collaborations Co-ordinator
> FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
> 88 Wood Street
> Liverpool, L1 4DQ
>
> t: + 44 (0)151 707 4438
> f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445
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> RE: VIDEO POSITIVE
> ARCHIVING VIDEO POSITIVELY
> 31 AUGUST - 04 NOVEMBER 2007
> Gallery 1, 2, Media Lounge and Public Spaces
> FREE Entry
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> To celebrate the launch of our new online archive, FACT presents an
> exhibition
> illustrating current issues in preservation and presentation of 'old'
> media art
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> www.fact.co.uk/archive
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> FACT is proud to be in LIVERPOOL, EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2008
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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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