---------Hi everyone on CRUMB----------------
Today I want to send a brief reminder of our forthcoming project with
New York based media theorist and curator Caitlin Jones who joins CRUMB
for research and a WORKSHOP as part of the Inspiring Internationalists
Programme (http://inspiringinternationalists.wordpress.com/).
A few places at the workshop (details as follows) are left, so if you
want to take part please email me as soon as you can...
Would be lovely to meet some of you there!
all best
Verina
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Caitlin Jones has a Masters of Arts degree in Archival Studies and has
worked as assistant curator at the Guggenheim Museum, including working
on the important inter-museum research project, The Variable Media
Initiative<www.variablemedia.net> which sought to identify and analyse
the challenges of collecting/archiving and documenting sculpture, fine
art, new media art, and video. She also curated the Guggenheim
exhibitionSeeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice, which paired
older and newer versions of new media artworks including those by Cory
Arcangel and Grahame Weinbren.She has worked for commercial galleries
in New York, and has sold new media works by Vuk Cosic and Thomson &
Craighead to major collectors. She has written for Rhizome.organd The
Believer.
This workshop is one of a series of professional development
opportunities offered by CRUMB, which aim to share the best practical
experience of leading international curators with a range of those who
work on showing contemporary art. Curators, archivists, artists,
technicians, designers, organizers and educators should find it useful.
It is part of AV Festival 08: Broadcast, which takes place 28 February
- 8 March 2008, in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough
<http://www.avfestival.co.uk/>, and supported by The Inspiring
Internationalists programme
<inspiringinternationalists.wordpress.com/>. On the CRUMB website, the
theme for discussion in February concerns writing about art that is
ephemeral, broadcast, or ‘live’ <www.crumbweb.org>.
The workshop will cover questions relating ton the documentation and
preservation of electronic and ephemeral artworks and art events; those
interested in new media, online archives, live art, broadcast,
installation or performance should find it relevant. New media
technologies offer some new perspectives on documenting, archiving, and
preservation: websites and blogs mean that people can document and
criticise themselves, online databases mean that people can collect
themselves, and tagging means that people can make their own categories
and taxonomies. YouTube and other filesharing sites now make it easy
for people to ‘broadcast themselves’, and then re-broadcast, re-enact,
or make different versions of the same work. How does contemporary art
work re-contextualise former attempts of the ephemeral in art? What is
the role of the archivist or registrar in considering the longevity of
the interdisciplinary practices that media art brings along?
WORKSHOP DETAILS
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Documenting new media art.CRUMB professional development workshop
Date> Wednesday 5 March 2pm – 5pm
Venue> Dance City / Newcastle Upon Tyne http://www.dancecity.co.uk/
Admission FREE, but booking is essential as places are limited.
To book, RSVP by emailing to [log in to unmask]:
1. Contact details.
2. 50 words on your particular area of practice in relation to this
workshop, and what you hope to get from attending.
3. Any special needs.
CRUMB receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
and the Leverhulme Trust. This event receives funding from Arts Council
England Inspiring Internationalists programme.
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