Dear List
Welcome to the new theme of the month!
Yours
Beryl
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Art, Science, and Methods: November Theme of the Month
Two recent events ask how art deals with science, moving beyond the
debates about "two worlds" to aim for a more integrated understanding.
In October in London the new Institute for the Converging Arts and
Sciences at University of Greenwich asked what happens "When Art met
the Web-Sciences"
<http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/articles/latest/a1742-sketching-the-future>.
In November in Melbourne, the Super Human symposium, curatorial
masterclass and exhibition organised by ANAT
<http://www.superhuman.org.au/> addresses
the themes of Augmentation, Cognition and Nanoscale Interventions
within the field of art, and includes questions of how scientific and
artistic bodies of knowledge intersect with human, social bodies.
This month's theme invites event guests from both events to muse on a
common theme as it relates to curating art: Building on the methods
for cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary art production, can there
also be cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary curating? Jon Ippolito
and Joline Blais have argued that a long term 'research approach'
related to science and technology processes is one of the great
strengths of new media art - would list members agree?
Previous CRUMB themes which might be useful in this musing are:
2002 August theme: Art and Science Collaborations
2003 July theme: Formal Research
2004 February theme: Formal Research 2
2008 December theme: Curating responsive art from bodily input
Invited respondents:
Gavin Artz is currently CEO of ANAT and has had a career spanning
performance and composition, not for profit management and commercial
business. http://www.anat.org.au/
Erich Berger is an artist and curator who has worked for Laboral
Centre for Art and Industrial Creation in Spain, Atelier Nord in Norway
and Ars Electronica in Austria. http://randomseed.org
Simon Biggs is a Research Professor at Edinburgh College of Art. Since
1978 Biggs has been working with computers and interactive systems
within large-scale installations, web-based artworks and other media.
http://www.littlepig.org.uk
Pascal Brannan is an artist whose work brings together sound, image and
performance - developing a relationship between the lo-fi and the high
tech. Originally a member of Station House Opera, a commitment to
political activism and involvement with ACT UP London, brought about
the collaboration Bum Boy with artists Michael Atavar and Robert
Pacitti, and his project Mr Madam is ongoing.
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are artists, researchers and Curators, and
formed the internationally renowned Tissue Culture and Art Project
(www.tca.uwa.edu.au). They have been artists in residence in the School
of Anatomy and Human Biology since 1996 and were central to the
establishment of SymbioticA in 2000. Catts is the Director of
SymbioticA: the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at UWA and Dr
Ionat Zurr, who received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA - is researcher and SymbioticA's
academic co-ordinator. www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
Art Clay is an artist and curator, born in New York and lives in Basel.
He is a specialist in the performance of self created works with the
use of intermedia. His recent work focuses on media based works and
large performative works and spectacles using mobile device. He is the
initiator and Artistic Director of the 'Digital Art Weeks' in Zurich.
http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW/ArtclayInfopage
Kathy Cleland is a writer, curator and lecturer specialising in new
media and digital culture. She lectures in the Digital Cultures Program
at The University of Sydney. www.kathycleland.com
Johhny Golding aka Prof. Sue Golding is Director of ICAS, and Chair of
Philosophy in the Visual Arts & Communication Technologies. Prof
Golding is a philosopher and artist whose research covers the
intra-disciplinary discourses associated with the electronic arts, web
sciences and communication technologies.
Tina Gonsalves’ creative investigations draw from a long-term
interdisciplinary and collaborative practice merging art, technology
and science, exploring social relationships, trust and intimacy. She is
currently honorary artist in residence at the Wellcome Department of
Neuroimaging at University College London and visiting artist at the
MIT Media Lab. http://www.tinagonsalves.com
George Khut (Doctorate of Creative Arts, University of Western Sydney,
2006) is an Australian artist working primarily with body-focused
interactions and
various forms of audience participation.
Amanda McDonald Crowley is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator
who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and
programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and
exchange. She is currently Director of Eyebeam Art and Technology
Center in NYC. http://eyebeam.org
Lizzie Muller is a curator, writer, and academic at University of
Technology, Sydney, who recently completed a PhD on the audience
experience of interactive art. www.lizziemuller.com
Stefan Müller Arisona is a senior researcher at ETH Zurich, a software
architect at Procedural Inc. and a freelance artist.
http://www.arch.ethz.ch/~stefanmu
Paul Thomas is an Associate Professor, and Director of Centre for
Research in Art, Science and Humanity, School of Design and Art at
Curtin University. http://www.visiblespace.com.au
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132
Email: [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
Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132
Email: [log in to unmask]
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
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