Hello Crumb list readers,
just a brief note of apology that the CRUMB website is temporarily
down... as we gear up for a busy few weeks.
Information about the symposium can be found on the website of the
Contemporary Art Society:
http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/events/event/symposium-
commissioning-collecting-variable-media
Information about the postgraduate training days can be found on the
website of CultureLab: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/events/item/
creative-digital-media-research-practice-production-through-exhibition2
and all other information about the book launches and the birthday
party can be found on the website of the AV Festival:
www.avfestival.co.uk
We'll let you know when we're all back online, but come see us in
person in Newcastle / Gateshead instead!
Sarah
On 25 Feb 2010, at 18:02, Beryl Graham wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Just a reminder of this fabulous upcoming event, and the fact that
> the March theme of the month will share the same subject ...
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>
> CRUMB has international events during AV Festival in the North East
> of England in March (http://www.avfestival.co.uk/).
>
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> SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA
> BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
> Fri 5 March, 9:00am-4:30pm
> Free to Contemporary Art Society's National Network Members, £25
> non-members
> Tickets: www.contemporaryartsociety.org
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> The work of artists who use new media art, live art and other
> 'variable media' is increasingly being drawn into our national
> public collections. Excellent models exist where major works are
> acquired or where artists are commissioned specifically to create
> works for collections. This symposium offers an opportunity to
> learn from pioneering institutions that have worked with artists.
> Keynote speaker: Benjamin Weil, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de
> Arte y Creacion Industrial de Gijon, Spain. Other confirmed
> speakers include: Laura Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT; Lisa
> Panting, Director, Picture This; Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art
> Development Agency; Graham Harwood, artist.
>
> Programmed by the Contemporary Art Society's National Network in
> partnership with CRUMB.
>
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> BOOK LAUNCH
> BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
> Fri 5 March, 4:30-5.30pm
> FREE
>
> Join CRUMB's co-founders, Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, for a glass
> of wine to launch their new book Rethinking Curating: Art After New
> Media, published by MIT Press, and two new volumes of CRUMB
> dialogues published by The Green Box, Berlin. http://
> mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
> http://www.thegreenbox.net/
>
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>
>
>
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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
>
> CRUMB's new book: 'Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media' from
> MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?
> ttype=2&tid=12071
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