Hi List,
Gosh what an interesting and slightly odd event! I'd be very interested
to hear from any list members who manage to attend this ...
Yours,
Beryl
On 11 Jun 2010, at 12:09, Edward Shanken wrote:
> Contemporary Art and New Media: Towards a Hybrid Discourse?
> Art Basel, Art Salon, Hall 1 Auditorium
> 19 June, 1pm
>
> Panelists:
> Nicolas Bourriaud, curator/writer, Paris
> Peter Weibel, CEO, ZKM, Karlsruhe
> Michael Joaquin Grey, artist, New York
>
> Since the mid-1990s, new media has become an important force for
> creative culture and economic development. Supporting institutions
> including Ars Electronica, ZKM and Eyebeam have expanded, while
> interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs at the intersections of art, science,
> and technology have proliferated internationally. Simultaneously,
> mainstream contemporary art experienced dramatic growth, propelled by
> the proliferation of venues from Art Basel Miami to the Shanghai
> Biennial and by the creativity of artists, curators, dealers and
> pedagogues. Yet rarely do these two artworlds meet. As a result, their
> discourses have increasingly diverged. To what extent are new media
> art and mainstream contemporary art commensurable? Is it possible to
> construct a hybrid discourse that offers insights into each, while
> enabling greater mixing between them? What roles have educational
> programs and cultural institutions played in fostering these divides
> and how can they contribute to suturing them? What insights into
> larger questions of emerging art and cultural forms might be gleaned
> by such a rapprochement?
>
> Coordinated and chaired by Edward Shanken, art historian/media
> theorist, Amsterdam
>
> www.artexetra.com
>
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Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media from MIT Press
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A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of
Working with New Media Art from The Green Box
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