Hi List,
An interesting-sounding panel at ISEA - do post to the List if any
CRUMBsters attend!
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http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/conference/thursday-26-august-2010-
dortmund/p31-a-to-x-audience-experience-in-media-art-research
ISEA2010 RUHR Conference
P31 A to X: Audience Experience in Media Art Research
Thur 26 August 2010
13:00–14:30h
domicil, Dortmund
Convened by Lizzie Muller and Peter Ride (gb)
The importance of the audience as part of the media art event is widely
acknowledged, but although interaction and embodiment are well
theorised, we are yet to achieve a well grounded understanding of
audience experience. It is fundamental to defining the context around
which an art work has been made and shown. The panel asks how we
understand the concerns of audiences and how they respond to concepts
of creativity and innovation in media art.
1. Lizzie Muller (au)
2. Nathaniel Stern (us)
3. Katja Kwastek (de)
4. Christopher Salter (qc/ca)
5. Peter Ride (gb)
Lizzie Muller (au)
Lizzie Muller is a curator, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at
University of Technology, Sydney. Her research investigates audience
experience from a curatorial perspective. She has adapted tools and
techniques from Interaction Design to work with audience experience as
a material, and was founding curator of Beta_Space, a dedicated
“prototyping” environment for interactive art at the Powerhouse Museum
in Sydney. She has collaborated with Caitlin Jones to develop an
archival approach to documenting interactive art based on the
relationship between the artist’s intentions and the audience
experience supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Ludwig
Boltzman Institute.
Nathaniel Stern (us)
Nathaniel Stern is an artist, writer, and Assistant Professor at the
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His research combines traditional
art historical trajectories with contemporary understandings of
performance, interactivity and embodiment, in order to bring new
insight to art and art criticism. How do we embody, perform, and
interact with art in the gallery space, and what is at stake in how we
move-in-relation?
Katja Kwastek (de)
Katja Kwastek is an art historian. Her research asks what are the goals
of documenting audiences/for whom do we do it? How do we integrate the
insights won into art historical analysis of media art, and do we have
to redefine the relation between art history and sociology of art?
Christopher Salter (qc/ca)
Chris Salter is an artist, Associate Professor, Design+Computation Arts
at Concordia University, Montreal and researcher with Hexagram. His
artistic work and scholarly research focuses on the ways in which
theories and practices of performance can be used to understand the
complex ontological and perceptual entanglements between human and
technical environments. He has exhibited his work internationally and
is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of
Performance from MIT Press (2010).
Peter Ride (gb)
Peter Ride is a curator and Research Fellow, University of Westminster,
UK. His research addresses how different organisations have a different
understanding of their audiences and this is a ‘framing’ device that
can affect how a work is encountered and experienced, for example how
the audience experience of the same work in a science museum can differ
from experiencing it in an arts festival. He also looks at way that
audience research can be used to re-define the curatorial scope of an
exhibition.
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
Research Student Manager, Art and Design
MA Curating Course Leader
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 books:
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media from MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of
Working with New Media Art from The Green Box
http://www.thegreenbox.net
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
Research Student Manager, Art and Design
MA Curating Course Leader
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 books:
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media from MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of
Working with New Media Art from The Green Box
http://www.thegreenbox.net
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