Dear List,

We're very happy to announce this month's theme, to coincide with the opening of a great exhibition:

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CRUMB discussion May/June 2011

This month CRUMB is fortunate to be collaborating with the Goethe Institute to host a joint discussion to launch their blog for the exhibition Gateways: Art and Networked Culture opening May 13 at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, the exhibition of media art from across Europe is in part to celebrate Tallinn being European Capital of Culture for 2011 - http://www.gateways.ee 

So this month CRUMB is asking what does it mean to live in a networked environment as an artist, cultural producer and curator, and how 'located' are we with our bags full of locative media anyway? What are our domestic and professional sites, and how does bringing the studio or exhibition space into the home through digital technology affect your practice? The exhibition suggests an examination of the "gateways that lead to realms of action and experience in our digitally interconnected culture" and so we want to focus on the site of what you call home - be it the city, the airport, the laptop, the train - where do you make yourself at home and get your work done? Where do you produce and where do you perform and how do you demarcate the difference between those locations?

As an extra special treat, the best posts from the discussion will be filtered through to appear on the blog (http://blog.goethe.de/gateways) and an edited thread of the discussion will be published both on the blog and on the CRUMB website. Doing the filtering is the fantastic Heike Helfert on behalf of the Goethe Institute.

Invited respondents:

Rosanne Altstatt is an art historian negotiating contemporary (media) art. She is associated with Purdue University and currently curates everything from micro-radio to graphic novels while writing on the media art institution. http://www.google.com

Aram Bartholl is an artist from Berlin. In the exhibition Gateways "Map" is trying to bring the virtual back to the physical, reproducing big red pins from maps and sticking them into the landscape. http://www.datenform.de/

Steve Dietz, a curator based in Minnesota who has more airmiles than most, having 'commuted' to San Jose for the last few years to instigate and deliver the city-wide festival ZeroOne. He now is concerned with art in public in the midwest with his organisation Northern Lights. (Not responding until June). http://www.yproductions.com/

Raivo Kelomees, Head of the Media Art Department of the Academy of Arts in Tallinn. http://www.artun.ee/

Les Liens Invisibles is an imaginary Italy-based artists duo. Their work is an eclectic recombination of pop net culture, reverse engineering techniques, social media subvertising, and any other kind of media reappropriation. http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org

Ragne Nukk is curatorial assistant for the gateways exhibition and exhibition coordinator at Kumu Art Museum and a young art historian specialising in media art.http://www.ekm.ee/

Kathy Rae Huffman is an independent curator, currently based between Berlin and Los Angeles. She is lead curator for EXCHANGE AND EVOLUTION: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999, a Pacific Standard Time exhibition for the Long Beach Museum of Art, as part of the initiative PST coordinated by The Getty Foundation. http://www.faces-l.net/en/users/kathyraehuffman

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator of Creative Time in New York. Since January 2007, Nato has organized major projects for Creative Time such as Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008). Previous to Creative Time, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions such as The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere (2004), a survey of political art of the 1990s, http://www.creativetime.org/about/staff.html

Anna Trapenciere is an artist from Liepaja, Latvia. In the exhibition Gateways, her project "trapped" involves her applying RFID tags to everything in her house so that you can follow her when she has a cup of tea or does a load of laundry. http://annatrap.lv/


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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
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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