Thursday  20th October

Collaborative Curating and New Media
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, King’s Cross

Panel discussing issues chaired by Irini Papadimitriou,
 Eleanor Dare and Lee Weinberg  (http://www.wix.com/Vains_Pro/VAINS),  Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett (Furtherfield  artists:online media arts Community and Ele Carpenter , Curating, Goldsmiths


Eleanor Dare and Lee Weinberg are interested in in the role of embodiment and subjectivity within digital contexts, particularly within the context of programming for the arts. What does programming bring to the arts, how does it change the materiality and ontology of artistic output and conception? Through VAINS (the Visual
Art Interpretation and Navigation System) we explore and offer medium-specific tools for investigating computational artworks. We also bring to this practice an investigation
of the ways in which subjectivity and embodiment might be acknowledged and
deployed within so-called virtual contexts. Together we have developed both software and methodological initiatives that constructively confront curation within a digital domain.
 
*Marc Garrett – Co-Founder & Co-Director*
Marc is an artist, curator, writer, activist, educator and musician.
Emerging in the late 80s, early nineties using agit-art tactics from the
streets, exploring creativity via unofficial, experimental art platforms
such as pirate radio and digital bulletin boards (BBS). Dedicated to
exploring arts and various forms of social & technological hacking. Marc
hosts a weekly radio show for Furtherfield on Resonance FM and is principle
editor, coordinating the team of writers in their review of contemporary
media art and cultural context on the Internet. He has written and co-edited
various publications on the subject of media art such as the popular Artists
Re: Thinking Games. He co-curates exhibitions and residencies, is moderator
for the Netbehaviour email list and oversees online marketing. Marc is
currently studying his PhD at Birkbeck University on the theme of Art,
Technology and Social Change.
 
*Ruth Catlow – Co-Founder & Co-Director*
Ruth is an artist, curator, writer and educator. In 1996 she emptied her
studio, 'gifted' her sculptures to public space and turned to the Internet
as a medium of connection, openness, exchange and activism. In 1997 she
co-founded Furtherfield with Marc Garrett. She is responsible for
Furtherfield's organisational and artistic programme development with a
focus on Media Art Ecologies. She co-curates exhibitionsdirects artistic,
participatory and technical projects. Ruth is an internationally exhibited
artist and regularly contributes to publications, books and conferences. She
is currently Senior Lecturer and Course Manager at Writtle School of Design.
 
 
Ele Carpenter is Lecturer in MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College, London.  

Published papers include:
(2010) Activist Tendencies in Craft. In: Art, Activism and Recuperation, Concept Store #3. Eds Cox, Haq, Trevor. Arnolfini: Bristol.
(2010) Intervention & Revolution, Interview with Gregory Sholette. In: Cook & Graham, et al,. A Brief History of Working with New Media Art: Interviews with Artists. The Green Box: Berlin.
(2009) Strategy and Tactics of Curating. In: Time at Work, CECAC 2008. Milan: Post Media Books.
(2008) Art-Activist Symmetry in the artwork of Oliver Ressler.
(2007) Filming Stable: Interview with Kate Herbert. In: K. Herbert, Stable. Gloucester Cathedral.
(2007) Folk Art in the Digital Age. In: No Fixed Abode, Sheffield. www.nofixedabode.org.uk/publication.html
(2004) .
 
The Open Source Embroidery was inspired by Ele's PhD research investigating the languages of participatory and collaborative practice in new media and socially engaged arts practices. The Open Source Embroidery project investigates the shared characteristics of collaborative production and programming for craft and computing. The project has produced exhibitions, workshops and artworks including the Html Patchwork. Ele is currently facilitating a new artwork called the Embroidered Digital Commons (2009 - current), a distributed embroidery of 'A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons' written by the Raqs Media Collective, 2003. Each of the 26 terms of the lexicon are stitched by artists, crafters and programmers around the world. 

Ele completed her post doctoral research with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) at the University of Sunderland in 2008. Her curatorial practice-based research focused on socially and politically engaged art activism with and without new technologies.
 
 
Irini Mirena Papadimitriou is Head of New Media Arts Development at
Watermans (http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions.aspx), a
venue dedicated in presenting innovative work as well as supporting emerging
and established artists working with new technologies. She is also a member
of the Digital Programmes Team at the V&A (http://www.vam.ac.uk/) with main
responsibilities the Digital Design Drop-in programme, a monthly digital art
and design 'show & tell' presentation in the Sackler Centre Digital Studio
and the Digital Design Weekend, an exciting weekend of free events, talks
and workshops celebrating contemporary digital art and design which
coincides with the London Design Festival. Irini is also a board member at
Goldsmiths' Thursday Club.