Hello CRUMB list -- looking forward to seeing some of you in Newcastle this sunny morning! Don't worry if you haven't booked, we have some spare spaces so come along.
We will post notes here forthwith,
Sarah
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> Distribution and Dissemination after New Media
> Professional Development Workshop organised by CRUMB, http://www.crumbweb.org/
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> WHEN:
> 5 March 2012, 9:30am-12:30pm
> WHERE:
> Literary and Philosophical Society Library, Loftus Room
> 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE - United Kingdom
> http://www.litandphil.org.uk/index.shtml
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> CRUMB are happy to announce a new Professional Development Workshop for contemporary art curators, Distribution and Dissemination after New Media, as part of AV Festival 2012 and following on from their opening weekend, http://www.avfestival.co.uk/.
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> The connected new media of streaming, web broadcasting and narrowcasting, smartphone apps and augmented reality offer intriguing opportunities for art and culture. This professional development workshop brings together experts from across Europe, to share real practical experience of dealing with issues of:
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> What happens to ideas of the 'live', over time?
> What kinds of audiences?
> How are artists using distributive media?
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> Speakers/workshop leaders:
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> Robert Sakrowski
> is an Art Historian, Artist and Curator based in Berlin. From 1999–2003 he headed the project netart-datenbank.org at TU Berlin and curated several exhibitions in the field of Net-based art. After working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research in Linz, since 2007 he has created various exhibitions dealing with questions circling art and art practices connected to the web 2.0 of which themes are the main focus of his blog, http://curatingyoutube.net/
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> Ajay RS Hothi
> is Manager & Curator of tank.tv 'the only online museum of contemporary artists’ moving image'. Tank.tv invites guest curators to create an exhibition from their permanent collection, has held live events at Tate Modern, the ICA, ZKM Karlsruhe and Kulturhuset Stockholm, and has worked with Pipilotti Rist, Vito Acconci, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Kutlug Ataman.
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> Roger McKinley
> is Research and Innovation Manager at FACT, Liverpool, and has led on the Artplayer.tv, an Arts Council supported project which is 'a free to use national media player for the arts'. Aimed at National Portfolio and Regional Funded Organisations, it aims towards online programme creation and generate opportunities for venues and artists to create their own 'channels'.
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> At a time when the Arts Council and NESTA are considering funding structures for new media as a means of distribution, this a key workshop for curators, artists, educators and others interested in how media might meet their audiences, and how new media might be distributive art in itself, as well as a means to an end. This professional development workshop builds on the highly successful CRUMB event led by former Guggenheim curator Caitlin Jones concerning 'Documenting New Media Art', http://www.crumbweb.org/getSeminarDetail.php?id=9
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> The workshop is FREE, but places are strictly limited and BOOKING IN ADVANCE IS ESSENTIAL.
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> HOW TO BOOK:
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> DEADLINE for booking is 29th February at the latest.
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> Please send an email to Marialaura Ghidini at [log in to unmask] including the following information:
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> 1. Contact details
> 2. Up to 50 words on your particular area of practice in relation to this workshop, and what you hope to get from attending. Please include a URL
> 3. Any special needs
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> Workshop web page: http://www.crumbweb.org/getPresentation.php?presID=78&semID=17&id=17
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> A rare opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with CRUMB Curatorial Resource. Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 9 March 2012. Full details, see:
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> http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/d4fineart.php
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> Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
> Research Student Manager, Art and Design
> MA Curating Course Leader
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> 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]
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> CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
> http://www.crumbweb.org
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> CRUMB's latest 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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