one example of "using new technologies to ask new questions about the
arts" is the CyPosium, which rob already mentioned (http://www.cyposium.net)
this was a one-day online symposium on cyberformance, held almost
exactly a year ago (12/10/12), using cyberformance platforms (waterwheel
tap & UpStage) to discuss performance works created in various online
platforms. the CyPosium was a kind of performance in itself, curated &
choreographed by a small group of volunteers & involving around 100
people from diverse backgrounds - including
researchers/historians/critics etc as well as artists, audience etc. the
presentations focussed on work since the mid-90s, but there was a lot of
historical contextualisation and discussion about previous work & other
examples beyond the presentations.
the CyPosium specifically set out to remember past cyberformances,
recognising the forgetfulness of the online environment and the
ephemerality of performance in general, & online performance in
particular, so in that sense it was an art historical event. i don't
know whether we were asking "new questions" as such, but we were
definitely using the new technologies to have the conversation and
conducted the whole project - from organisation through to publicity &
the event itself - in a cyberformative way, using the same tools that we
use to make cyberformance. giving it that sort of frame certainly made
the questions feel at least different, if they weren't actually "new".
everything has been documented online - there are screen recordings of
every presentation plus logs from the audience chat that ran (& it
really did run!) alongside each presentation, & transcripts of the
discussions. we are also working on a book that has some of this
material as well as other texts written after the event; the book will
be available in due course as hardcopy, eBook & pdfs.
the CyPosium was organised without any funding or even any institutional
support - most of those organising are independent artists, not
affiliated to any university or arts organisation. we did it because we
needed & wanted it to happen, & the enthusiasm of the 100 or so
participants - many of whom stayed online for all or nearly all of the
12 hours - was very satisfying.
h : )
On 10 Oct 2013, at 04:27, Charlotte Frost wrote:
>> Where are all the art
>> historians using new technologies to ask new questions about the arts? If
>> the Modern Language Association conference annually hosts upwards of 30
>> sessions on the digital humanities, why has the College Art Association only
>> offered one or two over the last four or five years?
>> Likewise, where are all the art critics?
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