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S, Good luck - I hope that it goes splendidly!! Just as you're starting, I'll be recovering from the b.TV festival in Sheffield (fri & sat) - I got roped into doing an 'in conversation' with one of the 'shooting live artists' commissions. Wish ME luck.... xm ---------- >From: Sarah Cook <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: update: Curating New Media Symposium at the Ottawa Art Gallery >Date: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 3:33 pm > >Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties. > > >The Ottawa Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to a symposium CURATING >NEW MEDIA > >Organized by > >Sarah Cook (The Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss: >www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb) >and >Nina Czegledy (Critical Media: www.criticalmedia.ca) > > >Sunday December 2, 10:00 - 5:00 p.m. >Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa > >This one-day public forum on the topic of the current state of new media >art and its place within our galleries and production/distribution >centers follows from recent seminars on new media curating co-hosted by >CRUMB in England (Baltic, May 2001; Media Centre Huddersfield, October >2001). > >The symposium represents a timely and unique opportunity to consider and >discuss among peers from across Canada, the issues arising from the >burgeoning field of new media, highlighting some of the fissures and >opportunities that have arisen in the shifting ground between >traditional, institutionally-based curatorial practice and new models >less bound to specific locales. It seeks to initiate a dialogue between >artists, venues, funders and audiences by defining and discussing >relevant issues and Canadian practice. > >The event will be comprised of three sessions, centered on the key areas >of Production, Distribution, and Consumption. Each session will feature >2 to 3 presentations followed by open discussion. The presentations will >focus primarily on inclusive, overall issues of producing, presenting >and experiencing new media in Canada and will be illustrated by novel >approaches, practical examples and will indicate directions to take in >the future. These include: > >the shifting relationship of art to industry >the hybrid role of artist-curator >online communities/local community education >global network dissemination >the changing role of museums and collections >the creation of new media production centers in regional galleries >audience interactivity >art and science collaborations > >The preliminary symposium schedule and guest speakers are as follows: > >10:00AM TEA/COFFEE >Introductions from Renee Baert, Nina Czegledy and Sarah Cook > >10:30 ? 12:15 PRODUCTION >Nichola Feldman-Kiss (artist, Ottawa) >Michelle Kasprzak (artist and co-curator of year.01, Toronto) >Catherine Richards (artist, Ottawa) > >12:15 - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK > >13:45 ? 15:00 DISTRIBUTION >Kathleen Pirrie-Adams (Interaccess Gallery, Toronto) >Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (independent curator, cyberpowwow, Montreal) > >15:00 - 15:20 TEA/COFFEE BREAK > >15:20 - 16:50 CONSUMPTION >Jean Gagnon (Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montreal) >Liane Davison (Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC) >And speaker TBC > >16:50 - 17:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS >Sarah Cook and Nina Czegledy > >Attendance at the symposium is free, but spaces are limited. > >Reservations: >Ottawa Art Gallery: 613-233-8699, ext. 221 >Or [log in to unmask] > >The symposium is preceded on Saturday evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. by >an ‘Information Technology and Art’ e-lounge event at the old City >Registry Building on Nicholas St. (corner Daly). For more information >visit www.itac.ca > >This symposium is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the >National Gallery of Canada Research Fellowship Programme. > >The Ottawa Art Gallery >2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 >(613) 233 8699 >fax (613) 569 7660 >www.oag.cyberus.ca