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From the Tate Britain website symposia page

Saturday 3 April 10.00–19.30

British Art and New Media

In the past 10 years, Britain has fostered a unique and distinctive set of practices in the field of new media. This conference will look at these diverse characteristics and preoccupations. From the net to CD-ROMs to mobile technology, British artists have found innovative, provocative and cutting-edge ways to explore themes of popular culture, conceptualism, social interventions, identity formations and networks and modes of distribution.

This one-day event will present some of those practices and explores how to critically engage with new media art. What are the contexts and structures informing curatorial decisions, public reception and artistic practice? Finally it will consider its own history and use the past to inform the present.

Speakers include Steve Dietz, Thomson & Craighead, Geoffrey Batchen, Nick Crowe, Shilpa Gupta, Sarah Cook, Charlie Gere, Desperate Optimists, Carey Young, Matt Fuller, Lucy Kimbell, Julian Stallabrassand Saul Albert.

This conference will be followed by drinks at the launch of Carey Young’s new installation.

This conference was initiated by The Arts Council, England in association with Tate Britain and Film and Video Umbrella. It coincides with the launch of New Media Art: practice and context 1994–2004, an ACE / Cornerhouse Publication

Tate Britain Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions) includes drinks reception