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Anyone interested in these issues may also like to look at the special issue of Digital Creativity (Volume 20, Number 3, September 2009) on Creative Evaluation -- in which Lizzie Miller co-authored a paper. The special issue was based on a conference I had organised under the auspices of the Computer Arts Society and the Design Research Society in January 09. We wanted to look at the issues arising from monitoring, describing, measuring, analysing and evaluating the use and reception of creative work, especially in digital media. The involvement of the DRS might suggest an exclusively design agenda but digital art and film figured prominently. Stephen _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. The Lansdown Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/ On 6/8/10 08:40, "Beryl Graham" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi List, > > An interesting-sounding panel at ISEA - do post to the List if any > CRUMBsters attend! > > -- > > > http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/conference/thursday-26-august-2010- > dortmund/p31-a-to-x-audience-experience-in-media-art-research > > ISEA2010 RUHR Conference > P31 A to X: Audience Experience in Media Art Research > Thur 26 August 2010 > 13:0014:30h > domicil, Dortmund > > Convened by Lizzie Muller and Peter Ride (gb) > > The importance of the audience as part of the media art event is widely > acknowledged, but although interaction and embodiment are well > theorised, we are yet to achieve a well grounded understanding of > audience experience. It is fundamental to defining the context around > which an art work has been made and shown. The panel asks how we > understand the concerns of audiences and how they respond to concepts > of creativity and innovation in media art. > > 1. Lizzie Muller (au) > 2. Nathaniel Stern (us) > 3. Katja Kwastek (de) > 4. Christopher Salter (qc/ca) > 5. Peter Ride (gb) > > > Lizzie Muller (au) > > Lizzie Muller is a curator, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at > University of Technology, Sydney. Her research investigates audience > experience from a curatorial perspective. She has adapted tools and > techniques from Interaction Design to work with audience experience as > a material, and was founding curator of Beta_Space, a dedicated > ³prototyping² environment for interactive art at the Powerhouse Museum > in Sydney. She has collaborated with Caitlin Jones to develop an > archival approach to documenting interactive art based on the > relationship between the artist¹s intentions and the audience > experience supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Ludwig > Boltzman Institute. > Nathaniel Stern (us) > > Nathaniel Stern is an artist, writer, and Assistant Professor at the > University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His research combines traditional > art historical trajectories with contemporary understandings of > performance, interactivity and embodiment, in order to bring new > insight to art and art criticism. How do we embody, perform, and > interact with art in the gallery space, and what is at stake in how we > move-in-relation? > Katja Kwastek (de) > > Katja Kwastek is an art historian. Her research asks what are the goals > of documenting audiences/for whom do we do it? How do we integrate the > insights won into art historical analysis of media art, and do we have > to redefine the relation between art history and sociology of art? > Christopher Salter (qc/ca) > > Chris Salter is an artist, Associate Professor, Design+Computation Arts > at Concordia University, Montreal and researcher with Hexagram. His > artistic work and scholarly research focuses on the ways in which > theories and practices of performance can be used to understand the > complex ontological and perceptual entanglements between human and > technical environments. He has exhibited his work internationally and > is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of > Performance from MIT Press (2010). > Peter Ride (gb) > > Peter Ride is a curator and Research Fellow, University of Westminster, > UK. His research addresses how different organisations have a different > understanding of their audiences and this is a framing¹ device that > can affect how a work is encountered and experienced, for example how > the audience experience of the same work in a science museum can differ > from experiencing it in an arts festival. He also looks at way that > audience research can be used to re-define the curatorial scope of an > exhibition. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art > Research Student Manager, Art and Design > MA Curating Course Leader > > 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] > > CRUMB web resource for new media art curators > http://www.crumbweb.org > > CRUMB's new 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art > Research Student Manager, Art and Design > MA Curating Course Leader > > 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] > > CRUMB web resource for new media art curators > http://www.crumbweb.org > > CRUMB's new 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 -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. The Lansdown Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/