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Dear list members, Happy Art's Birthday! For the next few weeks CRUMB's new-media-curating discussion list will address how artworks located ‘remotely’ can be experienced, mediated and archived through social media and gain life in the digital realm. This is a two-pronged line of enquiry, looking at the first-hand reporting of experience or art works, and also the reception of the work and its associated experience via another’s retelling or recording, mediated or not. The theme is led by Dr. Alexandra Ross and follows from her curatorial fellowship at ATLAS Arts and their contribution to GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland entitled ‘Are you LOCATIONALIZED’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan which took place across the two Hebridean islands of Skye and North Uist and had a complementary parallel event called 'Travelling Dialogues' http://atlasarts.org.uk/projects/generation-25-years-of-contemporary-art/ http://atlasarts.org.uk/events/travelling-dialogues/ Whilst this conversation stems from this not-new media-specific artwork and the dialogue surrounding it (which Alexandra will introduce further), there are themes that can apply to other works of a new media or digital nature, where there are key reasons for location, as well as to art events which are experienced remotely, as has often been the case with Art's Birthday (http://www.artsbirthday.net/) Key questions the theme will address are: 1 - How can the mediated experience of work significantly activated by audience(s) be relayed to other audiences through social media? 2 - How do curators, artists and audiences re-present perspectives on local, rural, and dispersed artworks in absence of first-hand experience? 3 - What are the best practices for ‘curating’ a social media presence with artworks that have multiple lives and audiences? Invited guests for this theme include: Emma Nicolson Director of ATLAS Arts Tom O’Sullivan And Joanne Tatham, artists, Are you LOCATIONALIZED Bec Dean, PhD candidate, UNSW Art & Design and Curator at Large, Performance Space, Sydney Yvette Mattern , Transmediale – artist – Rainbows in NYC http://yvettemattern.com/ Matt Adams and Ju Row Farr, Artists, Blast Theory http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ Mark Daniels, Director, New Media Scotland Gayle Meikle, Assistant Curator, Broad Reach Project, Taigh Chearsabhagh Professor Richard Williams, Participant Travelling Dialogues weekend Professor Elaine Shemilt, Centre for Remote Environments Fiona Jardine, Artist, Lecturer, Researcher Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, artists Frances Davis, Curator at Timespan and Guest Blogger in Travelling Dialogues weekend With others to join as we go along. Over to Alexandra! Thanks Sarah === Dr. Sarah Cook Dundee Fellow Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design University of Dundee Visual Research Centre (VRC) Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate Dundee DD1 4DY 01382 385247 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.crumbweb.org<http://www.crumbweb.org> The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096