Dear list,
A brief update from the baltic new media curating seminar which kicked
off this morning... you can now find participant biographies and the
full schedule on the crumb site. please send us questions and queries
for particular speakers and we will pass them along.
Julian Stallabrass has just spoken about "Art and Money Online" -- an
interesting thread of discussion has emerged... in bringing new media
work into an institution that has familiar habits and patterns (i.e. a
sparse method of hanging work, or spaces devoted to single artist
exhibitions), is it more beneficial to the artist or the exhibition to
continue in the mold and already established frame, or to break it in
favour of something new? (Julian's exhibition included three artists in
a programmed space usually showing monographic exhibitions - however,
his was the first exhibition in that space to show non-commercially
represented artists).
I suppose it is a question of radicality - but can curators interested
in emergent forms of art move further towards resolving the neverending
problem of new media in the museum by first tackling what's already
available to them? (i.e. turn the bathroom into an office so you can
start putting stuff online, and work your way up to finding the gallery
space to take the commissions the next step later, rather than rushing
into corporately-sponsored media lounges)... without wanting it to be
too obvious a question, perhaps we need, in our naming of parts, to
identify the strengths of the museum - highlight its parts - and move
from there...
more soon,
Sarah
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