Is there any way to organize a symposium without choosing the
participants?
Assumptions:
a) You are the responsible party and
b) Even taking all comers is a selection procedure
(I am trying to forestall, shall we say, farfetched counterexamples).
Best, Marlena
On Jun 8, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Barnaby Drabble wrote:
> Regarding the question of whether you can curate a symposium, this is
> something I have encountered before and gradually changed my mind
> about.
>
> When working on the 1998 symposium Curating Degree Zero, my colleague
> and good friend Dorothee Richter requested that we use the term
> 'curated by' in the publicity for the symposium, up to that point I
> was describing us as co-organisers. I asked her Sarah's question and
> she replied interestingly that by suggesting that we were curating the
> symposium we identified ourselves as the selectors and implicated
> ourselves in an authorial (not purely organisational) way with the
> discourse produced. Equally as freelancers, the term allowed us to
> define ourselves as separate from the institutions supporting the
> project, as organisers we might simply be perceived as bureaucrats.
> This began a debate between the two of us about authorship,
> independence, responsibility and meaning, which is still going on, but
> for me at least curating symposium's is possible.
>
> art media.... hmmm someone else will have to have a go at that, or
> maybe all will be explained at the symposium...
>
> regards
>
> Barnaby
>
> On Tuesday, Jun 8, 2004, at 12:57 Europe/Zurich, Sarah Cook wrote:
>
>> here's a question: can you curate a symposium?
>> and what is art media?
>> ;-)
>> sarah
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
>>> ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
>>>
>>> Infomail No 14
>>>
>>>
>>> ART MEDIA – MEDIA ART
>>>
>>> Symposium
>>> Curated by Gerhard Johann Lischka and Peter Weibel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saturday, 19 June 2004, ZKM Lecture Hall, 14:00 to 18.30
>>> Admission €8 / €4
>>>
>>> Curated by Gerhard Johann Lischka and Peter Weibel
>>>
>>> Media and art are terms that are used separately to denote very many
>>> different phenomena, but they have also found acceptance in their
>>> compound forms of media art and art media. Their applicability is
>>> very wide-ranging and subject to very few rules. While that is so,
>>> this virtual lack of any restrictions harbours an opportunity. It
>>> helps to do away with a rigid assignment to categories and can thus
>>> pave the way to a broad understanding of what media and art have
>>> represented up to the present and what they can develop into in the
>>> future. For it would seem that we cannot dispense with these two
>>> terms even if they are now frequently employed as opposites.
>>>
>>> Thanks to their widespread use and steadily increasing success the
>>> media now not only reach out to every corner of the globe. The
>>> significance they have acquired has also enabled them to stand the
>>> world on its head in that reality as portrayed in the mass media has
>>> achieved the status of primary reality as a supplier of information.
>>> If the media constitute everyday reality, art interpreted along
>>> traditional lines is the enhancing or transcending of what is
>>> customary. Art embodies information that goes beyond time and
>>> circumstances. It is moulded into a form that breaks with the
>>> directness of reality and opens up avenues that are capable of
>>> linking the past with the present to constitute the future, thereby
>>> enabling them to coexist.
>>>
>>> Speakers:
>>>
>>> Sylvie Blocher, Christiane Paul, Maurizio Lazzarato, Judith Berry
>>>
>>>
>>> For more information please visit our website: www.zkm.de
>>>
>>>
>>> Contact:
>>>
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