British New Media Art 
At Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium 
Saturday April 3, 2004 
10.00- 17.30 

In the past 10 years, Britain has fostered a unique 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 and participants include Steve Dietz (keynote), Saul Albert,
Geoffrey Batchen, Sarah Cook, Nick Crowe, Steve Dietz, Desperate Optimists,
Matt Fuller, Charlie Gere, Shilpa Gupta, Lucy Kimbell, Julian
Stallabrass, Thomson & Craighead and Carey Young.

This conference, initiated by the Arts Council England in association
with Tate Britain and Film and Video Umbrella, coincides with the launch
of New
Media Art: practice and context 1994 - 2004, an ACE/Cornerhouse
Publications publication ISBN 0 948797 88 6 (available c/o Cornerhouse
Publications <http://www.cornerhouse.org/publications>) for £15 RRP and
for a discounted price at the conference of £12.

Ticket prices for the conference are: £25 (£15 concessions) includes
drinks reception 
For tickets book online at
<http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/artnewmedia> 
Or telephone 020 7887 8888 


Schedule  
10.00 -10.30-   Registration 

10.30 - 10.35 - Formal Introductions to the day by Marjorie
Allthorpe-Guyton, Director Visual Arts, 

                           Arts Council England and launch of 'New Media
Art: practice and context in 
                           the UK 1994 - 2004' 

10.35 - 11.30   Keynote: Steve Dietz 

11.30           Tea Break 

12.00  - 13.00          Artists Panel Discussion: Conceptualism and New
Media 

                           Thomson and Craighead 
                           Carey Young 
                           Matt Fuller 
                           Chair: Lucy Kimbell 

13.00 - 14.00   Lunch and sale New Media Art publication 

14.00 - 15.00   Curating New Media Art: Julian Stallabrass and Sarah
Cook 

15.00 - 16.00   Historicising New Media: presentation by Geoffrey
Batchen and response by Charlie Gere 

16.00           Tea Break 

16.30 - 17.30   Artists Panel Discussion : New Cultural and Social
Explorations 

                           Nick Crowe 
                           Shilpa Gupta 
                           Desperate Optimists 
                           Chair:   Saul Albert 

5.30    Finish 

This conference will be followed by drinks and a launch of Carey Young's
new commission 'I Believe in You' .