Hi Everyone,
Some news from Australia. It looks as though we have a worst case scenario -
a museological term for a movement.
"In a devastatingly serious failure of nerve, shocking ignorance of the
state of the arts, let alone total absence of the marketplace verve for
which it has lately come to pride itself, the Australia Council for the Arts
has "dissolved" its New Media Arts Board (NMAB), distributing its charges to
the Visual Arts/Craft and Music Boards respectively. The responsibility for
the hybrid arts component of the NMAB will now be in the hands of a newly
invented "Inter-Arts Office" (not a Board, and apparently therefore without
continuous peer assessor presence) which will "triage" funding applicants to
appropriate traditional artform boards. Triage? Are we now "patients"? It's
only a step on from the perverse misnomer of "clients" and it complements
the ill state of the many badly under-funded arts companies across the
country. But who exactly is sick? Could it be the Australia Council itself?"
(Keith Gallasch)
Further information can be obtained from Keith's article at
http://www.artshub.com.au/ahau1/news/news.asp?Id=68164
Kind regards,
Paige Luff
Information Services Coordinator
Research Centre
Art Gallery of Western Australia
PO Box 8363
Perth Western Australia 6849
Phone: +61 (0)8 9492 6780
Fax: +61 (0)8 9492 6655
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-----Original Message-----
From: patrick lichty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 12:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] link to an interesting article...
In my current set of writing, I am making the argument that at best New
Media is at best a broad classification, and at worst becoming a
museological term for a movement. I'm also linking it to the remnants
of the Modernist Avant-Garde.
Here's a question - is the idea of defining New Media dying, i.e. is it
becoming integrated into the mainstream enough that its distinction
might be becoming without signifying power (my idea of the exhaustion of
the symbol?)
Patrick Lichty
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Intelligent Agent Magazine
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From: Curating digital art - www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/
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Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:25 AM
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Subject: link to an interesting article...
...asking what new media is
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=121
Sarah Cook, New Media Curator / Research
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
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