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
>
>
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>> ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
>> ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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>> Infomail No 14
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>>
>> 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
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>>
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