Dear List,

As Friday was 30th Sep, I'm posting this again 
for the October archives, with an updated 
respondent list.

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Theme of the Month October 05: Histories of curating new media art -
process or product?

This month, the Refresh! conference at Banff Centre for the Arts is
discussing "Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology", and the
exhibition "The Art Formerly Known as New Media", curated by Sarah
Cook and Steve Dietz, considers the 10th anniversary on Banff New
Media Institute.

How do histories of new media art effect the curating? If art
curators don't know about the history of the technology, what
happens? If new media curators don't know about the history of art,
what happens? And what about the thinly-documented history of the
process of curating itself?

References:

Refresh!: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
The Art Formerly Known as New Media:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/wpg/exhibits/2005/formerly/default.htm

Previous CRUMB discussions concerning history and curating new media
art include: "Curatorial Models" (March 2003, including Barbara Maria
Stafford); "Press and Criticism" (May 2003); "Categories and
Taxonomies of Media Art" (Sep 2004, with Gloria Sutton). On the
Empyre discussion list in Jan 2004, "Nova Media Storia: Histories and
Characters" included Jill Scott, Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Invited Respondents:

Rudolf Frieling,  ZKM Zentrum fuer Kunst und 
Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 
<http://www.zkm.de>.

Darko Fritz: Darko Fritz is an artist, curator 
and researcher. He organized exhibition 'I am 
Still Alive' [computer art from the 1960's and 
recent low-tech and internet art, 2000, Zagreb] 
<http://darkofritz.net>.

Matthew Fuller has worked with groups such as 
I/O/D and Mongrel, and is currently Reader in 
Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, 
Rotterdam.  He has authored books including 
'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and 
technoculture' (MIT Press, 2005).

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research at 
the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster 
University and author of Digital Culture (2002) 
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/staff/gere.php>

Oliver Grau of Humboldt-University Berlin 
<http://www2.hu-berlin.de/grau> is involved in 
Refresh! <http://www.mediaarthistory.org/>, and 
The Database of Virtual Art 
<http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de>

Yara Guasque is an artist, PhD researcher, 
university instructor at Santa Catarina State 
University, UDESC, Brazil, and was visiting 
scholar of the M.I.N.D. Lab 
<http:www.mindlab.org> Michigan State University, 
MSU, during Fall semester 2001 and Spring 
semester 2002.

Mary Leigh Morbey is at York University, Canada <http://www.edu.yorku.ca>

Andy Polaine was a co-founder of UK new media 
collective, Antirom, and is now Head of the 
School of Media Arts at the College of Fine Arts, 
UNSW, Australia. <http://playpen.polaine.com>

Itsuo Sakane is a curator, and President Emeritus 
of IAMAS: International Academy of Media Arts and 
Sciences, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and 
Sciences, Ogaki, Japan <http://www.iamas.ac.jp>

Jill Scott is a professor at the Institute 
Cultural Studies in Art , Media and Design
Vice Director: Z-Node. Planetary Collegium. 
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich 
<http://www.jillscott.org>

Edward Shanken is Professor of Art History at 
Savannah College of Art and Design and editor of 
the book, Telematic Embrace:  Visionary Theories 
of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. 
http://artexetra.com

Will Straw is in the Department of Art History 
and Communications Studies, McGill University
<http://www.artsweb.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/html/Straw.html>






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