There is a bumper crop of curatorial conferences coming up - here's one 
in France. Not specifically new media... in fact most of the 
conferences I've heard about are addressing globalisation...


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> la criée center for contemporary art
> Curatorial symposium
> Exhibition Practices : Stakes & Perspectives
>
> 8 March 2007 - 22 March 2007
>
> la criée center for contemporary art
> place Honoré Commeurec, halles centrales
> 35000 Rennes, France
> tel.: (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 10
> fax (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 19
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> http://www.criee.org
>
> Symposium at the Museum of Fine Arts (Auditorium)
> 20 quai Emile Zola
> 35000 Rennes, France
>
> With (subject to modifications) :
>
> Thursday 8 March 2007
> Chus Martinez, Director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany.
> Joanna Mytkowska, curator at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
> Raphaële Jeune, Artistic director of the first contemporary art 
> biennial in Rennes, France.
> Alexandre Perigot, Artist.
>
> Thursday 22 March 2007
> John Welchman, Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department 
> at the University of California, San Diego, USA.
> Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of 
> the Exhibition and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art 
> Institute, USA.
> Manuel Olveira Paz, Artist and Director of Centro Galego de Arte 
> Contemporanea, Spain.
>
> In 2007, la criée center for contemporary art will initiate a series 
> of symposia on exhibition practices in contemporary art. It is our 
> hope that this first edition will be the beginning of a series rich in 
> the exchange of experiences and curatorial perspectives.
>
> The series of symposia on exhibition practices has emerged from la 
> criée’s project for residencies and exhibitions initiated in 2005 in 
> the European cities of the Atlantic Arc. This European project has 
> provided opportunities for productive encounters and collaborations 
> between visiting artists, curators, directors, international art 
> critics and artistic directors.
>
> The discovery of very different ways of working from one context to 
> another, exchanges around production and exhibition projects, 
> encounters, often unexpected, with art theoreticians and practitioners 
> all contributed to our desire to prolong and deepen this reflection, 
> to make these exchanges public and maintain the connections 
> established.
>
> Each symposium will bring together international professionals; these 
> artists, curators, art historians and theoreticians will be invited 
> because they analyze and renew exhibition practices in the field of 
> contemporary art.
>
> The complementary nature of artistic creation, curatorial practice, 
> historical research, critical thought and theorization will enrich the 
> debate and enable the exchange of experiences and the sharing of 
> projects, thereby contributing to the quality of scholarship and 
> prospective thought.
>
> The goal of the 2007 symposium is to share different experiences and 
> perspectives on the way artists and curators work with the history and 
> current status of the exhibition, and how they take charge of, 
> circumscribe or undermine existing exhibition formats.
>
> How do they propose new ways of working with the artist, giving 
> priority to directions within the work or to production rather than to 
> the exhibition or, on the contrary, extending the exhibition model 
> according to specific conditions of exchange, work and visibility?
>
> How can we “produce”, “control”, or “free ourselves from” images in 
> exhibitions in the age of globalization?
>
> Further information (participants, program, etc.) : 
> http://www.criee.org/pdf/curatorialsymposium2007.pdf
>
> Joining the symposium : email at [log in to unmask]
>
> The symposium 2007 has received exceptional support from 
> CULTURESFRANCE within the framework of an agreement with the City of 
> Rennes.