CRUMB Welcomes New International Curatorial Researcher
CRUMB, the research centre for curating new media art, are very happy
to announce the latest appointment in their three-year AHRC-funded
research project — Axel Lapp will be Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher.
Axel Lapp will join the CRUMB team for one year from March 2009. He is
a leading international curator, art critic, and publisher, with a
particular interest in systems-based contemporary art. His recent book
project, for example, explored the work of the Dutch artist Jeanne van
Heeswijk, whose artwork often involves public participation. The book
documents her socially engaged artistic practice involving squatted
buildings, bagel carts, and data mapping which makes explicit parallels
between data technological networks and social networks.
Dr. Lapp has a PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester,
and has also studied at Phillips-Universität in Marburg and the
University of Essex in Colchester. From 1998 to 2000, he was Henry
Moore Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, working on monuments
and their theory in the 20th century, and taught in Leeds and at the
Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle.
Since 2000, he has been living in Berlin, and has curated the work of
Nick Crowe, Sonia Boyce, Shezad Dawood, Tim Head, Daniel Gustav Cramer,
Costa Vece, and Bertram Hasenauer, amongst many others, for a variety
of institutions in Switzerland, Germany and the UK, as well as in his
own space, Axel Lapp Projects. He has been coordinator of the
Collectors' Program for Art Forum Berlin, Associate Curator of the
International Curators Forum, London, and Curator of the Swiss Federal
Government Residency, Berlin. He is currently Art Review’s Contributing
Editor for Berlin, and has written on a regular basis for Art
Monthlyand Art in America. He is co-founder and editor of the art
publishers The Green Box.
Axel Lapp will be working with CRUMB on research projects which include
new media as part of the contemporary arts. His first public appearance
in his CRUMB role will be at “Production Through Exhibition” 23rd-24th
March 2009, an AHRC Collaborative Research Training project symposium
by CRUMB in collaboration with CultureLab at Newcastle University.
Axel Lapp said: “I’m looking forward to this opportunity to concentrate
on curatorial research, and to network with CRUMB’s international
experts on experimental ways of working with new media which have
relevance across many kinds of current art.”
Further information:
http://www.crumbweb.org
http://axellapp.de/index_en.html
Beryl Graham
Professor of New Media Art
Sunderland University, School of Arts Design, Media and Culture
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
SR2 7EF
Tel: +44 (191) 515 2896
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House,
Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 [log in to unmask]
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
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