Commissioning for Collection: March Theme of the Month
This month we are trying something a little different on the CRUMB list:
On 5th March, the symposium COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA
happens at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (programmed by the
Contemporary Art Society's National Network in partnership with CRUMB,
www.contemporaryartsociety.org). Speakers include Benjamin Weil, Chief
Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial de Gijon,
Spain, Lisa Panting, Director, Picture This; Lois Keidan, Director,
Live Art Development Agency; Graham Harwood, artist.
Participants will discuss the issues of commissioning with curators and
artists using new media, live art and other 'variable media': What
models exist where major works are acquired or where artists are
commissioned specifically to create works for collections? What are the
tensions between the exciting risk of commissioning 'the new' and the
historicizing potential of being collected? How can curators then
exhibit from a collection?
This month, we're trying the slightly different approach of a 'surgery
model' - anyone is welcome to present with symptoms and issues, and our
two special guests will attempt to offer some solutions or models,
aided and abetted by the collective wisdom of around 1,000 discussion
list members!
Special Guests:
Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer, and curator. He worked as an
Associate Curator at the Guggenheim, where in 1993 he curated Virtual
Reality: An Emerging Medium, and subsequent exhibitions that explore
the intersection of contemporary art and new media. In 2002 Jon joined
the faculty of the University of Maine's New Media Department. He is
particularly interested in the parallel between digital art and
Minimalist and Conceptual art, a parallel that led him to join others
in a rethinking of preserving art called the variable media paradigm.
http://forging-the-future.net
Richard Rinehart is Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the
UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Richard has taught digital
art studio and theory at UC Berkeley in the Center for New Media and
Art Practice departments. Richard sits on the Executive Committee of
the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and has served on the Board of
Directors for New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Richard manages
research projects in the area of digital culture, including the
NEA-funded project, 'Archiving the Avant Garde', a national consortium
of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order
to document and preserve it. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132
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CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
CRUMB's new book: 'Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media' from MIT
Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
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