Dear Andreas,
Il giorno 11/dic/2012, alle ore 19:24, Andreas Broeckmann ha scritto:
> dom,
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> am i missing something, or is there an explanation why you do not mention the exhibitions of the ars electronica (since 1979), of V2 (since 1986), of the different festivals and biennials in europe, MUU media festival, WRO, Ostranenie, videofest/transmediale, DEAF, and then of course the ICC, the ZKM and the curatorial work of peter weibel, to name just a few? most of this was well under way before your american knights came on the scene.
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> to present this story as something that was pioneered in the US and the UK in the early 2000s is - dare i say - ludicrous.
thank you for taking your time to read the text, and to send your reply. I really appreciate it and, as you already know, I like your German straightforwardness :-)
Ludicrous? Of course you would be right, if this was my subject - which isn't. You can't blame me because I don't talk about cows and chickens, if my subject is goat husbandry. In this text, I'm not focusing on "curating new media" in broader terms, but on attempts to bring new media art in front of a generic contemporary art audience of "non experts". All the events and venues you refer to in your email are specialized media art events, usually attended by media literate people who have no concerns about technology and its legitimacy as an art medium.
As far as I know, the presentation of new media art in mainstream contemporary art institutions started, with a few exceptions (Documenta VII, Les immateriaux, the 1986 Venice Biennal, Mediascape at Guggenheim Soho) in the late Nineties, both in Europe and in the US. Probably my list of "american knights" should be completed by Julian Stallabrass (for Art and Money Online at Tate), Erkki Huhtamo (for Alien Intelligence), Peter Weibel (for coordinating and touring Net Condition) and a few others. But again, my point was not making lists and my focus were not exhibitions (that were discussed extensively in the mentioned book), but the curatorial debate. And this became aware of itself only later, and mainly thanks to this list
Hope this helps to clarify
domenico
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