Annick, many thanks for the info - do you have links ? pdfs ?
best
pedro
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Annick Bureaud <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ricardo Dal Farra has done a comprehensive survey of South American
> pionners in contemporary-electronic music.
> Many researchers are currently working on pioneers in Chile.
> The Brazilian are quite well documented (in English in Leonardo and in
> French in the book I edited for the @rt Outsiders Festival in 2005)
> This history is being writen, documented, and discussed in places like the
> conf. Media Art Histories and also in some sessions at ISEA.
> It is NOT the documentation that is really missing ...
>
> annick
>
>
> Le 05/02/14 15:25, pedro a écrit :
>
> sarah, that is excellent news - thanks for that info.
>>
>> right ashok, only europe and united states (and one japanese, resident in
>> paris) are represented !
>>
>> ah sorry, there are 3 bogotá boys - emerging contemporary artists and
>> university teachers - i can only imagine that they are friends of the
>> curator because they are certainly not "responsible for pioneering
>> processes and innovations that we use regularly to communicate research,
>> ideas and ideology" ...
>>
>> laura - maybe you could ask John Angel to have a look at this thread and
>> help us understand the context of his curatorial decisions ... it would be
>> very helpful. Would be great to see the budget too (Bill Viola ? Damien
>> Hisrt (sic) ????) but that's probably asking too much.
>>
>> A pair of my favourite south american pioneers : Juan Downey (from chile,
>> pioneer of video and interactive art, co-editor of Radical Software) and
>> Jacqueline Nova, the first electroacoustic music composer in Colombia.
>> Tellingly both artists lived much of their lives in the north (Juan in NYC
>> and Jacqueline in Paris). However, they are both dead.
>>
>> best
>>
>> pedro
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Sarah Cook <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> further to this discussion some of you may have noticed the Art+Feminism
>>> Wikipedia Edit-a-thon which took place across the globe on Saturday
>>> February 1st.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
>>> http://artandfeminism.tumblr.com/
>>> https://eyebeam.org/events/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon
>>> 80 or so new articles were created, and more than 60 expanded or cleaned
>>> up, and a movement was started.
>>>
>>> In Dundee we are going to host another one, probably March 13th, and
>>> start
>>> to have regular get-togethers to increase the amount of information about
>>> women artists on that most global of resources.
>>>
>>> If you want to add to the list of pages which need editing or creating on
>>> Wikipedia, please do so.
>>>
>>> and yes, I agree, it is a race and gender issue…. and I feel we need to
>>> be
>>> aware with exhibitions that they are a key part in the historicisation
>>> of a
>>> field of practice, especially when they are the "first" show on a topic
>>> in
>>> a place or a show that purports to show "pioneers" - how can we balance
>>> this hyperbole around the practice and complicate the picture of the
>>> field
>>> we work in? This particular show in question was collectively curated,
>>> but
>>> raises an important problem in this regard.
>>>
>>> sarah
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:35, Bronac Ferran <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
>>> [log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Annick and colleagues
>>>
>>> The exhibition in Bogota was curated by John Angel Rodriquez - yes?
>>>
>>> There has also be some exchange on the Yasmin list about this. One
>>> contributor commented that there were no French artists involved. I don't
>>> know if this was a serious comment.
>>>
>>> Liliane Lijn is someone whose work has been pioneering in many senses.
>>> She
>>> wrote a lovely essay recently called Poetry, Language, Code, Industry
>>> which
>>> we commissioned for the Visualise: Making Art in Context publication
>>> (published by Anglia Ruskin University November 2013). If anyone wishes
>>> to
>>> contact me offlist I can try to send you the book or at least the essay.
>>> Annick, it is not (yet) in French but I guess could be easily translated
>>> -
>>> I could ask Liliane - and certainly it offers good insights into the
>>> nature of being a female artist on pioneering ground over the past five
>>> decades.
>>> Best wishes
>>> B
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
>>>
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>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] digital / analogue exhibition
>>>
>>> The spontaneous list was necessary as a reaction, but I
>>> would be more reluctant in building a map : it puts again
>>> women in an inferior position.
>>> Reacting, like in this case, is more important to me and of
>>> course including them in exhibitions, conferences, etc. And
>>> documenting their work through art history research and writing.
>>> This said, in the Leonardo/Olats Pioneers & Pathbreakers
>>> project : only one women + a couple !!! Ouch ! Should I do
>>> what I advocate for ?!
>>> OK. We did not move further into this project by lack of
>>> fundings, but still...
>>> If someone is ready to write in French about a woman, I
>>> would be delighted. I would love to have something on Vera
>>> Molnar. At the moment, I have zero budget to move on, on
>>> this project ... and it does take real time to do it in a
>>> professional way.
>>> If someone is interested ....
>>>
>>> Annick
>>>
>>> Le 05/02/14 12:01, Prof. Monika Fleischmann a écrit :
>>> .... working on a growing map would be a really nice idea.
>>> Monika
>>>
>>> Am 05.02.14 11:39, schrieb Pauline van Mourik Broekman:
>>> Hey Marc, no sweat, that's how I - for one - read it
>>> completely; and I
>>> really don't understand how anyone could be insulted by
>>> such an incredibly
>>> generous list. Clearly, we're not looking here for an
>>> ultimate and newly
>>> objective 'map', that's the whole point! We're looking
>>> more for an
>>> approach and awareness, of different partialities, and how
>>> to robustly
>>> tilt them......
>>>
>>> Thanks for the hour, and hours, you put in :)
>>>
>>> Pauline.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> marc garrett wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to respond to those surprised I did not
>>> included them in
>>> the list.
>>>
>>> Well, of course I'm going to miss out names and you're
>>> missing the
>>> point. It's an example not a literal replacement.
>>>
>>> I spent an hour of my time compiling the selected
>>> 'female' names to
>>> highlight how extensive this issue is.
>>>
>>> We need to change this not by compiling lists (it's a
>>> start) but by
>>> challenging our own compliance allowing it to happen. It
>>> misrepresents
>>> our culture and practice and we should be embarrassed if
>>> we let it go on.
>>>
>>> When ever women and working class people, are viewed
>>> through the usual
>>> protocols and defaults of the patriarchal gaze of an
>>> 'assumed'
>>> objectivity. It implements a mythology via processes of
>>> non-inclusion.
>>> This enhances the condition to further introduce the idea
>>> of women and
>>> others not included as subordinates rather than as being
>>> part of the
>>> whole story.
>>>
>>> Recognizing this condition is the start of being
>>> conscious of it.
>>> Critiquing this repeated behaviour demands another level
>>> of engagement.
>>>
>>> To borrow a phrase from Haraway, it would have to be “a
>>> feminist voice;
>>> it is also a whisper of humanism”.
>>>
>>> Wishing you well.
>>>
>>> marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
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