Begin forwarded message: > From: oliver grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Sep 9, 2003 10:30:33 AM Europe/London > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [spectre] When New Media Was New > > > > When New Media Was New > > Despite a history stretching back to the 1950s, art made using what > are now called new media has been neglected by the mainstream art > world. This series of talks and seminars looks at the history of new > media art from experiments with computer art in the 1950s and 60s to > the emergence of net art in the 1990s. It features three > curators/critics who have pioneered and supported new media art over > the last forty years: Jasia Reichardt, Christiane Paul and Peter > Weibel. The aim is look at landmark works and exhibitions in the > field of computer art, digital and electronic media, and internet art, > and discuss their relationships with mainstream art practice and with > technological developments in the wider world. > > In conjunction with the three talks, Tate Modern is running a seminar > series on the same topic. Reichardt, Paul and Weibel will each lead a > session focusing on the themes of Cybernetics, Telematics and > Performance respectively themes that have been central to their work. > The seminars will also feature contributions from other leading > figures involved in the development of new media art today. When New > Media Was New is organised and moderated by Charlie Gere (Birkbeck > College), author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Book, 2002). It is a > collaboration between Tate Modern Interpretation and Education and the > School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, > and has been made possible by an AHRB 'Changing Places' research > grant. > > THE TALKS > Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern > 240 places > Tuesdays 30 Sept, 14 and 28 Oct. > Start 18.30, ends approx 20.00 > Drinks reception > Tickets £5 (£3 concs) each event > > Tues 30 Sept. Jasia Reichardt > Writer and curator Jasia Reichardt was Assistant Director of the ICA > (1963-71) and Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1974-76). She > has taught at the Architectural Association and elsewhere and > published widely. She is interested in art that encroaches on other > fields: science, music and literature, and has spent many years > following up the connections between art and technology. Among her > exhibitions staged in Britain the best known is Cybernetic Serendipity > (1968), a landmark show about the computer and the arts. In recent > years she has spent considerable time working in Japan. > > Tues 14 Oct. Christiane Paul > Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the > Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, > a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital > art. She has written extensively on new media arts, including Digital > Art (2003). She teaches in the MFA computer art department at the > School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on > art and technology, while organising a number of shows of new media > art in the States and elsewhere. She also runs Artport, the Whitney > Museum's online portal to Internet art. > > Tues 28 Oct. Peter Weibel > Peter Weibel has been head of the ZKM_Center for Art and Media > Karlsruhe since 1999. Besides his activities as artist and curator, > his publications about art and media theory earned him international > renown. Since 1976 he has lectured widely at universities and > academies in Europe and the US. After heading the digital arts > laboratory at New York University, he founded the Institute of New > Media at the Stהdelschule in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1989. He was in > charge of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz as artistic consultant > and later artistic director (1986-95), and has commissioned the > Austrian pavilions at the Venice Biennale. > > THE SEMINAR SERIES > McAulay Studio B, Tate Modern > 40 places > Wednesdays 1, 15 and 29 Oct > 14.00-17.00 > Tickets £45 (£30 concs), includes admission to all three Tuesday talks > > Wed 1 Oct. CYBERNETICS > Paul Brown, artist and Senior Research Fellow for the AHRB-funded > Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc& (CACHe) project, studying > early British computer art, in the School of History of Art, Film and > Visual Media, Birkbeck College, and Helen Sloan, Director of Southern > Collaborative Arts Network (SCAN), will join Jasia Reichardt and > Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from her talk. > > Wed 15 Oct. TELEMATICS > Giles Lane, founder and director of Proboscis and Associate Research > Fellow of [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the London School of Economics, and Josephine > Berry, an editor of Mute, a cultural politics and technology magazine, > and author of a PhD in site-specific art on the net, will join > Christiane Paul and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising > from her talk. > > Wed 29 Oct. PERFORMANCE > Hannah Redler, curator at the Science Museum, and Sarah Cook, > independent new media curator and co-editor of the Curatorial Resource > for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB) website and listserv, will join Peter > Weibel and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from his > talk. > > > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
