The deadline for registration for our first visit is tomorrow - 10th September. If you'd like to meet Steve Dietz, don't forget to send us your information.
Chris
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New Media Scotland invites you to register for the first in a series of visits to Scotland by international curators, organised specially for <ambit> members and friends.
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Monday, 22 Sept 2003 10:00 - 18:00 CCA, Glasgow, CCA:Club Room
Would you like to maximize the opportunities for your work to be appreciated beyond Scotland? Do you want to increase the likelihood of being invited to work on an exciting new commission, exhibition or event? Do you feel that you can impress and inform a curator who is not familiar with your work?
If your answer to the questions above is yes, then register for this first in a series of visits by influential curators - a new initiative from New Media Scotland for <ambit> members and friends. Our first visiting curator will view work by artists from the <ambit> community.
Through organising a number of visits by international curators we aim to raise the profile of Scottish-based media artists and enhance recognition of the work outwith Scotland. Each visiting curator will be encouraged to meet and explore in depth work by artists using new technologies in their practice.
As the time available for the visiting curators to speak to individual artists and view work will be limited, it might not be possible to meet every artist interested in this opportunity. Therefore if you wish to be considered, we ask you to please register using the web form available via the <ambit> web site:
http://www.mediascot.org/ambit/curator_visits/details.html
DEADLINE for registration: 10 September 2003
Notification will be sent to selected artists by: 15 September 2003
STEVE DIETZ biography:
Steve Dietz is former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He founded their New Media Initiatives department in 1996 and was responsible for programming the online space Gallery 9.
Dietz has organized and curated numerous new media exhibitions, including 'Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net' (1998); 'Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age' (1999); 'Digital Documentary: The Need to Know and the Urge to Show' (1999); 'Cybermuseology for the Museo de Monterrey' (1999); 'Art Entertainment Network' (2000); 'Outsourcing Control? The Audience As Artist for the Open Source Lounge' at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000); 'Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace' (2001-02), a nationally traveling exhibition; 'Open_Source_Art_Hack' (2002), with Jenny Marketou, at the New Museum, New York City; 'Translocations' (2003), part of 'How Latitudes Become Forms' at the Walker Art Center; and 'Pretty Good Access' (2004), with Anthony Kiendl and Sarah Cook, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts.
Walker's New Media Initiaves department is responsible for the institutional web site and integrated, public informatics. Dietz co-initiated with The Minneapolis Institue of Arts the award-winning 'ArtsConnectEd', an educational site, and with The McKnight Foundation, 'Minnesota Artists Online', a resource and community for over 3,000 Minnesota-based artists.
He speaks and writes extensively about new media, and his interviews and writings have appeared in Parkett, Artforum, Flash Art, Design Quarterly, Spectra, Afterimage, Art in America, and Museum News.
Prior to working for the Walker Art Center, Dietz was founding Chief of Publications and New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and editor of the scholarly journal, American Art.
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For further details please contact Iliyana Nedkova or Chris Byrne at New Media Scotland.
Steve Dietz visit to Scotland organised in association with CCA, Glasgow; The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; CRUMB, University of Sunderland.
New Media Scotland is supported by the Scottish Arts Council.
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