Dear Chris Could you not also ask Tamas to do a talk for those of us who do not have work to show - I would be interested to hear about Tamas' projects and his perspective on curatng new media...
Chris Fremantle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: <ambit> visiting curator - Tamas Banovich ----------------------------------------- <ambit> visiting curator - TAMAS BANOVICH ----------------------------------------- as part of Stills Specials New Media Scotland invites you to register for the second in a series of visits to Scotland by international curators, organised specially for <ambit> members and friends. ----------------------------------- TAMAS BANOVICH (NEW YORK CITY, USA) ----------------------------------- Thursday 13 November 2003 10:00 - 18:00 Stills 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh We are pleased to announce an opportunity to meet <ambit> visiting curator Tamas Banovich, co-director and co-owner of Postmasters Gallery, New York. <ambit> curators' visits are a new initiative from New Media Scotland. Our first visitor, Steve Dietz, met with 6 artists from the <ambit> community, viewed their work and expressed enthusiasm and support for the energetic and vital Scottish media arts scene. By registering, you have the chance to meet and inform a curator who is not familiar with your work. This can help you to maximize the opportunities for your work to be appreciated beyond Scotland. You can increase the likelihood of being invited to work on a new commission, exhibition or event. We believe that through organising visits to Scotland by influential curators, we will raise the profile of Scottish-based media artists and enhance recognition of their work internationally. Each visiting curator is encouraged to meet artists using new technologies in their practice and explore their work in depth. As the time available for 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: 3 November 2003 Notification will be sent to selected artists by: 8 November 2003 --- TAMAS BANOVICH biography: Tamas Banovich is the co-director and co-owner of Postmasters Gallery, New York City - http://www.postmastersart.com. Born in Budapest, Tamas attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, where he studied sculpture, urban design and set design. Tamas moved to New York in 1979 and together with Magda Sawon established Postmasters Gallery in 1985. The gallery introduces and represents emerging and established contemporary artists across several generations. The work encompasses all mediums and may be described as 'thinking art', ranging from conceptual work to visually engaging multimedia installations. Postmasters has been a consistent supporter of the new media art community since 1995, in recognition of the fact that digital and network technology is becoming a defining cultural influence. "Our curatorial effort was and continues to be focused on incorporating 'new media' into the mainstream art discourse", says Tamas. "Beginning with the exhibition 'Can You Digit?' in 1996, followed, among others, with 'MacClassic', 'Password:Ferdydurke', 'Behind the Firewall' and many installations and performance events, we were instrumental in introducing digital and network based works to the New York audience. Presently about half of the artists represented by us are working in the digital medium - from the pioneers (Wolfgang Staehle, Ken Feingold, Perry Hoberman, Natalie Jeremijenko) to the younger generation (etoy, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, John Klima, Paul Johnson, Eddo Stern, Maciej Wisniewski, 01001....org)." "I am also experimenting with new economic frameworks for new media projects", Tamas continues. In 2001 he was one of the founders of netomat, a multimedia communication software company that is an outgrowth of a project originally presented at Postmasters Gallery in 1999 - http://www.postmastersart.com/netomat & http://www.netomat.net. Currently Tamas is in the process of launching 'algorithmic', an agency that will represent leading media artist-professionals and publish artist created software. ----------------------------------------- <ambit> visiting curator - TAMAS BANOVICH ----------------------------------------- Organised by New Media Scotland and Stills, in association with Postmasters Gallery, New York; School of Television & Imaging at the University of Dundee; Dundee Contemporary Arts. New Media Scotland is supported by the Scottish Arts Council. 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