Das Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung. (Linz) lädt ein zum Salon:
Vortrag von Charlotte Frost (London) Why Have There Been No Great Net Art Histories? Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008 um 19.00 Uhr im ÖH Café Dokapi Kunstuniversität Linz, Kollegiumgasse 2 (Postgebäude), 2. Stock Thema: In her 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, Linda Nochlin finds that the discipline of Art History has been structured in such a way as to facilitate the disavowal of women artists. The field of Net art also appears to have been omitted from the history of art and beyond a handful of rare and quite specialist texts there are scant print-published records of its history and few exhibitions have included Net artworks. In his 1999 reworking of Nochlins ideas, New Media curator Steve Dietz suggests that by uncovering the inherent limitations of Art History we might begin to acknowledge apparently alternate art forms (such as Net art) on their own terms. Working from Derridas theory of the technicity of the archive and using elements of Foucaults discourse analysis, I will claim that the online contextual networks which have grown up around Net art can be classed as Net Art History. I will show that Art Historys disavowal of technology, due to its basis in metaphysics, has obscured the latent technicity of all art and, more importantly, Art Historical practice, and that recognising the roots of the discipline in, say, photography, allows us to see the true technologies of Art History. Referentin: Charlotte Frost is a writer/researcher in the field of new media art. She is currently in the writing-up year of her thesis which demonstrates how technologies impact the archivisation and thereby the experience of art, through an analysis of the way in which online platforms for art reception develop the net art encounter. She regularly writes new media art criticism online and off, and was formerly one of four writers (alongside Sean Dodson, Simon Tait and Patrick Kelly) involved in an art-organisation-and-journalism partnership scheme called Media Mates (co-managed by Digital North and Audiences Yorkshire), where she was employed to cover the activities of several new media arts organisations in the Northern region. Prior to this she was a VO (Voluntary Organiser) with NODE.London, a season of media arts activities, and also the Commissioning Editor of Furtherfield.org sister site: Furthertxt.org. V eranstalter: Das Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung. befasst sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung, Vermittlung, Archivierung und Publikation von Medienkunst und Medientheorie. Der »Salon« dient der öffentlichen Diskussion von Forschungsschwerpunkten des Instituts und weiteren Themen der Medienkunstforschung. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen. -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
