Symposium Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society
Symposium venue: Trouwgebouw Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 131, Amsterdam http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl Friday, May 8th, 2009 9:00 - 18:00 hrs Organised by the Netherlands Media Art Institute The symposium will center on some of the major questions regarding the current and future development of contemporary art and digital culture: Which impact has art on politics and can it contribute to the solution of conflicts? How does the wide spread of digital technologies influence the creation of art and mould individual digital cultures? Are there new models of art production and curating coming up? The three panel discussions follow a clear thematic scheme and try to bring in as much expertise and viewpoints as possible. The conference language is English. More information: http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=l&id=297 Live stream: http://www.nimk.nl Live chat: http://www.nimk.nl/chat LAST UPDATE SPEAKERS Art goes politics Wafaa Bilal, artist (IQ/USA) Hans Bernhard (at), artist, UEBERMORGEN.COM Knowbotic Research, artist group (D/CH), artist in residence at NIMk 2008/09 Moderated by Chris Keulemans, writer and journalist (NL) New territories and cultures of the digital Nat Muller, independent curator and critic (NL) Bronac Ferran (UK), researcher, consultant and founding member of bricolabs Marcus Neustetter, media artist, curator and co-founder of Trinity Session (SA) Péter György, theoretician, advisor of Kitchen Budapest (HU) Moderated by Rob van Kranenburg, thinker, networker and author (NL/B) Open Source – A scheme for art production and curating? Jaromil, dyne.org and researcher at NIMk Femke Snelting (NL) and Renée Turner (USA), De Geuzen Marcos Garcia, director of Interactivos, Medialab Prado (E) Joasia Krysa, curator, founder of KURATOR (P/UK) Moderated by Josephine Bosma, theoretician and critic (NL) During the lunch break intervention by Silver & True REGISTRATION: 9:00 - 9:45 hrs ENTRANCE: 15 euro (Students 10 euro). RESERVATIONS: Please make reservations by sending you name and contact information to jk...@nimk.nl Here we are – There we go Special opening 30 years NIMk open house weekend May 8, 9:30 p.m. The Netherlands Media Art Institute is celebrating its 30th anniversary! We are doing so with an open house on 8, 9 and 10 May, a long weekend full of discussions, artist talks, performances, installations, tours and a party. On Friday May 8 we invite everybody to see the preview of the installations which are presented at the institute during the weekend with a special opening of the installation of Marnix de Nijs, Exploded views – Remapping Firenze and the installation of Jan van Nuenen, Physics Distorter 1.1. See the final program: http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=l&id=298 Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 Ev Amsterdam http://www.nimk.nl _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour