Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:22:16 +0100
Sender: "Curating digital art - www.crumbweb.org"
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From: Sarah Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: curatorial department restructuring at MoMA
just in case anyone missed this in the New York Times recently...
there is a post on Steve Dietz's blog yproductions about it as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/03arts.html?ex=1161144000&en=1da62bf29b4db251&ei=5070
http://www.yproductions.com/WebWalkAbout/archives/000803.html
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NYT:
October 3, 2006: The Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that
it had created a new curatorial department to focus exclusively on
the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving
images in gallery installations. The media department, once part of
the department of film and media, will deal with works that use a
wide range of modern technology, from video and digital imagery to
Internet-based art and sound-only pieces, said Klaus Biesenbach, who
was named chief curator of the new department. Mr. Biesenbach, who
has been a MoMA curator since 2004 and the chief curator of P.S. 1,
the museum's Queens affiliate, since 2002, said that works relying on
media techniques and ideas of conveying motion and time had become
much more prominent over the last two decades at international art
fairs and exhibitions.'And it's even more visible now,' he said. 'I
think artistic practice is evolving, and so museums are evolving as
well.' The creation of the new department brings the number of
curatorial departments at the museum to seven. The other six are
architecture and design, drawings, film, painting and sculpture,
photography, and prints and illustrated books.
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thus:
Barbara London's job title has changed to Associate Curator,
Department of Media.
Film remains its own department.
And there is no sense yet of where media art projects that aren't
moving-image or gallery-based, will go.
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