..maybe this helps a bit to find out why the traditional art marked still basically excludes the Media Art sector and its galleries and platforms ..
>>> Edward Shanken <[email protected]> 11.06.2010 13:09 >>> Contemporary Art and New Media: Towards a Hybrid Discourse? Art Basel, Art Salon, Hall 1 Auditorium 19 June, 1pm Panelists: Nicolas Bourriaud, curator/writer, Paris Peter Weibel, CEO, ZKM, Karlsruhe Michael Joaquin Grey, artist, New York Since the mid-1990s, new media has become an important force for creative culture and economic development. Supporting institutions including Ars Electronica, ZKM and Eyebeam have expanded, while interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs at the intersections of art, science, and technology have proliferated internationally. Simultaneously, mainstream contemporary art experienced dramatic growth, propelled by the proliferation of venues from Art Basel Miami to the Shanghai Biennial and by the creativity of artists, curators, dealers and pedagogues. Yet rarely do these two artworlds meet. As a result, their discourses have increasingly diverged. To what extent are new media art and mainstream contemporary art commensurable? Is it possible to construct a hybrid discourse that offers insights into each, while enabling greater mixing between them? What roles have educational programs and cultural institutions played in fostering these divides and how can they contribute to suturing them? What insights into larger questions of emerging art and cultural forms might be gleaned by such a rapprochement? Coordinated and chaired by Edward Shanken, art historian/media theorist, Amsterdam www.artexetra.com ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
