Art Research Communication

Unstable Media, Shifting Contexts

ARC Co-director Iliyana Nedkova will deliver a talk at Valand School of Fine Arts, Goteborg University, Sweden. She will chart the last ten years of her translocal curatorial practice and consider what it means to respond to a place and a shifting context through a variety of unstable media technologies.

Means and Meanings

ARC Co-director Iliyana Nedkova is to deliver a talk at Dundee Contemporary Arts as part of the public lecture programme of the School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

‘’In 1995 I travelled to the ‘UK’s largest international festival of new media art’ and realised that a schism was starting in the art world – a section called new media art had branched out. Divergence was in. A decade later convergence is in the air and we can visit festivals of ‘the art formerly known as new media’.. I would argue that within the last ten years we have moved from curating media-specific art to one which privileges meanings to means.’’

ISEA jury duty for ARC

ARC Co-directors Chris Byrne and Iliyana Nedkova have been invited to serve on the Jury for the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, taking place in August 2006 in San Jose, California.

The jury will select proposals submitted under the Symposium theme Transvergence, which represents a wide range of interdisciplinary research and practice. The jury chair is Sally Jane Norman of Newcastle’s Culture Lab.

Iliyana Nedkova was a juror for the Wearable Experience strand of ISEA 2004, which took place on and around the Baltic Sea. Chris Byrne presented at ISEA 2004 as part of the Wireless Experience theme. You can read Mobile Realism? the text which emerged from Chris’s presentation.