Art Research Communication

From the archives: artstream

Between 2002 and 2003, Chris Byrne curated artstream, an experimental project exploring the potentials of artists’ use of streaming media. artstream comprised occasional projects with live and prerecorded material.

Works presented during that time included Ben Woodeson’s Portable Bug, a self-sufficient solar powered bugging device which broadcast sound and vision of its surroundings over the internet; CN_ZER0 v6.4, internet streams from a performance by New York based artist Cary Peppermint at CCA, Glasgow, 2002; and Sounds From Near And Far, internet audio streams connecting Sofia, Edinburgh and Liverpool featuring sound works from artists across the globe on the theme of the translocal: travel, crossing borders, migration, sounds of different cultures and environments. Sounds From Near And Far includes works by Diskono, Chantal Dumas, Borderhack, Zoë Irvine, Alistair Macdonald, Paul Rooney, Public Works, Peter Cusack, Chris Bowman, Sue Mark, Janek Schaefer, Calum Stirling, Mark Vernon, Robert Mackay, Mark Lawton, Gen Ken Montgomery, John Campbell, Vanessa Cuthbert, Max Eastley, Colin Fallows, Martin e Greil, Phil Mouldycliff, Russell Mills & Ian Walton, Robin Rimbaud, Will Sergeant, Vergil Sharkya’, Paul Simpson and John Young.

The artstream projects can be experienced by following this link.

Footnote: Rhizome have caught onto this post straight away. It seems the blogosphere works after all…

Art – Place – Technology Symposium, Liverpool

ARC Co-directors Iliyana Nedkova and Chris Byrne are working with Professor Colin Fallows of Liverpool School of Art & Design, towards an international symposium on new media art curating and theory, Art – Place – Technology, taking place in Liverpool 30 March – 1 April 2006.

New media art is a global phenomenon: a rapidly changing and dynamic field of creative practice which crosses conventional categories and disciplinary boundaries challenging our assumptions about art.

How do curators engage with new media art?
What makes a good curator of new media art?
What can we learn from the pioneers of this field?
What does the future hold for curating new media art?
What common ground exists with other disciplines?

These and other issues will be explored at Art – Place – Technology. Speakers who are shaping the practice and theory of curating new media art include Amanda McDonald Crowley, Director of Eyebeam; Charlie Gere, Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University; and Trebor Scholz, founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity.

Art – Place – Technology will look at historical and current projects by some of the world’s leading curators of new media art, and discuss how curating new media art creates interfaces with the art world, museum culture, media, publishing and academia. The symposium proceedings will be published in 2007.

To register online for Art – Place – Technology and for further information about the Symposium, follow this link.

Major partners in organising the symposium are Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University; Arts Council England, North West; FACT and Art Research Communication.

From the archives: Designer Bodies

In 2004, Iliyana Nedkova and Chris Byrne organised Designer Bodies, a science and art season at venues across Edinburgh, Scotland featuring a symposium, an exhibition, and workshops. Scientists, writers, curators, artists and young people unravelled the aesthetics, ethics and future of human genetics.

The Designer Bodies exhibition at Stills gallery opened a pathway to the future of genetics through artworks by four outstanding Scottish artists: Christine Borland, Gina Czarnecki, Jacqueline Donachie and Gair Dunlop. The international symposium Designer Bodies: Towards the Posthuman Condition, held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, presented the artists’ research alongside eminent psychologists, microbiologists, curators, writers and artists including Bergit Arends, Alan Bleakley, Bronac Ferran, Jens Hauser, Steve Kurtz, Warren Neidich and Keith Skene.

For highlights from Designer Bodies follow this link.