Art Research Communication

Art – Place – Technology Symposium, Liverpool: Draft programme now online

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:
Inke Arns, Artistic Director, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Sarah Cook, Curator and Co-editor, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
Pierre-Yves Desaive, Fine Arts Museum of Belgium, Brussels
Lina Dzuverovic, Director, Electra, London
Paul Domela, Deputy Chief Executive, Liverpool Biennial
Charlie Gere, Reader in New Media Research, Lancaster University
Beryl Graham, Curator and Co-editor, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
Ceri Hand, Director of Exhibitions, FACT, Liverpool
Drew Hemment, Director, Futuresonic, Manchester
Kathy Rae Huffman, Director of Visual Arts, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Stephen Kovats, International Programs Developer, V2, Rotterdam
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Director, Eyebeam, New York
Francis McKee, Head of Digital Arts & New Media, CCA, Glasgow
Trebor Scholz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, New York
Dimitrina Sevova & Alain Kessi, codeflow, Zurich
Paul Sullivan, Director, Static Gallery, Liverpool
Simon Worthington, Mute, London

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.

Captured texts

Chris Byrne and Iliyana Nedkova elaborate on performance, video, art and philosophy in a trio of texts commissioned to accompany the premiere of Captured, an exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway, part of the National Review of Live Art in February 2006.

The writings are also published on the web site of CRATE – a grouping of artists and curators working with Contemporary Art and New and Future Media Art, based at the University of Dundee.

Continue reading Captured texts…