[rohrpost] Salon des LBI Medien.Kunst.Forschung. am 12.06.: Charlotte Frost - Why Have There Been No Great Net Art Histories?

[Katja Kwastek]

Das Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung. (Linz) lädt ein zum
Salon:

Vortrag von Charlotte Frost (London)

Why Have There Been No Great Net Art Histories?

Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008
um 19.00 Uhr

im ÖH Café Dokapi
Kunstuniversität Linz, Kollegiumgasse 2 (Postgebäude), 2. Stock


Thema: In her 1971 essay ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’,
Linda Nochlin finds that the discipline of Art History has been structured
in such a way as to facilitate the disavowal of women artists. The field of
Net art also appears to have been omitted from the history of art and beyond
a handful of rare and quite specialist texts there are scant print-published
records of its history and few exhibitions have included Net artworks. In
his 1999 reworking of Nochlin’s ideas, New Media curator Steve Dietz
suggests that by uncovering the inherent limitations of Art History we might
begin to acknowledge apparently alternate art forms (such as Net art) on
their own terms. Working from Derrida’s theory of the technicity of the
archive and using elements of Foucault’s discourse analysis, I will claim
that the online contextual networks which have grown up around Net art can
be classed as ‘Net Art History’. I will show that Art History’s disavowal of
technology, due to its basis in metaphysics, has obscured the latent
technicity of all art and, more importantly, Art Historical practice, and
that recognising the roots of the discipline in, say, photography, allows us
to see the true technologies of Art History.

Referentin: Charlotte Frost is a writer/researcher in the field of new media
art. She is currently in the ‘writing-up year’ of her thesis which
demonstrates how technologies impact the archivisation and thereby the
experience of art, through an analysis of the way in which online platforms
for art reception develop the net art encounter. She regularly writes new
media art criticism online and off, and was formerly one of four writers
(alongside Sean Dodson, Simon Tait and Patrick Kelly) involved in an
art-organisation-and-journalism partnership scheme called Media Mates
(co-managed by Digital North and Audiences Yorkshire), where she was
employed to cover the activities of several new media arts organisations in
the Northern region. Prior to this she was a VO (Voluntary Organiser) with
NODE.London, a season of 
media art’s activities, and also the Commissioning Editor of
Furtherfield.org ‘sister site’: Furthertxt.org.
V
eranstalter: Das Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung. befasst
sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung, Vermittlung, Archivierung und
Publikation von Medienkunst und Medientheorie.

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des Instituts und weiteren Themen der Medienkunstforschung.

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