[spectre] Negotiating Realities - New Media Art/Post-Object, 10oct, NYC

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:07:15 -0500
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	New Media Art and	the Post-Object, Symposium
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Negotiating Realities -- New Media Art and the Post-Object
A symposium in conjunction with the exhibition The Passage of Mirage --
Illusory Virtual Objects
Sunday, October 10
Tishman Auditorium, New School University, New School University, 66
West 12th Street, NY, NY

Synthesizing Realities (11 AM - 1 PM)
A panel discussion featuring Barbara London, Brad Paley, and Kelly
Dobson

Reception / Break (1-3 PM)

>From Image to Digital "Image World" (3-5 PM)
a panel discussion featuring Ron Burnett, Timothy Druckrey, and Ken
Perlin

The symposium will focus on new media art as "post-object" and the
issues this art raises about the representation of realities. While art
projects using digital technologies as a medium may still possess
material properties -- referencing art forms such as sculpture,
painting and film -- their underlying mechanism is code and a data
structure. The programmability and instruction-based nature of new
media art invites indexing and filtering and constitutes a shift to
data representation and the image as tool for visualization. The
principle of random access as a basis for processing and assembling
information connects to notions of controlled randomness and the
dematerialization of the art object that has been extensively explored
by John Cage, the Fluxus artists, or Chance performances.

The process-oriented nature of new media art and its responsiveness to
audience intervention enables a different experience, meditatively as
well as haptically. The "post-object" suggests a new reality that
obscures the boundaries between the material and the ephemeral,
introducing a perceptual twist: the virtual as tangible and the real as
"illusory." How do the language and aesthetics of new media art as a
dynamic and fluctuating entity affect what we know as representation
and what are the cultural and social changes brought about by this
shift?

The symposium will address issues surrounding the post-object in two
separate panels.

Synthesizing Realities (Sunday, October 10, 11 AM - 1 PM)
A panel discussion featuring Barbara London, Brad Paley, and Kelly
Dobson
Moderated by Christiane Paul and Zhang Ga
While the virtual and the real are frequently understood as
antithetical, they are closely connected states of human perception.
Any intersection between the virtual and real (as in the phenomenon of
virtual reality) relies on a process of mediation. This mediation is
made possible by various kinds of "interfaces" ranging from the
human-machine interface to the audio-visual layers that translate one
form of data, information, or sensory input into another. The panel
will explore the ways in which our realities are interfaced and the
effects this mediation has on relationships between the subject and
object.

  From Image to Digital "Image World" (Sunday, October 10, 3-5 PM)
A panel discussion featuring Ron Burnett, Timothy Druckrey, and Ken
Perlin
Moderated by Christiane Paul & Zhang Ga

The digital image has a profound effect on the way in which our culture
communicates and perceives itself. Instant documentation, manipulation,
and distribution are just a few of the characteristics of digital
technologies that have changed how we "visualize" ourselves.
Conventional approaches to exploring a work of art are challenged by
the tension between "materiality / immateriality" inherent to digital
technologies. In the digital world, the image seems to have changed
from an object for viewing to a temporal, evolving and
interaction-oriented space. The panel will address questions about
today's "image world" and how it is reflected in art, news media, and a
science context.


Organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org)
(Joint public programs by Intelligent Agent and the Netart Initiative
of the Parsons School of Design)
Coordinated by: Christiane Paul (Director, Intelligent Agent; Adjunct
Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art), Zhang Ga
(Director, Netart Initiative; Faculty Member, MFA Design and Technology
Program, Parsons School of Design)
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