[spectre] Fwd: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Contemporary Art and New Media (Art Basel discussion) 19 June

[Oliver Grau]

..maybe this helps a bit to find out why the traditional art marked 
still basically excludes the Media Art sector and its galleries and 
platforms ..


>>> Edward Shanken <rotorelief at GMAIL.COM> 11.06.2010 13:09 >>>
Contemporary Art and New Media: Towards a Hybrid Discourse?
Art Basel, Art Salon, Hall 1 Auditorium
19 June, 1pm

Panelists:
Nicolas Bourriaud, curator/writer, Paris
Peter Weibel, CEO, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Michael Joaquin Grey, artist, New York

Since the mid-1990s, new media has become an important force for
creative culture and economic development. Supporting institutions
including Ars Electronica, ZKM and Eyebeam have expanded, while
interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs at the intersections of art, science,
and technology have proliferated internationally. Simultaneously,
mainstream contemporary art experienced dramatic growth, propelled by
the proliferation of venues from Art Basel Miami to the Shanghai
Biennial and by the creativity of artists, curators, dealers and
pedagogues. Yet rarely do these two artworlds meet. As a result, their
discourses have increasingly diverged. To what extent are new media
art and mainstream contemporary art commensurable? Is it possible to
construct a hybrid discourse that offers insights into each, while
enabling greater mixing between them? What roles have educational
programs and cultural institutions played in fostering these divides
and how can they contribute to suturing them? What insights into
larger questions of emerging art and cultural forms might be gleaned
by such a rapprochement?

Coordinated and chaired by Edward Shanken, art historian/media
theorist, Amsterdam

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