[spectre] Creating, Commissioning, Exhibiting and Collecting Art in the Digital Age

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Creating, Commissioning, Exhibiting and Collecting Art in the Digital Age

Thursday 22 January 2015, 5pm-6pm

Since the establishment of the World Wide Web, questions have proliferated
around the possibilities, value and collectability of its associated
contemporary art forms.

The web provides a single site for the creation (and sometimes
co-creation), distribution, review and remix of an art form that takes as
its medium: code, images, text, video, music and social relations.
Historically, the value of an artwork resided in its uniqueness. Now
artists, audiences, curators and collectors grapple with an infinitely
replicable and distributable art form. This panel discusses an electrifying
cluster of controversies: the subversive intentions and emancipatory
motivations of many media artists; the needs and concerns of public art
collectors and conservators; the opportunities for private collectors and
the interests of high art market speculation.

This panel is chaired by Ruth Catlow, artist, co-founder and co-director
Furtherfield, established in 1997 for art, technology and social change.

Ruth will be joined by:

Steve Fletcher – Co-founder of Carroll / Fletcher, a recently established
commercial gallery specialising in contemporary socio-political, cultural,
scientific and technological themes

Lindsay Taylor - Salford University Art Curator who established the first
UK public digital arts collection at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery

For details…
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/creating-commissioning-exhibiting-and-collecting-art-digital-age
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