From New-Media-Curating list:
Dear List,
>> March 2011 Theme of the Month: Analogue/Digital Art
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>> At the Crafts Council's Curator's Forum in September 2010, the relationship between
digital processes and material craft objects was called into question, by artist who
comfortably use both. What are the histories of such hybridity? Are craft and design
curators ahead of art in integrating new media into mainstream exhibition? Is neo-luddism
the way forward?
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>> These issues, however, go beyond craft and into art: Much activist and participative
art, for example, might use new media connectivity extensively, but rarely exists without
street-level production, exhibition or action. Are Open Source production methods really
adapted outside of software? Are the analogue and the digital really integrated in practice,
or do tensions still exist?
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>> Reference: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/professional-development/for-curators/
craft-curator-days/view/craft-curators-forum-2010?cc_events=all®ion_id=0&year_filter=0&list_
p=1
Theme Host:
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>> Ele Carpenter is a curator, artist and researcher working within the field of visual
arts and new media culture in the public realm. She has a PhD with CRUMB, has been a
Research Fellow at HUMlab and Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, and teaches in the MFA
Curating at Goldsmiths College. http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk
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>> Invited Respondents:
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>> Laura Bardier is an art curator from Montevideo, and has curated private collections,
international exhibitions, workshops, and forums. She collaborated with the Municipality
of Napoli to develop the first civic center for contemporary art, the Palazzo delle Arti
Napoli (PAN). http://bardier.wordpress.com/
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>> Victoria Bradbury is a new media artist mixing anachronistic forms and new devices.
She weaves electronic signals, code, and fibrous materials to create temporary home-spaces.
She is currently Assistant Professor of Electronic Art at Ball State University and Fellow
for the Institute of Digital Intermedia Arts. http://www.victoriabradbury.com
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>> Daniel Charny is an independent curator, designer and lecturer with an industrial design
background. Co-founder of creative projects consultancy From Now On and Senior Tutor at the
Royal College of Art, between 2002 - 2010 he was the founding curator of The Aram Gallery.
He has guest curated for the Design Museum, London and is currently guest curator at the
Victoria and Albert Museum. http://danielcharny.com
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>> Charlie Gere is Director of Research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster
University. Books include Digital Culture (Reaktion, 2002) ; Art, Time and Technology:
Histories of the Disappearing Body (Berg, 2005). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/profiles
/charlie-gere
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>> Andy Gracie works across various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound,
video and biological practice. This work is situated between the arts and the sciences,
creating situations of exchange between natural and artificial systems which allow new emergent
behaviours to develop. http://hostprods.net
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>> Catherine McDermott is a Professor of Contemporary Curating at Kingston University in London,
and runs the MA "Curating Contemporary Design" in partnership with the Design Museum London.
Online curating and the curation of digital media are the focal point of a project with Hongik
University.http://www.kingston.ac.uk/pressoffice/findanexpert/profile/4/Catherine-McDermott/
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>> Jo Ana Morfin holds a degree in Cultural Heritage Restoration, followed by a Master's degree
in Curating. She is currently doing her PhD at Bristol
>> University in U.K. Her research, entitled Unstable Documents: Archiving and Conservation
Practices, is concerned with the long-term access and distribution of media-based art archives.
http://unstablearchives.wordpress.com/
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>> Petros Moris is an artist and curator from Athens, Greece. His work and research negotiates
the multiple impacts that information distribution systems have on knowledge production and
creativity. He is a funding member of the art and curating collective KERNEL.
http://petrosmoris.com
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>> Fo Wilson is a US-based maker, educator, independent curator and writer. Her work lies at
the intersection of craft and new technologies and concerns the agency of the handmade object
in the Digital Age. http://www.fowilson.com