New Media Seminars at Tate Modern
Ana Buigues
Date: 9/9/2003 5:12:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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From: Charlie Gere [mailto:c.g...@bbk.ac.uk]
Sent: 09 September 2003 10:05
Subject: Talks at Tate Modern
Hi everybody
Here is an announcement of a series of talks and seminars to be held at=
Tate Modern, organised in
collaboration with the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media,=
Birkbeck College, University
of London
Apologies for cross-posting
Please forward to anybody who might be interested
Charlie Gere
When New Media Was New
Despite a history stretching back to the 1950s, art made using what are=
now called 'new media' has
been neglected by the mainstream art world. This series of talks and s=
eminars looks at the history
of new media art - from experiments with computer art in the 1950s and =
60s to the emergence of net
art in the 1990s. It features three curators/critics who have pioneere=
d and supported new media art
over the last forty years: Jasia Reichardt, Christiane Paul and Peter W=
eibel. The aim is look at
landmark works and exhibitions in the field of computer art, digital an=
d electronic media, and
internet art, and discuss their relationships with mainstream art pract=
ice and with technological
developments in the wider world.
In conjunction with the three talks, Tate Modern is running a seminar s=
eries on the same topic.
Reichardt, Paul and Weibel will each lead a session focusing on the the=
mes of Cybernetics,
Telematics and Performance respectively - themes that have been central=
to their work. The seminars
will also feature contributions from other leading figures involved in =
the development of new media
art today. When New Media Was New is organised and moderated by Charlie=
Gere (Birkbeck College),
author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Book, 2002). It is a collaboration =
between Tate Modern
Interpretation and Education and the School of History of Art, Film and=
Visual Media at Birkbeck
College, and has been made possible by an AHRB 'Changing Places' resear=
ch grant.
THE TALKS
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
240 places
Tuesdays 30 Sept, 14 and 28 Oct.
Start 18.30, ends approx 20.00
Drinks reception
Tickets £5 (£3 concs) each event
Tues 30 Sept. Jasia Reichardt
Writer and curator Jasia Reichardt was Assistant Director of the ICA (1=
963-71) and Director of the
Whitechapel Art Gallery (1974-76). She has taught at the Architectural =
Association and elsewhere and
published widely. She is interested in art that encroaches on other fie=
lds: science, music and
literature, and has spent many years following up the connections betwe=
en art and technology. Among
her exhibitions staged in Britain the best known is Cybernetic Serendip=
ity (1968), a landmark show
about the computer and the arts. In recent years she has spent consider=
able time working in Japan.
Tues 14 Oct. Christiane Paul
Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney=
Museum of American Art and
the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and informati=
on resource dedicated to
digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts, including D=
igital Art (2003). She
teaches in the MFA computer art department at the School of Visual Arts=
in New York and has lectured
internationally on art and technology, while organising a number of sho=
ws of new media art in the
States and elsewhere. She also runs Artport, the Whitney Museum's onlin=
e portal to Internet art.
Tues 28 Oct. Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel has been head of the ZKM_Center for Art and Media Karlsruh=
e since 1999. Besides his
activities as artist and curator, his publications about art and media =
theory earned him
international renown. Since 1976 he has lectured widely at universities=
and academies in Europe and
the US. After heading the digital arts laboratory at New York Universit=
y, he founded the Institute
of New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1989. He wa=
s in charge of the Ars
Electronica festival in Linz as artistic consultant and later artistic =
director (1986-95), and has
commissioned the Austrian pavilions at the Venice Biennale.
THE SEMINAR SERIES
McAulay Studio B, Tate Modern
40 places
Wednesdays 1, 15 and 29 Oct
14.00-17.00
Tickets £45 (£30 concs), includes admission to all three Tuesday ta=
lks
Wed 1 Oct. CYBERNETICS
Paul Brown, artist and Senior Research Fellow for the AHRB-funded Compu=
ter Arts, Contexts,
Histories, etc... (CACHe) project, studying early British computer art,=
in the School of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, and Helen Sloan, Director=
of Southern Collaborative
Arts Network (SCAN), will join Jasia Reichardt and Charlie Gere for a s=
eminar on questions arising
from her talk.
Wed 15 Oct. TELEMATICS
Giles Lane, founder and director of Proboscis and Associate Research Fe=
llow of MEDIA@LSE in the
London School of Economics, and Josephine Berry, an editor of Mute, a c=
ultural politics and
technology magazine, and author of a PhD in site-specific art on the ne=
t, will join Christiane Paul
and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from her talk.
Wed 29 Oct. PERFORMANCE
Hannah Redler, curator at the Science Museum, and Sarah Cook, independe=
nt new media curator and
co-editor of the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB) we=
bsite and listserv, will join
Peter Weibel and Charlie Gere for a seminar on questions arising from h=
is talk.