Eric Kluitenberg on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:01:05 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Debate: net.art and art criticism |
A N N O U N C E M E N T Debate: net.art and art criticism Friday January 25, 2002 De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Grote Zaal Start: 20.00 hrs. Ever since documenta X 1997 in Kassel, internet art has been placed on the map of the contemporary art world. Artists such as the duo jodi.org or Marko Peljhan were suddenly launched into the international art world. Meanwhile, however, artists working primarily with the internet have remained rather exotic creatures in the art zoo. Why? Are these artists misunderstood? Does net.art also demand a new set of criteria? What is the relevant context in which these works should be discussed and analysed; that of contemporary visual arts, or rather the context of the internet itself and the turbulent developments of the new communication and information technologies? It begs the question how art criticism should deal with these phenomena. Is internet art or "net.art" simply another art form as there are many others, a genre, which then can be a normal part of regular art criticism? Or do these works in the admittedly special context of the internet require their own criteria and their own discourse, in order that they can be appropriately understood and valued? Participants in the debate are; Frederic Madre (F); Tilman Baumgaertel (D), writer, critic, author of "net.art Materialien zur Netzkunst"; Sarah Cook (UK), Curator, writer and researcher, University of Sunderland; Graham Harwood (UK), media-artist (ex-Mongrel) and currently artist in residence at De Waag Society for Old and New Media; jodi (B&NL) artist duo, creators of the famous jodi.org net art web site, SOD a radical adaptation of the 3D game Wolfenstein and the "Wrong Browser" project. It is also possible to follow the debate via internet, at: http://www.balie.nl/live URLs: * Jodi.org Home Site and Wrong Browsers http://www.jodi.org http://www.wrongbrowser.com * Artist Collective Mongrel: http://www.mongrelx.org * Web Pages of Frederic Madre http://pleine-peau.com * Web Pages of Tilman Baumgaertel: http://www.thing.de/tilman/ * Web Pages of Sarah Cook http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/sc/sarahc.htm *Web Pages of Josephine Bosma: http://www.laudanum.net/bosma * Cream - Discussion Forum n net.art: http://www.laudanum.net/cream ____________________ tickets & reservations: price: Euro 7,50 (f 16,50) / E. 5,00 ( f 11,00) opening hours box office: work days 13.00-18.00 hrs or until the start of the program. In the weekend 1 1/2 hour before the programs starts. Reserve by phone: 31.20.55 35 100 during opening hours until 45 minutes before the program starts. De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam http://www.balie.nl _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold