October 09, 2005
MEDIA ART NET
[Online Resources for Media Art]
A JOINT PUBLIC PROGRAM BY THE GOETHE INTITUT NEW YORK AND THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: DIALOGUE OCT 12, 7:30 PM; GOETHE-INSTITUT; ADMISSION: $10/8
Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, will join Dieter Daniels, professor of art history and media theory at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, for a dialogue focusing on the groundbreaking project Media Art Net. The discussion will explore the project as a model for creating resources on media arts.
"Media Art Net" is an online "survey" with scholarly essays, accompanied by comprehensive audiovisual documentation on 940 artists and 1400 art works from the 1920s until today. The second part of the project is now available online and includes 8 key topics: Aesthetics of the Digital; Art and Cinematography; Cyborg Bodies; Generative Tools; Mapping and Text; Photo/Byte; Public Spheres; Sound and Image. A network of curators and writers explore seminal interfaces between media and art, presenting a variety of approaches and contexts. In addition artistic projects are commissioned for the online platform.
Selected essays are published in book form (Media Art Net Vol. 1 and 2) and the specific book design is linked with the online platform.
The project was commissioned by Goethe-Institut and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), in cooperation with the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Financial support was granted by the German Ministry of Research and Education. Editors: Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels.
Posted by jo at October 9, 2005 09:49 AM
