[curatorial.net] WRO 07 symposium

[geoff cox]

For your information, there was a symposium last week as part of the  
WRO 12th Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland, that included some  
presentations around archives. A number of speakers introduced  
various institutional approaches (from V2, Daniel Langlois  
Foundation, Electronic Arts Intermix, Inter Media Institute,  
Montevideo, etc.), their use of open source platforms and relational  
databases. There were some useful perspectives and the sense that  
further developments were embracing user-generated approaches and the  
need to become more collaborative across the various initiatives. The  
discussion itself was recorded and will be archived at a later date  
either on the WRO website or in the forthcoming WRO READER  
publication. The symposium organiser (Michal Szota) has also been  
invited to send some thoughts to the list. / Geoff

You can follow some links below:
http://www.wrocenter.pl/biennale/symposium.php
http://www.wrocenter.pl/biennale/index.php
http://wrocenter.pl/?go=en/

Contributors:
Vincent Bonin, Daniel Langlois Foundation Centre for Research and  
Documentation (CR+D), Montreal
Geoff Cox, University of Plymouth, UK
Sandra Fauconnier, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Wulf Herzogenrath, Kunsthalle Bremen / Hochschule für Künste in Bremen
Joasia Krysa, KURATOR / University of Plymouth, UK
Wiel Seuskens, Netherlands Media Art Institute, montevideo.nl
Sandra Thomas, Foundation imai – inter media art institute, Düsseldorf
John Thomson, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York