[curatorial.net] Fwd: Curatorial Contexts

[geoff cox]

another event/publication about curating media/net/art...

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> From: "Rhizome News" <netartnews at rhizome.org>
> Date: 10 October 2007 09:00:12 BDT
> To: netartnewslist at rhizome.org
> Subject: Curatorial Contexts
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> Rhizome News
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> October 10, 2007
> Curatorial Contexts
> CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based discussion platform for new media  
> art. Founded in 2006 by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (a.k.a.  
> Carlos Katastrofsky), and Franz Thalmair, it has been playing a  
> significant role in the examination of the most important issues  
> that have recently arisen in the field--not only regarding the  
> production of works for the internet, but also their online  
> viewing. The consideration of curatorial methods for new media art  
> is, in fact, one of the core domains of CONT3XT.NET's activity, and  
> reflecting this interest the team has edited the book 'Circulating  
> Contexts--CURATING MEDIA/NET/ART,' that will be launched at  
> Vienna's Depot next Monday. As stated in the Introduction, this  
> publication takes as its starting point the fact that 'Internet art  
> does not necessarily have to be presented in a customary exhibition  
> space, because as long as there is a computer with internet access,  
> it can be accessed anywhere any time. In many cases, net art  
> emerges thro! ugh the participation of an audience with diverse  
> approaches to the internet, which comments on, transforms and  
> disseminates the works in many different ways.' This topic and  
> others that it has generated are then debated by contributors such  
> as Penny Leong Browne, Yueh Hsiu Giffen Cheng, Ursula Endlicher,  
> John J. Francescutti, Jeremy Hight, G. H. Hovagimyan, Ela Kagel,  
> Joasia Krysa, LeisureArts, Eva Moraga, Scott Rettberg, Duncan  
> Shingleton, Luis Silva, David Upton, xDxD xD, as well as several  
> participants in the organization's mailing list. In between  
> established museum curators' practices and emerging curating  
> models, the presentation of new media art demands more and more  
> theoretical frameworks that still need to be developed, and this  
> project constitutes a step forward in this direction. - Miguel Amado
> http://cont3xt.net/
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geoff cox
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