[curatorial.net] FW: Discussion about Cybernetic Serendipity, March 19th at the ICA

[B]

Hi,

I thought I would forward this event at ICA on the 19 March, as it has some
relevance to the current discussions.

Best,
B Aga


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Hi tech, Low tech: Technology in Art + Curating:

Cybernetic Serendipity (ICA 1968) was one of the most important exhibitions
of the 60s - kept open longer due to popular demand. That year, Jack
Burnham's book Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and
Technology on the Sculpture of This Century, proposed a bold teleology of
sculpture leading towards the cybernetic. So what happened to the robotic
exhibition and computer generated art work? As proficiency with technology
grew and computers became commonplace, the technological art exhibition
seemed to become an anachronism. The only acceptable cyborg was the homemade
kind produced by artists such as Bruce Lacey. Contemporary use of technology
in art has become located in its own sphere of artistic practice, with
galleries and groups dedicated to new media and new technologies with a
special emphasis on the 'hope' of a super connected New Babylon. Why is
there such a divisive split between art exhibitions and media art
exhibitions? Should curators be more embracing of technologies? Is there
good reason to be mistrustful of the use of technology in art and exhibition
making?

Speakers: *Jasia Reichardt*, writer and curator of Cybernetic
Serendipity; *Richard
Grayson*, artist, writer, curator of 2002 Sydney Biennale; *Dianne Harris*,
art director, Kinetica Museum; *Paul Granjon*, artist interested in the
co-evolution of humans and robots. Chair: *Dr Charlie Gere*, reader in new
media research and director of the Institute for Cultural Research at
Lancaster University.

£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members.

7pm Wednesday 19 March
2008<http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=9800=19=03=2008=19=03=2008
<http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=9800&fromday=19&frommon=03&fromyear=2008&today=1
9&tomon=03&toyear=2008>
<http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=9800=19=03=2008=19=03=2008 >  >at
the Nash Room



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