[curatorial.net] SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA, Gateshead, 5th March

[Beryl Graham]

Symposium, Book Launch, and Party

CRUMB is celebrating its 10th Birthday in 2010, and has international 
events during AV Festival in the North East of England in March 
(http://www.avfestival.co.uk/).

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SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Fri 5 March, 9:00am-4:30pm
Free to Contemporary Art Society's National Network Members, £25 
non-members
Tickets: www.contemporaryartsociety.org 
nationalprogrammes at contemporaryartsociety.org

The work of artists who use new media art, live art and other 'variable 
media' is increasingly being drawn into our national public 
collections. Excellent models exist where major works are acquired or 
where artists are commissioned specifically to create works for 
collections. This symposium offers an opportunity to learn from 
pioneering institutions that have worked with artists. Keynote speaker: 
Benjamin Weil, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion 
Industrial de Gijon, Spain. Other confirmed speakers include: Laura 
Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT; Lisa Panting, Director, Picture 
This; Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency; Graham 
Harwood, artist.

Programmed by the Contemporary Art Society's National Network in 
partnership with CRUMB.

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BOOK LAUNCH
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Fri 5 March, 4:30-5.30pm
FREE

Join CRUMB's co-founders, Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, for a glass of 
wine to launch their new book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, 
published by MIT Press, and two new volumes of CRUMB dialogues 
published by The Green Box, Berlin. 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
http://www.thegreenbox.net/

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BIRTHDAY PARTY!
The Cellar Bar, Grey St. Hotel, Newcastle
Fri 12 March, 5.30-7.30pm
FREE. Tickets: Numbers are limited. RSVP to 
verina.gfader at sunderland.ac.uk

To celebrate the 10th birthday of CRUMB, the resource for those who 
exhibit new media art, you are invited for bubbles, cocktails and cake.

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