| IBBT-SMIT LECTURE SERIES: DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURES |
| 29/02/2012 18:30 - 21:30 |
| Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Werfstraat 13, 1000 Brussels |
In Transition? The role of the curator and the arts in a digital culture.
As part of the SMIT Lecture Series IBBT-SMIT, on Wednesday 29 February 2012 research group Digital Arts and Cultures organizes In Transition? The role of the curator and the arts in a digital culture. Invited speakers Beryl Graham, Michelle Kasprzak and Christophe De Jaeger situate, consider and debate this topic from an academic and curatorial perspective.
In what way could the digital sphere influence the role of the curator and the arts? What does it mean to be a curator in a shifting, digital era? To what extent has Beryl Graham’s analysis, who has co-written the book “Re-thinking Curating. Art After New Media” (Graham and Cook, 2011), transpired? Should curators today be artists? What part does the visitor/viewer/participant have in this development? Is the suggestion of an interactive, or perhaps even a co-creative, system, realistic, or still rather utopian? How do, or should, curators relate to the audience? And, how do these transitions influence the role of the arts institution in the contemporary, digital context?
These, and many other related questions, will be addressed. Beryl Graham, professor New Media Art at the Sunderland University will give the opening lecture. Christophe De Jaeger, art historian specializing in photography and new media art, and coordinator of the department of Photography in Bozar (Brussels) will explore what it means to be a curator of new media art in Belgium. Next, Michelle Kasprzak, curator at Rotterdam’s V2, Institute for Unstable Media, and driving force of http://curating.info (Curating in a new media age) will set out a curatorial vision.
You are warmly invited! Doors at Argos open at 18h30, when we gladly offer you a sandwich buffet. At 19h30 the lectures start and conclude with an open debate. At 21h30 the evening comes to an end in a closing reception.
This lecture is closely related to the research activities of the Digital Arts and Cultures Research Group within IBBT-SMIT, as it focuses on the intersection of culture, the arts and new media. Starting from the observation of actual transitions in society, such as creative economy, convergence culture and the expansion of virtual social worlds, Digital Arts and Cultures researchers reflect on the position of the arts and culture in the network society and how static forms of creation, production, content, dissemination, participation and policy are becoming hybrid.
PROGRAM AND PRACTICALITIES
When? Wednesday 29 February 2012
Where? Brussels, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Werfstraat 13, 1000 Brussels.
Practical: participation is free of charge, but registration is required via the following link.
Organisation: IBBT-SMIT, Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels
18h30: Reception and sandwich buffet
19h30: Opening speech – Introduction
19h45: Beryl Graham (professor New Media Art, University of Sunderland)
Christophe De Jaeger (art historian, Bozar, Brussels)
Michelle Kasprzak (curator, V2 Rotterdam)
21h30: Closing reception
Register here.
|
|
|
| |
 Show location on map |
Add to calendar  |
|  |