Documenting new media art

CRUMB, the online resource for new media art curators, would like to invite you to a professional development workshop on March 5 2008, in Newcastle, UK, with visiting international curator Caitlin Jones.

Caitlin Jones has a Masters of Arts degree in Archival Studies and has worked as assistant curator at the Guggenheim Museum, including working on the important inter-museum research project, The Variable Media Initiative which sought to identify and analyse the challenges of collecting/archiving and documenting sculpture, fine art, new media art, and video. She also curated the Guggenheim exhibition Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice, which paired older and newer versions of new media artworks including those by Cory Arcangel and Grahame Weinbren. She has worked for commercial galleries in New York, and has sold new media works by Vuk Cosic and Thomson & Craighead to major collectors. She has written for Rhizome.org and The Believer.

This workshop is one of a series of professional development opportunities offered by CRUMB, which aim to share the best practical experience of leading international curators with a range of those who work on showing contemporary art. Curators, archivists, artists, technicians, designers, organizers and educators should find it useful. It is part of the AV festival , and supported by The Inspiring Internationalists programme
. On the CRUMB website, the theme for discussion in February concerns writing about art that is ephemeral, broadcast, or ‘live’ .

The workshop will cover questions relating to the documentation and preservation of electronic and ephemeral artworks and art events; those interested in new media, online archives, live art, broadcast, installation or performance should find it relevant. New media technologies offer some new perspectives on documenting, archiving, and preservation: websites and blogs mean that people can document and criticise themselves, online databases mean that people can collect themselves, and tagging means that people can make their own categories and taxonomies. YouTube and other filesharing sites now make it easy for people to ‘broadcast themselves’, and then re-broadcast, re-enact, or make different versions of the same work. How does contemporary art work re-contextualise former attempts of the ephemeral in art? What is the role of the archivist or registrar in considering the longevity of the interdisciplinary practices that media art brings along?


WORKSHOP DETAILS
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Documenting new media art. CRUMB professional development workshop

Date> Wednesday 5 March 2pm - 5pm

Venue> Dance City / Newcastle Upon Tyne http://www.dancecity.co.uk/

About the event> Caitlin Jones joins the CRUMB team to discuss how best to document event-based and exhibition-based new media art activity. She will lead us through some case studies and help you to better record and document your own new media curatorial activities.

Admission FREE, but booking is essential as places are limited.

To book, RSVP by emailing to [email protected]:
1. Contact details.
2. 50 words on your particular area of practice in relation to this workshop, and what you hope to get from attending.
3. Any special needs.

CRUMB receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. This event receives funding from Arts Council England Inspiring Internationalists programme.