"Curating Digital Art" panel event

"Curating Digital Art" panel event
Tuesday July 8th, 2-4pm
Commonwealth Institute, London
Admission Free

In recent years, digital art has presented an increasing curatorial challenge to art institutions. Digital art practice often suggests an emphasis upon systems rather than objects, remote rather than local events, and privileges reproduction over authenticity. Significant galleries such as the Walker Art Centre, ICA, Whitney Museum of Art and Tate Modern have all tackled the issue of institutional support of digital art, with varying degrees of success.

This panel brings together a range of curators involved in the definition of contemporary digital art. They will discuss a number of questions, including:

* Can digital art be considered within a larger visual arts framework, or should it be considered as a separate discipline?

*What are appropriate means for presenting digital art – are galleries valid display systems for it, or is a process-based residency model more successful?

*What are the specific aesthetic challenges of digital art and are the various institutional frameworks addressing these challenges?

*Who is shaping these new models of artistic production? Are certain experimental art practices not being represented because of their means of production?

* How representative is the digital art that gets shown in galleries of the scope of actual digital art practice?

Panel members: Charlie Gere (chair), Helen Sloan, Honor Harger, Walter van der Cruijsen, Beryl Graham

The panel is part of Plug-in 03, annual degree show of the London College of Music and Media, a Faculty of Thames Valley University (TVU)

For further details and map, see http://www.tvu.ac.uk/plug-in03/prog3.html or contact James Coupe, Lecturer in Digital Art: [email protected]