CAA Panel: Relationality vs Autonomy in Media Art

Hi. I wanted to let you know about a panel I'll be moderating this week,
on behalf of the New Media Caucus, at the College Art Association's annual
conference in Boston. The panel is FREE and open to the public at large,
so you don't have to register for the conference to attend it!

The title of the panel is "From database and place to bio-tech and bots:
relationality vs autonomy in media art." It's a mouthful! When I first
proposed it, I had in mind looking at current new media practices
(including specific works by some of the artists who ended up being on the
panel), in order to reconcile what I saw as points of overlap and
discrepancy in Bourriard's _Relational Aesthetics_ and Bey's notion of the
"Temporary Autonomous Zone"

Yes, it's kind of a nerdy premise, but I thought that we'd all be ready to
go there in Boston, while also looking at some very interesting art
work….

I'm very pleased that my panelists are all artists, in addition to being
theorists, historians, and/or curators of new media. Some of the
presentations will register on the more theoretical side of the scale,
while some will be much more practice-oriented. We're going to take a more
conversational approach, and present a number of work samples, in
exploring the semiotic, political, and formal connotations of
'relationality' and 'autonomy' in media art.

It should be fun! Here are the key details:

"From database and place to bio-tech and bots: relationality vs autonomy
in media art"

Moderator: Marisa Olson, Artist; Editor & Curator at Large, Rhizome.org;
Rhetoric/ Film, UC Berkeley

Panelists:
Tad Hirsch, Artist, Institute for Applied Autonomy
Warren Sack, Artist; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Brett Stalbaum, Artist, C5; Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Helen Thorington, Artist; Co-Director, Turbulence.org, New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc.

This panel will take place, in room 304 of Boston's Hynes Convention
Center, on Thursday (2/23) at 12:30-2:00 pm and is FREE and open to the
public at large.

You can get travel directions here:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2006/travel/

Comments

, Warren Sack

since marisa doesn't want too nerdy a panel, we – the panelists –
aren't going to do the usual academic thing of reading a paper to the
audience. so, instead, for the truly curious, here's a link to a draft
of my paper that won't be read at the conference:"aesthetics of
information visualization."
http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/socialComputingLab/Publications/wsack-infoaesthetics-illustrated.doc

the paper will be published later this year in a book entitled _context
providers_ that is being edited by christiane paul, victoria vesna and
margot lovejoy. in it i talk about a number of artworks in the area of
information visualization and try to relate them to older, conceptual
art practices. suggestions for improvements are most welcome!

i don't discuss my own art work in the paper, but will shortly present
"agonistics: a language game"
(http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/sack/) at the conference
panel.

-warren <[email protected]>

Marisa Olson wrote:

>Hi. I wanted to let you know about a panel I'll be moderating this week,
>on behalf of the New Media Caucus, at the College Art Association's annual
>conference in Boston. The panel is FREE and open to the public at large,
>so you don't have to register for the conference to attend it!
>
>The title of the panel is "From database and place to bio-tech and bots:
>relationality vs autonomy in media art." It's a mouthful! When I first
>proposed it, I had in mind looking at current new media practices
>(including specific works by some of the artists who ended up being on the
>panel), in order to reconcile what I saw as points of overlap and
>discrepancy in Bourriard's _Relational Aesthetics_ and Bey's notion of the
>"Temporary Autonomous Zone"
>
>Yes, it's kind of a nerdy premise, but I thought that we'd all be ready to
>go there in Boston, while also looking at some very interesting art
>work….
>
>I'm very pleased that my panelists are all artists, in addition to being
>theorists, historians, and/or curators of new media. Some of the
>presentations will register on the more theoretical side of the scale,
>while some will be much more practice-oriented. We're going to take a more
>conversational approach, and present a number of work samples, in
>exploring the semiotic, political, and formal connotations of
>'relationality' and 'autonomy' in media art.
>
>It should be fun! Here are the key details:
>
>"From database and place to bio-tech and bots: relationality vs autonomy
>in media art"
>
>Moderator: Marisa Olson, Artist; Editor & Curator at Large, Rhizome.org;
>Rhetoric/ Film, UC Berkeley
>
>Panelists:
>Tad Hirsch, Artist, Institute for Applied Autonomy
>Warren Sack, Artist; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
>Brett Stalbaum, Artist, C5; Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
>Helen Thorington, Artist; Co-Director, Turbulence.org, New Radio and
>Performing Arts, Inc.
>
>This panel will take place, in room 304 of Boston's Hynes Convention
>Center, on Thursday (2/23) at 12:30-2:00 pm and is FREE and open to the
>public at large.
>
>You can get travel directions here:
>http://conference.collegeart.org/2006/travel/
>
>
>
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