Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:51:53 -0400
Subject: May 10 & 17: New School Online Art panel


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>THE ONLINE ART WORLD: A Work-in-Progress
>Vera List Center for Art& Politics/New School
>Moderator/Organizer:  Robert Atkins
>
>This pair of panels (May 10 & 17, 1999, 7 pm, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West
>12th St.) is intended to suggest the current contours of the "online art
>world"--and imagine the shape we might like it to assume. Is online art the
>newest techno-art ghetto? An elitist enclave in cyberspace? What are
>available--and needed--resources?  What is the relationship of the art
>world and the online art world? Are there lessons to be learned from
>paradigms established for the production, distribution and reception of
>previous "new media" such as video art? If foundations virtually "made" the
>field of video art, what support is
>available in our market-driven economy? Does the lack of resources put us
>at a competitive disadvantage internationally?
>
>Panel 1: ONLINE ART: PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
>
>What is digital art? The online "medium?" Interactivity? Does the hybrid
>nature of online work require a business plan for the operation, promotion
>and maintenance of online artworks? How does the tradition of interactive,
>conceptual artworks apply? Does a digitally produced object have anything
>to do with online work? Is the commodity-status of the former and the
>dematerialized status of the latter the primary distinction between the
>two? What about the web's temporality? Does video offer useful paradigms
>for collaborative production? What are current production and distribution
>resources? How has the quest for community in art been realized in the
>past? What are American museums and galleries doing? Do we need digital
>institutions? Or do they make for ghetto-ization a la computer art? How can
>we evaluate European institutions/alternative spaces such as ZKM, Ars
>Electronica, V2 etc? What is the role for libraries, as well as art
>institutions?
>
>May 10, 1999/Panelists:
>Adrianne Wortzel (artist)
>Tamas Banovich (co-director, Postmasters Gallery)
>Kathy Brew (director, Thundergulch)
>Steve Dietz (Director of New Media Initiatives, Walker Art Center)
>
>Panel 2:  RECEPTION & INTERPRETATION
>
>Michael Kimmelman and Rob Storr announced in 1997 that there's no good
>online art: does this mean that  the walls of the ghetto are already firmly
>in place? If so, how can they be torn down? Are there critical criteria of
>value or is "cool!" the highest online accolade? Why the token--or
>over-hyped--coverage in the art world? Can a browser or data base/archive
>be a work of art? Can art critics deal with the temporal and the moving
>image? Does the Internet destabilize the Duchampian view of
>(physical/gallery) context as signifier of art status, especially that of
>the installation-work? How can we cope with old distinctions when dealing
>with new, hybrid forms? Most of the most interesting discourse takes place
>on email lists and online-only pubs and zines: What is an email list and
>can its extraordinary capacity for community-making be harnessed? Why don't
>American, non-profit/foundation funders understand the audience outreach
>already inherent to online art production? How can online art be made
>accessible for the burgeoning body of online viewers? Is the Internet a
>mass medium? Who is the online audience?
>
>May 17, 1999/Panelists
>Christiane Paul (publisher/editor of Intelligent Agent)
>Kathy Rae Huffman (producer/artist/curator, professor, Rensellaer
>Polytechnic Institute)
>Jordan Crandall (artist, director Blast Foundation)
>Jon Ippolito (artist, curator, Guggenheim Museum
>
>The two panels will be webcast live through The New School's Distance
>Instruction for Adult Learning (DIAL) program at www.dialnsa.edu. In
>conjunction with these two live programs, DIAL will also host an online
>public dialogue about art online at the same web address beginning May 10.
>To participate in the online forums, point your browser to
>http://www.dialnsa.edu and click on "Public Events."
>
>TICKETS: $10 FOR BOTH SESSIONS. Single admission $7.
>By phone with a credit card, Monday through Friday, 5 to 8 pm at 212
>229-5488.
>In person at The New School Box Office, 66 West 12th St. (bet. 5th and 6th
>Aves), main floor, during Box Office Hours.
>By fax with order and credit card information to 212-352-0213.
>
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