> I often hear Danish museum directors ask for
> a list of categories because it would make them feel more comfortable
> with digital art; it frames digital art in accordance with the
> principles of non-digital art. However, I think they misunderstand
> the challenges and do themselves an unintentional disservice. Digital
> art demands new ways of for institutional thinking about art works
> both in terms of curating and preservation; it's difficult, sure, but
> also a chance for the institution to develop. At the same time, I
> believe that the aesthetic discourse that the directors already know
> can connect to digital art works. Contrary to what the question of
> categorization implicitly is indicating they do not need to know a
> lot about technology to begin with to discuss these works.
On 9/8/04 10:20 AM, "Andreas Broeckmann" wrote:
> i would like to put forward the
> wikipedia as a site where a critical and diverse genealogy of media art could
> be developed - i find this a very appealing project to pursue by a community
> like this one.
On 9/8/04 10:20 AM, "Andreas Broeckmann" wrote:
> they do, however, hold together - at
> least for me (and i make this qualification deliberately) - in the sense that
> many deal with the cultural role that _new_ technologies are playing today;
> newness comes into the equation exactly because many of us, as artists,
> curators, researchers, etc., are trying to make sense of the cultural
> implications of the 'techno-cultural' social environment in which we live. and
> this is, at least in part, driven by new technical products and services.
> (steve, do you mean the same when you say media art is essentially
> 'technologically based'?)
On 9/8/04 12:17 PM, "Grant Kester" wrote:
> It seems to
> me that any attempt to outline a sociology of the new media artist
> (relative to his or her level of institutional cooptation or privilege)
> needs to consider academic institutions as well as traditional art
> world institutions, as a locus of power and ideology. Id be interested
> to hear how the situation in other countries differs.
On 9/8/04 4:31 PM, "Michael Day" wrote:
> Perhaps something can be intimated from the successive renaming of
> academic courses, in common with competition categories, as they
> attempt to pursue the moving target of current practice. The
> undergraduate degree I studied, at the time, was called 'Interactive
> Arts'; it had previously been called 'Art and Technology', and was
> renamed 'Fine Art - Contemporary Media' after I had completed it. I
> believe it is now known as simply 'Art'.
