Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:32:19 +0000
From: Beryl Graham
Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Data and Art: November Theme of the Month
To: NEW-MEDIA-CURATING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
In a recent informal conversation between CRUMB and artist Graham
Harwood, it was noted that one of the crucial moments missing from any
historical contextualisation of new media art is the point at which we
all started to deal with more and more data in our daily lives. He
commented that what was needed was not a gallery designed for the
exhibition of new media art, but a space - whether gallery or not -
where we can, in his words experience information.
How do curators deal with the aesthetics of data and artists' attempts
to transform information into knowledge?
Lev Manovich claims that "... as the practice of Cardiff and Libeskind shows, it is at the interactions of the physical space and the data that some of the most amazing art of our time is being created." But is physical space compatible with disembodied data? Can data be embodied in a space? What would a space for the experience of
information be like?
Reference: Manovich, Lev (2003) The poetics of augmented space. In:
John Caldwell and Anna Everett (eds.) New media: Practices of
digitextuality. New York: Routledge. p. 90.
N.B. This month we are diverging slightly by not having invited
respondents. The debate, as usual, is open to everyone, so please do
chip in!
