[spectre] New Thursday Club on May 10: Curating Interdisciplinary Arts (London SE14)

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]]

NEW THURSDAY CLUB on 10 MAY: /CURATING INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS/

Supported by the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS and the Goldsmiths GRADUATE 
SCHOOL

6pm until 8:30pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, 
right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME


Issues of policies have frequently emerged at Thursday Club 
presentations, specifically in relation to the funding and curation of 
digital/ media arts, art-science collaborations, and interdisciplinary 
work in general. So, for the summer term 2007, we invited four 
distinguished speakers to take part in a round table discussion 
addressing the question:

*Is curation as a practice relevant within the field of 
interdisciplinary work such as digital /media arts, sci-art, and 
networked arts? If so, what type of curation is appropriate to, and can 
support such practices?


*The speakers are:

*>> KELLI DIPPLE*

Kelli is currently Webcasting Curator at Tate, London. Working on the 
development, programming and production of live webcasts and interface 
design in conjunction with Digital programmes - Tate Online and 
Education and Interpretation at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

Kelli has worked for the past decade at the intersection of digital 
technology and performance practice under the name of Gravelrash 
Integrated Media, specializing in the integration of visual, 
interactive, communication and network technologies into live events for 
live audiences.
More info: http://www.macster.plus.com/gravelrash/


*>> FURTHERFIELD.ORG [RUTH CATLOW & MARC GARRETT]*

Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and 
criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing, 
experience and interaction. Furtherfield creates imaginative strategies 
that actively communicate ideas and issues in a range of digital & 
terrestrial media contexts; featuring works online and organising 
global, contributory projects, simultaneously on the Internet, the 
streets and public venues. It focuses on network-related projects that 
explore new social contexts that transcend the digital, or offer a 
subjective voice that communicates beyond the medium. Furtherfield is 
the collaborative work of artists, programmers, writers, activists, 
musicians and thinkers who explore beyond traditional remits.

Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett are Furtherfield's co-founders and 
co-directors. They are both artists involved in research into net art 
and cultural context on the Internet. They co-curate works featured on 
Furtherfield.

*
 >> ARMIN MEDOSCH*

Armin is a writer, curator, artist, and Associate Senior Lecturer in 
digital media at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. He 
has written and edited several books on new media and network culture, 
his latest work including texts on wireless community networking and 
free and open source culture.

His latest work as a curator includes a contribution to the exhibition 
OpenNature at NTTICC Tokyo and the exhibition Waves, Riga 2006. In his 
spare time he is conducting research on collaborative and participative 
art forms, open cartography and mobile and interactive travelogues. 
Armin is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths Digital Studios.


*>> CHAIR: PROF. JANIS JEFFERIES

*Janis is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Visual Arts at 
the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College. She is Artistic 
Director of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Director of the Constance 
Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, and Convener of the
GoldsmithsThursday Club.
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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone 
interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, 
interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in 
today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or 
email maria x at drp01mc at gold.ac.uk
To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios www.cybertheater.org