[spectre] Tate Encounters: Research in Process.

[marc garrett]

Tate Encounters: Research in Process
Resolutely Analogue?: Art Museums in Digital Culture
Tate Encounters is a collaborative project between Tate Britain, London 
South Bank University and University Arts London and is funded by the 
Arts and Humanities Research Council through the 'Diasporas, Migration 
and Identities' programme.

Tate Britain Duveen Studio
Free, booking required
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Programme B
Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2009
To what extent does the web visitor have agency to ‘act back’ or to 
‘author’ their interactions with museum websites?
How is new media being conceived as an ‘interpretative’ or ‘augmenting’ 
dimension of the museum experience and with what effects?
How do museums see and understand the value of the use of personal 
mobile media within the museum?
These questions have been grouped under the title ‘Resolutely Analogue? 
Art Museums in Digital Culture’ to signal the tension between change and 
continuity, between new media enthusiasms and traditional museological 
practices. Issues such as the use of media in the gallery centered on 
authority and provenance, ownership and copyright, and user engagement 
will also be discussed throughout the week’s programme.

Monday 2 March
15.00-17.00
Learning and Teaching in New Media: Questions of Literacy

Richard Colson, Artist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts at Thames 
Valley University
Mike Philips, Reader in Digital Art & Technology and Director of i-DAT 
[Institute of Digital Art & Technology], University of Plymouth
Paula Roush, New media artist and lecturer at London South Bank 
University and the University of Westminister
This session will have presentations on perspectives of teaching new 
media and will focus upon questions of the cultural contexts of new 
media practices, knowledge and understanding in curricula design and 
teaching for interactivity.

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Tuesday 3 March
11.00-13.00
Artists Using Digital Tools: Social subjects and Digital Aesthetics

Graham Harwood, Artist and educator
Keith Piper, Artist and Reader in Fine Art at Middlesex University
Gary Stuart, Head of Multimedia at Iniva since
Roshini Kempadoo, New media artist, photographer and Reader in Media 
Practice at University of East London
This session looks at new media art projects which have had a 
relationship to gallery and museum exhibition and asks questions about 
how artists working with new media understand the context of working 
within contemporary art context and what their experience has been.

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15.00-17.00
Networks of Users: Communities and Interests
Marc Garrett, Co-Direcor of Furtherfield.org & HTTP Gallery, Net Artist 
and new media artist
Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor for Education and New Media at Channel 4
Anna Colin, Exhibitions curator, Gasworks
Honor Harger, Artist, curator and Director of AV Festival

This session focuses upon new media practitioners who have looked beyond 
the context of the museum and gallery in generating a presence for 
innovatory, independent practice on the Intranet and with what 
consequences and outcomes.

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Wednesday 4 March
11.00 – 13.00
New Media and the Museum: Practices and Possibilities

Sarah Cook, Research Fellow for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at 
University of Sunderland
Ross Parry, Lecturer in Museums and New Media at the University of 
Leicester Programme Director of Museum Studies at University of Leicester
This session will focus upon the ways in which new media has been taken 
up and used within museums. It explores how new media practices become 
objects to be curated, collected and archived within museums, as well as 
designing new media objects for interpretation and education within museums

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15.00-17.00
New Media and Museums: Channels for the Future

Will Gompertz, Director, Tate Media
This session focuses upon the growing relationship between art and 
media, specifically upon the possibilities presented by online 
transmission for museums to take on new roles as producers and 
broadcasters of media.

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Thursday 5 March
11.00 – 13.00
Online Portals to Museums: Channels for Exchange

John Stack, Head of Tate Online
James Davis, Online Collection Editor, Tate Online
This session focuses upon how museum websites operate as online portals 
for various constituencies of online users. How porous can museum 
websites be within loss of identity and focus? How are questions of 
value and provenance negotiated?

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15.00-17.00
Museums, Technology and Culture: Culture and Virtual Ecologies

David Garcia, Dean of Chelsea College of Art and Design and Professor of 
Design for Digital Cultures, HKU
Charlie Gere, Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research in the 
Department of Media, Film, and Cultural Studies, Lancaster University
This session discusses the wider contexts of the museum’s position in 
relationship to digital and globalised culture. How will the increasing 
use of information technologies across a whole spectrum of social, 
economic and cultural activity impact upon art practice and the value of 
museums?

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Friday 6 March
11.00-13.00
New Media: Gallery Workshop

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