[spectre] ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW IS A CURATOR

[Geert Lovink]

ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW IS A CURATOR

Saturday 19•12•2009 Paradiso Amsterdam (NL)

a symposium about quality in an age of visual overload

While museums are developing strategies to digitalise their  
collections, online cultural
production is growing steadily, with hundreds of thousands of new  
images posted each
day. A lot of potentially interesting work is being produced online,  
which never reaches
the physical world. The distribution of this high quality work is  
increasingly decentralised,
leaving museums, foundations and professional magazines at a loss on  
how to redefine
their role as gatekeepers. On the other hand, the time spent daily  
behind the computer
on internet networking is pushing the demand for a physical experience  
of our fleeting
culture. Designers, artists, mediators and policy makers need to  
redefine their position,
because new technologies define to a large extent today’s  
possibilities and means of
presentation and archiving. There is need for new quality criteria,  
frames of references,
and alternative methods for enabling connections between the virtual  
and the physical
space of today’s culture.

Practical information:
Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam (Weteringschans 6)
Entrance: €25, €10 (studenten) english spoken
Reservations: symposium at graphicdesignmuseum.com
Advanced sales: AUB ticketshop amsterdam/ticket service nederland

Contact information:
graphic design museum
t +31 (0)76 529 99 00
www.graphicdesignmuseum.com


Program Saturday December 19, 2009

10.00            Doors open, coffee & tea
10.25            Welcome by Mieke Gerritzen

10.30            Bruce Sterling - revisions of digital culture
11.20            Julia Noordegraaf - performing archival material online
11.40            Sarah Cook - curatorial strategies for online  
artistic production

12.00            Coffee break

12.15            Rick Poynor - design criticism in the blogosphere
12.45            Sophie Krier - me, you and everyone we know is a  
curator
12.50            Metahaven - visual identity and network standards

13.00            Lunch break

14.00            Andrew Keen - digital vertigo: selecting talent in  
the age of social media
14.50            Aram Bartholl - online visual culture in physical space
15.10            Dagan Cohen (Upload Cinema) - bringing web films to  
the big screen
15.20            Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic) - please try a new  
search to find more results

15.30            Coffee break

15.40            Introduction debate by Henk Oosterling
15.50            debate about the role of the digital in dutch policy  
making. with
		     representatives of the main dutch funds and art institutions

16.40            Drink (free)

Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort
Visual interventions: Sander van der Pavert (Lucky.tv)
Organisation: Graphic Design Museum
Concept: Sophie Krier, Mieke Gerritzen
Design: Metahaven

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bruce sterling (us)
As one of the main voices of the cyberpunk movement in 1980s, SF
writer Bruce Sterling promoted a worldview and aesthetic that strongly
influenced the generation that came of age with the computer revolution.
In his popular books and articles, Sterling chronicles the social and
technological developments of our over mediatised world.
www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/

andrew keen (uk)
Author of bestseller “Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing  
our
culture” (2007). Keen is currently writing a second book entitled  
“Digital
Vertigo: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age”,
which will be published by St Martins Press. Keen starred in the Dutch
VPRO television documentary, “Wiki the Truth” and was the subject of the
November 2008 BBC Radio 4 show “Iconoclasts.”
andrewkeen.typepad.com

rick poynor (uk)
Design critic and writer, Poynor is the co-founder of Eye, The  
international
Review of Graphic Design. He has written about design, media and visual
culture for Blueprint, Icon, Creative Review, Frieze, Domus, I.D.,  
Metropolis,
Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, Financial Times,
and many others. In 2003, he co-founded the weblog Design Observer,
which became a leading international forum for design discussion.
www.designobserver.com
www.eyemagazine.com/critiques.php

julia noordegraaf (nl)
Programme director of the Master Preservation and Presentation of the
Moving Image, department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
(from September 2003) and author of a.o. Strategies of Display: Museum
Presentation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Visual Culture
(Boijmans van Beuningen / Nai Uitgevers 2004). Noordegraaf is currently
researching a book entitled “The Performing Archive”, due to come out
in Fall 2010.
home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.j.noordegraaf/

sarah cook (uk)
Co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
www.crumbweb.org) and research fellow at the University of Sunderland.
Her forthcoming book on curating, co-authored with Beryl Graham, will
be published by MIT Press in 2009. Sarah’s most recent curatorial  
project
is a series of online commissions about outer space for Xcult.org.
www.beam-me.net

aram bartholl (de)
Aram Bartholl lives and works in Berlin. In his art work he thematizes
the relationship of net data space and every day life. In which form  
does
this network-data-world manifest itself in our physical everyday- 
lifespace?
What is being fed back into physical space from the ‘cyberspace’ into
which data has been fed for so long now? How do these digital  
innovations
influence our actions in everyday life?
www.datenform.de

upload cinema (nl)
Upload Cinema is a film club that takes the best web films to the big
screen. The audience can submit films; an editorial team selects the  
best
and compiles a ninety minutes program, which is screened at movie  
theatres
and special venues.
www.uploadcinema.nl

mediamatic (nl)
Mediamatic is interested in the cultural developments that go hand in
hand with new technologies and in new technologies that cause cultural
development. They organize exhibitions, salons, lectures, workshops,
screenings in public space and develop software and art projects, and
they used to publish the magazine Mediamatic Off-Line.
www.mediamatic.net

henk oosterling (nl)
Henk Oosterling is senior lecturer of the Faculty of Philosophy at the  
Erasmus
University Rotterdam. He lectures on dialectic methods, French
philosophy and differential thinking, inter-cultural philosophy and  
aesthetics.
As director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art he initiated and
led the Intermediality research programme.
www.henkoosterling.nl

metahaven (nl)
A studio for design and research, Metahaven is based in Amsterdam and
Brussels. Metahaven works in visual identity and architecture, both with
clients and independently.
www.metahaven.net

koert van mensvoort (nl)
Koert van Mensvoort is an artist/scientist. He holds a PhD in industrial
design from Eindhoven University of Technology. His most profound
experience in life, so far, has been the discovery of next nature. Which
revolves around the idea that our technological world is so complex,  
that
it has become a nature of its own.
www.nextnature.net

sander van der pavert (lucky tv) (nl)
Sander van de Pavert makes LuckyTV, a concept he created himself. In
short films, Lucky reacts in a light-hearted way to current affairs.  
Generally
use is made of existing images that are cut, edited and mutilated in
an indecent way. LuckyTV is currently shown on weekdays at the end of
the Dutch television programme “De Wereld Draait Door” (The World
Keeps Turning).
www.luckytv.nl

sophie krier (lux)
With her studio Sophie Krier explores the peripheries of the design  
field,
with a focus on film, writing and temporary, social interventions. She  
is
currently developing scenarios for public space in Houten and Hoeksche
Waard, editing a new design journal entitled Field Essays, and doing  
research
for a documentary project. Between 2005 and 2009, Sophie Krier
was head of designLAB at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
www.sophiekrier.com

mieke gerritzen (nl)
Mieke Gerritzen is director of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda.  
Besides
she makes films, books and organizes public events. Gerritzen creates
networks with many different designers, writers and artists. In 2001
she started the All Media Foundation for the organization and production
of movies, publications and events like “The International Browserday”
in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam and more recently “The Biggest
Visual Power Shows.”
www.graphicdesignmuseum.com