Syndicate: Cached 5: CURATING THE NET seminar at ICA on 20 June 1998

[ARTEC London <reception@artec.org.uk> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

Cached 5: CURATING THE NET

Saturday 20 June 1998 from 11am-5.30pm at the
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THE MALL, LONDON

Cached 5: CURATING THE NET is a one day seminar event addressing the
collaborative role played by artists and curators in developing on-line
arts projects.

Increasingly, sites which are organised as continuously programmed art
spaces, as on line 'galleries', or as thematic exhibitions provide an
important alternative for artists and audiences.  This seminar will ask if
experimental net organisations which commission and develop web or net art
projects with artists can build regular audiences and create an identity
which represents more than the sum of the individual works they present.

Curating the Net will also look at the issues that arise for artists.
Given that the net gives artists the opportunity to work outside
organisational structures, the seminar will address how curated projects
either contribute to or challenge the artist's working process.

Participants include:

* Benjamin Weil, New York based curator and originator of äda 'web, one of
the most high profile and innovative internet arts organisations.  äda 'web
has commissioned and hosted a wide range of projects with artists such as
Jenny Holtzer, Jodi and General Idea.

* Alexei Shulgin, Moscow based curator and artist whose work on projects
like Moscow WWWart Centre, Refresh and the Ars Electronica 97 On Line
exhibitions have linked artists and net groups across Europe.

* Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie have developed a collaborative practice that
reflect ongoing inter-relationships, their projects include A hypertext
Journal and Homespun.

* Graham Gussin current work includes a commission for Tumblong a UK /
Australian on line project in which artists respond to 'virtual artefacts'
(co-produced by the Laboratory, Oxford).

* Shu Lea Cheang, currently developing the web project Brandon (with the
Guggenheim , NYC and other international organisations). Other on-line work
includes The Bowling Alley (with the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis) and
Buy One Get One (with ICC, Tokyo)

Other speakers and respondents in the panel and round table sessions
include  Helen Sloan (independent curator and organiser), David Sinden
(Channel) Simon Faithful (Containership)and Peter Ride (Imag@nation).
Cached 5 will be documented on the Channel website at
http://www.channel.org.uk/cached

Cached 5: CURATING THE NET on 20 JUNE  at ICA LONDON, 11am- 5.30pm
£15 (£10 members) booking is essential.  Please telephone  0171 930 0493 or
info@ica.org.uk

CACHED is a series of artists' presentations and talks looking at current
work for the Internet. It asks how artists are dealing with conceptual and
practical issues of Internet work as they meet them.

CACHED is organised by CHANNEL/Artec, the Slade Centre for Electronic
Media, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Imag@nation
in conjunction with the ICA Educational programme.

CACHED is supported by the Arts Council of England.

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Arts Programme Coordinator
Artec / Channel

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