Saturday 4 June 2005, 10.30–18.30

This conference asks how curators can respond to new forms of self-organising and self-replicating systems, databases, programming, net art, software art and generative media, and in general to systems of immaterial cultural production. What new models of curatorial practice are needed to take account of shared, distributed and collaborative objects and processes?

Contributors include: Inke Arns | Josephine Berry Slater | Geoff Cox | Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin | Eva Grubinger | Piotr Krajewski | Joasia Krysa | Jocob Lillemose | Franziska Nori | Christiane Paul | Tiziana Terranova.

See information on contributors below, and visit kurator.org for further details.

The event will be followed by the launch of kurator.org curatorial software project and DATA browser books.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions), booking recommended

    

About the contributors:

Inke Arns is an independent curator, author and researcher and currently an artistic director of Hartware Medien Kunst Verein in Dortmund, Germany. She is a founding member of the translocal Syndicate network (1996-2001), mikro (Berlin 1998) as well as the mailing list Spectre (2001).

Josephine Berry Slater is editor of Mute/Metamute digital culture and politics on/offline magazine (www.metamute.com) and collaborator on the self-institutional theory resource (www.ourganisation.org). She completed her PhD on site specific art on the Net at Manchester University in 2002.

Geoff Cox is an artist, projects organiser as well as currently a lecturer in Computing at University of Plymouth, UK, where he is part of i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art & Technology). He is a co-editor of DATA browsers series (www.data-browser.net), published by Autonomedia (2004/05), and a trustee of the UK Museum of Ordure (www.museum-ordure.org.uk).

Olga Goriunova is a co-founder of the Read_Me software art festival series (Moscow 2002, Helsinki 2003, Aarhus 2004), co-organiser of Runme.org software art repository and author of Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word (http://dxlab.org/slw).

Alexei Shulgin is an artist, theorist, musician, curator and photographer. He is (with Olga Goriunova) a co-organizer of Runme.org software art repository (http://runme.org) and a co-curator of the Read_Me software art festivals (Moscow-Helsinki-Aarhus http://readme.runme.org).

Eva Grubinger is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her pioneer art programme for the web - 'C@C - Computer Aided Curating' (software development by Thomas Kaulmann)- was presented at Galerie Eigen + Art in Berlin (1994) and as part of Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (1995).

Piotr Krajewski is a curator, writer and researcher as well as a co-founder and artistic director of WRO International Media Art Biennale (since 1989) (http://wrocenter.pl). He is a member of AICA - International Arts Critics Association, member of the Polish Society of Aesthetics and a Visiting Professor at Theory of Culture Department, Wroclaw University, Poland.

Joasia Krysa is a curator and currently a lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Plymouth, UK and part of i-DAT (The Institute of Digital Art and Technology). Currently she is working on 'kurator.org' curatorial software and research project (with Grzesiek Sedek), co-editing DATA browser series (with Autonomedia, New York) and developing a curatorial network (with Arts Council South West).

Jacob Lillemose is a critic, curator, and co-director of Artnode- Independent Research Center for Digital Art and Culture (www.artnode.org). He is an editor of the net art anthology We Love Your Computer published by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Franziska Nori is head of research of the digitalcraft.org Kulturbüro (www.digitalcraft.org). Previously she was as a curator at the department for new media art and crafts at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Frankfurt (2000-2003).

Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent (www.intelligentagent.com). Currently she also teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology.

Tiziana Terranova is a lecturer in the Sociology of Media, Culture and Film at the University of Essex and currently holding a MIUR (Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research) grant at the Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Linguistici, Culturali, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale, researching the relationship between war, information and images.

This event is related to the Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 exhibition