From Rhizome.org:
A tube of paint was once new media. And remember the shock of those newfangled Daguerreotypes? Theorists have speculated wildly about what drives humans to crave newness, but the truth is that all media age. And while some are still prompted to use the phrase ‘new media,’ art has been made under this moniker since long before Madonna was a Material Girl.
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Mirren Iturioz is a member of Arteleku, a public art centre under the auspices of the Culture Department of the Regional Government of Gipuzkoa. The centre initiates and promotes both theoretical and practical interdisciplinary ideas and is open to national and international artists, as well as to anybody interested in extending their knowledge about art and contemporary creation.
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From 1981 till 1990 Catherine David was Curator for the Museum of Modern Arts Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. From 1990 on she worked at the national gallery Jeu de Paume in Paris and curated a number of international shows. She was headcurator for Documenta X in 1997 and worked at the Witte de With centre for contemporary arts in Rotterdam. Currently she is working (amongst other things) on the Contemporary Arab Representations project.
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In her book ‘The Museum in Transition‘, Hilde Hein relfects on the contemporary state of “museums” from a philosophical perspective. She seems to be nostalgic towards a former, more autonomous state of the museum and criticizes a current more market based discourse which seems to prevail. How laudable this latter stance is, she seems to put the ‘old’ (modern) museum and the ‘new’ (postmodern) museum in a binary position and equals more recent keywords such as ‘process’ and ‘experiment’ with ‘enterprise’ and ‘market’… However, this brings out a pertinent question: Is the spectator- and public centered museum indissolubly bound to the market and neoliberalism?
These quotes (p.144), I think, are exemplary for Heins’ stance:
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Digital Display
New “New Media” museum curators face and create new standards
Wednesday, March 8, 2000
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ABSTRACT
“Interfacing the Digital” presents work at the Walker Art Center focusing on new physical interfaces, particularly for the presentation of digital art. Some examples include a freestanding revolving door portal for the exhibition Art Entertainment Network; a telematic table resulting from an international design competition; and a “temporary autonomous sarai” developed collaboratively by the new media artists Raqs Media Collective (New Delhi) and the architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo). These and other projects are prototypes for new, interactive social spaces and functions being developed for the Walker’s new building expansion, designed by the architects Herzog & de Meuron.
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Chrsitiane Paul also referred to this diagram by Saul Albert. It’s from the Users Guide for Adrian Ward’s software “Auto-Illustrator”: “So what you have here are different intervention points. And we might look at the idea of basics as basically modules of media production systems and tools, which is one filter to apply to it.” (Christiane Paul)
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In the same presentation Christiane Paul referred to some general Taxonomies of New Media, below you can find these in detail. With many thanks to Christiane Paul for sending me this document…
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In her presentation during the Transmediale05 panel on Basics of Media Art Christiane Paul referred to a list of key words that has been put up by Berryl Graham from CRUMB, the curatorial resource list at the University of Sunderland in the UK. “…it basically shows you how complex this field really is. She compared for example the key words from the Rizome Art Base to Ars Electronica, Transmediale and various other books. So, this gives you an idea of the keywords, themes that are out there.” (Christiane Paul)
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At the Transmediale 05 conference there was a panel on the Basics of Media Art with Gunalan Nadarajan, Sally Jane Norman and Christiane Paul. Below you find the transcription of the statements by the pannelists.
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