[dance-tech] **NEW CLUB NIGHT** 22 JUNE 6-8PM: LIZZIE MULLER
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- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:49:41 +0100
**NEW CLUB NIGHT** on 22 JUNE with **LIZZIE MULLER**
Thursday June 22nd, 2006 at 6pm until 8pm in the Seminar Rooms (ground
floor right), Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London,
New Corss, SE14 6NW
FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME
GALLERY AS LABORATORY:
Working with Audiences in the Creation and Curation of Interactive Art
Alfred H Barr, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
declared his revolutionary museum to be ?a laboratory; in its
experiments, the public is invited to participate?. This concept of the
exhibition as an active site for experimentation and collaboration
between curators, artists and audiences prefigures a general cultural
movement towards the centrality of experience and away from the
reification of the object. By describing his vision in scientific terms
Barr suggests that curatorial practice must become increasingly
transversal and engage with the practices and products of many disciplines.
The evolution of curatorial practice towards a more interdisciplinary
and participative model has been hampered by a continued emphasis, in
most galleries and museums, on distinctions between art, science and
technology, object and experience, creation and consumption. However in
the field of digital and new media arts new kinds of art experience
demand new approaches to curation. Interactive computer based art is a
provocative cultural form which breaks down disciplinary boundaries and
has led to the emergence of hybrid spaces for production,
experimentation and exhibition.
This talk describes my practice-based research on the integration of
audience experience into a curatorial approach to interactive art. The
research focuses on Beta_space, an experimental exhibition area within
the Powerhouse Museum (in Sydney, Australia) which extends the
interactive art research of the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the
University of Technology into the public context. My aim is to find ways
to work with audience experience as a material, drawing on tools and
techniques from Human-Centred Design, to create an iterative process
which merges the contexts of production and presentation.
LIZZIE MULLER is a curator and writer working at the intersection of
art, technology and science. She is currently researching a PhD on the
audience experience of interactive art with the Creativity and Cognition
Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the curator of
Beta_space (www.betaspace.net.au), an experimental exhibition area for
interactive art at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. She writes widely on
computer based and interdisciplinary art, particularly for RealTime
Magazine (www.realtimearts.net) and lectures in digital art and
human-centred design at undergraduate and post-graduate level. Between
1999 and 2004 she was Digital Arts Producer for the Junction Art Centre,
Cambridge, UK. Previous projects include the digital arts festival
Respond in 2002 produced in partnership with Future Physical and CUMIS
and the New Technology Arts Fellowships, a series of interdisciplinary
research residencies with Crucible and Kettles Yard Gallery in 2002/3.
In the field of funding and policy development Lizzie has worked for the
National Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts and for Arts
Council England. Selected committee positions include Chair of the panel
for the BAFTA Interactive Art Award in 2003, New Vision Group for Trans
Europe Halles (European network of multidisciplinary art centres) in
2002/03 and steering group of the conference New Constellations: Art,
Science and Society, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney March 2006.
Come along! Any questions, email me.
--
? Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational
Technologies 15 Rodmell Regent Square London WC1H 8HX
http://www.cybertheater.org
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