International Seminar De Balie, Amsterdam

Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere

Will Art Criticism Survive the Digital Age?
Organisation:
AICA Netherlands - Association Internationale des Criticques d’Arts
De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics

Wednesday December 9, 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs (CET)
Doors open: 13.30
Live webcast:
wwwdebalie.nl/live

The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. At the same time the presence of art criticism on the internet is mostly limited to the “blog” – a format that celebrates an impressionistic, subjective and often populistic point of view. More substantial forms of web-based criticism are still rare to be found.

Speakers:
Georg Schöllhammer, editor in chief of Springerin and curator of the Documenta 12 Magazines project.
http://magazines.documenta12.de/frontend/
Regine Debatty, writer and editor of we-make-money-not-art.com.
www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
Arjen Mulder, writer and media theorist.
Jennifer Allen, art critic.

Moderator:
Maria Hlavajova (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst Utrecht)