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)

REMIXING CINEMA: FUTURE AND PAST OF MOVING IMAGES

Lev MANOVICH, internationally renowned media and art theorist
(Russia/USA)
Sean CUBITT, expert in film and media theory (Great Britain/Australia)

Cinema as a visual phenomenon has accelerated increasingly over the
last decades. Technical achievements at the material level like new
participatory models driven by the melting of Internet, Databases, TV
and Cinema are setting new standards and bringing a new dynamic to the
black-box of the movie theater.
Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations
are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena,
like the VJ scene, generate immersive viewing spaces and new forms of
moving image distribution. The domain of video, film, computer and
net-based installations stands on the threshold of a material
revolution: do they bring a new aesthetic?
Revolutionary possibilities in camera and projection techniques offer
increasingly faster development cycles that also allow for innovative
image languages. New historical perspectives of the cinematic revue
coalesce with innovative interpretations of our visual consumer culture
and foretell future developments. What can be expected ... what are the
consequences?

* Introduction: Oliver GRAU, Director Department for Image Science,
Danube University *

Danube TeleLecture # 4 from the MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Time: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007, 7:00pm CET (Start of Streaming)
which is

+ You can attend the event in MUMOK or in realtime over the www +
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

After the lectures the audience will have the possibility to ask the speakers questions.Internet users may join the discussion via e-mail.

Sean CUBITT
Current Publications: Projection: Vanishing and Becoming, in:
MediaArtHistories (2007); The Cinema Effect (2005); Aliens R Us: The
Other in Science Fiction Cinema (2002); Digital Aesthetics (1998);
Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (1993).

Lev MANOVICH
Publications: Abstraction and Complexity in: MediaArtHistories (2007);
Black Box : White Cube (2005; Soft Cinema - Navigating the Database
(2003/5); The Language of New Media (2001)

The Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems created a new format of international lecture and debates on key questions of Image Science and Media Art with high-caliber experts - the DANUBE TELELECTURES. The discussion will be recorded by several cameras and transmitted live over the www. Online viewers can participate in the discussion via email. So far the debates have included: Machiko KUSAHARA, Sarat MAHARAJ, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Jens HAUSER...


contact: Wendy Coones, M.Ed.
Tel: +43 (0)2732 893-2543
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis