[-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity -- introducing Christiane Paul

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

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Please welcome Christiane Paul (US)  ---

Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the  
Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent,  
a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital  
art. She has written extensively on new media arts and her book  
Digital Art (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK)  
was published in July 2003; an anthology she edited on Curating New  
Media is forthcoming from UC Press. She teaches as an adjunct in the  
MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York  
and the Digital Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design  
and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the  
Whitney Museum, she curated the show “Data Dynamics” (2001); the net  
art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition  
"CODeDOC" (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum’s online portal to  
Internet art for which she is responsible; as well as "Follow  
Through" by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe (2005). Other  
curatorial work includes the blackbox at ARCO art fair, Madrid  
(2006); "The Passage of Mirage" (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004);  
"Evident Traces" (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, 2004); "eVolution -- the  
art of living systems" (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004); "CODeDOC  
II" (Ars Electronica, 2003); the New York Digital Salon's 10th  
anniversary exhibition (NYC, 2003); “Mapping Transitions” at the  
University of Boulder, Colorado (2002); "Re-Media" (Fotofest,  
Houston, Texas, 2002); and a net art selection for “Evo1” (Gallery L,  
Moscow, October 2001).

Christiane Paul has participated in numerous panels on new media and  
presented at conferences worldwide. Her speaking engagements included  
the Tate Museum, London (2003 / 2005); the LA County Museum of Art;  
ZKM (Center for Culture and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany; ARCO Expert  
Forum 2004, 2005, 2006, Madrid, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary  
Arts (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; the Boston Cyberarts Festival; the  
Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Royal Academy of  
Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; the annual College Art Association  
conference (New York); the International Summit on Multimedia and the  
Internet (Abu Dhabi, UAE); invenção thinking the next millennium (São  
Paulo, Brazil); consciousness reframed 2 (CAiiA, Wales, Newport, UK);  
and the Governor’s Conference on the Arts (San Francisco).