[-empyre-] Beryl Graham: "Resolutions for Digital Futures"

[eliza fernbach]

I'm with you Beryl! I have spent the past couple of months alternating studio work with active museum/gallery/studio visits...
Looking always helps me to see better as themes emerge from the streams of representation I encounter.
-eliza fernbach

Tell me what you forget, I will tell you who you are.
                                                                                              - Marc Augé


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> From: Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Beryl Graham: "Resolutions for Digital  Futures"
> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 3:40 PM
> Hans Ulrich Obrist has pointed out that the turnover speed
> for 
> exhibitions has increased, meaning that there is less time
> for 
> curatorial research. I think that research is particularly
> important 
> for new media art, so my resolution is to spend less time
> on 
> University bureaucracy, and more time looking at new media
> art, and 
> reflecting on ways that media new media offers for
> rethinking 
> curating. Being towards the end of a major book project for
> MIT 
> Press, I also have resolution to get out more!
> 
> Bio: Beryl Graham (UK) is Professor of New Media Art at the
> School of 
> Art, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, and
> co-editor of 
> CRUMB <www.crumbweb.org>.  She curated the
> international exhibition 
> Serious Games for the Laing and Barbican art galleries, and
> has also 
> worked with The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and San
> Francisco 
> Camerawork. Her book Digital Media Art was published by
> Heinemann in 
> 2003, and she has chapters in many books. Dr. Graham has
> presented 
> papers at conferences including Navigating Intelligence
> (Banff), 
> Museums and the Web (Seattle), and Caught in the Act (Tate 
> Liverpool). Her Ph.D. concerned audience relationships with
> 
> interactive art in gallery settings, and she has written
> widely on 
> the subject for books and periodicals including Leonardo, 
> Convergence, and Switch.
> 
> -- 
> Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
> Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
> Department of Art and Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
> Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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