[-empyre-] media art as phenomenon

[Stephanie Donald]

I have been lurking due to time poverty, and I apologize for not saying anything to date. However I would like to join in with a question for colleagues. It has struck me recently that the work of animators as supporters for fine artists who want to get involved in media art because they see that they need to 'be there' is a conundrum in relation to authorship and ascendancy in the collaborative relationship.  I would be interested for people's thoughts and perspectives on  this

Stephi
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On 09/11/2010, at 3:04 AM, Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

>> Hi, Li Zhenhua,
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> We are deeply appreciative that you have taken the time to join us for this discussion on -empyre-.  I want to make sure that our -empyre- subscribers understand the importance of your role in China as the leading curator of new media art.
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> I've been very interested by your posts.  The first reminds me of the first conversation I had with Feng Mengbo (I think it was in 2000) when I asked him if he would be interested in donating his CD-Rom (I think it was 'Quake') to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, which I had just begun building at Cornell University.  The Archive already included a very broad representation of art on CD-Rom (mainly from the exhibition, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom (http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/), which I curated in the late 90s.    What I found interested is that Feng had already decided at this relatively early moment for Asian new media art to capitalize on the medium by releasing his CD-Rom as a limited series (I believe the series could have been as small as 5, but maybe as large as 10).   At the time, I found it curious that an artist would spend so much time and effort to make an interactive piece that would merely sit in a collector's vault.  But that was the moment of the beginning of the rise of the contemporary Chinese art market.  I would be very interested to hear your thoughts about marketing new media art, especially in relation to your very large exhibitions, which I have valued for making such art accessible to the largest audiences possible.
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> For readers who are interested in broad perspectives on Chinese new media art, I also would be happy to share with them two of my pieces, one on archiving Chinese new media art (http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No2_pacific_rim_murray.htm) and another on Chinese new media projects that incorporate the discourses and vision of Chinese history in the special issue of Neural 29 on "Digital China": http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/04/the-latest-neural-magazine-is.php
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> Thanks, as well, to Melinda for organizing such an important topic of discussion for this month.
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> Best,
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> Tim
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>> hi all,
>> this moment I had a chat with Feng Mengbo and Wang Chunchen (curator of the CAFA museum), most of our topic is focus on whether media art is a specific medium or a new phenomenon, through the dicsussion, we start to realize media art is again a new trend for the art world, and I have to say so many of media art related topics are just follow the trend, rather than a true specific topic.
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>> why I am saying this, it's because I would need to understand to not confuse people with what I try to approach, media art related issues are related base on a certain understanding of what media art means and how is function internationally, why internationally? because media art could have a national trace or history but an international knowledge base and medium based thing.
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>> so, if we talk about china the general culture scene is fine, but if we talk about media art in china, I would suggest people start to think about translate my research on the media art education from Hang Zhou and media art integrated contemporary art in Shanghai, to have a basic understanding, which is not the only one, but something could easily help with the idea we discuss....
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>> wish you could understand chinese for the interviews:
>> <http://www.bjartlab.com/read.php?239>http://www.bjartlab.com/read.php?239 shanghai research
>> <http://www.bjartlab.com/read.php?177>http://www.bjartlab.com/read.php?177 hangzhou research
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>> thanks
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