Welcome to Week 2 on empyre: Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally Thank you Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick for launching our first week of discussion on Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally. Thank you for sharing your curatorial project Nightsense at Toronto's Nuit Blanche as well as the premiere issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies. Most of the discussion prompted by Jennifer and Jim this past week has revolved around their interests in the simultaneous tasks of their curatorial practices where criticality and ludic playful participation coexist. Fisher and Drobnick expressed a desire to work with artists in actualizing their projects through "fluid" curatorial framing.
Thanks to Ashley, Brian, Pedro, Ana and Susan for responding to our guests. Their collective discussions revolved around the potential of the curatorial space as being a revolutionary one where “cracks” allowing opening and closing could present alternatives or where curatorial tensions that attempted to exist “outside the box” allowed for liminal mobile curatorial practice. While the concrete examples of Nightsense in Toronto and documenta in Germany were discussed among others, most of the posts involved the conceptual spaces of the curatorial model. Tim and I would like to welcome Aram Bartholl (GE) and Ellen Pau (HK) to empyre with Jennifer Fisher (CA) and Jim Drobnick (CA) continuing on. We have a very long list of curators who will be joining us during Week 3 and 4. Tim and I are looking forward to capturing the essence of curating as well as how new media gets included in these curatorial models. Biographies: Aram Bartholl (GE) Aram Bartholl's work creates an interplay between internet, culture and reality. The versatile communication channels are taken for granted these days, but how do they influence us? According to the paradigm change of media research Bartholl not just asks what man is doing with the media, but what media does with man. The tension between public and private, online and offline, technology infatuation and everyday life creates the core of his producing. In public interventions and public installations Bartholl examines which and how parts of the digital world can reach back into reality. Aram Bartholl is a member of the Internet based artist group Free, Art&Technology Lab - F.A.T. Lab. Net politics, the DIY movement and the Internet development in general do play an important role in his work. Beside numerous lectures, workshops and performances he exhibited at MoMA Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Pace Gallery NY und [DAM] Berlin. Aram Bartholl is represented by [DAM] Berlin|Cologne. He lives and works in Berlin. Ellen Pau (HK) Ellen Pau is a filmmaker, media artist and curator. Her video works have traveled widely to numerous International Festivals and Biennials, such as Kwangju Biennial, Video Brazil, City On the Move, Johannesburg Biennial, Venice Biennale and Shanghai Biennial. In 1986, Ellen Pau founded Asia"s first media artists" collective, "Videotage" and the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong. She is adviser to HK Museum of Art, HK Art Development Council and a number of festivals. She teaches part time in the Visual Art Centre and is a full time medical image technologist -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <r...@cornell.edu> URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
