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Tomorrow now. Work without center. Conferences on the nature of art work in the digital ageThe project of Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation Tomorrow Now – Contemporary art in digital culture resumes in 2008 with a series of conferences, held from February, which will host some of the most internationally well-known experts and scholars of artistic experimentation in new media. The conference series will be held at Palazzetto Tito, starting on 12 February, and will include participation from protagonists of the art world such as Andreas Broeckmann, Inke Arns, Benjamin Weil, Oliver Grau, Dieter Daniels, Jens Hauser and more. Work without center is the theme of this new series of events. It refers to the nature of new expressions in contemporary art which have been influenced by the development of new media. These transformations in the art world have helped in the last ten years to create not only specialized centers for the production and exhibition of work in media development, but also specific sections within contemporary art museums, festivals capable of attracting the international art community in a short span of time, and large recurrent exhibitions like the Biennale Media_cityseoul of the Republic of Korea. The title of the event introduces the issue concerning works of art that, in the digital age, transform the idea behind exhibition space, the concept of the aesthetic fruition of the observer, and the role of the artist and of the disciplines related to art production. New works of contemporary art are born from collaborative and interactive processes. They are constructed through the immateriality of code and inhabit unusual spaces such as the internet and information streams. They intersect, and are fed by, the increasingly rapid changes in scientific and technological research and require new means of presentation and archiving. The conferences are held at 6:30 pm at the Palazzetto Tito (Dorsoduro 2826, Venice) of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. This program calendar was last updated 31 January 2008: Tuesday 12 February 2008 Andreas Broeckmann, Artistic Director of Transmediale (International Festival of Media Arts in Berlin) until 2007, is soon to be Co-Curator of the Biennale Media_cityseoul of the Republic of Korea. Bio Tuesday 26 February 2008 Inke Arns, scholar and curator, is currently Director of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) in Dortmund, Germany. Bio Tuesday 4 March 2008 Benjamin Weil, critic and curator, is currently Director of the Artists Space in New York One - one of the first alterative New York art spaces, founded in 1972 to support the work of contemporary artists. Bio Tuesday 13 March 2008 Marcos Novak is a global nomad, and an artist, theorist, and transarchitect. http://www.wtn.net/2004/bio212.html In collaboration with Share Festival in Torin http://www.toshare.it/ita/ Tuesday 25 March 2008 Oliver Grau, historian in new media, is Professor of Art History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and visiting Professor at the Academy of Linz. Bio Tuesday 29 April 2008 Jens Hauser, born in Germany, is a Paris-based independent art curator, writer and artist. In 2003 he curated "L'Art Biotech", the first festival in biotechnological art, at the National Arts and Culture Centre Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France. http://www.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.persons.648.3.html Pier Luigi Capucci, is concerned with systems and idioms of communication and with new art forms, and since the early '80 has been involved in new media and new technology applications in communications and art. He has been professor at the universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Bologna and Florence. Currently he is professor of Mass Communications Theory and Technique and Multimedia Production at the University of Bologna, of New Media Theories and Techniques at the University of Urbino and of Phenomenology of Visual Arts and Communications at the Fine Arts Academy of Urbino. http://www.noemalab.org/sections/infos/plc_curriculum.html#English Franco Torriani obtained a degree in Economics at Turin University, after studying mainly in the Netherlands the relations between some aspects of the fiscal system and the social context. He has been co-author of works which have been presented and performed also in events such as the Festival of Avignon and Biennale di Venezia. One of his main practical interests in research are the relations among sciences, technologies, new and by chance old media. http://www.noemalab.org/sections/infos/ft_curriculum.html#eng Tuesday 10 June 2008 Dieter Daniels is Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the Academy of Art in Germany, Leipzig,. He is also Director of the Ludwig Boltzman Institute Media Art Research of Linz. Bio october 2008 Roy Ascott, is an artist and theorist whose work has pioneered the creative use of cybernetics, telecommunications and interactive media . He is a leading figure in the development of telematics in art, using global networks since 1980.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott Please consult the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation web site for eventual updates to the program calendar. http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it The project has been made possible in collaboration with NABA, Media Design School of Milan, the Accademy of Fine Arts in Venice, the IUAV University of Venice , with the support of the German Italian Cultural Association of Venice |