Mittwoch 24. November 2010, 19h
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WORKING & CURATING WITH NEW MEDIA
Book Launch / Lecture / Discussion
(Lecture) Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and co-author with Beryl Graham of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press). She is currently a research fellow at the University of Sunderland where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art and teaches on the MA Curating course. In 2011 she will co-chair Rewire, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media, science and technology in art with FACT in Liverpool.
(Book Launch) Axel Lapp, who is based in Berlin, is founding director of THE GREEN BOX, as well as a critic, writer and curator. His academic writing concentrates on artists’ networks and systems, on the performative and on cultural memorialisation. In 2009/10 he held the position of Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sunderland (CRUMB), working on ‘Curating Artists’ Networks’. He is Contributing Editor for Art Review and regularly writes on matters of contemporary art and cultural politics. Previously he curated his own exhibition space in Berlin and is currently working on a number of exhibitions for 2011/2. He is also Deputy Director of the International Curators Forum.