NEW MEDIA ART AUDIENCES

We invite you to participate at a mini-symposium

New Media Art Audiences

Who cares about art in the information age?

Submission deadline: Thursday 1st of May, 2008

Language: English

Admission: free

This mini-symposium is an opportunity to engage with the evolving nature of audience in the field of new media art. We aim to do this by bringing together cultural practitioners, curators, festival directors, communication officers as well as artists, and by providing a platform for different perspectives and informed debate. The event will comprise a series of presentations from practitioners within the field followed by discussions.

Likely themes to be addressed might include:

• The natures and identities of new media art events (products, processes, visitor experiences)
• Different professional perspectives on new media creativity, curatorship and programming, e.g. those of the artist, artist-curator, curator, technician, educator, artist-educator, conservator, academic etc.

Call for participation:

Would you like to join us in Prague and share with us your experience? You are invited to submit an abstract of your talk and a short biography to gallery@ciant.cz no later than 1st of May 2008. Acceptance notification will be sent before 3rd of May, 2008. Organisers are unfortunately not in a position to cover any travel or lodging expenses of participants.

The timetable is as follows:

12.00-12.10 Introduction and welcome
12.10-13.30 Talks: New media art events and its audiences
13.30-14.00 Discussion 1
14.00-15.30 Lunch
15.30-17.00 Talks: Policies, audience development, marketing
17.00-17.30 Discussion 2
17.30-18.00 Concluding remarks
18.00-20.00 Dinner
20.00-21.00 Sound performance
21.00 - ? Informal follow-up

The discussions will pick up and expand upon key themes, issues and ideas which emerge in the preceding talks and will allow for dialogue between speakers and audience members.

The proceedings may be disseminated in various ways - through digital recording and streaming and possibly through web or print publication.

The event is linked into the international project A.P.D.C. (Audience Participation in Digital Culture) which is supported by the Grundtvig programme (Life-long learning) of the European Union, but is also open more generally, espaecially to cultural sector professionals, artists, and students.

Organised by CIANT in association with Centre for Global Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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