[Nettime-bold] Debate: net.art and art criticism

[Eric Kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>]

A  N  N  O  U  N  C  E  M  E  N  T


Debate:

net.art and art criticism

Friday January 25, 2002

De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam

Grote Zaal

Start: 20.00 hrs.


Ever since documenta X 1997 in Kassel, internet art has been placed on the
map of the contemporary art world. Artists such as the duo jodi.org or
Marko Peljhan were suddenly launched into the international art world.
Meanwhile, however, artists working primarily with the internet have
remained rather exotic creatures in the art zoo.
Why? Are these artists misunderstood? Does net.art also demand a new set of
criteria? What is the relevant context in which these works should be
discussed and analysed; that of contemporary visual arts, or rather the
context of the internet itself and the turbulent developments of the new
communication and information technologies?

It begs the question how art criticism should deal with these phenomena. Is
internet art or "net.art" simply another art form as there are many others,
a genre, which then can be a normal part of regular art criticism? Or  do
these works in the admittedly special context of the internet require their
own criteria and their own discourse, in order that they can be
appropriately understood and valued?

Participants in the debate are; Frederic Madre (F); Tilman Baumgaertel (D),
writer, critic, author of "net.art Materialien zur Netzkunst"; Sarah Cook
(UK), Curator, writer and researcher, University of Sunderland; Graham
Harwood (UK), media-artist (ex-Mongrel) and currently artist in residence
at De Waag Society for Old and New Media; jodi (B&NL) artist duo, creators
of the famous jodi.org net art web site, SOD a radical adaptation of the 3D
game Wolfenstein and the "Wrong Browser" project.


It is also possible to follow the debate via internet, at:
http://www.balie.nl/live


URLs:

* Jodi.org Home Site and Wrong Browsers
http://www.jodi.org
http://www.wrongbrowser.com

* Artist Collective Mongrel:
http://www.mongrelx.org

* Web Pages of Frederic Madre
http://pleine-peau.com

* Web Pages of Tilman Baumgaertel:
http://www.thing.de/tilman/

* Web Pages of Sarah Cook
http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/sc/sarahc.htm

*Web Pages of Josephine Bosma:
http://www.laudanum.net/bosma

* Cream - Discussion Forum n net.art:
http://www.laudanum.net/cream

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tickets & reservations:
price: Euro 7,50 (f 16,50) / E. 5,00 ( f 11,00)
opening hours box office: work days 13.00-18.00 hrs or until the start of
the program.
In the weekend 1 1/2 hour before the programs starts.
Reserve by phone: 31.20.55 35 100 during opening hours until 45 minutes
before the program starts.


De Balie
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam

http://www.balie.nl





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