ART & MEDIA: CONVERSATION EVENT
FutureEverything
Castlefield Gallery, 15 May 2010
The Art and Media Conversation brought artists, gallerists and curators to the table for a series of short presentations and related open discussions that explore the relationships and boundaries between media art and visual art.
Split into three main strands these short discussions initiated an active discussion between panel speakers and audience members. Pitched at bringing more formally based questions into the gallery space and grounding the outcomes in the reality of the everyday, in contrast to the often abstract and slightly polemic conference debates.
Above is an edited video of the discussion, below are full audio podcasts of each part of the event.
Curated by Karen Gaskill, Chaired by Charlie Gere, Lancaster University.
The event began with an overview of the relations and boundaries between media art and visual art, Bridget Crone, the director of Media Art Bath and Andrea Zapp, media artist, opened with two short presentations of their perspectives of these two interlocking fields at present. Listen to the audio Podcast part 1.
Axis podcast: Art & Media Conversation Part 1, 2010, 1 hour 02 mins 29 secs (mp3, 25.04 Mb)
This was followed by presentations from Frances McKee, CCA, Glasgow, and Karen Guthrie, artist and one half of Pope and Guthrie, who outline how visual artists who don’t define themselves as media artists are using media in their practice.
Axis podcast: Art & Media Conversation Part 2, 2010, 54 mins and 10 secs (mp3, 21.8 Mb)
Finally, Adam Sutherland, Director of Grizedale Arts, and Kypros Kyprianou, artist, consider what the digital space actually means for artists, how they are responding to shifts in this culture, and testing its boundaries with the work they are making.
Axis podcast: Art & Media Conversation Part 3, 2010, 47 mins 47 secs (mp3, 19.23 Mb)
Podcasts recorded, filmed and edited by Sam Mercer at Castlefield Gallery, Saturday 15 May 2010, part of the FutureEverything art strand.
