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 series of conferences Lecture Course
Directed by Berta Sichel and Terry Berkowitz
The right moment to begin a study of the history and development of video as an art form is the late sixties when the medium contributed to the transformation and amplification of the very definition of art -Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell being the driving forces behind its emergence. The situation deriving from this small group has spiralled and is at present out of control. How many artists world-wide are currently working with non-traditional art forms? Furthermore, when we talk of new media, there are other questions to consider: when a museum, cultural institution or private collector acquires or receives a work of art made with electronic audiovisual mediums, what should they expect? Do they receive the "original" video tape? What happens with the equipment? Is this important? How is a complex electronic piece documented? And the copyright? All these questions -which take on fresh urgency in a world saturated with audiovisual media- will be discussed during this series of lectures. PROGRAMME
February
| 26th | First generation. Art and Image in Movement 1963-1986. Berta Sichel, Head of the Audiovisual Art Department and curator of the exhibition.
| | | 28th | A Critical Approach to the Medium. Laura Baigorri, Lecturer on Video, Fine Arts Faculty, University of Barcelona.
Laura Baigorri combines teaching with research, criticism, curating, and projects for the Web. She has published articles and essays about net.art and video and the following books: Net.art. Prácticas estéticas y políticas en la Red (with Lourdes Cilleruelo, Brumaria no. 6, 2006) and Vídeo. Primera etapa: El vídeo en el contexto social y artístico de los años 60/70 (Ediciones Brumaria no.4, 2004). She has received the 2005 Creation and Art Criticism Prize from the Fundació Espais, Gerona.
| | March
| 1st | Curating and Preserving: On the synergies between the exhibitors and preservers of Media Art. Hans Christ, Director, Württenbergische Kunstverein Stuttgart.
Hans Christ studied art and literature science in Dortmund, Germany. Together with Iris Dressler he founded the Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, in Dortmund as an independent platform for the presentation of contemporary art in 1996.
| | | 5th | The Beginnings of Video Art and the video works of Ira Schneider. Ira Schneider, artist.
Ira Schneider was born in New York in 1939 and now lives in Berlin, Germany. The installation "Wipe Cycle" produced with Frank Gillette was presented in the first video art group show, also including Nam June Paik, in New York,1969. Schneider was co-originator and sometimes editor of the video journal, "Radical Software". He was awarded the Hanna Hoech Prize from the Berlin Senat in 2006.
| | | 7th | Some Pencil. David Ross, video theoretician.
David Ross has been a leader in the arts community for more than 30 years, serving nearly 20 years as director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Mr Ross has made significant contributions to the field through his roles as scholar, trustee, champion of contemporary art, and leader of pioneering cultural organizations. He is currently President of the Artist Pension Trust.
| | | 12th | Andy Warhol and Bill Viola: Providing for Video’s Future. Dara Meyers-Kingsley, independent curator.
Video and the Passage of Time. Mona Jiménez, University of New York.
Dara Meyers-Kingsley is a New York-based independent curator specializing in contemporary art and media. Ms Meyers-Kingsley was a founder of Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) where she now serves as Executive Director. Prior to that she was Director of the Film and Video Collections at The Andy Warhol Foundation where she oversaw the exhibition, preservation, and marketing of Warhol's films and videos.
Mona Jimenez is a visual artist who has been an advocate for the preservation of independent media and media art since the early 1990s. She is currently working as an Associate Professor/ Associate Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University.
| | | 13th | Present and past artistic practice of video in Spain. ¿Polymorphic, cross-frontier, pertinent? Antoni Mercader. Director, Department of Visual and Plastic Education and Audiovisual Communication, University of Barcelona.
Antoni Mercader is a historian of media art and of audiovisual expansion and multimedia. Doctor in Communication. Member of the Vall research group (Communication_Art_Education).
| | | 19th | Presentation of the project: Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art. Lori Zippay, Director, Electronic Arts Intermix.
Lori Zippay is the Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York, a non-profit arts organization that is a leading resource for media art. She has been active in video art exhibition, distribution and preservation for over twenty years, and has curated, lectured, written, and taught extensively in the media arts field.
| | | 21st | The World of Art vs. the New Media. Wulf Herzogenrath, Professor, Director, Kunsthalle Bremen.
Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath was Director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne Art Association) from 1973 to 1989. From 1989 to 1994 he was Senior Curator at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and involved in the establishment of the "Hamburger Bahnhof" exhibition hall. Since September 1994 he has been Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen. In 2006 he became a Member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (Fine Arts Division).
| | | 26th | Copyright in the audiovisual work of art. Javier Bravo, Lawyer
Javier Bravo is Secretary-Advisor of the Spanish Association of Seguimiento of Information and Advertising (A.E.S.I.P). He is a specialist in copyright and intellectual property.
| | | 27th | Guided tour of "First generation. Art and Image in Movement (1963-1986). Berta Sichel, curator of the exhibition.
| | | 28th | Intimate Body /Public Body: Performance and media works of Suzanne Lacy. Terry Berkowitz, artist, Suzanne Lacy, artist.
Terry Berkowitz is a Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College/City University of New York. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A Fulbright Scholar, she has been engaged with multimedia installations since 1975. She has had one- person exhibitions at Metrònom in Barcelona and at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Suzanne Lacy is known for her public practices which have now become models for community building through art. Over thirty years her work has often explored tough themes such as violence -from violence against women to police brutality. Her work, now vast in scale with thousands of audience members and hundreds of performers, began in intimate investigation of the female body -its mythologies, biologies, and relationships.
| | Development Dates: 26th February – 28th March 2007 Time: 19:00 Venue: Assembly Hall (Sabatini Building) Fee: 72€ (60€ for members of the MNCARS “Friends of the Museum Association”) Enrolment date: 8th February Information: Education Department MNCARS
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