[ecrea] Exhibiting Video – International Conference

From: Cinzia Cremona <(cinziacremona /at/ gmail.com)>

Exhibiting Video – International Conference

FREE TO CREAM STUDENTS AND STAFF



Date: 23 – 25 March, 2012

University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW



In March and April 2012 Ambika P3, the flagship exhibition space at the 
University of Westminster, will present a major solo exhibition of the 
influential pioneer of video art, David Hall in association with REWIND. 
The new commission '1001 TV Sets (End Piece)' 1972-2012 will involve a 
spectacular sculpture of 1,001 cathode ray tube TV sets. Each will be 
tuned to a different analogue station playing randomly until, between 
April 4 and April 18, the last analogue signals are broadcast from 
London’s Crystal Palace. To mark the occasion the Centre for Research 
and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) of the University of Westminster 
is convening Exhibiting Video, a three-day event considering issues 
central to the display of video art. Bringing together notable artists, 
curators and writers the event will provide a forum for a number of 
related questions:



·       On what terms has the rise of video in contemporary arts taken 
place?

·       How do notions of medium specificity and site specificity shape 
video art work made for exhibition?

·       What is the legacy of analogue video technology in the digital age?

·       How do our museums and galleries understand video art?



Conference Themes:



Curating:

Are the terms upon which video art has become accepted as part of the 
visual arts flexible and constructive, or have they served to favour 
particular practices and secure a restrictive canon? What are the 
current models for curating video art?



Space:

How has the development of media specific spaces such as film and video 
centres affected the development of the practice? How does the gallery 
and museum context affect the interpretation and consumption of video art?



Analogue:

The cut off of the analogue signal marks the end of the use of analogue 
technology in the moving image industries. Conversely there has been a 
resurgence of the use of analogue technologies by artists in the fields 
of film, video and photography. How is this relevant to the exhibition 
of video art?



Media and Context:

The term video art is present from YouTube and the White Cube. While it 
exists in numerous contexts and multiple format of exhibition can there 
still be video art specificity? How is that validated in the attitudes 
of image-makers, critics, theorists and institutions?


Keynote Speakers



David Hall is an artist who has exhibited internationally for over forty 
years and also made work for broadcast. An Honorary Professor at Dundee 
University he has taught at numerous institutions including the Royal 
College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and St Martin’s and Chelsea 
Colleges of Art.



Irit Batsry is an American artist working mainly in video installation. 
She won the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award and was awarded the 
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 2007 the Jeu de Paume in Paris 
organized a retrospective of her videotapes.

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. She is Co-Director of the research 
groups Curating Video, www.curatingvideo.com and The Political Currency 
of Art www.thepoliticalcurrencyofart.org. She is Professor of Fine Art 
at the University of Kent.



Sean Cubitt is Professor of Global Media and Communications at 
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Professorial 
Fellow in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His 
publications include Digital Aesthetics, The Cinema Effect and EcoMedia.



Solange Oliveira Farkas is a Brasilian curator. She founded the 
International Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil and has recently 
curated Sophie Calle – Cuide de você (São Paulo and Salvador, 2009). She 
was also the director of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia between 
2007–2010.



Stephen Partridge is an artist and Professor of Media Art and Dean of 
Research at Duncan Of Jordanstone College of Art, the University of 
Dundee. He established the School of Television at DJCAD in the 1980s.  
He is the principal investigator on the research project REWIND and 
REWINDItalia.



Lori Zippay is the Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) 
in New York. EAI is one of the leading resources for video art and 
interactive media. She recently curated Circa 1971: Early Video & Film 
from the EAI Archive; Dia Art Foundation, September 17, 2011 - September 
4, 2012.



Other participants include:

Mark Bartlett, Steven Bode, Vince Briffa, Margarida Brito Alves, David 
Campany, Stuart Comer, Shezad Dawood, Catherine Elwes, Kodwo Eshun, 
Kayla Parker, Terry Flaxton, Adam Kossof, Anya Lewin, Adam Lockhart, 
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Stuart Moore, Marquard Smith, Margherita Sprio, 
Minou Norouzi, Ken Wilder.



PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION

This conference will take place from 4.00pm on Friday 23 March to Sunday 
25 March 2012. The fee for registration will be:



Full conference: Standard rate £200. One day rate £110

Full conference: Student rate £90.  One day rate £65.



This covers all conference documentation, refreshments, lunch, 
receptions and administration costs. Registration is now open and you 
can download the registration form at:

http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/cream/events/exhibiting-video-conference


All the best,

Cinzia

David Hall End Piece...
Opening Thursday 15th March 6:30-8:30

at the Ambika P3 Gallery
35 Marylebone Road
NW1 5LS

Exhibiting Video Conference: 23, 24 and 25 March.

http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/cream/events/exhibiting-video-conference

Conference registration now open.


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