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Preliminary program for the Fine Art and New Media symposium at Moderna Museet in Stockholm on April 8, 2006.
Friday April 7th 2006
17.00-20.00
Place: Mejan Labs
Opening with Sabrina Raaf at Mejan Labs, Akademigränd 3, Stockholm, Sweden Tel +46 (0)8 796 60 30
Please se http://www.mejanlabs.se for more information about the exhibition.
Saturday the 8th of April
11.00-20.00
Place: Moderna Museet
11.00-11.20 Presentation of the Art and New Media Collegium.
Peter Hagdahl
Professor at the Royal University College of Fine Art in Stockholm
Nils Enlund
Professor at The Royal Institute for Technology
Cecilia Sjöholm
PhD, head of the Aestheticsprogram Södertörn University-College
11.30-12.10 Josephine Bosma, critic, will give a presentation on the theme: “The Missing Link - The hidden history of media within art-systems”
12.15-12.45 Masaki Fujihata, Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music will present some of his work.
12.50-13.10 Prof. Diane Gromala, Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Surrey, Canada. Will speak on the theme “Mediation, pain and VR” .
13.15-13.30 Prof. Jay Bolter will also join us in a virtual presentation from Germany based on Walter Benjamin’s concept of the aura of the artwork.
13.30-14.20 LUNCH
14.30-15.00 Bruce Sterling, Author and critic, Wired Magazine
15.05-15.35 Maurice Benayoun , Transmedia artist will fly in straight from his opening in Paris and speak about his work.
15.35 -16.00 Coffee break
16.10-17.00 Benjamin Weil, New-media curator, will talk about the complexities of new-media art in the museums context.
17.10-18.00 We will round up with a summarizing discussion entitled “Where do we go from here?” together with all the speakers moderated by Cecilia Sjöholm, Södertörn University College
18.00-20.00 Buffet and bar
Fringe
We will show a documentary about Billy Klüver and E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) from 18.00. A sample of the Scandinavian new-media scene will be represented outside the auditorium along with ”visual DJ” Panagiotis Michalatos and his reactive sensors.
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