[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Mark Amerika and Geert Lovink participate in Mediakunst 2.0, April 24th, Ghent

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Leonardo Book Series authors Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika will 
participate in "Mediakunst 2.0? presented by Kunstensite vzw and 
Courtisane festival. The festival will focus on the changing shape and 
repositioning of media art in the age of Web 2.0.
 
In a string of fast paced mini-lectures and presentations, Amerika and 
Lovink will explore some of the recent tendencies within both the field 
of media-art as well as popular digital culture. They will attempt to 
maneuver through the hype and trends emanating from these emerging 
fields while taking into account broader cultural and historical 
perspectives. The discussion will also attempt to locate the connections 
between recent phenomena such as the 90s net art movement and 
contemporary web 2.0 culture, club-culture VJing and and live 
audiovisual performance art, and the interface of web design and media-art.
 
Session 1: Internet art from an historical perspective (Amerika)
Session 2: media-art today (Lovink)
Session 3: fictional narratives in media-art (Amerika)
Session 4: web-design vs. media-art (Lovink)
Session 5: net.art VJ - cyberpsychogeography and digital flux persona 
(Amerika)
Session 6: media-art and Avant-Pop (debate Amerika - Lovink)
 
Speakers:
 
Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and internet critic. 
He studied political science in Amsterdam and received his PhD from the 
University of Melbourne. He has been involved in the cultural politics 
of internet since the early nineties. He is the co-founder of projects 
such as the Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. In 
2002 MIT Press published two of his books, Dark Fiber and Uncanny 
Networks. Since then other books appeared such as My First Recession 
(2003) and The Principle of Notworking (2005). In 2004 he moved from 
Brisbane to Amsterdam to found the Institute of Network Cultures. He is 
research professor at School of Interactive Media (University of Applied 
Sciences) and associate professor in the new media program at the 
humanities mediastudies department of the University of Amsterdam. In 
2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study 
where he finished his third study on critical internet culture for 
Routledge New York entitled Zero Comments. Currently, together with the 
US political scientist Jodi Dean, he is writing a book for Polity Press 
called Blog Theory.
 
http://www.networkcultures.org
 
Mark Amerika has exhibited his work in many venues including the Whitney 
Biennial, the ICA in London, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art 
Museum. He has had four early career retrospectives including the 
first-ever net art retrospective in 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in 
Tokyo, Japan ("Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art 
retrospective]"). Both retrospectives covered the years 1993-2001. In 
2004, he had two follow-up retrospectives, one at Ciberart Bilbao in 
Spain, and one at the Festival International de Linguagem Eletronica at 
the Gallerie do SESI in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 
A cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and VJ artist who has 
performed internationally, Amerika is the author of many books including 
his recently published collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: 
A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press/Leonardo Books). He has also directed a 
series of feature length foreign films scheduled to be released in 
various formats as part of a new body of work entitled the Foreign Film 
Series. Amerika, who as the founder of the Alt-X Network [altx.com] is 
publisher of the electronic book review, is a Professor of Art and Art 
History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
 
http://www.markamerika.com
 
Info & Tickets:
 
Date: April 24th 2008 (13h30-17h30)
Location: Cirk - Zebrastraat, Ghent (BE)
Admission: 2,5 EUR
Free for KASK-students and ticket-holders of the Courtisane Festival.
 
Visitors of the symposium get free access to the 'Update II' digital art 
exhibition at Zebrastraat curated by Peter Weibel and Stef Van Bellingen 
and Isolde Debuck, in collaboration with ZKM.
 
More info:
Phone:+32(0)485.984609
Mail: info at cimatics.com
 
For more information about META/DATA by Mark Amerika (2007, MIT 
Press/Leonardo Books), Uncanny Networks by Geert Lovink (2002, MIT 
Press/Leonardo Books) and other titles in the Leonardo Book Series, 
visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html
 
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