[node-l] Curatorial Masterclass Series at Eyebeam

[Beryl Graham]

Please forward widely.

I wanted to let you know about the Curatorial Masterclass Eyebeam is  
hosting as part of our Summer School program. The series will offer an  
opportunity for emerging and established curators of art to get  
together within a focused period of time to learn from each other's  
practice, and to develop a greater understanding of curating, open  
source methods, and working in the public domain. Full details and info  
on how to register below.

In addition - check out Summer School @ Night, a series of free  
Thursday evening events, extending conversations on the creative use of  
technologies for personal expression, activism, communication, and  
community involvement from day, into night.

Please share with your staff, colleagues, etc.

We look forward to seeing you here,
Stephanie

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Eyebeam's Summer School
CURATORIAL MASTERCLASS
organized with Eyebeam Curatorial Fellow, Sarah Cook from CRUMB

Location: Eyebeam 540 W 21st St, NYC
Dates:   5 sessions, Tuesdays & Thursdays, July 7–July 21, 3–5pm
Cost: Advance: $10 / session •• Door: $15 / session
Registration:  
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/9265/shop/shop.jsp? 
storefront_KEY=664

+ Summary: An initiative of Eyebeam's Summer School program, the  
Curatorial Masterclass will be led by Eyebeam research partner Sarah  
Cook from CRUMB, the online resource for curators working with media  
art. The series offers an opportunity for emerging and established  
curators of art to get together within a focused period of time to  
learn from each other's practice, and to develop a greater  
understanding of curating, open source methods, and working in the  
public domain.

+ Schedule: Through filmed discussions and intimate workshops the  
Curatorial Masterclass will examine themes such as:

Day 1: Tuesday, July 7th, 3-5pm
What open source is and what it means for art
Guest: Curator, Scott Burnham (Creative Director, Montreal Biennial  
2009),  Dominic Smith (co-founder, Polytechnic, UK)
Eyebeam respondent: Fred Benenson (Creative Commons)

Day 2: Thursday July 9th, 3-pm
Publication and documentation
Guests: TBC
Eyebeam respondent: Rebecca Cittadini

Day 3: Tuesday, July 14th, 3-5pm
Collaboration and networking
Guests: Eyebeam Executive Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley; curator  
and artist Patrick Lichty
Eyebeam respondent: Jeff Crouse

Day 4:Thursday, July 16th, 3-5pm
Curating in the public domain
Guest: Curator, Steve Dietz
Eyebeam respondent: TBC

Day 5: Tuesday, July 21st, 3-5pm
Evaluation and audience engagement
Guest: TBC
Eyebeam respondent: TBC

+ Series Format: The first hour of each session will be a formal  
conversation modeled on CRUMB's tea-time chats, and will feature  
established curators and artists. The second hour will be a  
workshop-styled, rigorous, participant-driven discussion, building upon  
the themes and insights from the first hour. Following each  
conversation and workshop, participants will have the opportunity to  
stick around for beer o'clock and networking with presenters and fellow  
masterclass participants, as well as participants from other Eyebeam  
Summer School programs. Refreshments are included in the fee.

+ Public Events: Eyebeam's Summer School will also be offering Summer  
School @ Night a series of related public events, on Thursday evenings  
during the month of July. Please visit  
http://eyebeam.org/events/eyebeam-summer-school-night for details and  
speakers.


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Please see  
http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-school-curatorial-masterclass for  
details on guest curators and artists.

Please register online here:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/9265/shop/shop.jsp? 
storefront_KEY=664


Registration will be strictly limited.

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About CRUMB: Building on research into curating new media art since  
1993 at the University of Sunderland, CRUMB was founded by Beryl Graham  
and Sarah Cook in 2000. CRUMB's activities cover a range of practices,  
but are predominantly based around research, networking, and  
professional development for curators of new media art. CRUMB members  
run a lively discussion list on curating new media art with 800  
international subscribers, publish interviews with curators, and  
lecture and publish widely, contributing to academic books as well as  
artists' exhibition catalogues. Cook and Graham have written a book on  
curating new media art, to be published by MIT Press. CRUMB researchers  
also curate exhibitions as well as organizing workshops, masterclasses  
and conferences for the professional development of curators and the  
discussion of new media art curating. These include organizing the  
first ever meeting of new media curators in the UK as part of BALTIC's  
pre-opening programme - a seminar on Curating New Media held in May  
2001. Since 2001, the CRUMB team have successfully realized projects  
through research partnerships with: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,  
UK (2004-2006); The Banff Centre—the Walter Phillips Gallery, and the  
Banff New Media Institute, Canada (2004-2007); The San Francisco Museum  
of Modern Art (2002) and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York  
(2007-2010). A new post-doctoral curator, Dr. Axel Lapp has joined  
CRUMB on a year's fellowship from March 2009. CRUMB's current goal is  
to expand our international networks and initiate collaborations, and  
to place research in a context of contemporary curating debate across  
art-forms.

About Sarah Cook: In 2008, Sarah Cook was the inaugural curatorial  
fellow at Eyebeam NYC through a partnership with CRUMB  
(www.crumbweb.org), the UK-based online resource for curators of new  
media art at the University of Sunderland, where she is a post-doctoral  
research fellow. Sarah has been curating and co-curating exhibitions of  
new media art in North America and Europe for the past 10 years.  
Sarah's recent curatorial projects include: Untethered (Eyebeam, 2008);  
Broadcast Yourself (AV Festival and Cornerhouse, UK, 2008); My Own  
Private Reality (Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, 2007); Package Holiday:  
Studer / vdBerg (BALTIC, 2005); The Art Formerly Known As New Media  
(Banff Centre, 2005); Database Imaginary (Banff Centre, 2005). Sarah  
has organised exhibitions and presentations, commissioned new media art  
and managed publications and educational projects for the Banff New  
Media Institute (Banff, Canada), The Star and Shadow Cinema  
(Newcastle), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Locus+ (Newcastle),  
and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). In 2006 she was awarded a  
Leverhulme early career research fellowship for her work on artists use  
of new technologies, and she is co-author with Beryl Graham of a book  
on curatorial practice and new media art (forthcoming from MIT Press).  
http://www.sarahcook.info

About Amanda McDonald Crowley: Amanda is Executive Director of Eyebeam  
in New York http://www.eyebeam.org. She is a cultural worker, curator  
and facilitator who specializes in creating new media and contemporary  
art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice,  
collaboration and exchange. Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004,  
the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004, held in Tallinn,  
Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic  
sea. She was Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002, and in this  
position was also Chair of the working group that curated the  
exhibition and symposium conVerge: where art and science meet. From  
1995 to 2000 she was Director of the Australian Network for Art and  
Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links with science and  
industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings  
such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual  
residencies online; developing cross-disciplinary masterclasses for  
artists and curators; as well as beginning to establish links with  
media artists and organizations in Asia. She previously worked with a  
range of arts organizations in Australia, including the Australia  
Council for the Arts (the federal government's arts funding and  
advisory body), Arts Training Australia (conducting research for a  
multimedia education and training strategy), and Electronic Media Arts  
Australia (incorporating the Australian Video Festival). She has done  
residencies in Berlin, Germany (1994/5), at Sarai in Delhi, India  
(2002/3), and at Banff New Media Centre, Canada (2002). She regularly  
speaks at international conferences and festivals, occasionally writes  
for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and Art Asia  
Pacific; and lurks on a lot of media, technology and culture related  
email lists.

About Eyebeam and Summer School:
Summer School is an annual workshop and public presentation series at  
Eyebeam designed to encourage the creative use of technologies for  
personal expression, activism, communication, and community  
involvement. Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a  
fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and  
experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought,  
where artists and technologists actively engage with culture,  
addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges  
convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation,  
encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the  
community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness:  
open source, open content and open distribution.

Since 1996, Eyebeam has supported more than 125 fellowships and  
residencies for artists and creative technologists working in a wide  
range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists  
and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and  
Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination  
through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust  
calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures  
and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational  
series.

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Stephanie Pereira
education coordinator

EYEBEAM
540 W. 21st Street
New York, NY  10011
T: 212.937.6580
F: 212.937.6582
stephanie at eyebeam.org

www.eyebeam.org


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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
Tel: +44 191 515 2896    Fax: +44 191 515 2132
Email: beryl.graham at sunderland.ac.uk

CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org