[Reader-list] [Announcements] [Sarai Newsletter] New Media Art Exhibition, Lecture and Workshop

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@rt.net.uk/now : An Exhibition, Lecture and Workshop Programme, 
presenting facets of contemporary Internet Based Art Practice in 
Britain 
Organised by the British Council in collaboration with Sarai : The New 
Media Initiative, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

2nd to the 5th December, 2002,
Exhibition at the British Council, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi. 
Curated by Honor Harger (Curator, webcasting, Tate Modern, London) and 
Pauline van Mourek Broekman (Editor, Mute - A Journal of New Media 
Arts, London)
4th December 
Presentation and Interaction with the Curators at Sarai
5th December 
Net Art Now - Presentation by the Curators at the British Council, 
followed by a public conversation, moderated by Shuddhabrata  
Sengupta, Sarai. This will be subsequently presented in Bangalore and 
Kolkata.
About the Exhibition:
@rt.net.uk/now is an exhibition that brings to the fore key issues in 
critical internet based art practice. Issues of borders and 
borderlessness, mapping and territories, the relationships between 
'old' and 'new' media, access and control, critical reflections on the 
experiences of the 'thinning' of time and the thickening of the data 
cloud around us. 
Internet based art is often mistakenly regarded as art 'showcased' on 
the internet. This programme seeks to challenge this notion by 
offering instead
a foregrounding of the intrinsic properties of the net as the material 
of a new form of art practice. This is a sensibility that is 
conceptual, interactive, time based and that often plays with the 
difficulties of access, unstable connectivity and crashing software - 
features that are so much part of everyday online experience.
Pauline Van Moerek Broekman and Honor Harger deliberately eschew the 
'flashy' and spectacular effect-laden world of mainstream web content 
to
curate a series of online experiences that are designed to be 
thoughtful, and at times sharply political, in the way in which they 
treat the questions
of online and offline territoriality and the 'fragmented public 
sphere' of the internet.
The works presented by them represent the critical cutting edge of 
online art practice and include projects by leading contemporary 
British net
artists such as Heath Bunting, Rachel Baker, Tim Knowles, Richard 
Wright, Andy Deck, Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie. The exhibition will 
chart an eclectic mini-journey through new media projects from the 
past few years, culminating in some of the latest and most 
contemporary examples in this context, based on the premise that the 
quasi-historical purview will give an opportunity to look at some of 
the questions that may have lingered
in context.
About the Curators
Honor Harger is a new media artist who is currently working as an 
education and online projects officer of the new Tate Modern Gallery. 
Honor has been working on developing new techniques of audio streaming 
for quite some time as a part of a group called Radio Qualia. 
Van mourik Broekman is co-publisher and editor of the London based 
technoculture magazine Mute, whcih she co-founded with Simon 
Worthington as 'The Art and Technology Newspaper' in late 1994. As 
well as editing Mute, she writes regularly on art, media and 
technology for journals and books.The editors, especially Pauline van 
Mourik Broekmann,have created a very active and dynamic netowrk of 
contributors, artists, writers and critics who represent the best in 
 the British avant garde new media scene. Mute Magazine has been 
presenting public forums on new media culture at the Tate Modern.
Honor and Pauline will be travelling to Kolkata and Bangalore to make 
presentations and conduct workshops as a forerunner to the exhibition
between 6 and 15 December, 2002. 



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