InterventTech

CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) have collaborated with Charlie Gere at Lancaster University to present a one-day conference exploring the issues around curating time-based art. Speakers include experts in the field such as Kelli Dipple, Intermedia Curator from Tate Modern; Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MOMA, New York; and Franz Thalmair, co-founder of CONT3XT collaborative curatorial group, Vienna.

From the AND Festival website: Showing time-based art is very different to exhibiting art objects, so how can art which uses the Internet, interactivity, social systems, or real-time computing different from video, live art, or performance?

This one-day conference aims to share the knowledge of those involved in exhibition practices beyond the object of art, and asks, should we abandon ‘normal’ curating practices, or adapt these modes to integrate ‘the new’? This event draws experts and researchers from the fields of art practice, curating, history and criticism to confront the slippery question of time — including the timelines of production, of showing, and of participation.

The conference takes place on 24 September during the debut edition of the North West’s Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival at Liverpool John Moores University. Other highlights from the Festival include performance events with Rules & Regs, the family-friendly Portable Pixel Playground and masterclasses with filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century), Jamie King (Steal this Film) and Duane Hopkins (Better Things).

Tickets for the one-day symposium are £18.50/£15.50 from the FACT shop. For more information about the AND Festival programme check out the Festival’s website.