Cached 5: CURATING THE NET

Saturday 20 June 1998 from 11am-5.30pm at the
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THE MALL, LONDON

Cached 5: CURATING THE NET is a one day seminar event addressing the
collaborative role played by artists and curators in developing on-line
arts projects.

Increasingly, sites which are organised as continuously programmed art
spaces, as online "galleries," or as thematic exhibitions provide an
important alternative for artists and audiences. This seminar will ask
if experimental net organisations which commission and develop web or
net art projects with artists can build regular audiences and create an
identity which represents more than the sum of the individual works they
present.

Curating the Net will also look at the issues that arise for artists.
Given that the net gives artists the opportunity to work outside
organisational structures, the seminar will address how curated projects
either contribute to or challenge the artist's working process.

Participants include:

+ Benjamin Weil, New York based curator and originator of ada'web, one
of the most high profile and innovative internet arts organisations.
ada'web has commissioned and hosted a wide range of projects with
artists such as Jenny Holzer, Jodi and General Idea.

+ Alexei Shulgin, Moscow based curator and artist whose work on projects
like Moscow WWWart Centre, Refresh and the Ars Electronica 97 On Line
exhibitions have linked artists and net groups across Europe.

+ Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie have developed a collaborative practice
that reflect ongoing inter-relationships, their projects include A
hypertext Journal and Homespun.

+ Graham Gussin current work includes a commission for Tumblong a UK /
Australian on line project in which artists respond to "virtual
artefacts" (co-produced by the Laboratory, Oxford).

+ Shu Lea Cheang, currently developing the web project Brandon (with the
Guggenheim, NYC and other international organisations). Other online
work includes The Bowling Alley (with the Walker Art Centre,
Minneapolis) and Buy One Get One (with ICC, Tokyo).

Cached 5: CURATING THE NET on 20 JUNE at ICA LONDON, 11am- 5.30pm