a Lingo day seminar on Saturday 13 February 1999, 12am to 6pm at the
ICA, London

Lingo is a new digital media discussion series which takes its cue from
many of the issues raised during the popular Cached talks at the ICA
(see the Cached archive site at http://channel.artec.org.uk/cached).
Whilst Cached investigated the production of art and digital media, and
the nature of products dedicated exclusively to the net, Lingo aims to
interrogate some of the deeper underlying issues. Future Lingo events
will examine media convergence, political activism, music online and
network architectures.

The Museum of the Twenty First Century will explore the problems raised
by the production, conservation and collection of art projects on-line.
In the context of constant upgrades, when browsers and processors are
improved on an almost monthly basis and when bandwidth increases in an
exponential manner, the realm in which projects are produced is
ever-changing creating a situation of instability which jeopardises the
collection and conservation of art online. As an artist what are the
issues you have to consider in producing work that aspires to live
beyond the moment? As a collector how could you preserve an artwork
based on transient technology? As a curator what are the best approaches
to presenting unstable media?

The seminar brings together leading media curators and artists from the
UK, Europe and North America to tackle the key issues raised by The
Museum of the Twenty First Century. Participants for the day will
include:

+ Steven Bury, a researcher and archivist at the London Institute
+ Vuk Cosic, artist and web archaeologist from Lublijana, Slovenia
+ Alain Depocas, a researcher and archivist at the Musee d'Art
Contemporain, Montreal
+ Steve Dietz, the Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis
+ Ursula Frohne, Curator at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie
(ZKM), Karlsruhe
+ Simon Lamuniere, Curator at SGG Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine,
Geneva
+ Vivian Selbo, artist and information architect from New York
+ Neil Cummings, an artist and curator based in London

Information about the Lingo series can be found at
http://channel.artec.org.uk/lingo and an online extension of The Museum
of the Twenty First Century will be constructed in collaboration with
the Transmediale international media art festival in Berlin at
http://www.transmediale.de.

The Museum of the Twenty First Century will be held on Saturday 13
February from 12am to 6pm at the ICA, London. Tickets for the day cost
gbp 20 for non-ICA members / 16 for concessions / 14 for ICA members
and can be booked via the ICA box office on +44 (0)171 930 3647.