October 21, 2004
Come to The Rubin Museum of Art for a panel discussion on "Art and the internet"
by Liza Sabater
A panel discussion on the future role of artistic expression in a new and ever-changing medium. With web artist Mark Napier, Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum Christiane Paul, and www.himalayanart.org director Jeff Watt; moderated by New Technologies writer at the New York Times, Saul Hansell.
Mark Napier has been creating artwork exclusively for the web since 1995. He combines his training as a painter with 15 years of expertise as a software developer to create "art interfaces", software that addresses issues of authority, ownership and territory in the virtual world. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship (2001) and a grant from the Greenwall Foundation (2001), Napier has been commissioned to create net artwork for SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, and Altoids.com. His work has been shown in the Whitney Biennial (2001), the SFMOMA 010101, the Whitney's Data Dynamics show, ZKM net_condition, the Walker's AEN show, and at new media festivals in Germany, Italy, Denmark and South America. He is represented by Bitforms Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.
Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is also the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She teaches in the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology. Her first show at the Whitney, "Data Dynamics" (March - June 2001), dealt with the mapping of data and information flow on the Internet and in the museum space. She also curated the net art selections for the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for Artport, the Whitney's online portal to Internet art (http://artport.whitney.org), for which she is responsible. Recent exhibitions include "eVolution -- the art of living systems" (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004) and "Evident Traces" (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, April 2004).
Jeff Watt, a scholar of Himalayan art iconography, is Director of the Himalayan Art Resource and Curator of the Rubin Museum of Art. He has overseen the expansion of the website, www.himalayanart.org, into an encyclopedic database of Himalayan art and iconography, which today boasts over 17,000 entries. Since studying at the University of British Columbia, he has directed special projects at the University's Asian Studies Library. He has done extensive research and translations of Buddhist texts, and provided services as a resource person for practitioners and students of Buddhism. He publishes The Sakya Resource Guide, an international on line database specific to information on the Buddhist Sakya lineage, history and practice.
Saul Hansell is the New Technologies writer at The New York Times.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Art, Internet, New York City, Software, Web
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