“Re-thinking Media Arts - from Transmediale Berlin to ISEA2010 RUHR”
by Dr Andreas Broeckmann
Wits Digital Arts
Wed 3 June
13:15 – 14:00
Convent Seminar Room
Since the 1980s, festivals have been the most important hubs for
the promotion and distribution of media art. The evolution of these
festivals therefore also reflects the way in which conceptions of
media art have changed. First founded in 1988, the Transmediale
festival in Berlin, for instance, was initially a venue only for
video art, and only in the course of the 90s opened its programme for
interactive and multi-media art. Its traditional critical approach,
first articulated by many political documentaries in the programme,
later resulted in major conferences on the social impact of digital
media. Andreas Broeckmann, who was the director of transmediale from
2001 - 2007, will discuss the transformation of media art over the
past 20 years and will offer an outlook onto the preparations for the
ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art,
which he is organising in the German Ruhr region for next year.
For more information please contact:
Prof Christo Doherty
Head of Digital Arts
Wits School of Arts
University of the Witwatersrand
christo.doherty@wits.ac.za
+27 11 717 4682
+27 84 331 9590
www.wits.ac.za/artworks
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