[Ada_list] Fwd: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Claire's Bishop's digital divide piece in Art Forum

Hi all,
There has been a very interesting discussion on Crumb about new media and art, Claire Bishop, digital art, mainstream gatekeeping (does the mainstream have gates?) recognising our own histories, etc etc etc… and here is a nice NZ tangent.
Su
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andreas Broeckmann <broeckmann@LEUPHANA.DE>
> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Claire's Bishop's digital divide piece in Art Forum
> Date: 13 September 2012 5:30:17 PM AEST
> To: NEW-MEDIA-CURATING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Reply-To: Andreas Broeckmann <broeckmann@LEUPHANA.DE>
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> folks,
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> maybe some useful, though anecdotal evidence for this debate is the fact that, yesterday evening, a "media artist" was announced as one of the four candidates for the Young Artist Award of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (an initiative that is trying to be the german Turner Prize). i think the case is interesting because, given the quite conservative selection of the other candidates, *this* is apparently what the jury could recognise as interesting media art.
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> regards,
> -a
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> http://www.preis2013.de/index.php?id=1290&L=1
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> Simon Denny
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> (born in 1982 in Auckland, lives and works in Berlin)
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> New Zealand artist Simon Denny investigates the means used by the media to convey information: television programmes, mobile telephones, window displays, Powerpoint software, or internet networks, which he re-evaluates for his artwork. Each time, his extensive research results in exaggerated and often also ironic sculptures and spatial designs dedicated to separate media events. His installations, which are sometimes displayed on public buildings remote from the venues of the world of art, cunningly oscillate between cultural criticism and an information campaign carried to the extreme.
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> Am 03.09.12 18:12, schrieb Hamilton, Kevin:
>> What remains less questioned in this discussion? The ways in which subjectivities are shaped by professions as well as media.