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Digital collaborations for public galleries
Location @ Dana Center:
D-studio
Date(s):
Wed 20 7:00 AM - 9:30 PM
Host:
Gary Stewart
Detailed text:
Through his most recent project Liminal: A Question of Position a large scale digital media project that was concerned with interactions between the city, new media, technologies and cultural diversity the talk will be an exploration of the different kinds of collaborations that take place when building immersive environments in which stories can happen that are determined by peoples agency and intervention. Taking a look at collaborations with other artists and institutions which set out to find different ways of engaging audiences in the process of authorship through the unique opportunities afforded by interactive digital media and thereby contest the notion of artistic specificity.
Biography:
Gary Stewart has been Head of Multimedia at Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts based in the new gallery space Rivington Place, London since 1995 where he curates and implements Iniva’s digital programme – encompassing installations, exhibitions, public and online projects. Working with electronic media as an artist, designer, producer and curator over the last twenty years he has been involved in pioneering initiatives and projects which interrogate the relationship between culture, technology and creativity.
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