Net Art at the CCA

the cca in glasgow are holding a new media course. you’d think they’d make mention of this fact on their website, wouldn’t you? they don’t. so here’s what it says on the release:

Each session will include a lecture on the work of specific artists and movements and will be followed by screenings and artist’s presentations. Themes and ideas addressed in the lectures will include: the development of net.art in the early 1990s to the late 1990s, the origins of the internet as a communications media and how artists responded to the growth of the internet and political activism, a history of new media art practice from the 1990s to the present day from artist-led initiatives and projects such as Backspace and e-2 to new media work commissioned by arts organisations such as Film and Video Umbrella and DA2, resources and training for artists in new media and how new media work can be displayed in a non-gallery context. The course will look at both the ideas behind work that is produced using new media technologies and the techniques and practical issues involved in the production of work.

okay, so that doesn’t exactly make it sound a laugh a minute (and do you think they might be overusing the phrase ‘new media’ there?), but, having read some of the essays by course tutor francis mckee, and been fairly keen on the words & things show he curated at the gallery (which included untitled game by jodi), i imagine it’ll be well worth the fee: £20 for all four lectures, or a fiver a go. it’s on 5, 12, 19 and 26 march.

Posted at 8pm on 20/02/02 by Jack Mottram to the art and culture category.
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