Timothy Murray (Cornell) : Archival Frenzy - From Event to Fever in Digital Art
ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Monday 18 June 2012 to Monday 18 June 2012
Opening Monday 18 June 2012 6.30pm
As Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media and
theorist of new media art and cinema, Timothy Murray will
provide an overview of theories of the Archive in relation to digital
artworks from the archive for which "the archive” is a central
concern of content and form.
The importance of archival projects in new media art, by artists such as Yao Jui-Chung, Maurice Benayoun, Kieth Piper, Muntadas, and Jolene Rickard provides a significant platform for reconsidering the theory of the archive itself, as formulated by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida in relation to theorizations of the “event” by Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou
Professor Timothy Murray is Director of the Society for the Humanities and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, USA , and is co-moderator of the empyre new media listserv, and co-curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA . A curator of new media art, and theorist of the digital humanities and arts, he has published widely and is currently working on a book, Immaterial Archives: Curatorial Instabilities @ New Media Art, a sequel to Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008).
Presented by the La Trobe University Centre for Creative Arts
Location
ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving ImageCorner Flinders and Swanston streets
Flinders Lane Precinct
Victoria
Australia
