Video Trajectories. International Symposium
Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 – Sunday, Feb 2, 2014
Symposium curated by Kathrin Becker
Much rejected in the art world and exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s, video art today plays a key role in the current art scene. It principally differs from other media by its technicality, its intangible nature, as well as its flexibility and adaptability in terms of the aesthetic processes within the medium. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein examines this specificity of video art in an international symposium, taking place from 1 to 2 February 2014. In lectures, panel discussions and artist talks, the contemporary video art practice is looked at from the perspectives of presentation, technological change, production and the public.
The complete symposium is documented in a DVD-set and available at n.b.k.
Saturday, 1 February 2014
2:15 – 3:15 pm
Politics of Spectatorship in the Moving Image
Keynote-lecture and discussion with Nora M. Alter (Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia)
In English language
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Artist Talk
Chip Lord (artist, founding member of Ant Farm, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz) in conversation with Kathy Rae Huffman (Curator, Berlin / Los Angeles)
In English language
5:15 – 6:15 pm
Artist Talk
Sanja Iveković (artist, Zagreb) in conversation with Antonia Majača (curator, author, Zagreb / Berlin)
In English language
6:30 – 7:45 pm
Producing video art
Panel discussion with Christian von Borries (filmmaker, Berlin), Wulf Herzogenrath (curator, Director of the Visual Arts Section, Academy of Arts, Berlin), Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (collector, Berlin), Beatrix Ruf (Director Kunsthalle Zürich), moderated by Gregor Stemmrich (Professor of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin)
In German language
Sunday, 2 February 2014
3.30 – 4.30 pm
Artist Talk
Clemens von Wedemeyer (artist, Berlin) in conversation with Yilmaz Dziewior (Director Kunsthaus Bregenz)
In German language
4:45 – 5:45 pm
Artist Talk
Yael Bartana (artist, Tel Aviv / Berlin) in conversation with Kerstin Stakemeier (Junior Professor of Media Theory and Image Science, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich)
In English language
6:30 – 7:45 pm
Exhibiting video art
Panel discussion with Gerard Byrne (artist, Dublin), Bartomeu Marí i Ribas (Director MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Mark Nash (curator, Professor, former Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Program, Royal College of Art, London), moderated by André Rottmann (art historian, research unit BildEvidenz, Freie Universität Berlin)
In English language
