Presentations:
Present-day Media Art

In a three-part Thursday series of presentations, the Edith Ruß Site for Media Art is introducing specific areas of media art - Net.Art, interactive art and video art - by using examples. The invited speakers work on the cutting edge of new developments in their fields. They are practitioners in exhibiting, communicating and creating art with New Media.


14. Juni 2001, 7:30 pm, Vuk Cosic: Net Art
Vuk Cosoc is one of the most active artists to use the Internet as a medium. As part of his project at the Venice Biennial's Slovenian Pavillion, Cosic will create a show in a space he calls the "Temporary Autonomous Pavillion", presenting Net.Art to an international public. In Oldenburg Cosic will show "classic" and recent Net.Artworks. This will provide a framework for the sometimes controversial but always interesting genre of Net.Art.




21. Juni 2001, 7:30 pm, Söke Dinkla: Interactive Art
With her book "Pioneers of Interactive Art" Dr. Söke Dinkla is, herself, a pioneer on this subject. Today, this exhibition-maker from the neighbouring Ruhr Area works with the stars of interactive art such as Lynn Hershmann, Ken Feingold, Grahame Weinbren and Jeffrey Shaw. Dinkla will describe specific artworks in order to convey the energy of this dynamic direction in art.





28. Juni 2001, 7:30 pm, Søren Grammel: Video Art
Søren Grammel is a freelance curator who began a new discussion on festivals and exhibitions with his concept of the "installative festival". In Oldenburg he will screen the prize-winning videos from the Bonn Videonale 9 "RA" by Calin Dan (Romania), "The Cure" by Killu Sukmit and Mari Laanemets (Estonia) and "Blue Video" by Kenny McLeod (GB), among others. The presentation will go into some of the current trends in video art.