Symposium me you and everyone we know is a curator

A symposium about quality in an age of visual overload

While museums are developing strategies to digitalise their collections, online cultural production is growing steadily, with hundreds of thousands of new images posted each day. A lot of potentially interesting work is being produced online, which never reaches the physical world. The distribution of this high quality work is increasingly decentralised, leaving museums, foundations and professional magazines at a loss on how to redefine their role as gatekeepers. On the other hand, the time spent daily behind the computer on internet networking is pushing the demand for a physical experience of our fleeting culture. Designers, artists, mediators and policy makers need to redefine their position, because new technologies define to a large extent today's possibilities and means of presentation and archiving. The search is for new quality criteria, new frames of references, and alternative methods for enabling connections between the virtual and the physical space of today's culture.

Venue: Paradiso, Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

Entrance: €25, €10 (students)
Pre-sale : AUB Ticketshop Amsterdam, Ticket Service Nederland
Reservations: symposium@graphicdesignmuseum.com
Language: English

Update Friday December 18th, 5 pm: from now on it is not possible anymore to make reservations by e-mail, but tickets are still available tomorrow at the entrance of Paradiso!

Program Saturday December 19th 2009

10.00    Doors open
10.25    Mieke Gerritzen
             Welcome
10.30    Bruce Sterling
             Envisioning tomorrow's digital culture
11.15    Julia Noordegraaf
             Performing archival material online
11.35    Sarah Cook
             Curatorial strategies for online artistic production

11.50    Coffee break

12.05    Rick Poynor
             Design criticism in the blogosphere
12.35    Sophie Krier
             me you and everyone we know is a curator
12.45    Metahaven
             Visual identity in the age of digital standards

13.00    Lunch break

14.00    Andrew Keen
             Digital Vertigo: selecting talent in the age of social media
14.45    Aram Bartholl
             Online visual culture in physical space
15.00    Dagan Cohen (Upload Cinema)
             Bringing web films to the big screen
15.15    Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic)
             Please try a new search to see less results

15.30    Coffee break

15.45    Henk Oosterling
             Introduction
16.00    Debate on the changing position of policy makers and institutions with representatives
             of Dutch funds and museums

16.30    Drinks

Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort (artist/scientist)
Visual Interventions: Sander van der Pavert (LuckyTV)

Organization: Graphic Design Museum
Concept: Sophie Krier, Mieke Gerritzen
Design: Metahaven