This symposium looks interesting and I’m thinking of attending the “Emulation Performance” by jodi and the afternoon session. Get the details here (click symposium once you arrive).

The symposium accompanies the exhibition “Seeing Double,” which is very successful IMO. According to the press release:

This exhibition tests the promise of an experimental treatment—emulation—for rescuing new media art from the ravages of time.

The art work seems to have been “rescued.” The exhibition does more than just that however. By exposing ‘how’ you emulate new media art the curators also illustrate the ‘material’ of new media art.

That’s to say, most people go to a museum and look at a moving image on a screen of some sort and it’s not always self-evident what the material of the image is. Is it simply a video? Or is it a computational piece which is getting real-time data from the Internet or running a software algorithm to auto-generate visuals or what have you. It’s not always obvious.

But in “Seeing Double” the materials become obvious through the process and exploration of emulation and that does new media art and the art public a real service. permanent link to this post