Christiane Paul

11/30/21 • 44 min

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This week features legendary curator of digital art, Christiane Paul. It would be fair to say that digital art is having a moment these days, so who better to provide some context than the curator who quite literally wrote the book on it. From publishing a glossy quarterly magazine on digital art and hypertext in the 90s (Intelligent Agent), to her extensive curatorial work at the Whitney Museum of American Art and as an independent curator, Christiane Paul has had a major influence on how the world collects, understands, and curates artistic practices that exist in, and evolve from the digital world. Tune in to hear the story of her career’s evolution, and what Christiane thinks about the current hype around crypto art.

Links from the conversation with Christiane
> Whitney Artport: https://artport.whitney.org
> Programmed: https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Programmed
> The Question of Intelligence – AI and the Future of Humanity https://parsons.edu/sheilacjohnsondesigncenter/the-question-of-intelligence-ai-and-the-future-of-humanity/
> Sunrise / Sunset: https://whitney.org/artport/commissions/sunrise-sunset
> https://www.newschool.edu/media-studies/faculty/christiane-paul/
> Christiane's book: https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/digital-art-softcover-third-edition

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Asti Shering

This week’s show features art conservator Asti Sherring, who for the past ten years has played a leading role in developing the time-based media conservation community in Australia. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear how Asti went from saving up her summer job money as a fourteen year old to go on an archaeological dig in Italy, to being the first time-based media conservator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Links from the conversation with Asti
> Asti's website: https://www.astisherring.com
> Grimwade Centre: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/grimwade-centre-for-cultural-materials-conservation
> AGNSW: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

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Links from the conversation with Rafael:
> https://www.lozano-hemmer.com
> Current SFMOMA exhibition: https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/rafael-lozano-hemmer-unstable-presence
> A Crack in the Hourglass: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmer