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In collaboration with Gallery Box, new media curator Tanya Toft presented her upcoming exhibition ´Nordic Outbreak´, discussed her current research on
Nordic digital art and curatorial strategies of showing digital art works in public spaces, followed by a Q & A session.
Tanya Toft curates digital exhibitions and develops exhibition schemes for public spaces, independently and as associate curator for Streaming Museum, an international arts organization that presents multimedia work and programming worldwide on Web-based and onsite installations. She is Ph.D. Fellow at the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University, and in 2012/2013 she is a participant at CuratorLab at Konstfack Universitet, Stockholm. In 2013 she is curating and producing Nordic Outbreak, a touring exhibition project presenting new dynamics in Nordic video and new media art, presented by Streaming Museum on urban screens and projected facades in NYC and across the Nordic region. She has previously curated Cyborg Alarm: When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide for Streaming Museum, presented in New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Berlin in 2012, and co-curated a solo exhibition with French new media artist Maurice Benayoun in New York, and Letters From The Field,as a resident at Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin. In 2011 she developed and produced the online architecture research project URLAB for Fridbjorg Architects, Copenhagen, which investigates architecture’s sustainable value creation for people’s lives in urban spaces. In 2011 she received The New School’s Mixed Messages Award, and her articles on digital media and new media art in urban public spaces have been published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Interdisciplinary Themes Journal and MediaCity: Interaction of Architecture, Media and Social Phenomena.
www.tanyatoft.com
Nordic Outbreak is an internationally touring exhibition presented by Streaming Museum, showing over 30 video and new media artworks by groundbreaking contemporary Nordic artists. It is launching with a symposium at Scandinavia House and a series of events in New York City from April 4 to April 7, 2013. The opening exhibition in New York will be viewed as large projections and on screens and in public spaces. The events encompassing the launch in New York include an all-day symposium and exhibition at Scandinavia House where Nordic artists, curators and theorists will offer in-depth perspectives on what ‘the Nordic’ has come to mean in the digital age, in a situation characterized by globalization and rapid developments in new media technologies, providing new conditions for aesthetic production and presentation. The discussions will illuminate an outbreak from conventional aesthetic ideas about the Nordic concept, from typical modes of exhibition making and curatorial practice, and from fixed interpretations of works that travel across local contexts and contribute to a global dialogue. The panels at the Nordic Outbreak Symposium will address how these influences are characterized in new dynamics in Nordic video and new media art. Nordic Outbreak: Confronting Tales, Futures and Memories, the opening theme of the New York exhibition, presents artworks that question fictional narratives, like the tales that underpin the Nordic concept. These tales have shaped through past and present myths, memories and nostalgia, and in the traditions and rituals of everyday life, which ultimately shape ideas about the future. Confronting Tales, Futures and Memories challenges preconceived notions of ‘the Nordic’ concept as idea and identity. The works have been selected in collaboration with four Nordic guest curators: Daniela Arriado, Birta Gudjonsdottir, Kati Kivinen, and Jacob Lillemose. In Fall 2013, a selection of the exhibition project will travel to all the Nordic countries in collaboration with partnering arts, architecture and cultural institutions and explore a new theme in every local installation. The project will be followed by a book publication in Spring 2014.
www.nordicoutbreak.streamingmuseum.org
Nordic digital art and curatorial strategies of showing digital art works in public spaces, followed by a Q & A session.
Tanya Toft curates digital exhibitions and develops exhibition schemes for public spaces, independently and as associate curator for Streaming Museum, an international arts organization that presents multimedia work and programming worldwide on Web-based and onsite installations. She is Ph.D. Fellow at the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University, and in 2012/2013 she is a participant at CuratorLab at Konstfack Universitet, Stockholm. In 2013 she is curating and producing Nordic Outbreak, a touring exhibition project presenting new dynamics in Nordic video and new media art, presented by Streaming Museum on urban screens and projected facades in NYC and across the Nordic region. She has previously curated Cyborg Alarm: When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide for Streaming Museum, presented in New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Berlin in 2012, and co-curated a solo exhibition with French new media artist Maurice Benayoun in New York, and Letters From The Field,as a resident at Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin. In 2011 she developed and produced the online architecture research project URLAB for Fridbjorg Architects, Copenhagen, which investigates architecture’s sustainable value creation for people’s lives in urban spaces. In 2011 she received The New School’s Mixed Messages Award, and her articles on digital media and new media art in urban public spaces have been published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Interdisciplinary Themes Journal and MediaCity: Interaction of Architecture, Media and Social Phenomena.
www.tanyatoft.com
Nordic Outbreak is an internationally touring exhibition presented by Streaming Museum, showing over 30 video and new media artworks by groundbreaking contemporary Nordic artists. It is launching with a symposium at Scandinavia House and a series of events in New York City from April 4 to April 7, 2013. The opening exhibition in New York will be viewed as large projections and on screens and in public spaces. The events encompassing the launch in New York include an all-day symposium and exhibition at Scandinavia House where Nordic artists, curators and theorists will offer in-depth perspectives on what ‘the Nordic’ has come to mean in the digital age, in a situation characterized by globalization and rapid developments in new media technologies, providing new conditions for aesthetic production and presentation. The discussions will illuminate an outbreak from conventional aesthetic ideas about the Nordic concept, from typical modes of exhibition making and curatorial practice, and from fixed interpretations of works that travel across local contexts and contribute to a global dialogue. The panels at the Nordic Outbreak Symposium will address how these influences are characterized in new dynamics in Nordic video and new media art. Nordic Outbreak: Confronting Tales, Futures and Memories, the opening theme of the New York exhibition, presents artworks that question fictional narratives, like the tales that underpin the Nordic concept. These tales have shaped through past and present myths, memories and nostalgia, and in the traditions and rituals of everyday life, which ultimately shape ideas about the future. Confronting Tales, Futures and Memories challenges preconceived notions of ‘the Nordic’ concept as idea and identity. The works have been selected in collaboration with four Nordic guest curators: Daniela Arriado, Birta Gudjonsdottir, Kati Kivinen, and Jacob Lillemose. In Fall 2013, a selection of the exhibition project will travel to all the Nordic countries in collaboration with partnering arts, architecture and cultural institutions and explore a new theme in every local installation. The project will be followed by a book publication in Spring 2014.
www.nordicoutbreak.streamingmuseum.org