During the exhibition Damals und Heute from the Zentrum der Netzkunst at Panke Gallery in Berlin, that Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart and JODI are part of, the gallery hosts workshops, talks and discussions on net art. Harm van den Dorpel will be part of the panel discussion about net art and the gallery system on Saturday November 3rd.

net.art and the gallery system | day ticket 5€

Production and distribution are much closer in net art than in other fields. in the 1990s the internet promised to offer all participants a level playing field for accessing its resources. the materials and technologies of the early websites of net artists such as eva grubinger, cornelia sollfrank and holger friese are thus essentially the same as those of ibm, cnn, the vatican or a government agency. it seemed at the time as if the net was per se democratic in the distribution of resources, access, and control, and it provided a seemingly independent space that offered an alternative to celebrity culture and the gatekeeper role of star curators and mega-galleries. the curator as entrepreneur became the producer of oddball or left-field ideas and tried to profitably insert them into the capitalist flow of goods. projects such as eva grubinger’s c@c – computer aided curating or works (1995) of jonas lund’s such as the top 100 highest ranked curators in the world (2013) or the jonas lund token (jlt) (2018) or simon denny’s exhibition “disruptive berlin” (held in 2014 at galerie buchholz) reflect these relationships.

workshop
15:00–17:00
peggy sylopp

panel
17:00–19:00
ché zara blomfield panel

19:00–21:00
harm van den dorpel
jonas lund
moderator: alexander scrimgeour

More information here.

 

Image: Harm van den Dorpel, Deli Near.info

Publication date: 1 Nov '18