And why are there so few media art works in contemporary art exhibitions? Media arts, namely art forms that engage the capacities and affordances of recent and emerging technologies, are still largely missing in contemporary art exhibitions and spaces. In an age of rapid proliferation, consumerized adoption and normalization of media technologies coupled with what can be characterized as an institutionalized neglect of media arts in museums and art spaces...
For the 154-year-old Metropolitan Museum of Art, “modern and contemporary art” has always been at the core of its existential query. Though the encyclopedic museum began to collect and display “art of the present” in the early 20th century, and the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art has been established since 1967, contemporary art at The Met has often been treated with intense scrutiny. As the Modern and Contemporary Wing...
The history of curating has to be rewritten, abandoning its etymological and museological moorings. The presentation questions the foundational principles of modern museum practices since their emergence in the 17th and 18th centuries into their neoliberal avatar, locating them in regimes of what Achille Mbembe describes as necropolitics (a subjugation of life to the power and technologies of death). Drawing on case studies and theoretical frameworks offered by artists, curators...
Panelists | Gunalan Nadarajan (Dean Emeritus and Professor, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan), Lesley Ma (Ming Chu Hsu and Daniel Xu Curator, Modern and Contemporary, The Met, New York), Sabih Ahmed (Director, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai), Yu-Chuan Tseng (Professor, Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, National Tsing Hua University), Jau-Lan Guo (Associate Professor, Graduate of Fine Art, Taipei National University of the Arts), Manray Hsu (Independent...