Lives of Net Art: Christiane Paul | Tate Talks

Watch curator Christiane Paul discuss the histories of art on the internet. Christiane Paul’s keynote presentation was part of ‘Lives of Net Art’, a series of events exploring how contemporary artists use the internet, as well as reflecting on the possibilities the internet has offered artists from the 1990s to the present day. In her presentation, Paul focuses on the challenges museums face when displaying and preserving net art. Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, May 2016) and DigitalArt (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015). At the Whitney Museum, she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Little Sister (is watching you, too) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, 2015) and What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015). Reshaping the Collectible: How Artworks Live in the Museum is a Tate Collection Care research project which will develop innovative models for the conservation and preservation of modern and contemporary artworks, including internet art. This event was made possible with support provided by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Find out more about the Reshaping the Collectible research project here: https://bit.ly/2Zjr7d1