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Minna Tarkka (1961-2023) was a critic, educator, producer and curator of media art and culture.[1] In 2000 she co-founded m-cult in Helsinki, Finland and remained as its director until 2023. [2]

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Tarkka was active in establishing the first Finnish university curricula relating to media art including the Faculty of Time and Space (Academy of Fine Arts) and the MA in New Media (University of Art and Design, Media Lab). As organiser, she was founding member and first director of MUU (1989-91), and a founding member of AV-arkki, distribution centre for media art as well as the Finnish Media Art Network.[3]

ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art was held in Helsinki under Tarkka's direction in 1994 in partnership with the University of Art and Design, and again in 2004.

In 2017, Minna Tarkka was awarded with the State Prize for Media Art acknowledging her pioneering work and recent successful commissions in collaborative media art.


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  3. ^ "Media Art in Finland". Finnish Media Art Network. August 1, 2023,. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)


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  • m-cult agency to develop and promote new forms of media art and digital culture [9]
 

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"Order from Chaos: Jane Adams and B.C. Binning". Galleries West. June 18, 2023.

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Daniel Jolliffe (1964 - 2021) was a Canadian media artist and art professor who created works of art, design and performance projects using new technologies including Global Positioning Systems (GPS). [2]

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Jolliffe had a masters degree in fine arts from Ohio State University. Jolliffe worked closely with Eastern Bloc artist-run centre in Quebec. [3]. His interactive sculpture, 'One Free Minute', was performed across America[4] and included in the 2006 National Design Triennial curated by Ellen Lupton and exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Jolliffe exhibited with artists including Jocelyn Robert, Thecla Schiphorst, Ken Gregory and others. Jolliffe was connected to the new media art scene internationally, attending festivals and conferences such as ISEA, WRO in Poland, and FILE in Brazil[5].


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  1. ^ Seeber, Elisia (February 1, 2021). "West Vancouver Museum opens exhibition on eminent landscape architect". Toronto Star.
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Brenda Clenuik (date - Regina 2020) was a Canadian curator, artist, and art administrator who served as Director of Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum (an artist-run space) in Regina, Saskatchewan. [1]

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Clenuik had undergraduate degrees in literature, psychology, Fine Art (art history) and had formal training in performing arts disciplines. Clenuik worked with Neutral Ground for 20 years, from 1991-2017 - [2] Neutral Ground was founded in 1982 and has hosted over 600 exhibitions of established and emerging artists. In 1996 she co-founded Soil - a Digital Media Suite to provide technological resources and other services for digital media artists. Cleniuk championed emerging artists working in performance and in interactive and experimental media, including Robin Poitras, Julie Andreyev, Ken Gregory, Adam Hyde and others. Clenuik was connected to the new media art scene internationally, attending festivals and conferences such as ISEA, PixelAche in Helsinki, the Performance Network symposium. Her interests in new media art was focused on the interrelationship between technology and the body; the nature of the World Wide Web, and how cyberspace could be used, for the betterment of the imagination and its use in concept formation, identity, revelation, and interrelationship between culturally disparate groups.


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Melanie Townsend (1968 - December 19, 2018, London, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian curator and writer on contemporary art, Head of Exhibitions at Museum London, and President of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. [1]

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Townsend was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. She attended Kennedy Collegiate Secondary School and earned an Honours Bachelor degree from Western University in 1991. She received a Master’s degree in history from the University of Windsor in 1994. During her undergraduate studies she worked as a collections assistant with Windsor’s Community Museum, later working at the Art Gallery of Windsor as its Curatorial Assistant/Coordinator.

From 1998 to 2004, Townsend worked as Curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre and helped establish the Banff International Curatorial Institute. She was instrumental in partnering with Plugin Gallery in 2001 for the 49th Venice Biennale, which featured the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. She was on the board of the Calgary artist-run centre TRUCK, and served as its President. Townsend was Secretary, Vice President, and President of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, between 2010 and 2016. In 2004 she was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art, at Museum London and in 2005 its Head of Exhibitions and Collections.[2]

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At the Walter Phillips Gallery: Sentient Circuitry (2002) featuring the work of Norman White Ken Rinaldo and Reva Stone[3]; Roy Kiyooka: Accidental Tourist (2004) and Campsites (2005). At Museum London: Garry Neill Kennedy: Superstar Shadow (2006); Wyn Geleynse: A Man Trying to Explain Pictures (2006); Gardens of a Colonial Present: Ron Benner (2008); Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words (2009); Kim Adams: One for the Road (2013); Kim Ondaatje (2013); and Colette Urban: Incognito (2014).

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Townsend edited and wrote key works within the field of museology and curatorial studies including: The Paradise Institute (2001); The Edge of Everything: Reflection on Curatorial Practice (2002); Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices (2003).

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  1. ^ Announcement in the London Free Press
  2. ^ Profile on McIntosh Gallery’s Canada 150 celebrations project page for women in the London Ontario visual arts community
  3. ^ Sentient Circuitry Exhibition brochure


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Grace Quintanilla (1967 - 2019, Mexico City, Mexico) was an artist, curator and producer working in the field of new media art and digital culture. [1]

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Quintinilla studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland in the Television Imaging Course. She was a regular participant in the Interactive Screen programme of the Banff New Media Institute and The Banff Centre in Canada. Quintanilla was director of Centro de Cultura Digital from 2012 until her death in 2019.


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  1. ^ Notice of the death of Grace Quintanilla


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Ben Portis (1960 – 2017, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian artist, curator, and critic working in the fields of contemporary art including sound art, performance, music and architecture.[1] [2]

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Portis received his MA from Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies (2001) having undertaken his summer internship with the Bronx Museum of Art.[3] He wrote extensively on art for publications including Parachute, Canadian Art and Momus. From 2010-2013 he was curator of the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, curating exhibitions of the work of Denyse Thomasos, Gordon Monahan, David Bolduc, and others. From 2002 to 2009 Portis was assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he worked on numerous exhibitions including those by Harun Farocki, Eddo Stern, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In 2008 he collaborated with the Images Festival to bring the work of Charles Atlas to Toronto. After completing his MA in New York he worked with Lynne Cooke at the Dia Art Center. Before undertaking his MA, with the artist-run Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario, Portis co-founded the annual No Music Festival which featured the work of the Nihilist Spasm Band and released CD box sets of recordings. [4] Portis had an MFA from The University of Chicago (1989), and a BFA from Queen’s University, Canada (1984).

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Baleful at Pari Nadimi Gallery, February 4 - April 2, 2016 [5]

Urban Jewels: Denyse Thomasos' Big Canvases, 1993 – 1999, at MacLaren Art Centre, September 12 - November 3, 2013

Matt Bahen: Gravity's Faith, at MacLaren Art Centre, June 8 - September 1, 2013

Kristan Horton: A Haptic Portrait of Groping Imaginations, at MacLaren Art Centre, February 28 - May 26, 2013

Kent Monkman: The Triumph of Mischief, at the Glenbow Museum, February 13 to April 25, 2010

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  1. ^ Notice of the death of Ben Portis by Jeffrey Spalding, 2017
  2. ^ Notice of remembrance from the MacLaren Art Centre
  3. ^ Biography of Ben Portis from Akimbo 2010
  4. ^ Track listing of EK2120 No99: No Music Festival 1999
  5. ^ Baleful Exhibition announcement, February 4, 2016

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  • Bosma, J. (2011). Nettitudes: Let's talk net art. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers. ISBN 978-90-5662-800-0.
  • Sarah Cook & Beryl Graham, Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-262-01388-8.
  • Mark Tribe, Reena Jana (2007), New Media Art, Introduction, Rome: Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8228-2537-2
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Armin Medosch (1962, Graz - 2017, Vienna) was a curator, artist and critic working in the field of new media art.[2] [3]

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Medosch received his PhD from the Goldsmiths working on the New Tendencies movement.[4] He wrote extensively on new media arts on lists such as Nettime and lectured internationally on art and technology. From 1996-2002 he was co-editor of Telepolis: The Magazine of Netculture. For many years he worked with media art organisation RIXC editing issues of their journal Acoustic Space and curating exhibitions. Medosch previously taught on the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne College, London (2002-07).

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  • "Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication", in A Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp 355-383. [10]
  • New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of The Information Revolution 1961-1978, MIT Press, 2016. [11]

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New Tendencies Research site

References edit

  1. ^ Fortnum, Rebecca (2006). Contemporary British women artists : in their own words (Reprint. ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-224-0.
  2. ^ Geert Lovink, "Interview with Armin Medosch", 1997 http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9707/msg00037.html
  3. ^ Obituary for Armin Medosch by Felix Stalder, 2017 https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1702/msg00039.html
  4. ^ Biography of Armin Medosch at FACT 2013: http://www.fact.co.uk/people/artists/armin-medosch.aspx

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