EXPANDED VIDEO

Saturday, November 22, 2008 Noon - 6:30 pm Admission Free RSVP: info@eai.org

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 www.eai.org

Please join EAI for a day of panels and discussion that will explore the changing landscape for exhibiting, collecting, distributing and preserving media art. Leading curators, artists, gallerists, distributors and critics will examine new paradigms for media art practice and activate dialogue on how moving image artworks are being exhibited, collected and circulated today, from YouTube to the gallery and the museum – and everywhere in between. Join us for two panels that will discuss this shifting landscape in relation to media art’s remarkable history, its multi-faceted present and the unforeseeable future.

PANEL 1: EXHIBITING Noon - 2:00 pm Lauren Cornell Executive Director, Rhizome.org and Adjunct Curator of the New Museum Jacob Ciocci Artist and member of Paper Rad Ed Halter Critic and Co-Director of Light Industry, Brooklyn Glenn Phillips Senior Project Specialist and Consulting Curator, Department of Contemporary Programs and Research, Getty Research Institute Moderated by Caitlin Jones Independent writer and curator

PANEL 2: COLLECTING 3:30 - 5:30 pm Christopher Eamon Curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection Chrissie Iles Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art Joan Jonas Artist Jenny Moore Director of Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York Moderated by Rebecca Cleman Director of Distribution at EAI

Introduction by Lori Zippay Executive Director of EAI SCREENING + BREAK 2:00 - 3:30 pm RECEPTION 5:30 - 6:30 pm During the break between panels and at a reception following the event, EAI will screen a program of new and early video works relating to the discussion.

__________________________________ From white cube galleries and black box cinemas to YouTube and ipods, video art is now experienced across multiple platforms and in multiple contexts. Platform agnosticism meets medium-specificity, as the boundaries between film, video and digital art are challenged. Access vies with exclusivity as artists’ videos are streamed online and galleries sell limited editions. Artists create works in multiple iterations, with provocative implications for issues of copyright and conservation. For over four decades, artists have created works that actively engage the conceptual, formal and cultural meanings of moving image media and electronic technologies, from early single-channel video to new digital art. These works have not only demanded new ways of perceiving, thinking and interacting on the part of the viewer, but have also demanded new models for how they are presented, circulated, collected and preserved. Video’s mutability and mobility have resulted in a variable ecology (and variable economies) of media art. In 1970, when Howard Wise closed the doors of his eponymous gallery and opened Electronic Arts Intermix, he predicted that the new medium of video would usher in a new era of art production, distribution and access, declaring that artists would expand their practices "out of the gallery into the environment, the sky, the ocean, even outer space." In 2008, the Internet has enabled unprecedented production, distribution and exhibition possibilities. A new generation of artists read these possibilities not in opposition to gallery practice or as a rejection of the art object, but as the reality and potential of an ever-expanding media landscape. __________________________________ About EAI Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world's leading nonprofit resources for video art and digital media. A pioneering advocate for media art and artists, EAI's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical media works by artists. EAI fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of video art and digital media. EAI's activities include a preservation program, viewing access, educational services, extensive online resources, and public programs such as artists’ talks, exhibitions and panels. The Online Catalogue provides a comprehensive resource on the artists and works in the EAI collection, including extensive research materials. www.eai.org Please visit EAI's new project, The Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art, a comprehensive source for information on single-channel video, computer-based art, and media installation: http://resourceguide.eai.org Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 (212) 337-0680 tel (212) 337-0679 fax info@eai.org ___________________________________ This event is funded, in part, with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.