Posts by yokilee:
From PhD to Platform: The Future of the Academic Publication
August 10th, 2017
Charlotte’s essay “From PhD to Platform: The Future of the Academic Publication” is published in The Digital Academic edited by Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson.
Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice across teaching, research administration and scholarship endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are based in education, research administration, sociology, digital humanities, media and communication.
Rapid Response Art History: Tools and Techniques for a Fast-Changing Art World
January 18th, 2017I’m going to be in New York next month for the College Art Association Annual Conference, and give a keynote on ‘Rapid Response Art History: Tools and Techniques for a Fast-Changing Art World’. Looking forward!!
Document the Digital Critics
January 3rd, 2017I’m so excited to be at the College Art Associatio
n Annual Conference in New York next month! My talks will focus on the analyzing and archiving of art criticism after the internet.
Hope to see you there!
New Media Art and Canonization: A Round-Robin Conversation
December 9th, 2016
Charlotte, together with Mark Daniels, Axel Lapp, Addie Wagenknecht participated in the interviews led by Sarah Cook with Karin de Wild to talk about new media art and art historical canonisation.
In keeping with the fluid, dynamic and endlessly over-written history of new media art, the conversation was not a roundtable but a round-robin series of interviews, undertaken during one 24-hour period, via Skype, in which each conversation was immediately (live-) transcribed (online) and then read by the following interviewee prior to their interview.
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.
In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of ‘exclusion’, which dominated critiques of the canon up until two decades ago. The art field has dramatically, if insufficiently, changed in the half-century since the first protests and critiques of the exclusion of ‘others’ from the art canon.
With increased globalization and shifting geopolitics, the art field is expanding beyond its Euro-American focus, as is particularly evident in the large-scale international biennales now held all over the globe. Are canons and counter-canons still relevant? Can they be re-envisioned rather than merely revised? Following an introduction that discusses these issues, thirteen newly commissioned essays present case studies of consecration in the contemporary art field, and three commissioned discussions present diverse positions on issues of the canon and consecration processes today.
Put My Thing Down Flip It And Reverse It
June 6th, 2016
Next month I will be giving a talk about online art discussion at the RIDCH Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital Culture, esearch Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities, Open University of Hong Kong.
Looking forward to it!
The Art of Documentation
April 18th, 2016Next month I’ll be giving a talk on ‘The Art of Documentation’ for Curating Art After New Media HK, a professional development course produced by Videotage, Hong Kong.
And in case you’ve missed my last post, I’ll also be giving a keynote on ‘Rapid Response Art History: Tools and Techniques for a Fast-Changing Art World’ for ISEA2016 at City University of Hong Kong.
Give me a shout if you’re around!
Curating Art After New Media HK is a short professional development course targeted for Hong Kong-based curators who specialize or are interested in contemporary and new media art. This course aims to provide up-to-date professional knowledge in the field for Hong Kong-based curators, and is customised for Hong Kong curatorial professionals to provide a unique training opportunity for rapid upskilling and international networking.
It explores a wide range of themes, locations and combine local and international speakers in a workshop-style environment for idea exchange, as well as site visits to local key art organisations, tentatively set on May 16th-22nd, 2016, tactically timed to coincide with the ISEA2016 (International Symposium on Electronic Art). Course participants will also have access to ISEA2016’s programme of satellite events, exhibitions and artists talk and will meet with key members of the international new media art curating community.
ISEA2016 ‘Cultural R>evolution’
April 2nd, 2016
May is going to be an busy but exciting month!
This year the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2016 will be held in Hong Kong, supported by the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme!! And even better, part of the programmes will be hosted at City University of Hong Kong!
I’m thrilled to be giving a keynote on ‘Rapid Response Art History: Tools and Techniques for a Fast-Changing Art World’ at the symposium. Hope to see you there!!
http://isea2016.isea-international.org/
Is Art History Too Bookish?
November 6th, 2015Next month I’ll be giving a keynote ‘Is Art History Too Bookish?’ at RIDCH Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital Culture, held by Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities, Open University of Hong Kong. I’m very excited about it, and I hope to see some of you there!!
The Future of the Art History Book
October 8th, 2015Next month I’m thrilled to be giving a keynote on ‘The Future of the Art History Book’ the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, as part of Academic Book Week and supported by the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme.
About the event:
From Lives of the Artists, to The Story of Art, and Differencing the Canon, the discipline of art history has been defined by its books (Hyde Minor 1994; Macartney 2011; Shone and Stonnard, 2013). The art history book remains the standard of professional validation and knowledge transfer within the discipline. Yet, with the arrival of the internet and digital publishing technologies, the limiting nature of traditional academic publishing and the potential for alternative models have been exposed (Hall, 2008; Fitzpatrick, 2011; Frosio, 2014). Academic presses have sought to augment and re-engineer the academic text by exploring new systems for aggregation, annotation, collaborative writing, data visualisation, open access and peer review. But art history is seriously behind in developing robust publishing models for the future (Ballon and Westermann, 2006; Evans, Thomson and Watkins, 2011; Zorich, 2012). In this talk, Charlotte Frost regards the art history book as the site of contention in the quest to historicise emerging (and often technologically-rich) art forms. She asks ‘what should the art history book of the future look like and what should it do differently for the discipline to evolve?’
This event is part of Academic Book Week, taking place 9-16 November
http://academicbookfuture.org/acbookweek/
Wednesday 11 November 2015
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Situating the Digital Transformation of Art History Through the Example of the Umbrella Revolution
October 6th, 2015I’ll be giving a keynote talk at Rethinking Arts Digital Futures symposium, as part of the NEoN Digital Arts Festival supported by the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Leader Fellowship.
The symposium is focused on the intersection of tradition and craft with the digital transformation of art and design. Artists participating in the festival will reflect on their own processes, demonstrating influences of ways of working from the disparate and shared heritage practices of the North East of North Asia including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South Korea. While the West often looks to the East for visions of the future in the form of science fiction or new intelligent robotic gadgets it is also in the east where tradition is more keenly understood and practiced, with NEoN festival featuring works in hand drawn animation, shadow puppetry, and poetry. How do artists and designers sustain their inherited traditional practices in a time of digital transformation – with audiences ever-shortening attention spans, networked memory, and a reliance on mediated digital assets to tell the story for us? Our global interconnectedness means we are influenced as much by what is going on on the other side of the globe as by what is happening in their own neighbourhood. This symposium will address how cultural influence affects making, how artistic traditions mutate, while shining a critical light on the practices of artists and designers working within a digitally transformed worldview.
I am going to focus on the digital transformation of art history through the example of the Umbrella Revolution, which I experienced locally over the entire period of the movement.
NEON 2015
NORTH EAST OF NORTH ASIA
8TH – 14TH NOVEMBER 2015
Venue: Chamber East
Where: Panmure Street, DD1 1EP
When: Friday 13th November
Time: 10pm – 4pm
