Uncertain Spaces: Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and MuseumsInternational Conference31 October – 1 November 2014Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Conference Media KitBookletFlyerPoster

Programme*

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Friday, 31st October

8:30 – 9:30 Participants’ registration

9:30 Opening session

10:00 Keynote Speaker: Annet Dekker"Curating in Progress. Moving between objects and networked processes"

Debate

Chair: Susana S. Martins

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Session 01: Online Collections, Archives and Databases

Andrew Brooks - The Planetary Datalinks

Teresa Nobre – Owner rights vs. User rights: the role of museums and galleries in the copyright play

Colectivo de Curadores – ProjectoMAP - Map of Portuguese Artists

Sören Meschede - Curators’ Network: digital tools for interconnecting peripheries

Debate

Chair: Rita Macedo

13:30 Lunch break

15:00 Session 02: Virtual Museums and Exhibitions

Guest Speaker: Alexandra Bounia – Beyond the ’virtual’: intangible museographies and collaborative museum experiences

Marialaura Ghidini - Curating web platforms: the rise of the distributed exhibition, online and offline

Ja-Mei Or - Audience as Art: Redefining Taste, Consumption, and the Art Object within Individual Engagement with Internet Art Platforms

Debate

Chair: Maria Vlachou

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Keynote Speaker: Giselle Beiguelman"Corrupted Memories: aesthetics of ruins and digital museums”

Debate

Chair: Clara Caldeira

Saturday, 1st November

10:00 Keynote Speaker: Juan Martín Prada“Curating Internet art today"

Debate

Chair: Helena Barranha

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Session 03: Digital and Internet Art

Guest Speaker: János Tari - AVICOM and FIAMP.2014 - Promoting digital projects and virtual exhibitions worldwide

Marie Meixnerová – The situation of Net Art and Post Internet Art within the Czech Republic and current strategies of its presentation in international context

Catarina Carneiro de Sousa & Luís Eustáquio - Art Practice in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Rita Sá – Individually Collaborative - A Case Study on Open Art and Technology-Driven Open Communities

Debate

Chair: Carlos Pimenta

13:30 Lunch break

15:00 Session 04: Network Cultures, Politics and Participation

Andrew Dewdney - Resolutely Analogue: Museums, Media and Interface Value

Roberto Terracciano - On Geo Poetic Systems: geo-hacking and virtual interventions inside and outside the museum space

Luise Reitstätter & Florian Bettel - Right to the City! Right to the Museum!

Stefanie Kogler – Digital Histories and Digital Archives of Latin American and Latino Art – New Constellations for Old Problems

Debate

Chair: Alexandra Bounia

17:00 Coffee break

17:30 Closing session

* The conference will be in English, and there will be no simultaneous translation into other languages.