Academic Sessions: London 2003
Medium Matters Today
Convenors:
Mark Godfrey, markgodfrey9@yahoo.com, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
and Christopher Kul-Want, cyass@talk21.com, Byam Shaw School of Art.
Abstract:
Recently certain writers such as Rosalind Krauss have urged a return to a discussion around the medium. In the light of this discussion, this session will question what the medium has meant for 20th century artists and what it might mean today. Do some artists and critics use the term ‘medium’ where others use genre, apparatus, or conditions/conventions associated with the medium? Are the implicit political arguments for the return to the (reinvented) medium valuable? How does digitalisation affect the discussion? Is the return to the discussion of the medium a symptom of an anxiety around installation art and, more generally, a post-medium age? How can expanded kinds of reflexivity in art be thought about?
David Lomas (University of Manchester) Surrealist Automatism and Medium Specificity.
George Baker (Purchase College, State University of New York) The Anti–images of Robert Whitman: The Dante Drawings 1974–1977.
Tamara Trodd (University College, London) Maps, Mapping and the Medium in Work from the 1970\'s.
David Jeffreys (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Paintings, Objects and Demonstrations: Redefining Medium in the work of Rauschenberg and Metzger.
Mark Lewis (Central St. Martin\'s, London) Painting/Film.
Susan Morris (Central St. Martin\'s, London) The Paradox at the Heart of the Photographic Apparatus.
Katerina Reed-Tsocha (University of Oxford) The Theorized Medium: From Self–Criticality to Self–Differentiality.
Mark Godfrey, markgodfrey9@yahoo.com, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
and Christopher Kul-Want, cyass@talk21.com, Byam Shaw School of Art.
Abstract:
Recently certain writers such as Rosalind Krauss have urged a return to a discussion around the medium. In the light of this discussion, this session will question what the medium has meant for 20th century artists and what it might mean today. Do some artists and critics use the term ‘medium’ where others use genre, apparatus, or conditions/conventions associated with the medium? Are the implicit political arguments for the return to the (reinvented) medium valuable? How does digitalisation affect the discussion? Is the return to the discussion of the medium a symptom of an anxiety around installation art and, more generally, a post-medium age? How can expanded kinds of reflexivity in art be thought about?
David Lomas (University of Manchester) Surrealist Automatism and Medium Specificity.
George Baker (Purchase College, State University of New York) The Anti–images of Robert Whitman: The Dante Drawings 1974–1977.
Tamara Trodd (University College, London) Maps, Mapping and the Medium in Work from the 1970\'s.
David Jeffreys (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Paintings, Objects and Demonstrations: Redefining Medium in the work of Rauschenberg and Metzger.
Mark Lewis (Central St. Martin\'s, London) Painting/Film.
Susan Morris (Central St. Martin\'s, London) The Paradox at the Heart of the Photographic Apparatus.
Katerina Reed-Tsocha (University of Oxford) The Theorized Medium: From Self–Criticality to Self–Differentiality.