Before and After Cinema is an international conference on the status of the moving image in contemporary art, in the perspective of the shift from analogue to digital media, and what this means to distribution, perception, archiving and the making of art and film. The conference is a part of a larger collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The conference is co-produced by Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Open 9–10 March 2012 at Cinema Sture in Stockholm.
Speakers:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Artist
Sara Arrhenius: Director Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Daniel Birnbaum: Director Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Dara Birnbaum: Artist
Jan Holmberg: CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation and Curator of the Ingmar Bergman Archives
Magdalena Malm: Director Mobile Art Production, Stockholm
Christiane Paul: Director of Media Studies Graduate Programs and Associate Prof., School of Media Studies, The New School, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Ming Wong: Artist
What kind of impact have film and the moving image had on art from the early 20th century until today? How is this relationship likely to develop in the future? What is the significance of the rapid changes that occur in the transition from analogue to digital? These are some of the issues that will be discussed in Before and After Cinema.
The speakers of the conference are all renowned international artists and scholars. On the first day, pioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum will set the tone for the discussion, talking about her career, spanning 40 years, as an artist working with moving images. During the second day, theory will be alternated with examples from artistic practices. Christiane Paul, Director of Media Studies at The New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will discuss a number of artists who have developed the moving image by employing new technology and new manners of displaying art. Jan Holmberg, managing director of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation and the Ingmar Bergman Archives will discuss if digitalisation is the answer when analogue techniques are neglected and we risk losing large parts of the infancy of cinema. We will meet artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and artist Ming Wong in conversation with Sara Arrhenius, Director of Bonniers Konsthall. The conference will be concluded by a panel discussion featuring all speakers. The moderator is Magdalena Malm, Director of MAP, Mobile Art Production.
Cinema Sture, Birger Jarlsgatan 41, Stockholm
Tickets are booked through Cinema Sture, T +46 8-5629 4880, and picked up upon arrival.
For press tickets, contact sofia.curman@bonnierskonsthall.se
For detailed programme and more information about the speakers and the program, please visit www.bonnierskonsthall.se
