SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with the exhibition
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan In-Habit: Project Another Country
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Professor Ross Harley

in conversation with

Barbara London

Saturday, 11 August 2012
3 pm

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Speakers:

Barbara London is Associate Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founder of the institution’s media exhibition and collection programmes. Since the 1970s she has tracked media art and has organised more than 120 exhibitions at MoMA. She has recently presented at the museum a series of three exhibitions titled “Looking at Music,” with the most recent instalment in 2011 focusing on New York in the 1980s and 1990s and the birth of “remix culture.” Her essays and criticism have appeared in Artforum, Modern Painters, Art Asia Pacific, Leonardo, and elsewhere.

Ross Harley is an artist, writer, and  educator in the field of new media and  popular culture. His work crosses the bounds of media art practice, cinema, music, design, and architecture. His video and sound work has been presented at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, MoMA New York and around Australia. He is a former editor of the journal Art + Text, and has written on design and popular culture for Rolling Stone and The Australian. He was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and is currently Head of the School of Media Arts at COFA, UNSW. He is Deputy Director at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) and Co-Director of The iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research.