Thursday, November 7, 2013

Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces talks program for 2013 edition in Miami Beach

This year's Conversations program in Miami Beach launches on Thursday, December 5 with the Premiere Artist Talk by the American multimedia artist Doug Aitken, discussing his recent nomadic project ‘Station to Station' in conversation with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo.  Here is a nerdy but nice talk that Michelle Kuo gave at MIT about experiments in art and technology.


The Sunday edition of Conversations immediately caught my attention, and shares the same theme as Michelle Kuo's talk at MIT.

Artistic Practice | The Artist as Technologist
Offering fresh insights on dynamic models of artistic practice, this panel brings together artists whose work is related to current developments in technology and the realm of the digital. Among the questions: How does the increasing and growing relationship between humankind and digital systems or machines change our perception of art? How does technology and especially the internet unleash artists local boundaries and enables them a global spectrum? In what ways does technology and new media or systems catalyze creativity? Artist Commentators: Cory Arcangel, Artist, Los Angeles; Cécile B. Evans, Artist, Berlin; Camille Henrot, Artist, Paris; Robert Whitman, Artist and Co-Founder of Experiments in Art and Technology, New York with Moderator: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London

The afternoon Salon program is an open platform for shorter, often informal presentations that features artist talks, panel discussions, lectures and book launches with curators, museum directors, lawyers, and artists, including from the show’s Public and Film sectors

Conversations takes place daily from Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 10am to 11:30am – and Salon daily Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, from 1pm to 7pm (Sunday to 4pm). Both programs take place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Talks from the Conversations program are free to the public. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Conversations and Salon.

The full talks program is available here.

High-quality videos of all Conversations and Salon talks will be available here.  

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