LUX Mres Public Lecture Series: From Reform to Resource: Contemporary Art Practice and the Television Industry

 
From Reform to Resource: Contemporary Art Practice and the Television Industry/ Maeve Connolly
For many decades, the relationship between art and the television industry was framed in terms of opposition, but in recent years television has tended to function as a resource for artists, rather than as an object of reform or reinvention. In particular, the late 2000s have witnessed a number of cross-institutional collaborations between artists, art institutions and broadcasters in Ireland, Mexico and Sweden, by artists such as Gerard Byrne, Christian Jankowski and Liz Magic Laser. These collaborations are not ‘interventions’ in broadcasting, since all three artists worked with television crews and studios to realize moving image works for gallery installations. Informed by these collaborations, the lecture explores convergences and tensions between art and television production cultures.
Maeve Connolly
Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and researcher whose work centres on concepts and forms of publicness in contemporary art, culture, and media. Since 2003, she has been a full-time faculty member of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland, where she contributes to undergraduate and graduate programmes on art and media. She is currently completing a book entitled TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television, to be published by Intellect, which examines the changing relationship between art and television in Europe and North America. Focusing on developments since the early 2000s, TV Museum includes chapters on exhibiting television; soaps, sitcoms and symbolic value in art and television; reality TV and the social turn in contemporary art; TV archives, television memory and media events; broadcasting and art in the public realm; television talk in curating and public programming; artists, television workers and changing production cultures.
MRes Art: Moving Image
Over the past two decades, artists moving image has proven itself a dynamic and thriving area of art practice, to be encountered in the gallery, museum, cinema auditorium, and a host of other unexpected venues. But what about the rich and fascinating histories, theories and aesthetics that have led to artists turn to film and video? And what insights can a study of artists moving image offer us for understanding the diverse practices that now fill art spaces internationally as well as in the UK? A unique collaboration between LUX and Central St Martins College of Art has created a research led masters degree to address these questions lead by Dr Lucy Reynolds. The Mres Art: Moving Image programme is now open for applications for 2013/14 For more information see CSM website or contact Lucy Reynolds directly at lucy[at]lux.org.uk