Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, announces the inauguration of Open Score, an annual art and technology conference copresented by the New Museum and Rhizome. Exploring the state of art and technology today, the conference will convene luminary artists, curators, researchers, and writers to discuss how technology is transforming culture. The first edition of the series, Open Score: Art and Technology 2016, takes place in the New Museum Theater today, January 30, 2016, from 2 to 6 p.m. and is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Open Score is organized by Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, the New Museum, and Michael Connor, Artistic Director, Rhizome, with Sara O'Keeffe, Assistant Curator, the New Museum.
The inaugural edition of Open Score will consider how artists are responding to new conditions of surveillance and hypervisibility; how social media's mass creativity interfaces with branding and identity for individual artists; how the quality and texture of art criticism is evolving in a digital age; and what the future of internet art might be in light of a broader assimilation of digital technologies.
"Since its founding in 1977, the New Museum has led the conversation about art and technology," Phillips said. "It has played a crucial role in supporting digital practices-from launching our affiliation with Rhizome in 2003 and establishing NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator, in 2014, to releasing
Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, a definitive critical anthology on the evolution of art and the internet, and appointing Lauren Cornell to the new position of Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, in 2015."
Zachary Kaplan, Executive Director of Rhizome, stated, "Together, the New Museum and Rhizome have piloted the art and technology field and brought its practices to mainstream prominence. With Rhizome's twentieth anniversary in 2016, there could be no better moment to collaborate with the New Museum to signal where art and technology will go next."
The first edition of Open Score, supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the groundbreaking initiative Experiments in Art and Technology. The conference's title is taken from Rauschenberg's live performance Open Score during one of E.A.T.'s most iconic events, "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering."
SCHEDULE & TICKETING INFORMATION
The conference will be held on January 30, 2016, from 2 to 6 p.m. in the New Museum Theater. Please visit
newmuseum.org to purchase tickets.
