[Studio XX] Meta Femmes Br@nchées 05 :: Nat Muller : September 5th, 2006

[annonces at studioxx.org]

Montréal, September 27, 2006
Press Release :: for immediate release

Méta Femmes br at nchées 05 -- Nat Muller
Thursday September 5th 2006, 10AM, at Studio XX

StudioXX celebrates its 10th birthday under the auspices of Event X, 2 
days of conferences, round table discussions and performances. In 
connection with this event StudioXX will host visitor Nat Muller to 
present her own curatorial practice.
Internationally renowned as new media curator, Nat Muller will be at 
StudioXX in the morning, on the 5th of October to host an intimate 
conference on her curatorial work. Her primary research directions have 
concentrated on the intersections between aesthetic, technology and 
politics, as well as new media and art practices in the Middle East. Nat 
Muller will update us on her position as curator working between Europe 
and the Middle East, bringing up questions emerging from this networked 
practice which is, according to her, often schizophrenic. You are 
cordially invited to take part in this discussion.

In order to orient and animate the discussion we have invited active 
local curator Alice Ming Wai Jim who has recently returned to Montreal 
after working for 3 years in conservation at the Vancouver International 
Center for Contemporary Asian Art (Center A). Alice is now a professor 
at Concordia University. Her main fields of interest include 
contemporary Asian art, the art of the Diaspora, new medias, theories of 
representation, globalization, urban studies and curatorial practices. 
The links between the practices and orientations of Alice Min Wai Jim 
and Nat Muller promise to foster a dynamic discussion between these two 
interventionists and the attending public.

The discussion will be in English.
$5, free admission for members
Inscriptions : programmation at studioxx.org 
<mailto:programmation at studioxx.org> or 845-7934
Please pass on this invitation! Hope to see you there!


NAT MULLER (NL)
Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She also serves 
as new media curator at De Balie, Amsterdam. Nat is primarily interested 
in viewing social and political processes through a cultural/artistic 
lens. She has published articles in off- and online media, and has given 
presentations on the subject of media technology and art 
(inter)nationally. She has curated video selections for international 
platforms, such as the Transmediale (Berlin), NBK (Berlin), FIFVC 
(Beirut), Transito (Amsterdam), Coding:Decoding (Copenhagen). Her main 
interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, technology and 
politics; (new) media and art in Middle East. Her latest projects in 
2004 include The Trans_European Picnic -- The Art and Media of Accession 
in collaboration with Kuda (Novi Sad) and V2_ (Rotterdam), co-curating 
the electronic art biennial DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of 
Open Systems; the curatorial research project "Xeno_Tech" which 
researches situated practices of media (art) in the Middle East. 
Projects in 2005 include the exhibition INFRA_ctures involving sound 
artists and architects, and Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound 
performances from the Middle East. She is co-initiator of the Upgrade! 
Amsterdam, a series of gatherings for and by new media aficionados, 
artists, geeks, media makers and breakers. She has been appointed 
co-curator for Re: visie 2007; the exhibition accompanying the Dutch 
Film Festival. Nat has taught media theory and electronic art at the 
Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (NL) and at the Lebanese American 
University in Beirut (LB).

ALICE MING WAI JIM
Alice Ming Wai Jim has a BA in art history from McGill University, an MA 
in Art History from Concordia University and a PhD (Dean's Honour List) 
in Art History from McGill in 2004. Her doctoral dissertation addressed 
urban metaphors in Hong Kong media art in relation to questions of place 
identity, history and spatial culture. Her MA thesis examined the first 
exhibition in Canada to devote itself entirely the work of Black women 
artists. Jim's teaching and research interests include Contemporary art, 
Contemporary Asian art, art of the Diaspora, new media art, theories of 
representation, globalization and city theory, and curatorial studies. 
Before joining the faculty at Concordia, Jim was Curator of the 
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) in 
Vancouver from 2003 to 2006. She has curated numerous exhibitions 
including the new media art project Container Culture for ISEA2006, Yoko 
Ono: Mending Peace, Mining the Archive by two UK-based artists, and, 
co-curated with Viet Le, Charlie Don't Surf: 4 Vietnamese American 
Artists. In June 2004, she convened the major international symposium, 
Mutations<>Connections: Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas in 
Vancouver. Jim has published articles in numerous magazines and journals 
including Parachute, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, Positions: East Asia 
Cultures Critique, Amerasia Journal, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary 
Chinese Art. Her writings have appeared in book and exhibition 
catalogues including Dye-A-Di-A-Logue with Ellen Pau (2004), Racism, Eh? 
A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada 
(2004), and the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (2005). Her 
current research projects focus on the aesthetics of mobility in 
relation to international art exhibitions, and the development of Asian 
Canadian art since the 1907 Vancouver Riots.



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Just south of Sherbrooke, off St. Denis
Metro Sherbrooke, or bus 24 (Sherbrooke) or 125 (Ontario).
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Founded in 1996, Studio XX is Montreal's foremost women's digital 
resource centre. Through a variety of creative activities and 
initiatives, the Studio works with women to demystify digital 
technologies, to critically examine their social aspects, to facilitate 
women's access to technology, and to create and exhibit women's new 
digital art.

Studio XX thanks its members and partners for their continued generous 
support : the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canadian 
Arts Council, the Conseil des arts de Montréal.


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