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Media mates
Charlotte Frost discusse the Media Mates scheme.
On 5 April I spent an hour interviewing an artist who has had a profound impact on the field of new media art (in advance of his UK retrospective ‘Silicon Remembers Carbon’, at FACT in Liverpool). The artist, David Rokeby, has produced works such as Very Nervous System (1986), The Giver of Names (1991) and n-Cha(n)t (2001), which have set a precedent in audience interactivity – not to mention code writing as artistic practice – which many new media artists, curators and critics across the globe are still digesting. Yet I was unable to get the interview published in print. Like Mary Paterson (the writer with Writing from Live Art, a Live Art UK initiative to increase writing on live art, whose Debate piece appeared in the April edition of a-n Magazine), I am a writer affiliated to an art journalism development project. The idea behind Media Mates (again like Writing from Live Art) has been to research approaches towards a possible strategy and sustainable system for providing under-represented art – this time new media – with more press coverage. Specifically, Media Mates (co-managed by Digital North and Audiences Yorkshire) invited Patrick Kelly,...
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