ATNE and Goethe Institut-Boston present:
Digital Art: Drastically changing the art world:
A lecture and discussion by Wolf Lieser, director, Digital Art Museum [DAM]
Tuesday, May 11 at 8 pm
Art Technology New England and the Goethe-Institut Boston have partnered to present a very special lecture and discussion led by Wolf Lieser, Founding Director of Berlin’s Digital Art Museum [DAM]. Lieser founded the Digital Art Museum Project [DAM] in 1998, which in 2000 became the first online museum. He then opened [DAM] Berlin Gallery 2003 to serve as a physical compliment to the online museum.
The lecture and following discussion are co-presented by Art Technology New England (ATNE) and the Goethe-Institut Boston and will be held on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 8:00 pm at the Goethe-Institut. Lieser will give a short art-historical background of digital art in its present situation. Lieser’s view is that the computer is changing the world of contemporary art to a larger degree than any other medium has before. He believes that nearly all artists use a computer to create and/or develop their art, and that new media also provides fresh conceptual and aesthetic possibilities. He will then introduce the [DAM] project; a unique approach to education in new media with a focus on marketing and selling to a new public.
Following the approximately 30 minute lecture, George Fifield, Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, will lead a discussion tying back into the local scene. As Greater Boston is a center of digital art, Lieser and Fifield will discuss the impact of institutions like the New Television Workshop at WGBH and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wolf Lieser’s new book Digital Art will be available for purchase at the event.
Wolf Lieser, originally an artist himself working with Photography, began very early to manage an artist friend. In 1998 he founded the Digital Art Museum [DAM] – Project, which became the first online museum in 2000. Lieser worked with Colville Place Gallery, London’s first gallery dedicated to Digital Art (1999-2002) before moving to Berlin to open the [DAM]Berlin gallery in 2003. [DAM] launched the d.velop digital art award [ddaa], a biannual lifetime-award for pioneers in Digital Media, in 2005. 2009 saw the publication of his book Digital Art in six languages. Lieser gives lectures internationally as part of conferences or symposia e.g. University Sorbonne, Paris; Kunsthalle Bremen; Sonic Acts, Amsterdam; University Bournemouth; Academy of Science, Berlin.
