How is cultural difference represented in new media and contemporary art?

EMPIRES, RUINS + NETWORKS: Art in Real Time Culture
April 2 - 4 2004, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
www.acmi.net.au

EMPIRES, NETWORKS + RUINS sets out to provoke a dialogue between art and politics. It asks artists, critics and curators to think of the
place and function of art in the contemporary world. : How is cultural difference represented in new media and contemporary art?

EMPIRES, RUINS + NETWORKS: Art in Real Time Culture
April 2 - 4 2004, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
www.acmi.net.au

EMPIRES, NETWORKS + RUINS sets out to provoke a dialogue between art and politics. It asks artists, critics and curators to think of the
place and function of art in the contemporary world. :It questions how artists can contribute to cultural and technological change.
While the debates on art and cultural difference have been raging for decades, current circumstances are compelling us to reframe the
issues.

Drawing together an exciting mix of local and international thinkers and artists, the emphasis of EMPIRES, NETWORKS + RUINS will be
peer-to-peer participation and discussion. High quality presentations will open the space for discussion, workshops and critical feedback in open forums.

You are invited to register and join the dialogue with speakers and participants that have been drawn from around the world including North and South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe.

PLEASE REGISTER NOW
Book online at www.acmi.net.au
Email empires@acmi.net.au for more details
Phone Bookings: 03 8663 2583
Phone Inquires: 03 8663 2426

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Full conference includes keynote address and two days of the event:
Full $375 Con $121 Friday April 2, 7.30pm
Keynote address

CRISIS IN GLOBAL CAPITAL AND THE WAR ON CULTURE
Okwui Enwezor (USA) Artistic Director, Documenta
Single ticket available only for the Keynote address: Full $18,
Concession $10
Born in Nigeria, Okwui Enwezor is the Artistic Director of Documenta11, in Kassel Germany, 2002. He was the Artistic Director
of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997. Enwezor until recently held a position as the Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art
Institute of Chicago. He is the publisher and founding editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, a critical art journal
co-published with the African Studies Center at Cornell University.
A poet, critic, and curator, Enwezor has written extensively on contemporary African art and artists, as well as on American and international art and artists.

Saturday April 3
Morning session
MAPPING FLOWS AND LINKING CLUSTERS
Lisa Reihana (Aotearoa/ New Zealand) Artist
Carlos Cappelan (Uruguay/Spain) Artist
Kendell Geers (South Africa) Artist
Afternoon session

RACIALIZED SPACES: THE WITNESS IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE Stefano
Boeri (Italy) Architect, Multiplicity Simryn Gill
(Australia/Malaysia) Artist Ana Kokkinos (Australia) Filmmaker
Sunday April 4
Morning session

THE BURDEN OF CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL CITY
Don Bates (USA/ Australia) Architect, LAB Architecture Studio Eddie
Berg (UK), Executive Director, FACT, Liverpool Virginia Perez Rattón (Costa Rica) Director TEOR/eTica Afternoon

NEW MODELS OF COLLABORATION
Ross Gibson (Australia) Research Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, UTS. Marina Fokidis (Greece) Director of Oxymoron
Artspace, Greece. Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia) Deputy Director.
Australia Centre, University of Melbourne.

Visit the website for more details: www.acmi.net.au

PLEASE REGISTER NOW Book online at www.acmi.net.au
Presented by The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, the Media and Communications Program, University of Melbourne, and the
Australian Centre for the Moving Image. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body. It is an initiative of the Australia Council's Arts in a Multicultural Australia Policy.

Cecelia Cmielewski
Senior Policy and Research Officer
Policy Communication Research
tel 02 9215 9026
fax 02 9215 9062
empires ruins +networks conference