Projects 2001

Consumerism and Media Technology in the Visual Arts

A Nordic-Baltic Symposium

9-11 November 2001 in Helsinki

Together with Finnish Critics' Association


FRIDAY, November 9

9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee at the Lindström Hall

Morning session moderator Taava Koskinen
9.30-9.45 Opening words by Taava Koskinen, President of the Finnish AICA Section
9.45-10.30 Johan Pousette: The Human Project

10.30-11.15 Hasso Krull: The Supermodel and the Vagabond:
A Dissociation of the Arts and Letters?
11.15-12.00 Leena-Maija Rossi: On the Edge of the Field or Inside the Plane?
12.00-13.30 Lunch

Afternoon session moderator Lars Saari
13.30-14.45 Boris Groys: The New Media and the Notion of the Original
14.45-15.30 Alexei Shulgin: New Hybrid Artistic and Business Strategies on the Internet.
16.00-17.00 Get Together at the Lindström Hall hosted by Tuula Arkio, Director General of the Finnish National Gallery
17.00-18.00 Guided tour at the exhibition Land Beyond the Sea at the Ateneum Art Museum . Works by Nordic Artists Visiting Normandy, Brittany and England, 1870-1900. Introduction by Museum Director Soili Sinisalo.
20.00- Reception at Kaapeli ravintola



SATURDAY, November 10

Morning session moderator Annamari Vänskä
10.30-11.15 Frans Mäyrä: "Towards Digital Culture - End of the Age of High and Low?"
11.15-12.00 Irmeli Hautamäki: Are Mediadeterminism and Emancipation the Only Ways to Examine New Media
12.00-13.15 Lars Bang Larsen & Søren Andreasen: The Middleman: Curse or Redemption?
13.15-14.30 Lunch

Afternoon session moderator Maria Hirvi
14.30-15.15 Patricia Bickers: 'New! Improved!'
15.15-16.00 Susanna Pettersson: Art Museum Collections: Victims of Disneyfication?
16.00-16.30 Coffee at the Lindström Hall
16.30-17.15 Ina Blom: Dealing in/with Style
17.15-18.00 Closing Discussion: Taava Koskinen

20.00- Reception at NIFCA's Project Space, hosted by the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art.
Ferry leaves at 19.40 from Market Square.



SUNDAY, November 11

Amos Anderson Art Museum.
Exhibitions: Robert Lucander and Heli Hiltunen.
Introduction by Director Kai Kartio and Curator of Education Kaj Martin.

Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art.
ARS 01: Unfolding Perspectives. International contemporary art.
Introduction by Chief curator Maaretta Jaukkuri.