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What is (New) Media Art?

Saturday 23 January 12.00noon Lecture Room, IMMA

This talk series provides a general introduction to key concepts and themes in contemporary art. Maeve Connolly, Department of Film and Media, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, present a paper titled New Media Art, Art and (New) Media, Through the Lens of the IMMA Collection. This focuses on artists and artworks in IMMA’s Collection as a means of describing and contextualising this complex and contested area of contemporary art practice.

This talk is supported by an information leaflet which includes summary information about the topic, an essay and supplementary resource material including bibliography, resources and glossary of terms. 

Biographical Information

Maeve Connolly is a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT). She lectures onthe BA in Visual Arts Practice and on the MAVis, MA Visual Arts Practices, where she leads a module on Visual Cultural Research. Her research centres on concepts of public space in Contemporary Art and culture, informed by histories of art, film and television since the late 1960s. Her book on artists’ film and video, entitled The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2009) includes
in-depth readings of works by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Carlos Amorales, Gerard Byrne, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Willie Doherty, Pierre Huyghe, Jaki Irvine, Aernout Mik, Tobias Putrih, Anne Tallentire and Jane & Louise Wilson, among others.