Seminar: Christine Van Assche will speak on the topic of contemporary art and new media

Christine Van Assche is Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou, where she has assembled a renowned collection of video works and multimedia installations that comprises more than 1,700 pieces. She has organized influential thematic exhibitions, including Passages de l’image (1990) with Catherine David and Raymond Bellour, Sonic Process (2002), and a number of shows accompanied by monographic catalogues on such artists as Thierry Kuntzel, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Gary Hill, Stan Douglas, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe and Bruce Nauman. She is the author of Vidéo et après and La Collection du Musée national d’art moderne (1996) and helped conceive the Web-based New Media Encyclopedia (www.newmedia-art.org).

sponsors: 

Consulate General of France in San Francisco (Cultural Services);

Digital Arts & New Media Program, Arts Division;

San Francisco Art Institute

free admission

room location: TBA

for information contact UCSC Digital Arts & New Media Program