I’m closing some tabs, so forgive the slightly out-of-date news here, but there’s some interesting stuff afoot at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC: a new “Media” curatorial department. According to the press release, Klaus Biesenbach, “a curator in the Museum’s department of Film and Media and Chief Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center”, will be heading the new department, which will “focus on contemporary art that reflects recent and current artistic practice, including moving image installations, exhibitions, and presentations of soun- and time-based works that are made for an presented in a gallery setting”. Museum Director Glenn D. Lowry is quoted in the release as saying, “The creation of a new department at MoMA devoted exclusively to media-based art acknowledges the growing importance of new technologies in contemporary artistic expression.” Neat.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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