Whitney Museum curator Christiane Paul to speak on new media art Nov. 30

Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will speak on Grid vs. Network: Aesthetics of New Media Spaces at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30.

The talk — sponsored by the university’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition [Grid < > Matrix] — is free and open to the public and takes place in Brown Hall, Room 100. A reception for Paul will precede the talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Kemper Art Museum.

Paul is co-founder and director of Intelligent Agent, a print and online service organization dedicated to digital art. She has written and lectured extensively on new media, net art, hypermedia and hyperfiction, and is the author of Digital Art (2003) and Unreal City: A Hypertextual Guide to T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1995). She recently edited Curating New Media, forthcoming from the University of California Press, and is currently co-editing an essay collection focusing on context and meaning in digital art.

Paul teaches at both the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the exhibition Data Dynamics (2001); net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; and Follow Through (2005), a commission by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe. She also directs artport, the museum’s online portal to Internet art, for which she curated the online exhibition CODeDOC (2002).

While at Washington University, Paul will lead a one-credit workshop on new media for students in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the College of Arts & Sciences.

Brown Hall is located on Washington University’s Danforth Campus, at the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Hoyt Drive. The Kemper Art Museum is located a short walk east of Brown, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. For more information, call (314) 935-4523 or email kemperartmuseum@wustl.edu.