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 World of Art, Year 13, Series of Lectures
Travis Dewan:
Cross City Experience - managing online cultural exchange through the visual arts
Lecture and presentation
Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at 20.00
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
 Travis Dewan is an independent curator from Brisbane, Australia and is the director of Vegas Spray – an online platform and artist run initiative. At the moment he is visiting artist at
Artist-in-residence program run by Zavod Celeia Celje – Center for Contemporary Arts. During his visit in Slovenia Travis Dewan will perform a lecture focused on cultural exchange.
Cross City Experience - managing online cultural exchange through the visual arts will introduce an experimental curatorial framework which situates Brisbane-based artists in a position to collaborate with Slovenian artists via the webspace and online mediums. He will discuss how this concept originated and the need to continue the investigation into managing the exchange of city culture and collaborative art practice.
PROGRAM
- Introduction into the Brisbane art scene (from Artist Run Initiatives to Gallery of Modern Art).
- Vegas Spray ARI and how it is positioned within the visual arts of Brisbane.
- Cross City Experience concept and its development.
- The need for cultural exchange and how to manage it via online mediums.
- Brisbane / Slovenia Cross City Experience # 7 - development and execution strategies.
MORE INFORMATION
The World of Art programme is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of Ljubljana - Department for Culture.
[Published May 13, 2011]
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