Lecture by Jennifer Steetskamp at the University of Amsterdam on Installation Art and Media Histories

Thursday 10 February 2011, 13-:15 – 14:00

Please note: the lecture will be held in Dutch.

For information in Dutch and to register please go to:

http://www.spui25.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/A5D1D13F-B8FC-4D91-83E943FF1008C096

Installation Art and Media Histories

During the last twenty years, museums have increasingly been populated by moving images that are often distributed through the exhibition space or set up in a certain way, enabling the visitors to move around or to relate to them in a particular manner. This type of installation art – as a time-based event and form of spatial organization – is the main starting point of this research project, in which questions surrounding the history of media technologies play an important role.

Biography

Drs. Jennifer Steetskamp (MA) studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. During her studies, she participated in a course on exhibition making, organized by UvA and Sandberg Institute. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked as a collection manager at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk). On behalf of the Jan van Eyck Academie, she conducted research about the history of the academy’s video workplace. Her current position as a PhD candidate is funded by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her individual research project on Installationskunst und Mediengeschichte [working title] is carried out in the context of the Imagined Futures research group (iFut), which explores the multiple relationships between cinema, media history and the arts from a media archaeological perspective. In addition, she has been teaching in the Honours Programme “Art and Research” (2009/2010), a joint project of Rietveld Academie and UvA.