Barbara London in Converation
"New Media in the Museum"

Thursday, November 5, 2009 • 5:00- 6:30pm
@ Slought Foundation Free to the Public

Barbara London is a curator of media at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; she has held this position since founding that institution's video program in 1974.
Her discussion at Slought Foundation will focus on how artists in the late 1960s spirit of counter-culture and revolution experimented with alternatives to traditional art making. Intangible, time-based practices became options, best suited to seat-of-the-pants-style, artist-run events and venues that were sprouting up in metropolises everywhere. The early media pioneers inventively found their way and set the stage for the do-it-yourself spirit of today’s gamers, hackers, and web designers. Media as an inter-disciplinary field is still ripe with invention. more>