New media art is a global phenomenon: a rapidly changing and dynamic field of creative practice which crosses conventional categories and disciplinary boundaries challenging our assumptions about art.

How do curators engage with new media art?
What makes a good curator of new media art?
What can we learn from the pioneers of this field?
What does the future hold for curating new media art?
What common ground exists with other disciplines?

These and other issues will be explored at Art - Place - Technology. Speakers who are shaping the practice and theory of curating new media art include:

Inke Arns, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Sarah Cook, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
Pierre-Yves Desaive, Fine Arts Museum of Belgium, Brussels
Lina Dzuverovic, Electra, London
Paul Domela, Liverpool Biennial
Charlie Gere, Lancaster University
Beryl Graham, CRUMB, University of Sunderland
Ceri Hand, FACT, Liverpool
Drew Hemment, Futuresonic, Manchester
Kathy Rae Huffman, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Stephen Kovats, V2, Rotterdam
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York
Francis McKee, Glasgow International & CCA, Glasgow
Trebor Scholz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, New York
Dimitrina Sevova & Alain Kessi, codeflow, Zurich
Paul Sullivan, Static Gallery, Liverpool
Simon Worthington, Mute, London

Art - Place - Technology will look at historical and current projects by some of the world's leading curators of new media art, and discuss how curating new media art creates interfaces with the art world, museum culture, media, publishing and academia. The symposium proceedings will be published in 2007.

Follow the links above to register online for Art - Place - Technology and for further information about the Symposium.

Researchers at the Liverpool School of Art and Design have a long and rich tradition of engagement and collaboration with organisations promoting new media art. From involvement in the first VideoPositive festivals, and exhibitions and events at Tate Liverpool, to the hosting of ISEA98, collaborations with FACT, the Liverpool Biennial and international festivals including Ars Electronica, Digital Weekend, Intermedia and Futuresonic.

New media art is now central to the cultural life of the city of Liverpool, and the wider North West region of England supports a burgeoning new media art scene of artists, curators and venues. Liverpool School of Art and Design researchers seek to build upon the city's unique position in the field through organising Art - Place - Technology and the establishment of the forthcoming postgraduate courses MRes Curatorial Practice and MA Curating New Media Art - in collaboration with FACT.