[ISEA2004] Paper: Annet Dekker – Dancing in the Light of an Information Overload

Abstract

Looking at the speed of technological implementation, activation in the development of a new, positive, contemporary consciousness seems necessary if we ever want to step out of Alice’s ever-expanding Wonderland. One of the most important areas of today to focus on is the club scene, as it has always been the environment where youth culture gathers together most consistently and in its most significant numbers.

  • Annet Dekker (NL, 1970) is a curator at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo in Amsterdam, NL. She works in the area of new media: researched, published and curated media (art)exhibitions and debates. She presented at a.o. Siggraph 2004, Cosign2003, ISEA2002, NGE2001, was part of the jury for CYNETArt Festival04 in Dresden and ACM Multimedia 2004 in New York and is co-curator for Impakt Online and the Netherlands Film Festival. Subjects of interest are the influence of new media and popular culture on art and vice versa. Her current research involves the VJ culture: a phenomenon in history, presentation and preservation. She also initiated Visual Sensations, a website for and about VJ culture and a VJ contest that will be touring the Netherlands and Belgium in 2004 in
    cooperation with Paradiso-Melkweg Production House.

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