After serving for seven years as Executive Director of new media non-profit Rhizome, in 2012 Lauren Cornell was appointed “Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects and Museum as Hub” of the New Museum, New York. During her tenure at Rhizome – a New Museum affiliate – Cornell initiated programmes including the annual Seven on Seven
conference series, which bridges contemporary art and technology fields
by pairing technological innovators with visual artists and challenging
them to develop something over the course of a day. At the New Museum,
Cornell was part of the curatorial team for The Generational: Younger Than Jesus (2009) and curated exhibitions including Free
(2010), a group show that examined “how the internet has changed our
landscape of information and our notion of public space”. She is
currently preparing the 2015 Triennial, the institution’s signature
exhibition, which she will curate together with artist and filmmaker Ryan Trecartin.
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Asia Art Archive (AAA)
was founded in 2000 with the mission of documenting, securing and
making easily available information on the history of contemporary art
in Asia within an international context. Based in the Sheung Wan
district of Hong Kong, the non-profit organisation holds hundreds of
thousands of physical and digital items. AAA
aims to stimulate dialogue and critical thinking about how the region’s
art histories are told and to “facilitate understanding, research, and
writing in the field, enrich existing global narratives, and re-imagine
the role of the archive”.* Through its website – aaa.org.hk – AAA
offers access to a wealth of digital material including scanned
images, correspondence, artists’ personal documents, audio and video of
performance art, artist talks, lectures, and events. A broad range of
initiatives including the journal Field Notes, research grants, residencies, symposia, exhibitions and teaching workshops address the core of AAA
’s commitment “to create a collection belonging to the public, existing
not in an enclosed space, but in a space that is open and productive,
generating new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive
itself”.
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 #1:
"Beyond Interface: An Interview with Robin Dowden, Nate Solas, and Paul
Schmelzer", web team from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | |  #2: "Alguien Dijo 'Adhocracia'?: Entrevista con Ethel Baraona Pohl", editora, arquitecta y blogger, Barcelona. |
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"Itinerarios Transversales: Entrevista con Sònia López y Anna Ramos",
Responsable de la web y Coordinadora de Proyectos de la Web y Ràdio Web
MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. | |  #4:
"Democratizando la sociedad informacional: Entrevista con Daniel G.
Andújar", artista visual, activista red y teórico del arte, Barcelona. |
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 #5: "books_expanded_field: An Interview with Badlands Unlimited", New York-based publishing house. | |  #6:
"From one history to a plurality of histories: An interview with Steven
ten Thije", Research Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. |
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 #7: "Host and Ambassador: A Conversation with Yasmil Raymond", Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York. | |  8: "Digression(s), Entry point(s): An Interview with Heman Chong", Singapore-based artist, curator and writer. |
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 'Growing Connectivity', The Visual Artists' News Sheet, May–June 2013 |
Anne Mullee (Curatorial Assistant, Coordinator at
The LAB Gallery, Dublin City Council Arts Office) conducted an interview
with Latitudes discussing the research project #OpenCurating.
The interview took place in March, coinciding with Latitudes' trip to Dublin as part of the city cultural twinning with Barcelona. Latitudes' visit included a seminar to MAVIS students; participating in the Hugh Lane’s ‘Within the Public Realm’ curatorial seminar on public art (alongside organiser Amanda Ralph, curator Aisling Prior and artist Sean Lynch); visiting CCA Derry; as well as conducting studio visits arranged by Firestation Artists’ Studios and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
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Visita de la Comisión de Programas de Hangar a los estudios de los artistas residentes (29 April); "Free
Forms: An interview with Lauren Cornell", Curator, 2015 Triennial,
Digital Projects & Museum as Hub, New Museum, New York (24 April); The International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art Congress 2013, Madrid, 18–21 April 2013 (23 April); "Digression(s), Entry Point(s): An interview with Heman Chong", Singapore-based artist, curator & writer (2 April)
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About Latitudes
Latitudes is an independent curatorial office initiated in April 2005 by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna,
that works in an international context from and in Barcelona, Spain.
Latitudes is a member of the International Association of Curators of
Contemporary Art (IKT) and in 2010 received the inaugural Curatorial Award, Premios GAC.
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