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Professor Gert Z Nordström will lecture about his current book ”Medier Semiotik Estetik” (”Media Semiotics Aesthetics”), Jönköping University Press (2003).

Place: Mandelgren, Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design), Telefonplan, Stockholm. Free admission.

Gert Z Nordström sees semiotics as a necessary scientific means for analysing the pictures and texts which we are confronted with daily, in the media, and in real life. Aesthetic phenomena, externally captivating, but also deeply affecting and commercially exploited, are part of these encounters. The question is whether all these connotations can be captured and handled, not only in research, but also in journalistic and pedagogical work. Gert Z Nordström believes this is possible and that is the main reason why he compiled his book, containing terms, methods and critical texts. The seminar will put a stress on semiotics and aesthetics.

Gert Z Nordström has earlier been professor for Interdisciplinary Studies/Art Pedagogy, and vice principal at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, a professor for Communication Science at HLK in Jönköping as well as professor for Information Design at Mälardalens Högskola.

The seminar is arranged in cooperation with the Department of Art Education at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, LM Ericssons väg 14, Box 3601, 126 27 Stockholm, telephone: +46 – 8 – 450 41 00.

The book will be for sale after the seminar.

The seminar will be held in Swedish.

For more information, please contact: helen.vigil@konstfack.se or: christian.chambert@uppsala.mail.telia.com telephone: +46 – 18 – 51 26 20.

Forum Moderna

The Swedish Art Critics Association and the Moderna Museet welcome you to take part in
a one-day seminar on art critique:

Pressures on art criticism: Perspectives on relations with the market, friendships and
ideological positions. What is an independent art critic today?

Today, few critics are employed full-time in media in general. It is quite common that critics
also work part-time as for example teachers, curators or researchers. Does this undermine the
credibility of the critic, or does it on the contrary open up for new approaches?

A change is also evident in mass media, where complex argumentation is replaced with
popular and simplified conclusions. To what extent is the content of today’s criticism
influenced by editorial politics? Is it at all possible to conduct sophisticated art criticism in
mass media, or does it have to be dependent on specialized media?

The seminar will take place on September 11 2004 in the Moderna Museet auditorium.

Programme:

10.00		Lars Nittve, Director of the Moderna Museet, and Christian Chambert, President of Swedish Art Critics Association, open the seminar
10.30		Sabine Vogel, Editor for Literature, Berliner Zeitung, “At Your Service”
11.30		Janneke Wesseling, Art Critic, NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam, “Art Criticism in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 21st century. A personal observation.”
12.30		Lunch is served in the Workshop
13.45		Carlos Capelán, artist and Ann-Sofi Noring, Moderna Museet, ”What does the artist have to say about art criticism?” – in connection with Carlos Capelán’s exhibition ”Ceci n’est pas un video”
14.15		Panel discussion Moderator: John Peter Nilsson, Vice President of the Swedish Art Critics Association Panel: Mårten Arndtzén, Critic, Expressen, Lars O. Ericsson, Critic, Dagens Nyheter, Ronald Jones, Freelance Critic and Professor at Konstfack, Sabine Vogel and Janneke Wesseling
14.45		Coffee
15.15		The panel discussion continues
16.30		The seminar closes

N.B. The seminar will be held in English

To book, call 08-5195 5264 or use the museum’s website, www.modernamuseet.se no later
than 10.9!

Cost: 75 SEK, including lunch and coffee