Josephine Bosma
Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. She made radio programs from 1991 until 1998, for the independent station Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam and for VPRO radio, a Dutch national broadcaster. Since 1993 she has focused on art in new media and media theory. In 1996 she started writing texts and publishing interviews. Publications of her work have been both offline and online in, amongst others, Mute (UK), Telepolis (D), Metropolis M (NL), UHK (NO), Switch (USA), Ars Electronica '97 catalogue (AT), the book cyberfeminizam edited by Igor Markovich (SI) and the book netzkunst edited by Verena Kuni (D). She was the editor of the streaming media sections of the nettime book ReadMe and the n5m3 workbook. She has given lectures about aspects of net art in, for instance, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) in 1998 and Stedelijk Bureau (Amsterdam) In January 2001. She has also lectured about net.radio and sound art at events such as Recycling the Future (Vienna 1997), Netradiodays (Berlin 1998) and Futuresonic (Manchester 2000). In 1996 Josephine Bosma organised the radio aspect of n5m2, and in 1999 she did so again for its successor n5m3. In January 2001 Josephine Bosma initiated the newsletter for net art criticism cream.
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Cream
Abstract
The developments in net art provoke a new perspective on not only art itself but also on its context, most specifically art criticism. In order to properly contextualize, exhibit and value art in a networked society we need to find ways to incorporate media theory and media criticism in art criticism. Media art on the other hand needs to re-examine its relationship with the art world and its own discourses. We have to try to bring media art and 'traditional' art discourses together without losing valuable knowledge from each field.
