Michele Thursz
Michele Thursz is an independent curator and director of Post Media Network located at http://www.michelethursz.com. In 1999 she co-founded and directed Moving Image Gallery, NYC. Recent projects include a collaboration in a production with the electronic orphanage and artist Miltos Manetas http://www.whitneybiennial.com, and a guest curator at the New Museum's Media Z Lounge, NYC organizing Cin-o-matic- Memory and the Cinematic Perception, which examined the impact of new technologies on the cinematic experience. She is currently organizing a group show entitled In Medias Res: Technology's Impact on Artistic Practice at Exit Art, NYC. As a structure Thursz has implemented a meta- curatorial that encourages a dialectic about curatorial practice and, in particular, its relationship to new media. Ms. Thursz consultants for http://www.Turbulence.org a net art initiative and is currently consulting for bitforms gallery, NYC in marketing and distribution of software related art. Michele Thursz actions and exhibits have been reviewed and featured in the New York Times, Forbes Best of the Web, ArtByte, Wired News, Art Forum, Whitney Museums Artport and many international periodicals and web publications.
Remote Lounge
Abstract
How does the malleable nature of new media affect the curatorial practice? Is curation assimilating the position of the producer, distributor, historian, and artist? How do these actions of production mimic the entertainment structures in relation to artistic practice and distribution? The Post Media Network project is an action which demonstrates the continuous evolution of the uses of and term 'media'. The physical and virtual network thus presents perspective and action as content to distribute as a fluid medium comforming naturally to varied platforms and locations.
