Thursday, October 07, 2004

Steve Dietz

Steve Dietz is the founding Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art Center, where he is also responsible for the programming of the online Gallery 9 and co-initiated the Integrated Arts Information Access project (IAIA).

He was formerly the head of publications and new media initiatives at the National Museum of American Art, where he established one of the earliest and most extensive museum Web sites. He co-produced the CD-ROM "National Museum of American Art," which won the first prize in Arts and Culture at the 1997 international MILIA festival.

He is the principal of YProductions, which works with museums to architect digitally-based cultural programming. He is currently on the board of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) and is a past member of the executive committee of the coalition for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) and project coordinator for NMAA's participation in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL).

Dietz has organized and curated new media exhibitions, including Beyond
Interface: net art and Art on the Net (1998); Shock of the View:
Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age (1999); Digital
Documentary: The Need to Know and the Urge to Show (1999);
Cybermuseology for the Museo de Monterrey (1999); Art Entertainment
Network (2000); Outsourcing Control? The Audience As Artist for the Open
Source Lounge" at Medi@terra (2000); Telematic Connections: The Virtual
Embrace (2001-02); a nationally traveling exhibition;
Open_Source_Art_Hack (2002), with Jenny Marketou, at the New Museum, New
York City; Translocations (2003), part of " How Latitudes Become Forms "
at the Walker Art Center; State of the Art: Maps, Games, Stories, and
Algorithms from Minnesota at the Carleton Art Gallery (2003); and Pretty
Good Access (2004), with Anthony Kiendl and Sarah Cook, Walter Philips
Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts.

Dietz speaks and writes extensively about new media, and his interviews
and writings have appeared in Parkett, Artforum, Flash Art, Design
Quarterly, Spectra, Afterimage, Art in America, Museum News, BlackFlash,
Public Art Review and Intelligent Agent. He is currently Dayton Hudson
Distinguished Visiting Teacher/Artist in the Media Studies at Carleton
College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Links
www.conceptlab.com/interviews/ hertz_dietz_blackflash_19-3.pdf

www.immersence.com/publications/SDietz-TenDreams-N.html

www.voyd.com/ttlg/textual/dietz.htm

www.informatik.uni-trier.de/ ~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/Dietz:Steve.html

www.voyd.com/ttlg/textual/dietz.htm

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