Artworld Reputation in the Digital Age

Artworld Reputation in the Digital Age

As part of the solo exhibition Making Artworld/s at Tøn Gallery (Feb 1st-10th), Tommie Soro is hosting leading academics and writers at Temple Bar Galleries and Studios to discuss how the internet is transforming the reputational economy of the artworld.

Guest Speakers:

Gregory Sholette: Artist, activist, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at Queens College, City University of New York, Co-Director of Social Practice CUNY

Andrea Phillips: BALTIC Professor and Director of BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

William Deresiewicz: Essayist, literary critic, and author of The Death of the Artist and The End of Solitude

Mick Wilson: Professor of Art, Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary

Programme

12.00-12.20: Introduction

Dr Tommie Soro

12.20.12.50: Reputational work organisation: On the transfer of a concept from science studies to contemporary art

12.50-13.00: Q&A

Professor Mick Wilson

13.00-13.30: Those things we used to call galleries: how art's reputational value vaporises the public

Professor Andrea Phillips

13.30-13.40: Q&A

13.40-14.20: Lunch Break

14.20-14.50: The Avant Garde and Dark Matter in the Online Artworld

14.50-15.00: Q&A

Professor Gregory Sholette

15.00-15.30: The Fourth Paradigm: The Artist As Producer

15.30-15.40: Q&A

Bill Deresiewicz

15.40-16.10: Roundtable: The Communication of Artworld Reputation

Host or Publisher Tommie Soro