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The Tate Encounters Research Project launched its website at a high profile event held at Tate Britain on October 17 last year. Attended by artists and academics, as well as figures from the museum and gallery world, the event drew a warm response from its audience, among them respected writer Prof Jeffrey Weekes and Deputy Director of Tate, Alex Beard. The event was lead by the Project Director of Tate Encounters, Prof Andrew Dewdney, who outlined the main aims of the project. Current thinking on the relationship between national identity, contemporary culture and national art institutions had to be reconsidered and closely analysed, according to Prof Dewdney. In particular, the role of new media had to be taken into account because the internet, mobile phones and other media, have been changing the way in which visual images are produced and exchanged. Such changes have affected the way art in national collections is viewed, Prof Dewdney suggested, not least through the example of Tate Media.  TATE Encounters website launch The student-participants in the project showed examples of the work they had done to help shape the project and direct its key questions. A film made with Aminah Borg-Luck showed alongside films made with Patrick Tubridy, Cinta Esmel Pamies and Joanna Butcha, all students at London South Bank University. Guests at the event, including Mr Beard, who deputises for Tate Director, Sir Nicholas Serota, were invited to view the films made with student participants as well as talking to the assistants on the Tate Encounters Research Team: Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Isabel Shaw and Sarah Thomas. Guests commented that they were keen to see how different questions emerged as the project progressed.  |
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