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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Steve Dietz is Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996. He is responsible for programming the online Gallery 9, including more than 20 net art commissions and one of the earliest archive-collections of net art, the Walker's Digital Arts Study Collection.
He has organized and curated new media exhibitions, including "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" (1988); "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 travelling exhibition; and, with Jenny Marketou, "Open_Source_Art_Hack" (2002) at the New Museum in New York City.
"Translocations" opens as part of "How Latitudes Become Forms" at the Walker Art Center in February 2003.
Walker's New Media Initiatives department is responsible for the institutional website and integrated public informatics. Dietz co-initiated with The Minneapolis Institute of Arts the award-winning ArtsConnectEd, an educational site, and, with The McKnight Foundation: Minnesota Artists Online, a resource and community for Minnesota-based artists.
He speaks and writes extensively about new media. His interviews and writings have appeared in Parkett, Artforum, Flash Art, Design Quarterly, Spectra, Afterimage, Art in America, and Museum News, many of which are viewable online.
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