C R I S T I N E   W A N G
302 Bedford Avenue #78, Brooklyn NY 11211  mobile: 917.318.0081  email: info@cristine.org  http://cristine.org
b. 1967 Taipei, Taiwan / lives & works in New York City  M.arch (1996) SCI-ARC (LA, / Lugano, CH) - architectural design  B.A.(1989) Columbia University (New York) - art history & architectural theory

Cristine Wang is an independent new media curator, critic, and journalist.
Curatorial Works Include: Her curatorial work is included in the Whitney Museum's "Artport" website (organised by Christiane Paul).  She is contributing editor of NYarts Magazine (an international journal of contemporary art) and has been a curator of new media at The Alternative Museum, New York.  Recently, she co-founded FreeTheMedia.org along with Paul Garrin (founder of Name.Space) and Frank Morales (activist).  Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors at A Gathering of the Tribes, directed by poet Steve Cannon.
She participated as part of International Jury for the The 48th International Short Film & Video Festival (Oberhausen, Germany).  She is on the committee for the Paris Biennial 2002 (France).


Writings on new media art are included in:

Lectures on new media art include:

She has organised symposia, panel presentations, and events for furthering the understanding, presentation, and preservation of new media arts, particularly regarding networked communications, such as the internet. They include:

She was Director of 450 Broadway Gallery, in SoHo, where she organised the first solo exhibition in the United States of Slovenian artist Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana). The exhibitions highlighted the mixed media work, from web-based work, to digital photography to large scale video projections.


Video documentaries produced with Taiwanese filmmaker Lee Songe of (Image Series Studios) include:

She was Curator of New Media Initiatives (The Alternative Museum, New York), spearheading the digital artists' cyber-residency, from selection process to project management, to presentation of finalised works, press + promotion, as well as documentation.

She was a Juror for The Alternative Museum first Digital Commissions 2000 (recipients included Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Yael Kanarek, Angie Eng & Tina LaPorta).

She was Founder + Editor of TAM MONITOR (Alternative Museum's online arts journal), standing for media or news information technology open resource. It is a vital, living organism which will continue to grow, expand & transform as new information is processed & redistributed to our viewers. TAM MONITOR complements the activities of the Alternative Museum as an Institution, by providing vital & living works, projects, events & news.

Her curatorial and editorial works have been reviewed in:

The New York Times (New York)
El Pais (Spain)
Rai (Italy)
Temaceleste (Italy)
TimeOut (New York)
Neural Magazine (Italy)
Rhizome.org (New York)
Mediachannel.org (New York)
Fine Art Forum (Australia)
NoLogo by Naomi Klein (New York)
Linux Public Broadcast Network (Los Angeles)
Indymedia.org (New York)
Artthrob (South Africa)
Chinese-art.com (China)
Delo (Slovenia),
Mladina (Slovenia)
NYArts Magazine (New York)
Sputnik Digital Culture (Mexico)

among other publications.


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