Steve Dietz

New media curator and artistic director of 01SJ Biennial, a global emerging arts festival in San Jose, California. He is also the founder of Northern Lights, a traveling and collaborative artistic agency. From 1996–2003 he was curator of new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department, the Online Art Gallery 9, and the Digital Art Studio Collection ; also co-founded, with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the award-winning educational site ArtsConnectEd, and the artist community site mnartists.org with the McKnight Foundation; Prior to the Walker Art Center, Dietz was Head of Publications and New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and editor of the academic journal American Art. Dietz has organized and curated many new media exhibitions, including some of the first online exhibitions «Beyond Interface: net art and art on the network» (1998); «Clash of sight: artists, audiences and museums in the digital age» (1999); the traveling exhibition “Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace” (2000-2002) for Independent Curators International; “Translocations” (2003), part of “How Latitudes Meet Shapes” at the Walker Art Center; “Imaginary Database” (2004) Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center; curator of the “Public Sphere_s” section for “Media Art Net” in conjunction with the ZKM exhibition “Making Things Public” (2005). “Imaginary Database” (2004) Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center; curator of the “Public Sphere_s” section for “Media Art Net” in conjunction with the ZKM exhibition “Making Things Public” (2005). “Imaginary Database” (2004) Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center; curator of the “Public Sphere_s” section for “Media Art Net” in conjunction with the ZKM exhibition “Making Things Public” (2005).