Assemblies via VLSC
Fair Assembly wants to make things public (zkm). The introduction establishes a comparison to the experiences of bringing-publics-together on World Fairs – described as events one only wants to participate in with some inner distance, a wish which eventually isn’t that easy to fulfill anymore. Consequently taking up the terminology of Very Large Scale Conversations […] Read More
filling in the blanks
Performance artist Daniela Sneppova’s text transmute has been published in the online journal ephemera as an interactive reading / translating experience. The following introduces the essay of her process oriented experiment – showing an understanding of the performative in general as an active communicative process. It is an awareness of laborating on various level of […] Read More
effects of connecting …
… with their eventual possibilities and obvious failures are in contrary (to the earlier post today) memorized in the recent post at smart mobs recalling Madrid / March 11: In the immediate aftermath of the Madrid bombings, people who didn’t buy the ruling party’s initial claims that the terrorists were Basque nationalists used the many-to-many […] Read Moredisconnecting / space of absence
.. there is some unwanted irony in this reversal of technological appliance: after all the efforts taken to interconnect these floatables want to occur as disconnected islands which create room for ‘exclusive connections‘ .. (via) The data that portrays our lives and lifestyles is accessible by so many individuals and organisations that it can longer […] Read Moreannouncements_1: ambientTV.NET / Doors of Perception / New-Media Art
– ambientTV.NET understands itself as a space and tool providing facility for networked performance: The performance incorporates geographically distant real spaces into the theatre space. The narrative grows out of telematic feedback, and the interplay between real spaces and imaginary realms. Daily life’s occupation – Streetwalking, food preparation or conversing – are presented as a […] Read More
digital communities
Interesting point to focus on: for the second time ars electronica 2005 will have a section on ‘Digital Communities’. According to the enclosed statement of Howard Rheingold the skill to form digital communities and impact they have can not be reduced to a simple and one sided focus of the technical: Building community in cyberspace […] Read MoreBerlin Special
.. a short collection of links and upcoming events in Berlin: the article Berlin Wheatpasting provides a nice inside view into some nightly activities which leave their traces all over the city (via Design Observer) KLARTEXT (straight talk) 14.01. – 16.01.2005 – A conference that aims … to explore the current use of the category […] Read Morerecalling a performing voice
… who experienced the failures of communication and experiemented with them on many levels … The Dream of the Audience is a still touring exhibition recalling the ‘body of her work’. Read More
wireless reconnect ……..
via boing boing two interesting reports on usage of wireless technologies in the recent disaster szenario. The first link focuses on sms usage when all other transmission devices failed, and the second article about efforts and possibilities of Post Tsunami Reconnect for free wireless communication services. Read More
trying to define the liminal
… sometimes these days I am a bit behind updating my online readings …. so I just came across this paper at apophenia’s blog (permalink). I like the approach to define blogging as a practice to create a performative space … As a practice, blogging is situated between a variety of different tensions – orality […] Read More
Guide to Open Content Licenses
The Piet Zwart Institute for Media Design Rotterdam has published under creative commons license the book Guide to Open Content Licenses, which is as well available as a pdf file. The book provides a comprehensive overview of diverse open content licenses, as well as background information on historical and legal issues. Scientists, writers, designers, artists, […] Read More