Liebe Netznetz-Leute,
hier ein Call von zwei dänischen Künstlern, die MitarbeiterInnen für ein kollaboratives topographisches Internet-Projekt im Monat der Fotografie suchen. Vielleicht interessiert das jemanden von Euch. Es gibt sogar ein bisschen Geld für die TeilnehmerInnen. Wien ist eine der involvierten Städte. Kristoffer Ørum ist der Sohn einer Professorin für Kultur der Moderne an der Uni Kopenhagen und Koordinatorin eines nordischen Avantgardeforschungsnetzwerks. Herzliche Grüße Helga Fra: "News From Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum" <[email protected]> Dato: 8. juni 2010 21.27.36 MET Til: "" <[email protected]> Emne: [News] Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum - Open call deadline July 1st and various smaller events during the summer. (various smaller events below) ------------------------------------------------------------- OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS (Please forward to anyone you may find relevant and apologies for cross posting). Topographies of the Insignificant: Seeking contributors for a collaborative internet project. In early 2009 we, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, initiated a collaborative project in which a team of architects, artists, designers, engineers and musicians created an alternative vision of Copenhagen, an imaginary future as a reaction to the present day. All the contributors shared an interest in alternative realities and how these, through the internet and other media, play an increasingly important role in our common understanding of the world. Using Google maps and Wiki technologies, together we strove to rethink Copenhagen in both dystopian and utopian terms on www.radiant-copenhagen.net. Continuing on from the project Radiant Copenhagen, we are working on the fictionalization of ultra local spaces in a series of different cities rather than one whole city. The project is envisioned as a contemporary version of An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Spoerri ), set in the globalized media saturated world of 2010. Topographies of the Insignificant will connect local micro-topographies of Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, Luxembourg and Moscow in a network of fiction and fact. We are seeking a selected number of collaborators based in, with connection to or are simply knowledgeable about these cities. The project takes the form of a website with an infinitely zoom-able map of the world. We will add extra detailed zones that enable the user to zoom down to a micro level and see actual cracks of the pavement as they were great valleys. The extremely detailed map of 7 very limited locations is in close proximity to the physical show where the project will also be presented on one or more computers. Throughout each of the locations, 100-200 click-able points are located. Each click-able point on the map opens up a small text window featuring fictional or factual information on this specific point, and links to other points and texts. Multiple narratives weave in and out of each other and researched facts about found objects and their history will mix freely with fictional accounts and imagined micro-topologies. The collaborative writing process itself will take place online on a wiki-page during July, August and some of September, in parallel with the actual programming of the final website. Collectively we will place new points on the maps and write text for them. All texts are open for editing or expansion by other members of the group and our hope is to blur the boundaries on ownership between the participants and make as many connections between the different points as possible. Through a wilful misunderstanding, we hope to turn the apparently well-known city pavements into a mixture of space operatic visions of the future and histories of the past. The online photographic and narrative portrayal of the website will be supplemented by physical interventions and alterations on the sites of the photographs in each of the cities: The same coffee cup will feature in each city, the splotch of paint etc., further blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction. Through collective and deliberate misunderstanding, over-interpretation and fictive connections between the 7 physical sites, we hope to reflect upon the possibility of radically rethinking the city from the bottom up. If you are interested in participating, please send us an email containing a brief bio, a couple of lines of text describing how you would approach the project and anything else you may find relevant to the project, before July 1st. You need not be an artist, but you should be fairly proficient in English, have some writing experience and an interest in urbanity. Please write to: [email protected] The project is a part of the European month of photography (http://90plan.ovh.net/~europeandq/) P.s. There will be a small fee for participants, the size of which depends on whether or not we receive the funding we've applied for - It will not make you rich but it might make your life just a little easier. ------------------------------------------------------------- Moscow on the 15th of June Kristoffer is doing a presentation of our work at the new Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. The program has not been finalized yet but it should turn up at their website shortly: http://www.strelkainstitute.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Copenhagen on the 20th of June. They're lying to you - a debate on lies as a medium and lies in the media. Theory and Practice have invited us to partake in a discussion which focuses on both on lies as a medium and lies in the media. Arranged to mark the release of Andreas Harbsmeiers and Karsten Wind Meyhoffs new interview book "Reality Swamp". It is free to attend, but there are a limited number of seats and it will take place in Danish. To be sure a space, you can register by clicking the "Participant" on this page: http://theoryandpractice.dk/seminars/6773-de-lyver-for-dig-en-debat-om-lgnen -som-medie-og-lgnen-i-medierne-20-6 ------------------------------------------------------------- Sao Paulo from the 27th of July. We are happy to announce our participation in File Electronic Language International Festival at the SESI' Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo in Brasil. It sound terribly exiting but unfortunately we can't afford to go ourselves, but if you happen to pass by please tell us what it is like. More here: http://www.file.org.br/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Next show: The Piccadilly Exhibition Company # 2, Instituttet på Godsbanen, Århus, DK, 8 - 22 Aug. -------------------------------------------------------------
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