As part of Paraflows 2010 Johannes Grenzfurthner decided to host a
panel on technology. And failure.
Digital art and culture is embedded in the cultural framework of
technological developments. In the study of technological development
and creativity, focusing attention on the failure, the error, the
breakdown, the malfunction means: opening the black box of
technology. Studies have convincingly demonstrated that the
widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as
fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from
the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove
functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are
"left over." However, the perception of what is functional,
successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural,
and last but not least political and economic processes. Selection
processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.
I invited technologists, artists, designers, philosophers, namely
Dmitry Kleiner (Canada/Germany), Adam Flynn (USA), Jane Tingley
(Canada), Heather Kelley (USA/Canada)... and they are pretty
enthusiastic to analyze and discuss techfuckup -- the wonderful and
magic world of abandoned products, developmental derailments,
sobering intermediary results and useless prototypes.
Where, when? Well, the best place is - of course - a hackspace.
So let's meet at <http://www.metalab.at/>Metalab (Rathausstrasse 6,
1010 Vienna) September 13, 2010; 8 PM.
<http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1661276/>Link (FM4)
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