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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, das ende der nahrungskette <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 Metalab <http://www.metalab.at/> (Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 > Vienna) September 13, 2010; 8 PM. > > Link <http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1661276/> (FM4) > > _______________________________________________ > netznetz.net mailing list > [email protected] > http://listen.esel.at/mailman/listinfo/liste >
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