An Interview with Danja Vasiliev. Sorry for any cross posting...
Meat Space and the World Inside the Machine. Marc Garrett talks to Danja Vasiliev about his personal works, ideas and intentions, asking what motivates him to use computers, technology and networks, as well as understand more about the social contexts and implications of his endeavors. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=397 Danja was an Artist in Residence at Furtherfield's HTTP Gallery space between the 1st March - 9th April 2010. A Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja ridicules the contemporary affection for digital life and questions the global tendency for cyborgination. Danja co-founded media-lab moddr_ in 2007 which is a joint project at Piet Zwart Institute alumni and WORM Foundation. Based in Rotterdam moddr_ is a place for artists and hackers, engaging with critical forms of media-art practice. The email interview took place a few weeks after his residency. A recent collaborative project that many readers may already know of, by Danja Vasiliev, Walter Langelaar and Gordan Savicic, all part of the moddr.net group is,Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, which lets you delete your social networking profiles and kill your virtual friends. Danja is certainly prolific, he is also collaborating with New Zealander artist, Julian Oliver who is now based in Berlin. This interview unearths some of the ideas and intentions behind Danja's personal works, asking what motivates him to use computers, technology and networks, as well as understand more the social contexts and implications of his endeavors. ————> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on identi.ca & Twitter http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour – an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Furtherfield Blog – shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio – real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise – an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
