it is hard to understand what he could have found offensive - i asked tamiko & she said that he didn't say anything substantive; it sounds like he was saying that he finds augmented reality art in general offensive, rather than tamiko's work - altho demanding that it be taken off-screen is a pretty strong response. but it is hard to understand how a director of a media art festival could label one particular artform offensive.
we could ask tamiko to tell us more ... h : ) On 4/02/12 10:38 PM, dave miller wrote: > thanks for this Ruth - I'm working with augmented reality at the > minute. As you say it is very difficult technically to get it working, > and also difficult (for me at the moment) to find ways use it in my > art, to extend what I've been doing. My brain is under pressure! But > also, as you say, it's fascinating. I'll have a good look at Tamiko > Thiel's work - I'm very interested in how artists are using this > medium, and to use it for intervention is especially interesting. > > What did Gansig mean? Why offensive? I'd like to know more about this! > > dave > > > > On 4 February 2012 12:05, ruth catlow<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thought this was an interesting development. Tamiko Thiel is one of the >> view artists I have encountered who is creating thoughtful and critical >> artworks working with augmented reality. I think this is a particularly >> hard (and fascinating) form to work with. What could Gansig have meant? >> >> bests >> Ruth >> >> Please forward to interested parties: >> >> Today at the Transmediale in Berlin, Germany's most important media art >> festival, Transmediale director Kristoffer Gansing censored augmented >> reality artist Tamiko Thiel in a discussion billed as an "open >> conversation." >> >> During the panel discussion "25 years of transmediale / reSource >> Activism VIDEOMAKERS UNITE!," Thiel was invited by a panelist to talk >> about "Reign of Gold," her augmented reality artwork for the AR Occupy >> Wall Street project. >> http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/reign-of-gold.html >> >> Gansing - who was not moderating but sat in the audience - literally >> shut her up, and demanded that her website be taken off the screen, >> saying he finds augmented reality art "offensive!" >> >> Ironically Gansing themed his festival "in/compatible" and proclaimed >> that it would look at artistic movements that were not compatible with >> the existing order and systems. >> >> Why does Transmediale celebrate yesterday's interventionist art, but >> fear today's interventionist art? >> >> Videomakers Unite! >> http://www.transmediale.de/node/20679 >> An open conversation about video art and net culture, media collectives >> and counter-publics ... Videomakers Unite! takes a critical look back at >> the 1980s and 90s discourse around video and the net, and relates this >> to the production of present-day counter-cultures within the fields of >> political and artistic, individual and collective practices. >> >> - Tamiko Thiel >> >> -- >> Tamiko Thiel >> Visiting Professor, UdK Berlin, IZM >> (Berlin University of the Arts, Inst. of Time-Based Media) >> Technologies of Non-linear Dramaturgies >> >> >> Venice Biennial 2011 - Manifest.AR guerrilla AR Infiltration >> http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com/thiel_venice-2011/ >> >> Istanbul Biennial 2011 - official collateral exhibit >> http://mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/ii/images.html >> >> Email: [email protected] >> Website: http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.make-shift.net http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
