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On 4 February 2012 15:19, helen varley jamieson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
