Dear Netbehaviorists, Many thanks for your interest in the incident during the "Videomakers Unite!" panel discussion at the Transmediale 2012. http://www.transmediale.de/node/20679
Thank you Ruth, for having forwarded my email to the list in the first place, and my apologies for taking so long to get back to you all! I was asked not to post anything more until we had made multiple efforts in private conversations to clear up what had happened, and give Kristoffer Gansing a chance to respond. At this point however it is clear that he and I have diametrically opposite perceptions of what happened. It turns out that he does not find augmented reality art offensive, just me and my art. I have no problem with that. I had been asked by Kathy Rae Huffman, an invited panelist and internationally renowned curator, to prepare a website and give a live demo of my work, as part of the "open conversation" character of the "Videomakers Unite!" panel, as previously arranged with the moderator. My perception at this point is that Gansing felt that if he didn't like my art and the manner in which I presented it, it was within his right as festival director to overrule the moderator and the invited panelist, and stop my presentation. At a festival that was explicitly celebrating 25 years of interventionist and activist art, I found it to be a very surprising exercise of power and very ironic in the context of the curatorial statement, which said: "Contrary to the fear of the incompatible, so prevalent in the age of cloud-computing, the festival raises the question of what happens when incompatibility is brought to the fore rather than hidden away in the dark underbelly of digital culture?" I have set up a webpage with my perception of what happened, with cue times and a link to the audio file (all 2.5 hours of it, thanks to Sonja Schachinger!) in case anyone wants to form their own opinion. http://mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/tm2012.html Take care, and thanks again for the support - Tamiko -- Tamiko Thiel Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
