I still find this disturbing = not at all satisfactory in terms of an adequate explanation.
Has the concept of "offense" been unpacked by Gansing? Why does he find this particular AR work [and by proxy, yourself Tamiko] "offensive"? Chunks, mez @netwurker On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Tamiko Thiel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Reality Engineer> Synthetic Environment Strategist> Game[r + ] Theorist. ::http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/human-readable-messages/17341088 ::
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