do you think he might have been actually forcing (performing?) the question from the theme/curatorial statement? ie stating something is offensive/incompatible then seeing how people react? extending the conference/session into the ether/post-discussions to see what happens next.
*"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?" http://mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/tm2012.html * KG: "Yeah, if I may "intervene" uh, first maybe we can switch the screen instead of seeing this really, uh, for me offensive AR art, he he, this is a re-intervention into the Transmediale, so - " On 1 March 2012 12:04, mez breeze <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:: > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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