Hi Mez, Hi Kath, I really don't know what he finds "offensive" about my work or about me, I hadn't ever had any communication with him before the incident. That's also what puzzled me about how emotional he seemed about it, which seemed too much for it to be simply a performance - and strange because we hadn't interacted before.
There were "planned interventions" during the festival - did he react in the same way to the artists who did those? If he reacted in the same way to them I could believe that he was "performing the question from the curatorial statement." If he did not, I would guess that it was a very personal and probably honest reaction to me and my work. take care, Tamiko Am 01.03.2012 04:28, schrieb Kath O'Donnell: > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -- 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
