>From the humble point of view of one who was not there but listened to the developments, this is simply, very sad. Would we call it an un-sensible intervention, a director's right to enforce, censorship, or the guts of that "underbelly"? Even in the case of a meta-ironic-intervention, personally such event casts some further shadows on the direction pursued by Transmediale.
Best, M > 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 > > -- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing) The University of Edinburgh, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com | http://www.thesaddj.com | http://www.flxer.net Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
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