[spectre] Brutal Realities. Art, Subjectivi ty and ‘The News’ | Cool Media Hot Talk Show
COOL MEDIA HOT TALK SHOW D.I.Y. talk show on art media http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/ features: TOPIC: Brutal Realities. Art, Subjectivity and ‘The News’ SPEAKERS: Nanette Hoogslag about OOG and Florian Schneider about DICTIONARY OF WAR QUESTIONS: ask-it-yourself now and during the show at http:// www.coolmediahottalk.net/ Wednesday June 27, 20.30 CET video stream and interface for online participation: http:// www.coolmediahottalk.net/livepage.jsp location: De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam http://www.debalie.nl (bring your laptops and mobiles) EXTRA: music performance of Nanko http://www.laterax.com/nanko.htm ABOUT THE TOPIC: Brutal Realities Art, Subjectivity and ‘The News’ “In the digital age you cannot stop information” - how many times did we hear this hollowed out cliché? Countless for sure. But exactly what kind of information? How to judge it? How to develop a personal relation to it? ‘The News’ is one of these information flows that in the era of digital media seems to become ever more pervasive, inescapable really. As it does so it seems to divide itself into a curious dichotomy: it (‘the news’) either becomes trivialised, or it reflects the perpetual miseries of the brutal realities that apparently surround us; disasters, war, famine, oppression, ecological devastation, family drama, and a general feeling of estrangement. In any case difficult to develop a personal relationship to it, be it trivia or conversely our daily portion of misery... How does art and how do artists relate to this omnipresence of suffering in real-time? Can art help us to develop the distance, the silence, the space in-between that makes it possible to reflect ‘The News’? Can it point a way out of estrangement of the global anxiety machine? Can it rekindle our empathy for the pain of others? And is social reality in any case coextensive with ‘the news’? Or should we rather develop and alternative relationship to social reality? And how then should this be done? Can a project such as OOG in the web edition of the Dutch national daily newspaper De Volkskrant (www.volkskrant.nl/oog), where a different artist is invited every two weeks to comment on the news in an on-line art work every two weeks, help us to develop another (a more healthy?) subjective relationship to ‘the news’? Can a project such as the Dictionary of War (http:// dictionaryofwar.org) help us to establish an alternative critical relationship to social reality? How can it reach a broader audience without falling into the same trap of mass-mediation? Or is the very idea of subjectivity towards ‘the news’ nothing but a regressive and reactionary gesture? ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Nanette Hoogslag (NL) is a visual artist and illustrator. She studied graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and did an MA in illustration at Royal College of Art in London in 1990. She established herself as an illustrator and designer in Amsterdam, working for design and editorial clients worldwide. She has been teaching illustration and design at various art colleges in The Netherlands, currently she teaches illustration and concept development at the Illustration Department at the school of Visual Arts, HKU in Utrecht. In 2005 Nanette Hoogslag developed the idea for OOG (eye in Dutch), inviting artists to react to the news, their role, function and content, in an online environment, which became 'Oog' a weekly online page in one of the largest Dutch national newspapers the 'Volkskrant'. In 2006 the concept of Oog was presented in a live show 'Ooglive' in the Westergasfabriek and shown as part of Faith in Exposure in Montevideo 2007. Oog: http://extra.volkskrant.nl/oog Ooglive: www.ooglive.com illustrations: www.hoogslag.nl Florian Schneider (DE) is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology. As a filmmaker he directed several award-winning documentaries and made theme-evenings for the german-french tv station arte on the topics of migration and new global movements. He is one of the initiators of the KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL campaign at documentaX and subsequent projects. He founded, designed and supported countless online-projects, such as the European internet platform D-A-S-H and the online-network KEIN.ORG. He is the director of the new media festivals MAKEWORLD (2001), NEURO (2004) and one of the co-organizers of the upcoming FADAIAT2 event in Tarifa/Tangiers, in June 2005. His publications include contributions in Der Spiegel and other renowned magazines and newspapers. From 2001, he has published Makeworlds paper 1-4, a newspaper magazine for theory, art and activism. For incommunicado 05, a special issue will be
[spectre] Satellite Voyeurism, Workshop, Dortmund, July 20-22, 2007
/// SATELLITE VOYEURISM Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany Workshop Call, July 20 - 22, 2007 The Workshop Satellite Voyeurism addresses questions of production and reception of satellite images. In addition to public lectures by international media artists, committed scientists and commercial companies' representatives of the regions' geo-data industry, a two day workshop program with up to 12 participants takes place. Within the hands-on part the participants learn how to use a simple antenna, computer, soundcard combination to retrieve satellite images of NOAA satellites, and share own ideas and projects with the other participants. Both lectures and workshop discuss the image quality of satellite images but of course the subject will also touch upon the field of locative media, as GPS, GIS. Through the workshop the basis for a publication shall be created, which includes documentation about recent media art projects in the field of mapping, satellite images and satellite technology. The workshop is open to 12 participants. Participants will get free accommodation and depending on the distance we can partly support the travel costs. There is no workshop fee. With the participation in the workshop the participants agree to actively support the production of a documentation (deadline for texts October 15). In order to apply for the workshop, please let us know, why would you like to like to participate, what's your field of interest, and what exactly you would present to the other participants. Please also send a short CV. All material to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Application deadline June 29, 2007. The workshop is funded by Der Ministerpraesident des Landes NRW LAG Soziokultur NRW Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund /// PROGRAM Fri July 20, 2007 - from 4 pm on Arrival of participants, Internal workshop presentations Sat July 21, 2007 - 11 am - 4 pm Public lectures with Regine Debatty (WMMNA), Dr. Tristan Thielmann (University Siegen), Frank Warmelink (Free Consultant for geo-data appliance), Francis Hunger (HMKV, Dortmund) Internal workshop presentations by participants (until 9 pm.) Sun July 22, 2007 - 11 am - 4 pm Internal Hands-On Workshop with Thilo Elsner (Observatories Bochum/Amsat-DL) Receiving satellite images from NOAA satellites with just an antenna and a PC Internal workshop presentations and BBQ Mon July 23, 2007 departure THE LECTURES ON SATURDAY, 21 JULY 2007, ARE PUBLIC AND DO NOT REQUIRE BOOKING. /// About Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund HMKV serves as a platform for the production, presentation, education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. The activities of HMKV deal, in different formats, with the theme Augmented Space: in exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposia, publications, Internet applications and in European research projects. The success of last year's How I learned to love RFID workshop at HMKV (conceived by Francis Hunger) and the emergence of popular geographic mapping tools led to the development of the Satellite Voyeurism workshop in 2007, directed by Francis Hunger. CONTACT Office: Hartware MedienKunstVerein Francis Hunger Guentherstrasse 65 44143 Dortmund Exhibition and Workshop Venue: HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Hochofenstrasse / corner Rombergstrasse 44263 Dortmund-Hoerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hmkv.de Tel: ++49+231+823106 -- Dr. Inke Arns Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein Güntherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106 F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.inkearns.de Don't miss these shows when travelling (to) Europe this summer: /// History Will Repeat Itself // Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund/D, 9 June - 23 Sep 2007, www.hmkv.de // irational.org // Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006, CCA Glasgow/GB, 16 June - 21 July 2007, www.cca-glasgow.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
