Media Art Died? another labeling discussion coming up? Why not switch to tagging instead of labeling (that way we save time in syncing our language disagreements)...
...now if you think I missed the point of conceptual differences in standpoints Andreas or Armin are taking it is only because I did so intentionally - most of their arguments have been discussed before. Does media/technology centered creative work (lets not even call it art at this point) benefit from having an environment on it's own for it's relatively autistic experiments or aphoristic critique (as very few pieces go beyond this) - needs as much discussion as discussing any relatively radical contemporary art practice that conceptually or formally goes beyond the grasp of mainstream cultural audience. Interesting text but most of the remarks on transmediale as annual festival (I missed almost all tm06) could easily be mirrored to any other festival of this size and importance. Personally I think once you enter cycle of annual event at certain scale this also largely frames your work flows, politics and economies regardless of the field of art practices you engage with or present. What is more interesting is that transmediale was trying to be also a bit more ambitious in *trend setting* and supportive of new practices and initiatives, which is something long running festivals would not touch usually. After receiving significant financial support from KSB for next few years I was hoping it would be diverse and daring in programing/structuring of overall event, rather then catching up with what was missing before (big performances and installation works) - especially compared to Ars Electronica Festival. In a way I was a bit disappointed with curated exhibition and there is obviously stress in moving to a new space which is no match to HKW in terms of spatial options, but I wonder if other options were available. Anyway in the cultural field where classical and established fields are slowly catching up with technologies and concepts of new networked society it is important to have different strategic and tactical approaches to present contemporary creative productions in/with digital media and diversify it to many models (even if takes antagonizing or polarizing perspectives on this ;-) my 5 cents On 2/8/06, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Bye Reality! How Media Art Died But Nobody Noticed > > by Armin Medosch > http://www.mazine.ws/node/230 Goethe - "What is important in life is life, and not the result of life." ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
