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Seminar: Crime and political aspects in new media art 4 – 5 November 2006 In english only Seminaret blev støttet af Center for Digital Æstetik-forskning/Forskningsprojektet Interfacekulturens Æstetik |
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Saturday 4th of november
 Moderator Jeanett Stampe Nielsen: Opens the seminar A: “Hacking and Cracking Culture” Tim Pritlove, Chaos Computer Club. http://www.ccc.de Creative Chaos: The Chaos Computer Club and Project Blinkenlights Since 1985, Tim has been involved in the proceedings of the Chaos Computer Club, the well-known german hacker club. One of his favorite activities has been adbusting, which is making a copy of a well-known advertisement with a slight humoristic or sarcastic change.Tim Pritlove did present a selection of media hacking projects. Related Links: http://www.ccc.de/ http://www.blinkenlights.de/ Tatiana Bazzichelli, ACTIVISM-HACKING-ARTIVISM http://www.ecn.org/aha/English/project.htm The Italian countercultural digital network Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder of Activism-Hacking-Artivism, a networking project that started in 2001 in Rome and based in Berlin since 2003 <http://www.ecn.org/aha>. Focus of Tatiana Bazzichelli's presentation is the experimentation in the Italian countercultural digital network, the hands-on, trial-and-error creation of new cultural symbols and new social practices through artists, hackers and activists who act in a borderline zone between the traditional categories of "art", "technology" and "activism". The seminar also presented the book “Networking. The Net as an Artwork” (“Networkig, la rete come arte”), written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, preface written by Derrick de Kerckhove, which is going to be published in Italy at the end of 2006 (Costa & Nolan, Milan) Related Links: Tatiana Bazzichelli's lecture as .pdf  Tim Pritlove, Chaos computer Club  Tatiana Bazzichelli, Activism-Hactivism-Artivism B: “Terrorist Culture and Biotech Art” Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble http://www.critical-art.net Crossing the Line In this brief lecture, Steve Kurtz discussed some of the elements in the work of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) that seem to antagonize agencies of power and domination. Over the years, CAE has been attacked, threatened, and/or denounced by police, the FBI, politicians, corporate lawyers, federal prosecutors, and even religious institutions. Kurtz offered some possibilities as to why CAE has been in constant struggle to maintain a public voice, and how the mechanisms of expression management have been increasingly militarized and intensified over the past 20 years. Related Links: FlatTV's press release(in danish) and online video of Steve Kurtz' lecture as .pdf FlatTV website. Eduardo Kac http://www.ekac.org/ TELEPRESENCE AND BIO ART After an introduction contextualizing his pioneering telepresence work, in progress since the mid-1980s, Kac gave examples and further discussed his current transgenic art. Eduardo Kac is an internationally recognized artist that gained prominence at the beginning of the twenty-first century with his transgenic work "GFP Bunny" (2000), centered on a green-glowing bunny named Alba. The lecture is based on Kac's recently released book Telepresence and Bio Art, Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots, published by The University of Michigan Press. Related Links: Life Transformation - Art Mutation, by Eduardo Kac (.pdf)  Biotech Artist: Eduardo Kac  Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble Tim Pritlove, Tatiana Bazichelli, Steve Kurtz & Eduardo Kac, Preben Mejer & Jørgen Kjems  + Preben Meier, director at Innovation Lab, Aarhus, Denmark http://www.innovationlab.dk/sw253.asp  + Jørgen Kjems, professor in Molecular biology and Nano Science / Aarhus University http://www.au.dk/da/nyheder/presse/151003.htm |
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Sunday 5th of november
C: “Digital Actionism or net.art?” “The Yes Men” (Documentary by Dan Ollman & Sarah Price, 2003, 83 min.) http://www.theyesmen.org/ “The Yes Men” (Documentary) A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization's and it's mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade. Hans Bernhard, Ubermorgen http://www.ubermorgen.com/2006 Digital Action - Media Hacking Hans Bernhard ("Maverick Austrian businessman." CNN) presented a selection of media hacking projects: From "etoy" (1994) to the very recent "GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself" (2005-06), from the popular digital action „Toywar“ to the „Vote-auction“ project. Media Hacking is generally described very vaguely as manipulation of media technology. A more specific definition is the massive intrusion into mass media channels with standard technology such as email or mobile phones. With such a simple proactive modus operandi – in the end only courage, intelligence and basic technological know how is necessary – we can achieve enormous reach and frequency in this age of the totally networked space. Related Links: Hans Bernhards's lecture as online version D: “Political Analyses in Digital Art” James Patten http://www.jamespatten.com “Corporate Fallout Detector” James Patten's Corporate Fallout Detector scans barcodes off of consumer products, and makes a clicking noise similar to a Geiger counter based on the environmental or ethical record of the manufacturer. It explores issues of corporate accountability and individual choice. Due to increasingly complex global supply chains, a single product we buy may contain parts made by various companies all over the world. This maze of corporate ownership makes it difficult for consumers to reward good business practices or punish bad ones by changing their buying habits. Patten discussed the process behind the creation of the Corporate Fallout Detector, and its role in the hands of the modern consumer. Related Links: Corporate Fallout Detector - website Corporate Fallout Detector - lecture Powerpoint - as .pdf Mogens Jacobsen http://www.artnode.org/art/jacobsen Looking for trouble and applying the wrong remedies.Replaying the invisible generation on tape recorders in every street: Strategies, ideas and dreams for non-narrative digital media. Related Links: Keywords to Mogens Jacobsen's lecture with additional links - as .pdf  Digital Artist: James Patten  Digital Artist: Mogens Jacobsen Panel Discussion: Hans Bernhard, James Patten, Mogens Jacobsen, Henrik Kaare Nielsen & Søren Pold  + Henrik Kaare Nielsen Professor, dr.phil Institute of Aestetic Studies, University of Aarhus http://person.au.dk/aekhkn@hum  + Søren Pold, lecturer at Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Aarhus http://imv.au.dk/~pold/ |
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