THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF IRATIONAL.ORG: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006 in Novi Sad

Posted: October 28th, 2008 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF : Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006

Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina
Dunavska 37, , Serbia

Curators: Inke Arns (Dortmund) and Jacob Lillemose (Kopenhagen)
Dates: 28. October – 27. November 2008. from 9-17h, during weekends from 9-14h; Museum is closed on Mondays.

Production:
New Media Center_kuda.org, , http://www.kuda.org
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, http://www.hmkv.de

Co-producers of the show:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, , http://www.msuv.org
Institute for Flexible Culture and Technologies – Napon, , http://www.napon.org

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF IRATIONAL.ORG (Predivni svet irational.org-a)

Posted: October 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Srpski | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Izložba čuvenih pionira net.arta

kustosi:Inke Arns, Jakob Lilemoze (Jacob Lillemose)

Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad

Dunavska 37,

28. Oktobar – 27. Novembar 2008.

Otvaranje izložbe: Utorak 28. Oktobar, u 20:00 časova

Producent izložbe:

Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine,

Koproducenti izložbe :

Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

Centar za nove medije_kuda.org,

Institut za fleksibilne kulture i tehnologije – Napon,

Irational je neformalna grupa šest internacionalnih net i medijskih umetnika koji su se svojevremeno okupili oko servera , kojeg je osnovao britanski net umetnik Heath Bunting 1996. Članovi su: Daniel G. Andujar (Valensija/Španija), Rachel Baker (London/Velika Britanija), Kayle Brandon (Bristol/Velika Britanija), Heath Bunting (Bristol/Velika Britanija), Minerva Cuevas (Mexico City/Meksiko), Marcus Valentine (Bristol/Velika Britanija) Read the rest of this entry »

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European Design Award for “Hartware Guide to Irational”

Posted: July 8th, 2008 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

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( June 2008, 00:00) The “Hartware Guide to Irational” designed by laborb was awarded for the ‘successful interplay of paper, typography, binding and conceptional structure’ as the best art catalogue. The award ceremony took place in the framework of the European Design Conference in mid-May 2008 in Stockholm. See www.ed-awards.com and www.derwesten.de

The Hartware Guide to Irational.org (eng-deu download pdf) Read the rest of this entry »

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Docs, Pdfs, etc.

Posted: May 23rd, 2008 | Filed under: | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System – Art in the Age of Intellectual Property. Short exhibition guide (eng-deu)

Herramientas del arte – pdf [cast-val]
Herramientas del arte – pdf [cast-ing]

Technologies To The People Collections (eng-esp)

Mute magazine, e-valencia

The Hartware Guide to Irational.org (eng-deu)

e-sevilla.org (eng-esp)

Mono magazine. special issue. e-valencia.org (eng)

Technologies To The People Collections

A Brick Culture (eng)

kayitsiz-unrecorded (eng-tur)

Artivistic approaches to the treatment of online information (eng)

Aproximaciones artivistas al tratamiento de la información online. (esp)

phoney™ (Informational Society) (eng)

manifesta-4 trespassing space

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Armed citizen

Posted: September 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Armed citizen

Presented in the exhibition as an upgrade of almost 100 images, the internet project Armed Citizen shows a series of 17 small arms. No information is given on their origins. Who owns them? Are they being used as criminal evidence? Are they perhaps murder weapons? Who does the ›armed citizen‹ of the title refer to — the police? Or a citizens’ defence group that has taken up arms? Is there some allusion to the liberal firearms laws in the United States, to bloody incidents like the amok shootings that took place in Columbine High School, Colorado, in 1999, or in the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt in 2002? Armed Citizen is difficult to pin down. But it is safe to assert that it deals with an indeterminate feeling of fear and menace, and, by association, with the growing longing for security in a world felt to be increasingly less safe. The exhibition deliberately groups Armed Citizen in a kind of »security zone« together with Heath Bunting’s CCTV and Rachel Baker and Heath Bunting’s CCTV Sabotag — further irational works pointing to the essential futility of technology — or weapons based protective measures. (Inke Arns)

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Irational’s Finest, or The Art of Movement Through Space

Posted: January 25th, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

by Inke Arns

Hardly a day goes by without some news item about the discovery of a carefully concealed crop of genetically modified maize, about liquid explosives in airplanes and bombs inside suitcases on trains, about calls for blanket video surveillance, about the global spread of avian ’flu. We wonder when the virus will reach our own part of the world, have long begun to feel the pinch of economic cutbacks in Germany, to notice the effects of climate change, and cannot help but think: Life’s harder than it used to be. Read the rest of this entry »

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On the Contemporaneity of Media Arts

Posted: January 22nd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

by Inke Arns (published in: Nam June Paik Award 2006, Frankfurt am Main 2006)
Almost ten years ago with Language (property), Spanish media artist Daniel Garcia Andujar, better known under his company name Technologies to the People, developed a work which addressed the increasing privatisation and commodification of language. On a simple HTML page he listed phrases which have been registered as trademarks, and with that, had become the property of their respective owners, for example, “Where do you want to go today?TM” (Microsoft), “A better return on informationTM” (SAP), “Moving at the speed of businessTM” (UPS), “What you never thought possibleTM” (Motorola). By entitling this project “Remember, language is not freeTM” Andujar anticipated the disputes concerning “intellectual property”, which emerged in the following years (visible as early as the second half of the 1990s in the fierce battles for the allocation of domain names on the world wide web). Read the rest of this entry »

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Banff celebra sus 10 años con una retrospectiva del ‘new media’

Posted: January 6th, 2005 | Filed under: Español | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

A lo largo de la década han participado en los programas del centro canadiense más de 600 artistas. Daniel Andújar figura en la muestra antológica
R. BOSCO / S. CALDANA 06/10/2005
El país
El Banff Centre fue creado en 1933 por la Universidad de Alberta, en la solitaria y nevada inmensidad de las Montañas Rocosas canadienses, para proporcionar a investigadores y artistas un entorno privilegiado para inspirarse y crear.

El centro, originariamente dedicado a las Bellas Artes, se ha ido ampliando incorporando departamentos consagrados a las disciplinas audiovisuales. El más reciente, el Banff Media Institute, centrado en las aplicaciones artísticas de las nuevas tecnologías, cumple 10 años y los celebra con una retrospectiva que analiza este periodo a través de una serie de obras emblemáticas.
A lo largo de esta década, han sido más de 600 los artistas que han participado en las iniciativas del centro y que, gracias a su programa de residencias, se han inspirado en este espectacular enclave y producido obras en sus también espectaculares laboratorios. De ellos, 14 han sido elegidos para la exposición The Art Formerly Known as New Media (El arte antes conocido como new media, en inglés), cuyo título alude al rápido desarrollo del medio y a las diferentes expresiones artísticas en que se ha fragmentado. Read the rest of this entry »

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TTTP Promotional video

Posted: February 2nd, 1998 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

  • 1998
  • DVD

Presented on a monitor » Like every other company Technologies To The People (TTTP) is highly aware of (the value of) its public image and how this image is presented through different media. In this promotional video a number of international tech-economic experts praise the values and ethics of TTTP. However, originally the experts were not hired and paid by TTTP but by its market rivals — global corporations like Dell, Microsoft, and so forth. The promotional video strings together sequences hijacked from corporate PR videos and the abstract concepts they use to deliver ultra-positive descriptions of their companies’ imagined role in the world. Thus, it adopts the language and visuals of business to promote the rival notion of a human-centred and common culture, subtly and humorously confronting the viewer with the question of which of the two cultural economies one wants to define ›freedom‹, ›the future‹, and not least ›access to technology‹. (Jacob Lillemose)

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Irational Promotional Video

Posted: February 2nd, 1998 | Filed under: English | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

  • 1998
  • DVD

Presented with DVD Footage of a swinging suspension bridge with a car on it is accompanied by a heavymetal guitar riff. Suddenly the driver is seen to switch off his car stereo, the music stops, as does the swinging of the bridge, and one hears birds singing. All is peace. The guy looks into the camera and with a silly grin on his face says, »Sorry.« The video is a smart piece of advertising, a precise illustration of the way irational rocks our mental and physical infrastructures with a delicate balance of danger and humour. The video was originally used by a corporation dealing with technology. (Jacob Lillemose)

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