Posted: January 28th, 2008 | Filed under: Español | Tags: 2007, Cervantes, e-paisaje.org, Landscape, net.art, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People | 2 Comments »
El principal objetivo del proyecto e-paisaje.org es favorecer la accesibilidad a una herramienta de construcción —de construcción literaria— para todos aquellos narradores que trabajen o utilicen el recurso del paisaje. Este objetivo se alcanza mediante la elaboración de una base de datos en la que se están recopilando y recreando rutas literarias y localizaciones geográficas aparecidas en la extensa narrativa en castellano. La herramienta se abre al criterio social, ya que tanto lectores como autores pueden incorporar sus rutas e itinerarios tanto de creaciones nuevas o en proceso como extractadas desde obras ya impresas de autores conocidos. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: January 10th, 2008 | Filed under: Español | Tags: 2007, Archive, CIA, Condor, Control, Distribution, Matucana 100, Politics, Postcapital, Public Intervention, Public Space, Santiago de Chile, Secret, Technologies To The People, Valentin Roma | No Comments »
por Valentín Roma, 2007
Secret es una propuesta que se integra dentro de las diversas actividades llevadas a cabo por el Archivo Postcapital de Daniel G. Andújar para Technologies To The People. Este fondo documental, que recopila más de 150.000 archivos digitales extraídos de la red (textos, secuencias de vídeo, bancos fotográficos, recortes de audio, links a asociaciones independientes, etc.), explora la compleja situación de las ideologías capitalistas y comunistas en el nuevo marco geopolítico resultante tras la caída del muro de Berlín. El Archivo Postcapital se presentó públicamente en La Virreina Exposiciones (Barcelona) en el 2006, dentro del contexto de Postcapital, un proyecto multimedia concebido por el ensayista Iván de la Nuez y los artistas Carlos Garaicoa y Daniel G. Andújar. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: September 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1998, 2006, Armed citizen, Control, Dortmund, Germany, Hack, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Inke Arns, Irational.org, PHOENIX Halle, Politics, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
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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Posted: September 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1997, 2006, Copyright, Dortmund, Free-culture, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Intellectual Property, Language (property), PHOENIX Halle, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Daniel García Andújar – the Spanish media artist better known by his company name Technologies To The People — almost ten years ago created with Language (property) a work addressing the increasing privatization and commodification of language. A plain HTML page presents a list of sentences that have become registered trademarks and thus the property of their corporate owners. Examples include »Where do you want to go today?™« (Microsoft), »A better return on information ™« (SAP), »Moving at the speed of business™« (UPS), »What you never thought possible™« (Motorola). By giving his project the title Remember, language is not free™, Andújar anticipated the disputes surrounding ›intellectual property‹ in the following years (and increasingly evident in the second half of the 1990s with the ruthless scramble for domain names in the World Wide Web). While on the website the individual sentences are linked to the copyright notices of the relevant companies, a large-format, almost ›immersive‹, wall Presented has been chosen for the exhibition.(Inke Arns)
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Posted: July 10th, 2004 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2004, Artistic practice, Community, Dortmund, Hans D. Christ, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Iris Dressler, PHOENIX Halle, Public, Public Intervention, Workshop | No Comments »
International Student Workshop
10 July – 10 August 2004
PhoenixHalle Dortmund
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Antoni Muntadas
Daniel García Andújar
Bettina Lockemann
The Project
“Heimatwechsel” is an interdisciplinary 4-week workshop for students specialising in the areas of design, visual communication, art, media and culture sciences. The tutors of the workshop are three internationally renowned artists from the USA, Spain and Germany: Antoni Muntadas, Daniel García Andújar and Bettina Lockemann. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: January 25th, 1998 | Filed under: Deutsch | Tags: 1998, Dortmund, Dortmunder U, Hack, Hans D. Christ, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Iris Dressler, Public Intervention, Public Space, Representation, Reservate der Sehnsucht, Simulation, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Daniel García Andújar, E, 1998
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Reservate der Sehnsucht, Dortmunder U, 1998
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Reservate der Sehnsucht” in der ehemaligen Union Brauerei wurde die von Daniel García Andùjar entdeckte Fotosammlung der einstigen Brauereiangestellten Wilhelm und Manfred Beutel präsentiert. Die Sammlung dokumentiert historische Ereignisse aus Dortmund, die im öffentlichen Bewusstsein der Stadt heute nur wenig präsent sind: die Jahre des deutschen Faschismus sowie die fast vollständige Zerstörung der Innenstadt während des Zweiten Weltkrieges.
Der wesentliche Beitrag von Andújar bei der Präsentation der Sammlung bestand in einem eigens entwickelten geografischen Informationssystem, kurz GIS, mit dem sich von jedem einzelnen Bild der exakte Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme sowie der Standort des Fotografen ermitteln lässt. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: January 25th, 1998 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1998, Dortmund, Dortmunder U, Hack, Hans D. Christ, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Iris Dressler, Public Intervention, Public Space, Representation, Reservate der Sehnsucht, Simulation, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Daniel García Andújar: The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection, 1998
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Reservate der Sehnsucht, Dortmunder U, 1998
In the course of the “Reservate der Sehnsucht” exhibition in the former Union brewery, Daniel García Andùjar presented a photograph collection he discovered. Compiled by the former brewery workers Wilhelm and Manfred Beutel, the collection documents episodes in the history of Dortmund which scarcely figure in the city’s contemporary public awareness: the years during the Third Reich, and the almost total destruction of the inner city during World War II.
Andújar’s main contribution to this presentation was a specially developed geographical information system (GIS) enabling the exact time of shooting, as well as the location of the photographer, to be determined for each picture. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: February 2nd, 1997 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1997, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Media Art, net.art, Public Intervention, Research department, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Presented as large-format wallpaper installation » The Research Department of Technologies To The People devotes itself to statistically recording and presenting core areas of contemporary life. In regard to levels of technology ownership in the USA, the department tells us that 77.3 % of the population possesses a microwave, but only (only?) 55 % a supermarket price scanner. Another statistic reveals that Washington and California are the federal states in which UFOs are most frequently spotted (New York trails far behind at the other end of the scale). We are also given percentages for the distribution of religions over the continents, beverage consumption in selected countries, the frequency with which types of passwords are cracked, the primary online activities of women, and the distribution of employment in the USA (with data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor). In the exhibition the statistics are presented as large-format printouts covering the walls of the room dedicated to irational’s Collecting data all over the net project. The collection of all kinds of data (via surveys, for instance, or loyalty cards) combined with the personalization facilitated by increasing linkage with databases has now become a powerful tool for consumer control. With its own requests for sensitive or wholly irrelevant information, irational began from an early date to confront the increasingly apparent mania for collecting data. (Inke Arns)
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Posted: February 2nd, 1997 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1997, Darija Simunovic, Irational.org, net.art, Preliminary Basic Application, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Presented as online website Daniel G. Andújar’s company Technologies To The People (TTTP) invites interested parties to submit an application to the grants programme of the fictitious Technologies To The People Foundation. A click on the hyperlink takes potential applications to the Preliminary Basic Application, a serious-looking questionnaire which reveals the subtle mechanisms used to collect marketing-relevant data. A notice advises that a fee is payable — by credit card only — prior to submitting an application, and requests for sensitive information are underscored by ironic notices flickering across the screen: »We would appreciate! Strictly confidential!« The form asks for the applicant’s social insurance number and credit card details as well as financially useful data (age group, gender, marital status, occupation), and rounds off the profile by asking for details of religion and race. (Darija Simunovic)
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Posted: February 2nd, 1997 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1997, Awards and Acknowledgements, Copyright, Hack, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Media Art, net.art, Public Intervention, Simulation, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
A long list of awards conceivably and inconceivably bestowed on the Technologies To The People website which, as its makers would have us believe, is »one of the most popular art sites on the internet «. Framed in silver like a collection of especially valuable postage stamps, the some 30 distinctions presented in the original thumbnail format include »Browser Watch — Net Fame!«, »An Internet cool site of the day«, »Magellan Star Site«, »Prescribed by Dr. Webster’s Web Site of the Day«, »Art Dirt« — »Your Webscout Way Cool Site«, and »Orchid Award for Page Excellence«. (Inke Arns)
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