Public Intervention » Daniel G. Andujar Archive

Language (property)

Sep 232006

1997
Website with trademarked sentences linked with URLs
www.irational.org/tttp/TM/trademark.html
Presented in the exhibition as wall installation

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)

23/09/2006
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1997, 2006, Copyright, Dortmund, Free-culture, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Intellectual Property, Language (property), PHOENIX Halle, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People

Heimatwechsel (Change of Home)

Jul 102004

International Student Workshop
10 July – 10 August 2004
PhoenixHalle Dortmund

with
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. Continue reading »

10/07/2004
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2004, Artistic practice, Community, Dortmund, Hans D. Christ, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Iris Dressler, PHOENIX Halle, Public, Public Intervention, Workshop

The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel’s Photo Collection

Jan 251998

Daniel García Andújar, E, 1998
CD-ROM, 50 gerahmte digitale Prints
Koproduktion: Hartware MedienKunstVerein
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. Continue reading »

25/01/1998
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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

The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection

Jan 251998

Daniel García Andújar: The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection, 1998

Daniel García Andújar: The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection, 1998
CD-ROM, 50 framed digital prints
Coproduction: Hartware MedienKunstVerein
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. Continue reading »

25/01/1998
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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

Research department

Feb 021997

1997
Website « www.irational.org/tttp/TTTP/estadisticas/appreciate.html
UFO.html
Beverages.html
password.html
Radio.html
tv.html
women1.html

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)

02/02/1997
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1997, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Media Art, net.art, Public Intervention, Research department, Technologies To The People

Preliminary Basic Application

Feb 021997

1997
Online application form « www.irational.org/tttp/TTTP/TTTP.html

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)

02/02/1997
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1997, Darija Simunovic, Irational.org, net.art, Preliminary Basic Application, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People

Awards and Acknowledgements

Feb 021997

1997
Online display of awards for the TTTP website
www.irational.org/tttp/Awards/awards.html
Presented in the exhibition with framed printouts of the logos

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)