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Greetings from the technical limits border ||| personal note

Emanuel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:14 +0000

tagr.tv started a few years ago with a simple idea: let’s use these – at that moment upcoming – new digital photo cameras and do a real fast media enhanced blog. After some time we realized that it actually saves time to use proper cameras because the workflow is just _better.

Last week I got my 1.2ghz dual core phone and thought: now the time – Let’s cover the transmediale just with that phone!

Well, nice idea. At the moment I’m watching the rendering progress bar moving slower then the battery going down… is history repeating itself?
We’ll see.

Posted from a cell phone.

Argentinian Pavilion – Curator Rodrigo Alonso on Adrián Villar Rojas work

Karina Fernandez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:39:50 +0000

We’ve been with the curator for the Argentinian Pavilion, Rodrigo Alonso, commenting on this monumental site-specific work from artist Adrián Villar Rojas for “La Biennale” 2011.

Camera: Ulli Armbrüster

Interview: Karina Fernández

Edition: Karina Fernandez

Ars electronica 2011 – origin

annasusannaanna — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:25:53 +0000

As a summary, just to get a short overview, I elected together with an eight-year-old boy his ten favourites, also to focus on what´s most interesting for the younger generation and how they interact with media art.

“Otamatone”- Novmichi Tosa, Maylsa Denki: musical-note-shaped electric instrument

“Gear Box”- Ulrich Brandstätter & Oliver Buchtala: kind of musical loop-sequencer

“Paro”- Aist : Therapeutic Robot with 5 kinds of sensors: tactile, light, audition, temperature and posture sensors. It can learn to behave in a way that the user prefers and simulates interaction between patients and caregivers.

“TalkTorque-2″- Hideaki Kuzuoka, Hiroshi Kasai, Ikkaku Kawaguchi, Toshimasa Yamanaka: guide robot that utilizes human skills

“Is there a horizon in the deep water?” -HEHE: Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen: Installation, Performance which works through the ecological tragedy, the explosion of the oil platform Deep Horizon in 2010, by reconstructing the event minutely.

“Six-Fourty by Fourty-Eghty”- Jamie Ziegelbaum, Marcelo Coelo: Installation, handy magnetic pixels as an interpretation of the touchscreen principle, by touching they change the color or copy it onto another

“Shadows”- Jyun-ya Kataoka: Installation, device, consisting of a turntable, found at a garage dump, and strobes from instant cameras attached to a circle, by rotating the turntable you manipulate the shadows

“Paricles”- Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi: On a construction that resembles a rollercoaster, lightballs can be orchestrated via control-screen to whiz about in all directions and grouped into moving patterns.

“Running through the fog” at the roof of the O.K.-house: just a part of the “Hoehenrausch”

“CCD-me-not-Umbrella”- Mark Shepard: of sentient city survival kit: An umbrella studded with infrared Leds visible only to CCD surveillance cameras, designed to frustrate object-detection-algorithms used in computer vision surveillance systems

take a look at the bright sight… …with the ARTVERTISER !

fomoke — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:57:06 +0000

Glänzend schöne Versprechen von einer heilen Welt… zumindest für die, die auf die richtigen Produkte setzen, so das Credo der Werbung. Hinsehen, verstehen, kaufen!
Die Mantras der Werbung begegen uns überall, sind Teil des öffentlichen Raumes – denn sie wollen nicht nur gesehen werden, sie müssen gesehen werden.

Streetart ist eine Art sich diesem kommerziellen Zwang zu widersetzen, öffentlich zu hinterfragen. Eine digitale Streetart-Version entwickelten Julian Oliver und Damian Stewart. Der Artvertiser, ein Gerät und eine Software, womit sich Plakate neu definieren lassen. Das Credo hier: Kunst statt Kommerz!

Damian Stewart präsentierte den Artvertiser am Coded Cultures Festival 2011:

und hier noch das eigene Video, das im Rahmen der Transmediale 2010 entstand:

Augmented Billboards 2: The Artvertiser @ Transmediale 2010 from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

Das Skateboard, das Nintendo spielte… ?

fomoke — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:17:56 +0000

§P¡NdLe .. so der Titel, vielsagend und doch ein wenig kryptisch, genau das richtige für die, die ein wenig tüfteln wollen, was dieses Skateboard mit eingebautem Nitendo kann, möchte, wie das denn alles funktioniert, was genau überhaupt funktionieren soll, und wie beziehungsweise was das alles eigentlich ist.
Und diese Verwunderung ist vielleicht auch die Fragestellung des Kunstwerks an seine Betrachter… Kunst als Idee, als Anregung, als Phantasie… über Partituren, die der Boden schreibt….

Hinter der §P¡NdLe oder dem §P¡NdLe stehen die Künstler Gordan Savicic und Philipp Lammer.

Im Gespräch mit eSel.at – Philipp Lammer:

Surround Sound im Central Garden Coded Cultures 2011

fomoke — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:20:53 +0000

Florian Schmeiser installierte einen “vibrate space” im central garden am donaukanal, mit 8 tonkanälen wurden die 400m2 öffentlicher raum zu einem sound-erlebnis.

in dem projekt involviert waren noch fünf weitere elektronik musikerInnen: Nik Hummer, Electric Indigo, Bernhard Gal, Elisabeth Schimana, und Peter Szely. komponiert wurde gemeinsam…

INTERVIEW mit Florian Schmeisser:

USB-Sticks im Gemäuer Wiens… ein Projekt von Aram Bartholl Coded Cultures 2011

fomoke — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:39:54 +0000

analog – aber bitte digital. statt aus der internetcloud, überraschungsinformationen aus der hauswand….
aram bartholl sucht nach löchern im gemäuer der stadt… schließt diese wieder und hinterlässt dort einen usb stick zum datenaustausch im öffentlichen raum.

Christian Falsnaes about art

Emanuel — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:08:09 +0000

Torture Classics at Coded Cultures

Emanuel — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:10:07 +0000

Liz Vlx about the ubermorgen.com project “torture classics”

Coded Cultures 2011

Emanuel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:11:02 +0000

This week the Coded Cultures Festival 2011 starts in Vienna.

Coded Cultures 2011 presents itself on many different locations in Vienna, with the main focus on the Donaukanal (Danube Channel) and the surrounding Viennese city districts.

From 21st to 25th of September focus days will be held, which mainly will take place at the Viennese Danube Channel, the 2nd district of Vienna, Museums Quarter Vienna, the Badeschiff and the Odeon Theatre. From the 26th of September to the 2nd of Octo- ber workshops, presentations and artist-talks are taking place. Partners are Transmediale Berlin, Media Lab Prado Madrid, Enter Festival Prag and Amber Festival Istanbul (among many others). On the 1st of October the Festival is ending with a big event at the Badeschiff in cooperation with the viennese Waves Festival.

The opening event is this Wed 21st – expect first postings 2b online during the weekend!

FILE Festival Sao Paulo 2011

muk — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:09:41 +0000

FILE Festival, Sao Paulo. Huge city, huge exhibition. Like every year, the File Festival manages to show a wide variety of international contemporary new media art. Installations, Performances, Machinima, Animations, Webart,… But they also host Workshops dealing with newest technics and tools and a Symposium which addresses current topics and therefor is a good discursive platform for new media art.

A big difference to most of the new media art festivals is the wide-ranging audience visiting the exhibition. With about 1000 visitors per day and a period of one month it does not only adress the typical new media art nerds.

Because i participated with my installation “skia” in the exhibition and the symposium i had a very limited time frame to document the artworks.

But i even managed to get Christobal Mendoza for an interview, whos collaborative work “nervous structure” was one of my favourites.

Another very poetic and beautiful piece was ADA, an analog interactive installation by Karina Smigla-Bobinski.

The next work i have to explain a bit…. If you stand in front of this screen, your face is tracked and alternately displayed with some movie scenes, where the head of the actors are on the same position in the framing as yours… It is called “movie mirrors” and was made by Ali Miharbi from turkey.

y/our/space: digital art exhibition. vienna 2011

fomoke — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:00:36 +0000

media art, digital art, installations, sculputures, photographie, video and sound….

last spring, you could get a picture about the vararity of works, produced by students of the university of applied arts, department: digital media art. they showed 35 new works in a very special place, an former store for exclusive fur-goods, right in the inner-city of Vienna. tagr.tv was invited to tag this exhibition and had the chance to talk to 10 artists and the two curators, Ruth Schnell and Romana Schuller, about their work.

Interview: Franziska Mayr-Keber
camera: Andreas muk Haider
Edit: Andreas muk Haider, Franziska Mayr-Keber

Interviews with participating artists

we couldn’t catch up with all the 34 represented artists in this exhibition… but at least with a few of them…

Interviews: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Camera: Andreas muk Haider
Edit: Andreas muk Haider

French Pavillon- Biennale Venice 2011

annasusannaanna — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:52:56 +0000

Christian Boltanski has built a huge scaffold supporting a long conveyor-belt, printed with babies, displayed birth- and starving-rate, made a game out of it and called it “Chance”.”The unfolding of life and the incessant rhythm of birth raise the question of the universal and the unique in a way, to ponder what distinguishes one from the other…” (Jean-Hubert Martin)

Having a seat after this interview, relaxing from running around for hours, on one of three very old chairs placed beside this pavillon, a strange whispering voice stated to ask “is it the last time?” repeatedly, so that I needed some time until I recognized that it was comming from my chair.-spooky!

For those who don´t have the ability to visit venice until end of november and also for those who just like killing time, they´ve installed a homepage where you can play this game “Chance” too.
Christian Boltanski promises to send you a surprise in the case you win.
www.boltanski-chance.com
Enjoy!

The Stateless Pavilion – Pirate Camp

wasserbloom — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:50:06 +0000

The new project devised by the Italian art group CONIGLIOVIOLA – is the first itinerant artists’ camping program created to give free hospitality to a selection of young international artists during the most important contemporary art events worldwide.

In true corsair style, the PIRATE CAMP will – for the very first time – break the well-entrenched rule that outlaws camping in the lagoon!

The Stateless Pavilion, as the first PIRATE CAMP has been dubbed, aims to focus attention on the topic “extra-territoriality” as a condition typical of artists that comes to expression in the project’s two key figures: the pirate and the camper.The status of not-belonging-to-places, inhabiting places while remaining outside the concept of territorial ownership, becomes a status of statelessness, of not-belonging-to-any-state, in the context of the Venice Biennale, whose mainstay is the fact that its every edition is built on an offering – and a reiteration – of the representation of national identities, by “national” pavilions.

www.pirate-camp.org

www.coniglioviola.com

Video by Philipp Köster and Wasserbloom, Interview and edit by Wasserbloom

Gelitin Pavilion – Some like it hot!

wasserbloom — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:42:30 +0000

Gelitin presented a wood fired glass melting furnance at the Venice Biennale 2011 in the Giardino della Vergini at the Arsenale. The text inserts are taken from an Interview with Tobias and Ali by Christian Egger. Video by Wasserbloom and Susanna Gartner, Cut by Wasserbloom. More information at www.gelitin.net/venezia2011

Roboterträume @ Kunsthaus Graz 2010

fomoke — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:34:23 +0000

Spontan habe ich mich entschlossen nach Graz zu düsen, im Dezember des Vorjahres. Eigentlich, um einen Vortrag der holländischen Kunsthistorikerin und Filmemacherin Mieke Bal zu lauschen (“what can museums do, beyond the local-global dilemma”). Sie war zu Gast im Kunsthaus Graz und ebendort lief zu dieser Zeit auch die Ausstellung Robotertäume. Eine wunderbare Gelegenheit also, diese Medienkunst-Schau für tagr.tv zu inspizieren.

Auf meine Spontanität hat sich, seitens des Museums, Jochen D. Paul eingelassen, nahm sich Zeit und Mut für eine kleine Führung bei laufender Kamera. Besten Dank an dieser Stelle, Jochen!

In der Ausstellung, eine Koproduktion des Kunsthauses Graz und des Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, werden junge Positionen – unter ihnen auch Niki Passath – mit KünstlerInnen einer älteren Generation – wie Richard Kriesche und Nam June Paik – gegenüber gestellt. Alles unter dem Titel Roboterträume. Aber um die Träume der Roboter geht es nicht, wie Peter Pakesch und Roland Wetzel im Vorwort des Ausstellungskatalogs klar stellen. Auch wenn die Geschichte von SF Autor Isaac Asimov Titel-gebend ist: Roboter Elvex beginnt zu träumen von der Revolution gegen seine Schöpfer, den Menschen. Elvex wird abgedreht.

Pakesch, Wetzel schreiben weiter: “Junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler sind eingeladen, mit neu entwickelten Projekten auf die Frage zu antworten, was die Kunst zum Verständnis der rasend schnell voranschreitenden Entwicklung in Forschung und Technik beizutragen hat.” Da ich den Ausstellungskatalog erst im nachhinein gelesen habe, fällt es mir schwer zu beurteilen, ob ich als Besucherin auf diese Frage eine Antwort bekommen habe.
Ehrlich gesagt, es ist mir egal. Denn die Ausstellung war interessant, eben weil es eine gute Mischung war. Junge Kunst auf Augenhöhe mit den Urgesteinen.

Von den modernen Ausstellungshallen des Grazer Aliens war ich dafür weniger beeindruckt. Eine flache Rolltreppe befördert dich nicht nur auf die erste Ebene, sondern lässt dich gleich ans erste Kunstwerk taumeln. Und beim Betrachten desselben wurde ich das unangenehme Gefühl nicht los, Neuankömmlinge könnten mir in den Rücken fallen. Gut, der Andrang war nicht so groß, sodass ich nur einmal angestupst wurde. Ausserdem, ist es wirklich notwendig sich lange vor einem Kunstwerk aufzuhalten?

Enter Festival 2011, Prague

Emanuel — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:30:53 +0000

A walk through the exhibition of this years exhibition of the enter festival in Prague.

interview & editing: emanuel andel
camera: andreas muk haider

Daito Manabe: Body Hack

Emanuel — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:23:57 +0000

After flying to Berlin, a night without sleep and a full day workshop Daito showed us how his Body Hack works and how it developed.

atom performance @ soundframe 2011

muk — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:21:49 +0000

Das soundframe Festival freute sich heuer über Christopher Bauder [white void] und Robert Henke [monolake], die mit ihrer ATOM Performance den Marx Palast rockten. Leider konnte die Installation aus technischen Gründen nicht wie ursprünglich geplannt in den Rinderhallen aufgebaut werden, da sich dies gegenseitig sehr positiv ausgewirkt hätte. Die Installation hätte sicher noch etwas mehr Platz vertragen, dafür wirkten die kolossalen Räumlichkeiten der Rinderhallen leider etwas leer. Trotzdem genossen wir es die Performance, die mittlerweile seit 5 Jahren um die Welt tourt, einmal live zu erleben. Gleichzeitig mit dem Event eröffnete auch die MediaOpera, die seit ca. einem Monat in den Rinderhallen ihre Dependance hat und der Wiener Visualistenszene eine Spiel- und Experimentierstätte bietet. Das heisst in den Rinderhallen könnte in Zukunft noch einiges Interessantes passieren. Platz und Technik gibts jedenfalls ohne Ende.
Wir baten Robert Henke und Christopher Bauder unter den tagR.umbrella >

Interview: Peter Schlager
Kamera: Andreas .muk. Haider
Schnitt: Andreas .muk. Haider

klangmanifeste @ echoraum vienna

fomoke — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:09:15 +0000

Im Dezember des Vorjahres lockten die Künslterinnen Ulla Rauter und Christine Schörkhuber mit ihrer “Hörschau” Klangmanifeste in den Echoraum. An mehreren Abenden konnte man in gemütlicher Atmosphäre außergewöhnliche Soundperformances genießen. Arbeiten der Kuratorinnen zeigten installative Formen der Einbindung, der Sichtbarmachung, der Materialsierung von Ton.

Medienkünstlerin Stefanie Wuschitz im Gespräch mit Ulla Rauter und Chritine Schörkhuber zu ihren Werken:

Interview: Stefanie Wuschitz
Kamera: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Schnitt: Kathrin Stumreich

WOPPOW @ transmediale11

fomoke — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:59:14 +0000

A Berlin-Mitte concept store, a sweatshop at Haus der Kulturen… übermorgen embraces the capital of young creative fashion, right after Berlin fashion week, by unveiling their WOPPOW collection at the 2011 Transmediale exhibition. WOPPOW functions as an elaborate fashion marketing campaign for Somali pirates. ubermorgen.com is run by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, an artist duo living in Vienna. They went all the way for this project, visited sites of piracy, and joined forces with kenian fashion designer Otieno Gomba.

At the Transmediale we met Gomba and Hans…

Interview: Franziska Mayr Keber
Camera: Andreas muk Haider
Edit: Andreas muk Haider

Secrets Trilogy by Reynold Reynolds @tm11

muk — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:31:12 +0000

The exhibition opened with the transmediale 2011 and runs until 3.4.2011. He told me that the exhibition space will function as a studio also where he is going to work on a new shooting series while the public can watch him and his team in progress. If you are in berlin by that time, you should not miss it. I had the pleasure to get Reynold Reynolds under the tagR.umbrella to talk about his work.

Black reflections. Nanoart by Frederik De Wilde @ ars electronica 2010

Tobias — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:45:05 +0000

Frederik de Wilde likes black art. At Ars Electronica 2010 he showed a patch of the blackest black ever, a nano-structured material that absorbs 99.97% of the incident light, winning him the “[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant”. He envisions a bright future for the material, with applications ranging from superblack magneto-levitated cubes to increasingly large patches that might finally allow the observer to get immersed in infinite darkness.

For now, De Wilde leaves us in the dark in other ways: In an interview with derstandard.at, he impishly refuses to explain the details of how the trick works, pointing out that Rembrandt and Picasso didn’t publish their color recipes either. The scientists of Prof. Lin’s group at Rice University who developed the material did publish their findings, albeit in a closed-access journal. Probably they also filed a patent. German newspaper Die Zeit has a story on how British scientists discovered the material in the wings of a butterfly. Later, this feat of nature was mimicked using nanofabrication techniques in a Houston cleanroom.

In the exhibition space, the material is covered by plexiglass since dust particles would quickly degrade its properties. The glass surface however creates quite strong reflections, indeed reminding us of a Rembrandt painting hidden behind security glass in a carelessly illuminated museum. A prototype problem only, says De Wilde, to be solved by further research.

In our interview, quantum physicist Tobias Nöbauer finds out more about the physical principle and artistic concepts behind De Wilde’s work: How are the incident photons being treated? What’s the artist’s approach to taking a nano-material from the cleanroom into the exhibition space? Art as alchemy, uncontrolled reflections, whispering black magic? There’s a new shade of nano on the artistic reasearcher’s color palette: What do we get shown?

Interview: Tobias Nöbauer
Camera: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Editing: Sophie-Carolin Wagner

exclusive interview: anonymous at transmediale

tagr — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:35:05 +0000

exclusive interview with ?anonymous? at the transmediale, talking about the secret shit behind the scenes of #tm11. if this is true it will be a big disaster. recorded at haus der kulturen der welt 6.2.2011

Interview with Friedrich Lindenberg / Liquid Democracy e. V

superbertram — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:36:15 +0000

Uncut Interview with Friedrich Lindenberg from the Liquid Democracy e.V talking to Tobias Nöbauer & Volker Eckl from “Transforming Freedom”; second part (off the records) in german language, starting at 27:00. Recorded at the Transmediale 2011 in Berlin (feb. 5th 2011) by georg schütz.

tm.11 walk with peter moosgaard

muk — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:29:56 +0000

ambient impressions from this years transmediale festival in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Chris Haring im Gespräch mit Didi Bruckmayr @ ARS Electronica 2010

fomoke — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:24:10 +0000

Didi hängt wieder! An Metallhaken, angebracht an seinem Rücken, schwebt der Aktionskünstler über der staunenden Menge, während seine Kollegen ein rauschendes Fest zelebrieren, das Publikum umschlichten und ihre Gesichter mit Strick- oder Stecknadeln zieren. Schockierend oder faszinierend waren und sind seine Performances immer wieder…

Chris Haring, Österreichischer Choreograph (liquid loft) spricht mit Didi Bruckmayr:

Interview: Chris Haring
Kamera (performance): Andreas Haider
Kamera (interview): Franziska Mayr-Keber
Editing: Nora Skrabania

Worm/Detour @ klangmanifeste

fomoke — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:44:36 +0000

worm/detour zu Gast bei klangmanifeste, ein kleines feines Ausstellungs Event zu Klangkunst während der vorweihnachtlichen Adventzeit, im Echoraum Wien.

Drei Soundperformances präsentiert worm/detour an diesem Abend:

Bernhard Garnicing führt uns durch die klanglichen Welten des world wide web, das Künstlerduo Albert-Bernard lässt die Überreste einer Mauer zu den Klängen ihres Abrisses singen, und Peter Moosgaard sucht den persönlichen Kontakt zu seinem Arbeitsgerät…

soundwwwalk:

Kamera, Editing: Franziska Mayr-Keber

albert-bernard:

Kamera, Editing: Franziska Mayr-Keber

Peter Moosgaard:

video will be online soon….

Merrick, Mutated IKEA LAMP @ars electronica

peter moosgaard — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:10:24 +0000

A brilliant project at this years Ars Electronica was Merrick by Daan van den Berg. It shows a mutated IKEA lamp, together with images of the so called “Elephant Man” John Merrick. Van den Berg looks into a near future of customised design and on demand culture. Where everybody can easily print out his/her furniture on 3D printers – without getting it physically from the store. In this case something went wrong on the way: The artist infected the IKEA design files with a virus, letting it mutate, disfiguring the lamp like a case of Elephantiasis. The project is worth mentioning not only because of discussing topics of design in our digital age, but also because a digital virus is here infecting an everyday object, questioning a forthcoming hybrid space between the virtual and the real.

/param>Interview: Peter Moosgaard
Kamera: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Schnitt: Christof Vonbank

Review The TOASTER PROJECT, @ars electronica

peter moosgaard — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:55:52 +0000

“Left to his own devices he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.” Mit diesem Zitat von Douglas Adams stellt der Künstler Thomas Thwaites seine Arbeit The Toaster Project vor. Wahrscheinlich eine der besten Arbeiten, die auf der diesjährigen Ars Electronika zu sehen war, unternahm Thwaites den Versuch im Alleingang einen Toaster herzustellen. Mehr Informationen zum Toaster Project hier.

Präsentation: Peter Moosgaard
Kamera: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Schnitt: Christof Vonbank