[NetBehaviour] Fwd: augmented reality art termed "offensive!" by Transmediale Director

[ruth catlow]

Thought this was an interesting development.  Tamiko Thiel is one of the 
view artists I have encountered who is creating thoughtful and critical 
artworks working with augmented reality. I think this is a particularly 
hard (and fascinating) form to work with. What could Gansig have meant?

bests
Ruth

Please forward to interested parties:

Today at the Transmediale in Berlin, Germany's most important media art
festival, Transmediale director Kristoffer Gansing censored augmented
reality artist Tamiko Thiel in a discussion billed as an "open
conversation."

During the panel discussion "25 years of transmediale / reSource
Activism VIDEOMAKERS UNITE!," Thiel was invited by a panelist to talk
about "Reign of Gold," her augmented reality artwork for the AR Occupy
Wall Street project.
http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/reign-of-gold.html

Gansing - who was not moderating but sat in the audience - literally
shut her up, and demanded that her website be taken off the screen,
saying he finds augmented reality art "offensive!"

Ironically Gansing themed his festival "in/compatible" and proclaimed
that it would look at artistic movements that were not compatible with
the existing order and systems.

Why does Transmediale celebrate yesterday's interventionist art, but
fear today's interventionist art?

Videomakers Unite!
http://www.transmediale.de/node/20679
An open conversation about video art and net culture, media collectives
and counter-publics ... Videomakers Unite! takes a critical look back at
the 1980s and 90s discourse around video and the net, and relates this
to the production of present-day counter-cultures within the fields of
political and artistic, individual and collective practices.

- Tamiko Thiel

-- 
  Tamiko Thiel
  Visiting Professor, UdK Berlin, IZM
  (Berlin University of the Arts, Inst. of Time-Based Media)
  Technologies of Non-linear Dramaturgies


  Venice Biennial 2011 - Manifest.AR guerrilla AR Infiltration
  http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com/thiel_venice-2011/

  Istanbul Biennial 2011 - official collateral exhibit
  http://mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/ii/images.html

  Email:   tamiko at alum.mit.edu
  Website: http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/

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