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

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hello everyone!

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:05 PM, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>wrote:

> 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!"
>
>

wow!

that's pretty tough!

are there any additional info? any other point of view? any additional
parts of the story?


AR is an incredibly fertile domain for investigation. And it manages to
bring onto the table multiple energetic themes for discussion, ranging fro
the ones related to "slacktivism", to the ones connected with free
technologies, to the ones related to intellectual property, and more.

Yet it is probably among the most promising areas (and modalities) in which
the ideas of appropriation, of the autonomous claim of our space and time
and of the possibility to free expression in the physical world are being
investigated and developed.


additional information on what actually happened (possibly including
different points of view, and obviously including the ones of Kristoffer
Gansing) would be really valuable for me (and for everyone who for various
reasons was not able to attend transmediale).

ciao!
xDxD

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