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

[helen varley jamieson]

it is hard to understand what he could have found offensive - i asked 
tamiko & she said that he didn't say anything substantive; it sounds 
like he was saying that he finds augmented reality art in general 
offensive, rather than tamiko's work - altho demanding that it be taken 
off-screen is a pretty strong response. but it is hard to understand how 
a director of a media art festival could label one particular artform 
offensive.

we could ask tamiko to tell us more ...

h : )

On 4/02/12 10:38 PM, dave miller wrote:
> thanks for this Ruth - I'm working with augmented reality at the
> minute. As you say it is very difficult technically to get it working,
> and also difficult (for me at the moment) to find ways use it in my
> art, to extend what I've been doing. My brain is under pressure! But
> also, as you say, it's fascinating. I'll have a good look at Tamiko
> Thiel's work - I'm very interested in how artists are using this
> medium, and to use it for intervention is especially interesting.
>
> What did Gansig mean? Why offensive? I'd like to know more about this!
>
> dave
>
>
>
> On 4 February 2012 12:05, ruth catlow<ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>  wrote:
>> 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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