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

[dave miller]

i'd love to know more

d

On 4 February 2012 15:19, helen varley jamieson
<helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> 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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