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

[marc garrett]

Hi Helen & all,

Wow - this is very much the type of behaviour of a man in a privileged 
position, classic top-down nonsense. Shocking that no-one at the talk 
commented about the situation...

marc
> hi everyone,
> i spoke to tamiko today & heard a bit more of the story. she was not 
> actually presenting herself, but was in the audience at a panel on 
> activist art when one of the panel members, who was showing tamiko's 
> work as an example, invited her to comment on her work. her web site 
> was being shown on the screen at the time. as well as stopping tamiko 
> from speaking, gansing also asked for this to be taken off. nobody 
> else in the audience said anything, which is disappointing ...
>
> tamiko does plan to say something more about it but at the moment she 
> has some deadlines; hopefully she will come on the list & discuss it 
> with us soon.
>
> h : )
>
> On 5/02/12 2:08 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>> Well, this is rather thought-provoking.
>>
>> Aside from the "offensive" stance of the Director towards the whole 
>> AR practice, which could possibly be well motivated and arguable,
>> I can't really see the point of censoring or dump an artwork being 
>> discussed during a panel at Transmediale.
>>
>> Did they actually took off the work from the screen and suddenly 
>> stopped talking about it?
>>
>> I would find it quite disturbing.
>>
>> best,
>>
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>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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