Category: English

  • mediating conflict ::::

    Sylvie Lacerte What is the term “mediating conflict” if not redundant, since mediation itself implies the existence of conflict? And why would anyone create and organize an exhibition on the subject? This exhibition is intended as a reflection on the need for access to a middleman to resolve conflicts—latent or declared—in society in general, but…

  • Banquete nodos y redes, Spanish media art

    Vito Campanelli, neural The Banquete project is a series of exhibitions which promote the Spanish state-of-the-art scene. This year’s installment (the third) took place at the Laboral in Gijon. The project is very well organised and succeeds in bringing people from disparate places together. The thirty artists selected by curator Karin remains the development of…

  • Tools of Art: Re-readings

    JAVIER MARROQUÍ Artecontexto, Nº 19 / 2008 / 3 In Valencia we are always in the midst of a crisis, and I don’t mean an economic one; although that, too, although it will never be acknowledged-but a cultural one. For years we have been subjected to a situation in which the institutions have seized control…

  • Library. Postcapital archive

    Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System – Art in the Age of Intellectual Property PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, July 19 – October 19, 2008 Daniel García Andújar / ES ///Im Zentrum der Installation befindet sich ein hoher Bau, den man als „Turm des öffentlichen Wissens“ bezeichnen könnte. Mit der geschlossenen Aussichtsplattform möchte Andújar eine Nicht-…

  • European Design Award for “Hartware Guide to Irational”

    (1 June 2008, 00:00) The “Hartware Guide to Irational” designed by laborb was awarded for the ‘successful interplay of paper, typography, binding and conceptional structure’ as the best art catalogue. The award ceremony took place in the framework of the European Design Conference in mid-May 2008 in Stockholm. See www.ed-awards.com and www.derwesten.de The Hartware Guide…

  • Workshop. Transforming Information into Knowledge

    Postcapital Archive Series July 10 – 13, 2008 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart During the workshop period, forms of creative, critical, and subversive handlings of media and new technologies, in both theory and practice, shall be developed. The focus of the workshop thereby additionally lies in the specific information and archive situation of our society. The…

  • On Difference #3: Politics of Space

    On the Expropriation and Re-appropriation of Social, Political, and Cultural Spaces of Action Ed.: Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ With texts by: Nancy Adajania, Daniel García Andújar, Judit Angel, Álvaro de los Ángeles, artesvisuais-politicas, Ricardo Basbaum, Helmut Batista, Hans D. Christ, Galia Dimitrova, Iris Dessler, Alenka Gregorić, Ciprian Mureșan, Ligia Nobre / Cécile Zoonens, Zoran…

  • Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System

    Art in the Age of Intellectual Property PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, July 19 – October 19, 2008 ‘You can’t use it without my permission … I’m gonna sue your ass!’ shouts Disney’s Little Mermaid with the angry voice of a copyright lawyer in the video Gimme the Mermaid (4:49 min., 2000). The video by Negativland and…

  • ”Close Window. Refresh”. Honor by Daniel G. Andújar

    http://senko.dk/ International Video Exhibition in Senko Frame Project June 7.th – June 28.th: Daniel G. Andújar (Spain): ”Honor”, 2006 tttp@irational.org https://danielandujar.org The last video in this series is by the mediaartist Daniel G. Andújar better known under the fiction “Technologies To The People”. “Honor” is a part of his “Postcapital Archives”, and in this work…

  • Banquete_nodos y redes

    Interactions between art-science-technology-society in digital culture in Spain The banquete_ project came about at the beginning of the 1990s and evolved as a network of conversations and collaborations between artists, scientists, humanists, technologists and activists. The shared motivation has been to encourage and socialise the dialogue between sciences and humanities with a mandate to explore…