Link to Transmediale website
In the Award Ceremony on Saturday, 6 February, Barbara Kisseler (Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin) and the members of both juries announced the winners of both the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010!
Canadian artist Michelle Teran is the winner of the transmediale Award 2010. Her work Buscando al Sr. Goodbar was awarded with a prize of 6,000 Euros.
A Distinction worth 2,000 Euros was given to the Americans Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey for their work Bicycle Built For Two Thousand.
Link to Transmediale website
For transmediale.10, I will present a new remix of Buscando al Sr. Goodbar as a two-channel video installation.
Buscando al Sr. Goodbar(2009) is a threefold tour through the Spanish town Murcia simultaneously taking place by bus as well as on Google Earth and YouTube.
Seated on a bus an audience debarks on a physical search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos produced in the city. Whenever any such YouTube video discloses the geographical coordinates of where it was shot, the video becomes tagged onto Google Earth via a special software mapping system. The bus can be followed virtually on Google Earth while YouTube videos are screened on the bus itself. By entering the spaces where videos were produced, an intimate encounter occurrs between video makers and audience.
Link to Transmediale website
Social networks in the so-called Web 2.0, traditional circles of friends, cultural and economic referential systems alike seem to always already generate a ‘creative material’ which artists use in different ways for their works. The panel ART 2.0 focuses on different strategies of artistic appropriation such as crowdsourcing, the direct invitation of a group of people to participate in an artwork, or the retroactive gathering and recycling of foreign contents and forms. The invited artists will present selected works which articulate new approaches towards authorship and intellectual property as well as towards the interaction between individuals and communities.
Date: Thu, 4.2.2010 – 16:30
Location: House of World Cultures
Moderator: Matthias Fritsch (de)
Participants: Michelle Teran (ca), Jens Wunderling (de), Jamie Wilkinson (us), Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey (us)
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We are Here: perception, experience, movement, production was a two week interdisciplinary workshop that explored artistic approaches to geography and cartography.
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I will be presenting my work at “The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice” conference in Bergen.
About the conference:
This conference will focus on the increasing use of the network as a space and medium for collaborative interdisciplinary art practices including electronic literature and other network based art forms. Researchers will present papers exploring new network-based creative practices that involve the cooperation of small to large-scale groups of writers, artists, performers, and programmers to create online projects that defy simple generic definitions and disciplinary boundaries. Topics might include online collective narratives, durational performances, evolving networked publication models, creative commons and open source art, remixes, and mashups. The seminar will be organized by the LLE Digital Culture group and will invite contributions from about 20 international researchers and artists. In addition to the scholarly seminar Nov. 9th and 10th at the University of Bergen, two evening programs will take place Nov. 8th and 9th at Landmark Café at Bergen Kunsthall, to showcase innovative work and will be open to the public.
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The increasing ubiquity of networks, mobile computing devices, locative services, urban screens, reactive skins, smart infrastructure, and a wide array of other technology-supported capabilities affect, for better and for worse, one of the ages-old ideals of public art: to creatively generate discourse in the public sphere about issues that matter to individuals and communities.
This talk will look at a number of projects around the world, including ones commissioned for the 01SJ Biennial, which use these capabilities to overlay virtual and physical space to map a new and contested hybrid public sphere, the ultimate control of which is not yet clear.
STEVE DIETZ (USA, curator, writer and lecturer)
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Buscando al Sr Goodbar nominated for a Transmediale 2010 Award.
Out of more than 1,500 submissions an international jury nominated nine art projects.
Link to announcement.
During flux-s, a new international arts festival taking place from September 10-13 at Strijp-S in Eindhoven, NL, visitors are invited to experience The City is Creative, a new work by artist Michelle Teran developed in residency at BALTAN Laboratories. The City is Creative explores the daily creative acts taking place throughout Eindhoven that are often overlooked. Michelle Teran approached different people in the city who published videos on YouTube and invited them to remake one of their videos within the abandoned factory buildings at Strijp-S, using the empty offices, hallways, and factory spaces as their playground and inspiration. More…
I’m currently involved in a discussion on visual geographies between Kate Armstrong, Vancouver multi-media artist and scholar and Garnet Hertz, a Canadian artist and scholar based in California for BlackFlash Magazine.
All three artists deal explicitly with contemporary ways of mapping space, or in some cases, a contemporary poetics of space. We’re drawing them together from three very different parts of the world to discuss their newest projects as well as the ideas driving them.
link to the discussion
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presented with Mat Trivett of Trampoline for the Skopje Biennal 2009
September 3-12, 2009
Methodology: The 6 hour workshop will present practical, participatory and theoretical examples of the way that the use of advanced location based technologies in cities has given rise to an emergent form of physical terrain that we call hybrid space. Finding them, mapping them and understanding the narrative – Michelle Teran And Trampoline’s Mat Trivett will weave together a mesh of ideas from the threads connecting hybrid spaces. Participants are invited to bring their digital devices.
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