Date/Time
Date(s) – 19/05/2012
4:40 pm – 5:40 pm

Location
Groothandelsgebouw, Rotterdam

The Piet Zwart Institute Master in Media Design and Communication department launches its new publication with Mute publishing: Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… {on privacy, surveillance and our shadowy data-double}.

A silent listener to our streaming confessions, the ambient social network envelops itself around our rituals, banalities and routines and traces the specificities of our dataset, or rather our shadowy data-double. Crawling and scraping, it creates a portrait of not only who we are as individuals, but also our demographic character, status and potential future self. Just as our data-double grows exponentially through these infinite feedback loops, the debate on privacy also proliferates. While discussions on the value of public space and the commons have regrettably waned, privacy has become the zone of contention for lawyers, large corporations, governments and individuals, who all have much at stake.

Sniff, Scrape, Crawl…. is the result of trying to make sense of these debates. Contributions from: Birgit Bachler, Seda Guerses, Inge Hoonte, Nicolas Maleve, Men in Grey, Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev, Michelle Teran, Steve Rushton, Discrete Dialogue Network and Amy Suo Wu.

The publication is a collaboration between the Piet Zwart Institute: Master Media Design and Communication and Creating 010 Hogeschool Rotterdam.

Buscando al Sr. Goodbar and The City is Creative are both discussed in an essay written by Michelle Kasprzak for C Magazine Spring 2012 Memory Issue.

http://www.cmagazine.com/2012_113.htm

This issue is about memory- how culture, technology and narratives shape our relationship to the past, and the material forms and media that hold memories. It’s also about the entropy, erasure and forgetting that erodes and overcomes memory, allowing new ideas, stories and cultures to materialize. Now is a particularly interesting time to consider this topic, as the material objects and spaces housing our memories, such as books, libraries, non-reproducible artifacts and physical exchanges, continue to give way to digital and virtual technologies that make information and memory increasingly immaterial, ephemeral and mobile, but also more widely and freely available. As we adopt the use of such technologies, there is an undeniable shift in our relationships to physical places and objects, to others around us, and to our sense of being bounded by time; this shift warrants serious consideration.

The Internet and social media platforms incorporate and arguably eclipse prosthetic memory, collapsing distances of space and time that cannot be bridged in real life into a virtual, often banal, and overly commercialized present. In her essay in this issue, Michelle Kasprzak looks at artists who use social media as a platform for their work, how it shapes users’ identities, and how it elicits participation. Many of the works she discusses experiment with the distinctions between the public and the private; individual production and group collaboration; and the representational and the real. When online, it’s often impossible to differentiate between what is real and what is not, what is past and what is present, and what is dead or alive- not to mention differentiating between experiencing it in real life and experiencing it on the Internet. On Facebook, scorned friends and deceased friends remain knowable and accessible, if not somewhat uncommunicative, long after they are gone from our real lives. Just as there can be no real death on the Internet, the sense of their loss is diminished, partially, at least.

https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/991

Global Futures Lectures

• Friday 04 May Victor Burgin 3-5pm

Global Futures Seminars

• 25 April Michelle Teran 4.30pm
• 9 May Stephen Foster 4pm
• 15 May Alex Galloway 4pm
• 25 May Jodi Dean 4pm
• 6 June Pasi Valiaho 4pm

Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media Winchester

A symposium on art, design, and the politics of information. Designers, artists, scientists discuss the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and construction of urban spaces.

• Philippe Rekacewicz
• Peter Sunde
• Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
• Max Van Kleek
• Daniel van der Velden
• Ben Dalton
• Steven Dixon
• Amber Frid-Jimenez
• Jill Walker Rettberg
• Michelle Teran

Organized by Amber Frid-Jimenez and Ben Dalton

Hosted by Kunstøgskolen i Bergen / Bergen National Academy of Art & Design (KHiB) in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, and the University of Bergen with support from the Verdikt programme of the Norges Forskningsråd, KHIB Research Council, and KHIB Departments of Design and Fine Art.

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez, Digital Anthropophagy and the Anthropophagic Re- Manifesto for the Digital Age Presentation, 2009-

Location: Bergen Academy of Art and Design
Date: 05-06.03.2012
Instructor: Michelle Teran with guest lecturer Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez

Link to seminar page on academy website.

The lecture performance works at the interface between lecturing and performing, providing a mediation between art and knowledge and combining research, visual art and performative storytelling methods. This two day seminar will explore the genre of the lecture performance. The seminar will provide a survey of this allusive area by looking at works coming from visual and performance art, activism and theatre, which will be analyzed and interpreted within a group discussion and debate. If contemporary art can be considered as a space for knowledge production, then what are the terms of inquiry? How is this manifested and information exchanged? How can art operate within academic, scientific, political and media channels? The seminar is intended to generate a useful resource, developed within a discursive setting, that students can then use to inform their own artistic practices.

Workform:
Students will be asked for prepare case studies of lecture performance that will be presented to the seminar group for discussion and debate. Students will be asked to interpret and discuss the different examples. Case studies can be drawn from a list prepared by the seminar leader. Additionally students can suggest their own examples. These studies will contribute to a building of knowledge and practice through presentation and group debate over content and style. Students will learn how to research and present material for group discussion.

The seminar will also include a live performance lecture by Brazilian artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez on the evening of March 6th on the 8th floor Kunstakademiet.

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received the prestigious Flusser Award Distinction of Transmediale’s Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011 with her theoretical and performative work Digital Anthropophagy and the Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Age, about cultural cannibalism in the age of digital culture. Vanessa is a PhD candidate at Universität der Künste in a hybrid program of art practice and communication science conducting research at the Flusser_Archiv.

Michelle Teran is a Canadian-born artist whose practice explores media, performance and the urban environment. Her work critically engages media, connectivity and perception in the city. Her performances and installations repurpose the language of surveillance, cartography and social networks to construct unique scenarios that call conventional power and social relations into question. Currently she is a research fellow within the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, 2010-2013.

Join the world of new media, technology, performance and other strange things. As an artist from 2012 we want to give you the possibility to combine bits and bytes to your artistic world. For three days you can come to Maastricht join the workshop of Michelle Teran.

http://www.thevirtualbody.org/styled-9/styled-15/index.html

Michelle Teran is a Canadian-born artist whose practice explores media, performance and the urban environment. Her work critically engages media, connectivity and perception in the city. Her performances and installations repurpose the language of surveillance, cartography and social networks to construct unique scenarios that call conventional power and social relations into question. She is the winner of the Transmediale Award, the Turku2011 Digital Media & Art Grand Prix Award, Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention (2005, 2010) and the Vida 8.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition.

For more information see www.ubermatic.org.

The workshop will be theoretical and practical. You get an overview of networked performances. With a focus on performance, media and the city but the biggest part of the workshop will be working together.

You don’t have to be an expert to join this workshop. Interest and curiosity are sufficient.
The group will consist of a mixture of students and professionals. 15 is the max with 8 places for professionals. The workshop is for free, we also take care of hotels.
If you are interested. React before January the 6th, with a short motivation why you would like to join the workshop.
You can mail your interest to piet@huisvanbourgondie.nl

Schedule: Wednesday, January 18th, 5pm: Exhibition opening / Introduction lecture – 6th floor, academy
Thursday, January 19th, 10am – 4pm: Seminar – 6th floor, academy / plus: Film Screening, with Jeremy Welsh, 8pm – 8th floor, academy

Seminar Participants: Faculty of Invisibility (Sönke Hallmann / Inga Zimprich), Jennifer Gabrys, Brandon LaBelle, Katrine Meisfjord, Robert Sember, Michelle Teran, Jeremy Welsh

http://student.khib.no/index.php/khib_en/Calendar/Lectures-and-presentations-10-11/The-Invisible-Seminar

The seminar seeks to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies. If the visual arts historically have relied upon the seeing subject as its partner, functioning to give representation to the imagination or world events, what forms of critique, protest and poetics have been developed by occupying the space of the invisible? How has visual culture studies, and what Camiel van Winkel terms the “regime of visibility”, contributed to the contemporary imperative to visualize and expose? Can notions of the invisible be used to deepen perspectives on the power dynamics of the gaze and image production? And importantly, how might invisibility contribute to rethinking modes of collectivity and politics?

Through this two day seminar, questions around looking and the overlooked will be addressed, pointing toward acts of sonic intervention, secret projects, smuggling operations, covert criticality and other methodologies of the hidden or erased to enliven debate on contemporary cultural practices.

The seminar will consist of a series of short presentations or provocations by visiting artists as well as academy staff. It is the aim of the seminar to open up dialogue and round-table discussion, and to investigate the theme from a multiplicity of perspectives.

11h -12.20h

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2011/tracing_mobility/veranstaltungen_53866/Veranstaltungsdetail_66614.php

How does our relationship change to the natural world, to remote places, when connectivity is assured even if only by means of a passive satellite link? How does our tolerance of the real world adjust when so much of our shared experience, on a day to day basis, takes place in a purpose-designed container that allows us to edit out the problematic bits. How are people’s rights affected when they are not conscious producers of information but unwilling generators of data, as digital refugees?

In this new world built of mass-less architecture have we not become trapped by the Net just when we thought we were escaping the ground?

The Tracing Mobility Symposium 2011 promises to tease this question till it tears while pulling at the threads of ownership, imperialism and empiricism.

Panel 1 – Keep on Bloggin’ in the Free World (Theatersaal)

Sadie Plant (20min)
Stefan Heidenreich (20min)
Christian Hänggi (20min)
Moderated by Hubertus von Amelunxen

12.30h – 13.15h

Wolfgang Ernst (keynote)
Tracing Tempor(e)alities (40min)
Introduced by Hubertus von Amelunxen (Theatersaal)

14.15h – 14.45h

Artists’ Talks
Michelle Teran, Folgen, Lecture Performance (15min)
Landon Mackenzie, 2 paintings, Artists’ presentation (15min)
Introduced by Stephen Kovats (Exhibition)

15h – 16.20h

Panel 2 – A View from the Bridge

Hito Steyerl (20min)
Heath Bunting (20min)
Hendrik Speck (20min)
Moderated by Stephen Kovats (Theatersaal)

24.11.2011 – 12.12.2011

Opening: 23.11.2011
Wed – Mon 11 – 19 h | Symposion 26.11. 11 – 17 h

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2011/tracing_mobility/projekt_detail_53866.php

Tracing Mobility sets out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance.

The exhibition presents the positions of 16 international artists who trace the shifting terrain of global and local mobility, virtual and material movement. They use varying approaches to pursue the numerous questions of our present’s mobility: Where can we escape to when online- and offline worlds converge? What does the movement of a body in a landscape indicate when every point of the earth is within reach through the aid of digital technology? How do mobile devices and media alter our mindset and change our perception of time and space?

By means of installations, videos, performances and paintings, but also in the guise of iPhone Apps, maps and open-source collaborations, we see artists developing strategies in order to position themselves within this dynamic topography and to find possible points of exit.

A Symposium and the Tracing Mobility Open Platform will offer further explorations of these themes via lectures, talks and workshops.

Exhibiting Artists: Frank Abbott (UK), Aram Bartholl (DE), Neal Beggs (UK/FR), Heath Bunting (UK), Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller (CAN), Miles Chalcraft (UK/DE, Simon Faithfull (UK/DE), Yolande Harris (UK/NL), Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser (DE), Landon Mackenzie (CAN), Open_Sailing (FR/JP), plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE), Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL), Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) , Mark Selby (UK), Michelle Teran (CAN/DE)