Artistic Bokeh is an initiative to qualitatively explore, map and extend the electrosphere with parameters of artistic research and development. The group is intertwined with the project Artistic Technology Research at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
The format of “documentation” is an essential part of reflecting, presenting and structuring knowledge. Artistic Bokeh works in cooperation with expert-networks with backgrounds of DSLR-Video and DIY-Cameras, and includes a self-reflexive component which addresses the medium “documentation” as such: documentation as method. The main aim is to research on aesthetic/qualitative parameters of experimental documentation, apart from working on and finding new terms for what was previously known as “New Media Arts”.
Net Culture Discussion at Metalab Vienna (9.11.2012)
Summary of the event in Metalab in November 2012 by the World-Information Institute.
Based on the book “Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa” (eds. Clemens Apprich, Felix Stalder), the World-Information Institute and Vienna’s Metalab organised a podium discussion about net culture with Konrad Becker (World-Information Institute), Christopher Clay (soup.io), Uschi Reiter (servus.at) and Matthias Tarasiewicz (Artistic Technology Research) as guests. Starting from the radical net culture scene of the 1990s, the goal was to also discuss contemporary movements. That there were more possibilities and that approaches were more radical proved hard to convincingly show, since lots of initiatives no longer exist and documentation is not happening (e.g. mailing list archives are often not available anymore).
While some were optimistic about the current state of net culture and believe in empowerment and multiplication through the net (access for all), others stated that media competence is not at all immanent, that there are new forms of information asymmetry and information monopolies, and that the information obtained through the net is redundant.
There are approx. 1100 Media Labs such as the Metalab all over the world. What makes these hacker spaces popular is e.g. 3D printing - but being ahead of the economy does not make an activity critical, warned Tarasiewicz. Not everyone seemed happy about universities as places of critical media awareness either, and Reiter pointed to the difficulty of making media competence workshops sexy enough for people to actually partake in them. It was agreed that strategies are needed to steer against phenomena such as viral marketing with a critical cultural practice.
How can we create our own framework? How can a different infrastructure be developed and what financial models can we use? Those were the key questions at the end of the discussion. Some tentative answers included hacker spaces and Kickstarter as well as developing media competence and literacy in commercial spaces, pursuing knowledge transfer and DIY.
https://metalab.at/wiki/Netzkulturdiskussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcXu8w4CoM
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23netzkultur
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/artisticbokeh/sets/72157631972916959/
Based on the book “Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa” (eds. Clemens Apprich, Felix Stalder), the World-Information Institute and Vienna’s Metalab organised a podium discussion about net culture with Konrad Becker (World-Information Institute), Christopher Clay (soup.io), Uschi Reiter (servus.at) and Matthias Tarasiewicz (Artistic Technology Research) as guests. Starting from the radical net culture scene of the 1990s, the goal was to also discuss contemporary movements. That there were more possibilities and that approaches were more radical proved hard to convincingly show, since lots of initiatives no longer exist and documentation is not happening (e.g. mailing list archives are often not available anymore).
While some were optimistic about the current state of net culture and believe in empowerment and multiplication through the net (access for all), others stated that media competence is not at all immanent, that there are new forms of information asymmetry and information monopolies, and that the information obtained through the net is redundant.
There are approx. 1100 Media Labs such as the Metalab all over the world. What makes these hacker spaces popular is e.g. 3D printing - but being ahead of the economy does not make an activity critical, warned Tarasiewicz. Not everyone seemed happy about universities as places of critical media awareness either, and Reiter pointed to the difficulty of making media competence workshops sexy enough for people to actually partake in them. It was agreed that strategies are needed to steer against phenomena such as viral marketing with a critical cultural practice.
How can we create our own framework? How can a different infrastructure be developed and what financial models can we use? Those were the key questions at the end of the discussion. Some tentative answers included hacker spaces and Kickstarter as well as developing media competence and literacy in commercial spaces, pursuing knowledge transfer and DIY.
https://metalab.at/wiki/Netzkulturdiskussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcXu8w4CoM
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23netzkultur
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/artisticbokeh/sets/72157631972916959/