Evaluating the Lab at TQW and planning 2008-2010

Open Lab 08.12.2007

Scott Delahunta and Daniel Aschwanden introduce the lab



... visitors roam the lab...

Preparing for open lab 07.12.2007

Aylin Kalem on post-digital new media art and and use of gesture 06.12.2007

Aylin Kalem talks briefly about post-digital new media art...



...and use of gesture in her project with Beliz Demircioglu Cihandide



Aylin Kalem is a lecturer, teacher, critic, researcher in the fields of dance, performance, the body and digital culture. Together with Beliz Demircioglu Cihandide she runs the Istanbul based initiative Bodig.

Lab participants relax in the evening 06.12.2007

Dinner at ShanghaiTan, Gumpendorferstrasse

Anneliese Haidinger demonstrates Shiatsu technique 06.12.2007

Anneliese Haidinger demontrates Shiatsu technique using diodes for the lab participants.

Kiatsu Shiatsu School

Tom Medak on his working process with BADco. 05.12.2007

Tom Medak talks to Scott deLahunta on his working process with BADco.


Tom Medak is a philosopher and performer who works with Croatian independent theatre company BADco.

Heine Røsdal Avdal on Moss Landscaping 05.12.2007

Heine Røsdal Avdal talks on use of moss landscaping in his work



Heine R. Avdal works with deepblue

Roland Seidel on MAN OS 1 / extraordinateur 05.12.2007

Roland Seidel and Scott Delahunta on Seidel's MAN OS 1 / extraordinateur


More info on the work (German only): MAN OS 1 / extraordinateur

Jens Hauser's talk on 04.12.2007

Presence versus Representation - an approach to art involving live/life biotechnology

"how to make words tangible without representing knowledge?"

Tom Medak's talk on 04.12.2007

On Actionability and Interoperability

"computers are good at handling data and bad at handling meaning"

Vienna TQW Absent Interfaces Lab - photos 03.12.2007

Vienna TQW Absent Interfaces Lab

03.-09. December 2007 at TQW, Vienna

Participating:

Daniel Aschwanden (CH/A), Heine Røsdal Avdal (N/B), Andrea Božić (HR/NL), Toni Cots (DK/E), Scott Delahunta (GB/NL), Beliz Demircioglu (TR), Jens Hauser (D/F), Ivana Ivković (HR), Aylin Kalem (TR), Konic thtr / Alain Baumann (F/E) und Rosa Sanchez (E), Manoa Free University / Ralo Mayer and Philipp Haupt (A), Tomislav Medak (HR), Robert Pravda (CZ/NL), Roland Seidel (D/A), Julia Willms (D/A)

Local guest participants:

Katherina Zakravsky
Andreas Leo Findeisen

Reference links:

http://del.icio.us/ivanai/absentinterfaces

Reference works that came up in Jens Hauser's talk:

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht "Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey"

Mitchell Whitelaw "Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice"
http://www.users.on.net/~mitchellwhitelaw/against_information_a4.pdf

Anna Munster "Materializing New Media Embodiment in Information Aesthetics"

Jean-Luc Nancy "The Intruder"

Eugene Thacker "Biomedia"

Key words and phrases that came up in the first three days:

interfaces
definitions (epistemological)
techne
trans-species
tools
human/machine
human/plants
entity
porousness
membrane
sentient objects
uncanny
zooming
overlapping spaces
carnivorous plants
insects on skin
presence
spaces of presence
re-materialization
data vs. information
bioart and performativity
topicality
interoperability
actionability
metaphor and metonymy
archiving and documentation
semantic web
folksonomies