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