absent interfaces

Zagreb Artists' Lab - evaluation notes 10.12.2008

2008-12-16T18:00:00.004+01:00

Just a few notes taken during our evaluation talks about the artists' lab format:

the labs should be an opportunity for new input for the participating artists;
labs should be a hybrid format - not deciding in advance where it is on the spectre between open lab and workshop as two extremes, but deciding based on people's initial input;
accessible working space is a must;
time-management (and a person designated for the task), not content moderation;
preparation by all participants in advance;
need to break-up repetitiveness and routine (introducing daily stimulating physical activity, sonic experience or cognitive challenge, working odd hours);
continuous evaluation of the process;
"show & tell" - getting to know each others' work.

Zagreb Artists' Lab 08.12.2008

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Morning visit to the studio of Silvio Vujicic.

Afternoon discussion session at the Center for Drama Art office:

- what makes you decide to use a tool? especially a software tool for rehearsal work?
- process of semiotization of theatrical act depend on the audience subtracting some elements present; while with use of technology makes it hard to ignore (noise of projector, for example)
- generic/specific tool; custom tool
- reappropriation of available tools/gadgets
- overblown interface
- evident or visible technological intervention
- need to think of the operating algorithm of working technology
- what's the presence of technology even if it's removed from view
- accounted for as technology, transposition, content...
- apparatus
- dance-tech movement in the 1990's

ABSENT INTERFACES Zagreb Artists' Lab, 07.-12.12.2008

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Following a series of activities including labs, residencies, workshops,
seminars and presentations in Zagreb, Vienna, Istanbul, Barcelona and
Celra/Girona during 2005-2008, the Centre for Drama Art is hosting an
artists' lab in December 2008 with participants: Daniel Aschwanden (A), Heine Avdal (N/B), Alain Baumann (S), Bacaci sjenki (HR), Zeljko Blace (HR/NL), Andrea Bozic (NL), Toni Cots (S), Philipp Haupt (A), Ivana Ivkovic (HR), Tomislav Medak (HR), Nikolina Pristas (HR), Ibrahim Quraishi (US/NL), Rosa Sanchez (S), Zeljka Sancanin (HR), Daniel Turing (D), Silvio Vujicic (HR), Julia Willms (D/NL) and others

07. 12. 2008

Morning Intro Meeting at net.culture club mama

KEY WORDS/PHRASES: locative media, hybrid space, container, haunted house, beautiful machines, toys, space of interaction, tingo, threshold, mind hacking, trick, queer sport, surveillance, conventions and codes of space, things we fundamentally disagree on, sonic space, rebooting, Steve Paxton

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Afternoon presentation of Daniel Turing's software collaboration with BADco.

Steering group meeting at Celra 11.-13. July 2008

2008-07-15T11:45:00.003+02:00

Present: Toni Cots, Andrea Bozic, Aylin Kalem, Ivana Ivkovic, Heine Røsdal Avdal and Luea Ritter

'nothing can surprise us' residency at l'animal a l'escena 20.02-03.03.2008

2008-02-16T03:19:00.011+01:00

robert's video postcard features julia, robert, andrea

and our guest nathalie at l'animal. amazing place.

a great beginning of the new project.

we'll be back!

here's a link to some photo impressions:

'nothing can surprise us' at l'animal a l'escena

Evaluating the Lab at TQW and planning 2008-2010

2007-12-08T16:07:00.001+01:00

Open Lab 08.12.2007

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Scott Delahunta and Daniel Aschwanden introduce the lab

... visitors roam the lab...

Preparing for open lab 07.12.2007

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

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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

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Dinner at ShanghaiTan, Gumpendorferstrasse

Anneliese Haidinger demonstrates Shiatsu technique 06.12.2007

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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

2007-12-06T16:40:00.000+01:00

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

2007-12-06T15:58:00.000+01:00

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

2007-12-06T15:23:00.000+01:00

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

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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

2007-12-06T14:44:00.000+01:00

On Actionability and Interoperability

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

Vienna TQW Absent Interfaces Lab - photos 03.12.2007

2007-12-06T14:37:00.000+01:00

Vienna TQW Absent Interfaces Lab

2007-12-05T15:06:00.000+01:00

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