Fri 27 August 2010
15:00–16:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, L 110

Moderated by Timothy Druckrey

1. 15:00h | Eugenia Fratzeskou (gb): Unfolding Space
2. 15:20h | Gabriel Menotti Gonring (gb): Computation as Dynamic Topography. The Coordination of Algorithms, Apparatuses and Architectures in the Production of Digital Images
3. 15:40h | Martin Koplin, Carl Skelton, Helmut Eirund (de): Betaville
4. 16:00h | Lone Koefoed Hansen (dk): Practicing Generic Cities. Reconfiguring Life through Digital Media

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P53 Algorithmic Topology (PDF, 122.25 KB)

Eugenia Fratzeskou (gb)

Unfolding Space

The cosmological understanding of space as an uncontrollably changing informational substance and the expanded use of virtual environments necessitate new spatial research strategies for advancing site-specific art. In my research into interspatiality, creating interpassages between digital and built spaces enables innovative spatial interventions. The conventional modes of VR are challenged as built boundaries unfold to reveal the hidden dimensions of architecture by visualising paradoxical heterogeneous spaces in a virtual environment. The inherent abstraction and flaws of VR are revealed.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Unfolding Space (PDF)

Dr. Eugenia Fratzeskou lectures Architecture at Westminster University, London. Her recent international research publications present pioneering types of digital site-specific art & drawing. Her award-winning and internationally recognised work has been presented in Leonardo/MIT, Venice Biennale etc.

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Gabriel Menotti Gonring (gb)

Computation as Dynamic Topography. The Coordination of Algorithms, Apparatuses and Architectures in the Production of Digital Images

This paper proposes a spatial paradigm for the evaluation of computational processes in the engendering of technical images. It takes its basic guidelines from Vilém Flusser’s concepts of apparatus and information, and the idea of image production as a process of abstraction that would work alike to Katherine Hayles notion of materiality as the result of interactions between physical characteristics and signifying strategies. In the last part, we think through some coding architectures based on visual or spatial logics, such as esoteric programming languages, data matrix and dataflow.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Computation as Dynamic Topography. The Coordination of Algorithms, Apparatuses and Architectures in the Production of Digital Images (PDF)

Gabriel Menotti is a Ph.D. Candidate on the Media and Communications departments of PUC-SP and Goldsmiths University of London. He works as an independent media curator and producer, interested in different forms of cinema, cultural circuits and grassroots activity.

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Martin Koplin, Carl Skelton, Helmut Eirund (de)

Betaville

Betaville is a new open-source massively multiplayer environment for fictionalizing the city of the future as art, and promoting real civil participation in urban planning of today. Betaville will transform artworks into communication, and communication between the relevant governmental entities and the network-enabled civil society into artwork, by providing an environment for collaborative 3D design, mobile AR, knowledge exchange, innovation and development - fictional, real, emotional - combining the ease of use and broad adoption of current entertainment technologies.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Betaville (PDF)

Martin Koplin is the Managing Director of the M2C Institute for Applied Mediatechnology and Culture in Bremen and Scientist in Residence of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Centre at the New York University. His actual work focuses on digital public and digital art in the new Polis.

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Lone Koefoed Hansen (dk)

Practicing Generic Cities. Reconfiguring Life through Digital Media

Flanagan proposes that most locative media artworks neglect the particularities of spaces, their historical and political layers. Koolhaas, on the other hand, states that all urban areas are alike, that we are facing a global Generic City. The paper analyses digital media artist Esther Polak’s NomadicMILK project in light of the generic and particular properties of space as laid out by Flanagan and Koolhaas in order to discuss the possible reconfiguring practices of locative media.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Practicing Generic Cities. Reconfiguring Life through Digital Media (PDF)

Dr. Lone Koefoed Hansen (asst. prof. Aarhus University) researches the interface between mobile media, urban space and everyday performativity.

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