Mon 23 August 2010
10:00–12:00h
domicil, Dortmund

Moderated by Kristoffer Gansing (se)

Social networks and mobile communication are changing both the way the internet is used, and its status as a site and a medium of social engagement. The presentations in this panel deal with practical and artistic uses of the new communication tools and point to their potential for critical reflexion and social change.

1. 10:00h | Robert Sakrowski (de): Curating Youtube Box [CYB]
2. 10:25h | Birgit Richard (de): YouTube Favorites = Media Masters
3. 10:50h | Marion Walton (za): Mobile Republic. Visual Approaches to Discourse in South African Mobile Social Networks
4. 11:15h | Sabine Himmelsbach (de): Art and Politics. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art. A Space for Presentation and Production of Media Art

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P3 Appropriating Social Media (PDF, 217.36 KB)

Robert Sakrowski, Sven Bäucker (de)

Curating Youtube Box [CYB]

Curating Youtube Box [CYB] is a temporary infrastructure for an exhibition space reacting to contemporary WEB 2.0 phenomena such as user generated content. CYB includes the hardware needed to stream movies via the Internet and the (temporary) exhibition environment these movies are presented in. The individual CYB exhibitions are managed via a web interface, allowing organizers/curators to remotely access the CYB. Individuals partaking in the project have the opportunity to curate a version of the exhibition. Thus, the statement everybody is an artist may be verified by means of the CYB.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Curating Youtube Box [CYB] (PDF)

Robert Sakrowski *1966, studied Art History. From 2007—2010 he worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann InstituteMedia.Art.Research in Linz (netpioneers 1.0). From 1999–2003 he headed the project netart-datenbank.org at TU-Berlin and curated several exhibitions and lectures in the field of netbased art.

Sven Bäucker *1969, studied Archicture: Prof.Nicolic/RWTH Aachen, 1997 Dipl.Ing. Architect (graduate engineer), 2003 label MOKIK (founder) graphic + exhibitiondesign + engineering (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, CASCO/Uetrecht, Hamburger Bahnhof/ Berlin, Ludwig Boltzmann InstituteMedia.Art.Research/Linz)

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Birgit Richard (de)

YouTube Favorites = Media Masters

YouTube, as cultural reservoir and visual archive of moving images, accommodates the whole range of visualising creative processes – from artistic finger exercises to fine arts. Most YouTube users stay within the given media structures. They do not program, yet still new aesthetics emerge and what is most important the users act one hundred percent media literate! YouTube clips would never be a substitution or be an exchange for classic media art, but they are a supplement, a marginal but important fresh addition and revitalisation of art.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | YouTube Favorites = Media Masters (PDF)

Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard is professor for New Media in theory and practice at the Goethe University in Frankfurt since 1998 . Her fields of specialisation include: aesthetics of everyday life (contemporary youth cultures, fashion, design, popular culture, gaming: representation of women in Computer Games...)

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Marion Walton (za)

Mobile Republic. Visual Approaches to Discourse in South African Mobile Social Networks

A new generation of South African Internet users network online via net-enabled phones. Mobile networking (both public and intimate) has the potential to reshape South African public discourse and change the social fabric, and mobile-centric internet allows connections with broader mediated publics. Mobile social interactions are often digitally invisible because of users financial constraints as well as platform architectures. Visualisations of mobile social networks and Internet use suggest the kinds of mediated conversations and networking currently taking place.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Mobile Republic. Visual Approaches to Discourse in South African Mobile Social Networks (PDF)

Marion Walton is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research confronts the issues of power and regulation of meaning for software users, particularly those in marginalized contexts.

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Sabine Himmelsbach (de)

Art and Politics. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art. A Space for Presentation and Production of Media Art

The presentation focuses on the work done and produced at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, an art institution dedicated to the presentation and discussion of media art. Examples from exhibitions and projects commissioned or produced will be shown. The presentation will also focus on the current exhibition MyWar. Participation in an age of conflict, a collaboration between FACT in Liverpool and Edith Russ Site for Media Art which is co-curated by Andreas Broeckmann, Heather Corcoran and Sabine Himmelsbach.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Art and Politics. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art. A Space for Presentation and Production of Media Art (PDF)

Sabine Himmelsbach is director of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg. She was Exhibition Director from 1999 - 2005 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. As a writer, she has contributed largely to catalogues and magazines. She has lectured internationally on topics related with media art and contemporary culture.

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