Tue 24 August 2010
15:00–16:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, S 137a

Moderated by Georg Dietzler (de)

1. 15:00h | Owen Mundy (us): Automata: Counter-Surveillance in Public Space
2. 15:20h | Christoph Brunner (ch/ca), Jonas Fritsch (dk): Balloons, Sweat and Technologies. Urban Interventions through Ephemeral Architectures
3. 15:40h | Georg Klein (de): Don't Call It Art! On Artistic Strategies and Political Implications of Media Art in Public Space
4. 16:00h | Georg Dietzler (de): Radical Ecological Art and No Greenwash Exhibitions

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P26 Public Interventions (PDF, 182.95 KB)

Owen Mundy (us)

Automata: Counter-Surveillance Using Public Space

Automata is the working title for a counter-surveillance internet bot that will record and display the mutually-beneficial interrelationships between institutions for higher learning, the global defense industry, and world militaries. Give Me My Data is a Facbook application that help users reclaim and reuse their Facebook data. The two projects, both ongoing, address important issues surounding contemporary forms of communication, surveillance, and control.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Automata: Counter-Surveillance Using Public Space (PDF)

Owen Mundy is an artist who investigates public space and its relationship to data. His artwork highlights inconspicuous trends and offers tools to make hackers out of everyday users. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University and DAAD fellow, currently based in Berlin.

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Christoph Brunner (ch/ca), Jonas Fritsch (dk)

Balloons, Sweat and Technologies. Urban Interventions through Ephemeral Architectures

As part of the internationally distributed micropolitical event Society of Molecules, our project experimented with analogue technological interventions into urban space. We used helium-filled balloons with LEDs inside, LED-floaties, to create ephemeral architectures altering the feel and spatiality of the urban ambiance both in real-time as through long-exposure digital post-processing. The video and presentation show how the floaties can be conceptualized as technological assemblages with micropolitical implications providing a critical approach for performing and experiencing the cityscape.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Balloons, Sweat and Technologies. Urban Interventions through Ephemeral Architectures (PDF)

Christoph Brunner is a researcher in the department of Arts & Media at the University of Arts in Zurich and at the same time completes a Ph.D. at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal.

Jonas Fritsch is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Aarhus University working on a multitudinous thinking-together of interaction design and affect theory in conjunction with practical interaction design experiments carried out at the Center for Digital Urban Living, Dep.of Information and Media Studies.

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Georg Klein (de)

Don't Call It Art! On Artistic Strategies and Political Implications of Media Art in Public Space

I want to present my work turmlaute.2 | tower sounds.2: the watchtower discussing artistic strategies of electronic media art in public space. This work was realized in a former GDR watch tower in Berlin transforming it into a total media installation and working with a fake. We established a fictitious organisation, the European Border Watch (EUBW), inviting EU citizens to actively monitor European external borders against illegal immigrants on their home PCs – border watching as a social Internet network
Further Information: europeanborderwatch.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Don't Call It Art! On Artistic Strategies and Political Implications of Media Art in Public Space (PDF)

Georg Klein works as sound/video/media artist. He developed a situational concept of site-specific art in public space (Germ. Sound Art Award 2002, Media-Space Award 2006). With his office KlangQuadrat he performed installations all over Europe, Israel and USA. Based in Berlin, currently in Istanbul.

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Georg Dietzler (de)

Radical Ecological Art and No Greenwash Exhibitions

Radical Ecological Art and NO Greenwash Exhibitions - as artist-curator being strongly involved in Art and Ecology Projects, as researcher, I identified a huge number of Art and Ecology exhibitions in fashion which I describe as greenwash, many are about art and nature, in nature others required heavy carbon footprints and very few include Radical Ecological Art while very few curators, funding bodies, journalists are familiar with such mostly longterm process-based projects. A presentation of few work documents about Radical Ecological Art, Art that matters for a change including Media Arts.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Radical Ecological Art and No Greenwash Exhibitions (PDF)

Georg Dietzler is a socio-political environmental artist/curator/ researcher for Art, Nature and Environment. Besides Art and Ecology he curates and consults more Sound Art, experimental transdisciplinary music and media dance programmes.
Further Information: dietzlerge

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