Hier te zien a.s. vrijdag 8 mei vanaf 10:00 het symposium "Positions in Flux" georganiseerd door het Nederlands Instituut voor de MediaKunst (NIMk)

zie: NIMk

10.00 On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society
Door Susanne Jaschko, samensteller Positions in flux en curator NIMk

10.30 – 12.30 Panel 1: Art goes politics
Tijdens deze sessie wordt bediscussieerd hoe kunst kan bijdragen om globale en lokale problemen zoals religieuze conflicten, klimaatproblemen of sociale crises op te lossen. Of is kunst enkel bedoeld om de vinger op de zere plek te leggen? Is het sowieso gewenst dat kunst als ´verbeteraar´ naar politieke en sociale zaken kijkt? In hoeverre kunnen deze projecten hun voordeel halen uit de dubieuze aandacht van de massamedia?

Wafaa Bilal, kunstenaar, (IQ/US)
Bilal grew up under the repression and violence of the Baathist regime in Iraq and considers himself a political artist, dealing with war and oppression, and the Iraqi experience. Bilal's 2007 dynamic installation ‘Domestic Tension’ placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project “breathtaking” and the Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece 'one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time.' He is assistant professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
www.wafaabilal.com

Hans Bernhard (AT), kunstenaar, UBERMORGEN.COM
UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. UBERMORGEN.COM’s open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). Lately UBERMORGEN.COM generated a lot of media attention with their projects ‘The Sound of Ebay,’ ‘Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime’ and ‘GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself.’
www.ubermorgen.com

Knowbotic Research, kunstenaarsgroep (DE/CH), artists in residence bij het NIMk 2008/2009
While the earlier, network-based projects by Knowbotic Research had concentrated on structures important to virtual networks, their recent test cases emphasise the aspect of transcoding in real spaces. By 'transcoding', Knowbotic Research mean the translation of abstract social and political facts and conditions which are removed from the classical public sphere, into situations that can temporarily be observed and negotiated.
www.krcf.org

Gemodereerd door Chris Keulemans, schrijver en journalist (NL)
‘Art After Crisis’ is a website by traveling writer Chris Keulemans. Ever since his first visit to wartime Sarajevo (BA), he has been fascinated by the way artists re-invent their work, their city and their life after a period of war or dictatorship. Their art often occupies empty spaces in a city struggling to recover. It finds a place for traumatic and violent memories, it mirrors the shaky present and it looks forward while others are still paralysed.
roadtrip.submarinechannel.com/content/view.jsp?mapid=5986&itemid=4897&menu=true

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCHPAUZE met interventie van Flirtman, Silver & True
Flirtman, Silver & True, Een computerspel in de realiteit
Een ‘echte’ avatar* bezoekt het NIMk. Hij is anoniem en valt niet op in de menigte. Wat hem onderscheidt is zijn verbinding met een mobiele netwerk. Door de Flirtman-gsm te gebruiken, kan je verschillende commando’s naar de avatar sturen. Hierdoor kun je hem aansturen en zijn acties controleren. Als de avatar de commando’s ontvangt, voert hij deze op een natuurlijke manier uit. Een surrealistisch spel in de openbare ruimte begint dan. Flirtman stelt vragen over simulatie in ons alledaags leven en probeert om de simulatie die zo typerend is voor computer games werkelijkheid te maken.

13.30 – 15.30 Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the digital

Dit panel bekijkt de geografische verschuiving die de mediacultuur op dit moment ondervindt en die de toekomst van het werkveld bepaalt. In het verleden traden Europa, Noord-Amerika en Japan op de voorgrond van digitale productie, ontwerp, kunst en technologisch onderzoek. Nu digitale technologieën beschikbaar zijn voor lagere kosten en meer verspreid over de wereld, beginnen nieuwe digitale communites te bloeien.
Dit panel kijkt specifiek naar initiatieven en organisaties in andere delen van de wereld zoals Oost-Europa, het Midden-Oosten, Afrika en Zuid-Amerika; waarbij wordt geprobeerd te ontrafelen wat deze initiatieven karakteriseert. In hoeverre beïnvloeden lokale en nationale culturen de digitale cultuur? Delen deze initiatieven ervaringen en uitdagingen, of is er geen gezamenlijke grond te vinden? Welke soorten kunst komen voort uit deze nieuwe locaties op de digitale kaart? Hoe kunnen we groei en verspreiding van deze organisaties ondersteunen?

Nat Muller, onafhankelijk curator en criticus (NL)
Muller is an independent curator and critic, based in Rotterdam with a specific focus on (new) media and art in the Middle East, media and politics and the intersections of aesthetics. She has held positions as project curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam). She has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL), the Lebanese American University in Beirut (LB), ALBA (Beirut) and A.U.D (Dubai). Recently, she was curator-in-residence at The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

Bronac Ferran (UK), onderzoeker, consultant en oprichter van bricolabs
Ferran’s current projects include a cultural mapping of digital culture in Brazil for SICA in the Netherlands. The bricolabs initiative links individuals and grassroots organisations working with media technologies in a hands-on, DIY way, across the world. Bricolabs was heavily informed by developments in social technology settings in Brazil particularly work there with recycled materials and collaborative approaches to knowledge sharing, open source and free software. Ferran is also Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art in London, for the Industrial Design Engineering Department.
www.boundaryobject.org

Marcus Neustetter, mediakunstenaar, curator en mede-oprichter van Trinity Session (ZA)
Neustetter is conducting research and developing projects in the field of new media art. In 2000 he launched sanman (Southern African New Media Art Network), a resource that promotes new media art and technology amongst audiences and artists in Southern Africa and networks companies, institutions and individuals that share similar interest in this field. In his role as facilitator, curator and cultural producer he is actively developing new projects that blur the boundaries of the traditional application of the creative idea. These processes involve both workshop programmes and development strategies of practitioners and audiences of digital and electronic art in a third world context, investigating the possibilities of sustainable relationships to the existing under-supported art structure and current development of corporate new media activity.
www.onair.co.za/thetrinitysession/index_temp.html

Péter György, theoretician, advisor of Kitchen Budapest (HU)
Prof. György is the Head of the Film, Media and Cultural Studies Graduate Program at ELTE and is now involved in the establishment of a Curatorial Studies and a New Media Master program with the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest respectively. György was strongly involved in setting up Kitchen Budepest together with Telekom, the medialab’s major partner. György will talk about the strategy behind this partnership, the politics of corporate relations and the values it creates for corporate partners.
www.kitchenbudapest.hu
http://emc.elte.hu/phd/mmi_en/peter-gyoergy

Gemodereerd door Rob van Kranenburg, denker, netwerker en auteur (NL/BE)
Van Kranenburg heeft les gegeven op meerdere onderwijsinstellingen in Nederland (UvA, EMMA Interaction Design, Industrial Design). Hij is auteur van 'The Internet of Things'.

Voor deze sessie wordt aan initiatieven en organisaties over de hele wereld gevraagd om een kort video-statement te maken over de uitdagingen die zij in de toekomst onder ogen denken te krijgen. Deze contributies worden voorgelegd aan het panel.

15.30 – 16.00 PAUZE

16.00 – 18.00 Panel 3: Open Source – A scheme for art production and curating?
Deze sessie behandelt het open source-concept voor het ontwikkelen en presenteren van kunst. De open source beweging die plaatsvindt wordt gedreven door het idee van collectieve, procesmatige en werkbare productie en verbetering. Binnen de softwareontwikkeling heeft deze strategie al bewezen goed te werken. Maar in hoeverre kan dit werkmodel bijdragen aan vormen van artistieke samenwerking? Is er een nieuwe rol voor kunstenaars en curatoren weggelegd in de toekomst? Welke economische waarde en invloed heeft expertise in een open source-werkveld? Hoe kunnen culturele instituten en organisaties hierop inspelen?

Jaromil, dyne.org en onderzoeker bij het NIMk
Denis 'Jaromil' Roio is the main author of the GNU/Linux Live CD Dyne:bolic as well as of a number of audiovisual tools. He is also an artist who has been part of international exhibitions such as CODeDOC II by the Whitney Museum Artport and speaker on conferences such as Ars Electronica. Inspired by Richard Stallman's 'free as in free speech' approach as well as liberatory politics, Jaromil seeks to transgress borders between art and code, social activism and research and development.
jaromil.dyne.org/journal/

Femke Snelting (NL) and Renée Turner (US)
De Geuzen is a foundation for multi-visual research and the collaborative identity of Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner. Since 1996 they have employed a variety of tactics to explore female identity, narratives of the archive and media image ecologies. Their work has been featured in events, publications and spaces such as Manifesta 2, Mute, NIMK, Peacock Visual Arts and Furtherfield.org. Exhibitions, workshops and online projects operate as thematic framing devices where the group investigates and tests ideas collectively with different publics. Characterising what they do as research, their work is open-ended, values processes of exchange and promotes critical interrogation.
www.geuzen.org

Marcos Garcia, directeur van Interactivos, Medialab Prado (ES)
Medialab-Prado is aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of digital culture and operates at the intersection of art, science, technology, and society. Its primary objective is to create a structure where both research and production are processes permeable to user participation. It has developed a unique workshop model for collaborative art production and knowledge transfer.
www.medialab-prado.es

Joasia Krysa, curator, oprichter van KURATOR (PL/UK)
KURATOR is a cultural organisation operating as a curatorial agency and research platform at the intersection of art and technology. It has a particular interest in an emerging discourse and practice that links curating with software and networks. Krysa’s recent curatorial projects include openKURATOR, an open submission and presentation platform developed by KURATOR. She is the editor of ‘Curating Immateriality’ (Autonomedia, New York 2006) and lecturer/researcher at the AZTEC (Art Science Technology Consortium at the University of Plymouth.)
www.kurator.org

Gemodereerd door Josephine Bosma, theoreticus en criticus (NL)
For more than 15 years Bosma’s focus has been on media art and media theory. She has published numerous interviews and essays in book collections and in magazines including Mute (UK), Telepolis (D), UHK (NO), and Switch (USA). She played a key part in organizing the radio part of the Next 5 Minutes 2 and Next 5 Minutes 3 festivals, and has edited the streaming media sections of the nettime book, ReadMe and the N5M3 workbook.
http://laudanum.net/bosma