ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies 2011

Weimar (Germany), June 6-10, 2011
Deadline: Feb 20, 2011

The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für
Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University (Department of German), will take place from June 6 – June
10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany. Conceived as the first in a series of annual summer schools that will be held alternately at the IKKM Weimar
and at Princeton University, the 2011 program will be directed by Lorenz Engell (Weimar) and Thomas Levin (Princeton).

This year’s summer school will focus on the comparative analysis and theoretical investigation of selected aspects of surveillance culture.
The weeklong series of seminars, workshops, and lectures will be devoted to an examination of the technological, aesthetic, political,
and conceptual dimensions of surveillance practices. The summer school will address these practices specifically within the categories of
monitoring, tracking, and data aggregation.

The concept of monitoring is especially relevant to surveillance practices inherent in television technology and therefore refers to new
forms of engaging with the visual. Tracking, on the other hand, refers to a wider scope of the politics of control, which are promoted, for
instance, by the use of devices such as GPS and cell phone positionality services. Furthermore, these politics also underlie the
emerging cultures of social media.

The aggregation of vast databases of personal information gathered from, for example, frequent flyer accounts, surfing history,
toll-roads, cell phone and credit card usage, all result from the ability to track information. This process of data aggregation is aimed
at the production of cyber-portraiture – or the ‘data shadow’ – which exists for nearly everyone and calls into question the notion of
informational self-determination within the framework of what one could call a surveillance ontology (I am surveilled therefore I am).

The summer school will discuss and compare these practices of surveillance and offer in-depth analyses of both the conceptual
framework and the media of surveillance.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer
School for Media Studies 2011. In: H-ArtHist, Feb 2, 2011.
<http://arthist.net/archive/769>.

SAG 2011: about Geert Lovink

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Lovink
Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is a Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School, and an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Lovink earned his master’s degree in political science at the University of Amsterdam, holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland.

Lovink is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue.[3] As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.

@khm mediathek:
Lovink, Geert : Zero comments  : Elemente einer kritischen Internetkultur  / Geert Lovink . – Bielefeld  : Transcript , 2008 . – 326 S. . – 978-3-89942-804-9. – (Kultur- und Medientheorie ). – 3-89942-804-8
Sign.: MED C.1.3 – 63 Znr.: 08 K 1627

Lovink, Geert : Dark fiber : tracking critical internet culture / Geert Lovink . – Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press , 2002 . – XI, 382 S. . – 0-262-12249-9. – (Electronic culture )
Sign.: MED L.3 – 79 Znr.: 02 K 970

Lovink, Geert : The principle of notworking : concepts in critical internet culture ; public lecture delivered on 24 Februari 2005 / Geert Lovink . – Amsterdam : Hogeschool van Amsterdam , 2005 . – 29 S. . – 90-5629-380-X. – (HvA Publicaties ). – 978-90-5629-380-2
Sign.: MED C.1.3 – 68 Znr.: 08 K 1091

Lovink, Geert : Uncanny networks : dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia / Geert Lovink . – Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press , 2002 . – XV, 374 S. . – 0-262-12251-0. – (Leonardo )
Sign.: MED L.3 – 83 Znr.: 03 K 544

SAG 2011: about L’école de Stéphanie

KW Berlin
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V. – INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin
Deutschland
fon 0049 (0)30.24 34 59-0
info [at] kw-berlin [dot] de
homepage

L´école de Stéphanie
Künstler, Philosophen, Theoretiker, Autoren, Kuratoren:
Stephanie Moisdon, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Aurelien Froment, Nathaniel Mellors, Andrea Viliani, Julia Scher, Elaine Sturtevant, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anri Sala, Thomas Zipp, Jean-Charles Massera, Sylvere Lotringer, Ruwen Ogien, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Trisha Donnelly …

Pressetext:
Unter der strengen Leitung der Direktorin Stéphanie Moisdon werden in der Dreitagesschule Fragen und Gedanken zu Bild, Abbild und künstlerischen Formen frei im Klassenraum zirkulieren. L’école de Stéphanie ist ein Ort der Projektion, der Kreation und der Sprache, mit dem Vorhaben, Wissen, Erkenntnisse und Dinge zu vermitteln und auszutauschen. 15 Künstler, Philosophen, Theoretiker, Autoren und Kuratoren bilden das Lehrpersonal. Hans-Peter Feldmann schafft ein zügelloses Klassenzimmer und lädt Sie ein, noch einmal Schüler zu werden.

Freitag, 30. April 2010
14 Uhr Dorothea von Hantelmann: Why is the Exhibition the Central Ritual of Western Democratic Market Societies?
15 Uhr Clemens von Wedemeyer: How to Make a First Person Camera?
16 Uhr Aurélien Froment: Forms of Nature, Forms of Knowledge, Forms of Beauty

Samstag, 1. Mai 2010
14 Uhr Nathaniel Mellors: MEGACOLON – For & Against Language
15 Uhr Andrea Viliani: From Institutional Critique to Institutional Narrative
16 Uhr Julia Scher: Surveillant Architectures
17 Uhr Elaine Sturtevant: The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking
18 Uhr Hans Ulrich Obrist und Anri Sala: Ever

Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010
14 Uhr Thomas Zipp: The Dissonance in Figures & Objects / A Practical Drawing Lecture
15 Uhr Jean-Charles Massera: Alles Klar 1 und 2 (Die Debatte)
16 Uhr Sylvère Lotringer: Theory in Art
17 Uhr Ruwen Ogien: What’s Wrong with “Dirty” Feelings? The Case for Pornography
18 Uhr Hans-Peter Feldmann und Hans Ulrich Obrist: Kein Interview

Klang: Trisha Donnelly

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte und des Institut français – Bureau de la création artistique – Arts plastiques und CULTURESFRANCE

SAG 2011: about Cornelia Sollfrank

German digital media artist Cornelia Sollfrank explores the changing role of the artist in the Information Age, new forms of dissemination of art, the gender-specific handling of technology, and communication and networking as art. She was a member of the collectives Frauen-und-Technik and -Innen, and she initiated the Cyberfemininist alliance known as “Old Boys Network” (http://www.obn.org). Her project Female Extension (1997) was a hack of the first net.art competition initiated by a museum, in which she flooded the museum’s network with submissions by 300 virtual female net artists. Her net.art generator (http://www.obn.org/generator) automatically produces art on demand. She edited the First Cyberfeminist International (1988) and Next Cyberfeminist International (1999). Sollfrank is currently producing work on the subject of female hackers.

have script, will destroy; video 00:15:00 (2000)

“For quite some time the Hamburg artist Cornelia Sollfrank has been researching female hackers and found that hacking is a field completely under male domination. Nonetheless she was able to produce a series of several videos in which she interviewed female hackers. In December 1999 she came to know a U.S. hacker who attended the annual hackers’ convention held by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). She did the video interview have script, will destroy with her on condition that the woman, code-named Clara G. Sopht, remained anonymous and did not provide specific information about her work. The result is a highly theoretical interview about current forms of political resistance, undermined by seductively beautiful and enigmatically diffuse pictures of a woman wearing sunglasses and a cap, moving around in a low-tech scenario.”
—Yvonne Volkart, “Tamed Girls Running Wild, Figurations of Unruliness in Contemporary Video Art“, : Video as a Female Terrain, ed. Stella Rollig (Graz: Catalogue Styrian Automn, 2000)
source: http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?HAVESCRIPT

revisiting feminist art
source: http://artwarez.org/projects/refeministart/

Cornelia Sollfrank’s CV
source: http://artwarez.org/cv.0.html?&L=1

SAG 2011: about Andrea Fraser

“All of my work is about what we want from art, what collectors want, what artists want from collectors, what museum audiences want,..by that, I mean what we want not only economically, but in more personal, psychological and affective terms.” Andrea Fraser

Andrea Fraser
Museum Highlights; Gallery Talk Performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1989)
source: http://www.modernart.ie/museum21/andreaFrazer.html

Andrea Fraser
Inaugural Speech; Video, Color, Sound, DVD, PAL, 27 Min (1997)
source: http://www.societyofcontrol.com/research/fraser_speech%20.htm

Andrea Fraser (Billings/Montana 1965 – lives in New York)
Her work has been identified with performance, video, context art and institutional critique.

@KHM mediathek:
Fraser, Andrea : Museum highlights : the writings of Andrea Fraser / ed. by Alexander Alberro . – Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT , 2005 . – XXXVII, 291 S. : Ill . – 0-262-06244-5. – (Writing art series ). – 978-0-262-06244-2
Sign.: KUN G. (FRA) – 2902 Znr.: 05 K 1690

SAG 2011: about Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, and lives and works in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1980, he has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural façades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. In 1996 he added sound and motion to the projections and began to collaborate with communities around chosen projection sites, giving voice to the concerns of heretofore marginalized and silent citizens who live in the monuments’ shadows. Projecting images of community members’ hands, faces, or entire bodies onto architectural façades, and combining those images with voiced testimonies, Wodiczko disrupts our traditional understanding of the functions of public space and architecture. He challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society. Wodiczko has also developed ‘instruments’ to facilitate survival, communication, and healing, for homeless people and immigrants. These therapeutic devices, which Wodiczko envisions as technological prosthetics or tools for empowering and extending human abilities, address physical disability as well as economic hardship, emotional trauma, and psychological distress. Wodiczko heads the Interrogative Design Group and is Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology, formerly known as the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in many international exhibitions, including the São Paulo Bienale (1965, 1967, 1985); Documenta (1977, 1987); the Venice Biennale (1986, 2000); and the Whitney Biennial (2000). Wodiczko received the 1999 Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace, and the 2004 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Body of Work.

SAG 2011: Martha Rosler meets SAG, Cologne May 16th

Martha Rosler is an artist who works with multiple media, including photography, photo-text, sculpture, video, performance, and installation. Her interests are centered on the public sphere and landscapes of everyday life—actual and virtual—especially as they affect women. Related projects focus on housing, on the one hand, and systems of transportation, on the other. She has long produced works on war and the “national security climate,” connecting everyday experiences at home with the conduct of war abroad. Other works, from bus tours to sculptural recreations of architectural details, are excavations of history.
Some of her most noteworthy video works confront the world crisis of macropolitics and home, worker explotation, and propoganda.  These works include:
Chile on the Road to NAFTA (97); Prototype: God Bless America (06), If It’s Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION (85); A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night (83)

Martha Rosler; 2011 http://art-agenda.com/agenda/view/129

Rosler has had numerous solo exhibitions. If You Lived Here Still: An Archive Exhibition is a touring show based on If You Lived Here…, a ground-breaking cycle of exhibitions and forums on housing, homelessness, and the built environment that she organized in 1989 at Dia in New York. Originating at e-flux gallery, in New York, it has recently been exhibited at CASCO Center for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, Netherlands and at present is at La Virreina in Barcelona. The Martha Rosler Library toured nationally and internationally in 2005-2009.
Other recent solo exhibitions include those at Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea e Moderna, Torino; Portikus, Frankfurt; Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and the International Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva.  She was a founding member of United Nations Plaza School, Anton Vidokle’s project in Berlin, Mexico City, and New York.
Her work has been included in many other group exhibitions, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; PS1, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; Reina Sofía, Madrid; Skulptur Projekte Münster 07; documenta 7 &12, Kassel; the Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London; and many other international and national venues. Rosler has published 17 books of photography, art, and writing, in several languages; her essay book Decoys and Disruptions, was published by MIT Press in 2004. She was awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography in 2005 and the Oskar-Kokoschka Prize in 2006; she was the United States Artists Nimoy Fellow in 2008 and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2009; IN 2010 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by New York’s Guggenheim Museum. She is a renowned teacher and has lectured nationally and internationally.

Martha Rosler; Semiotics

In 2003, the Whitechapel Gallery in London invited Martha Rosler to recreate her classic video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) as a live performance. She accepted the invitation by holding a casting call for women to reenact the piece; the “audition” would be the public event. Rosler’s documentary video, Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition (2011), premiered earlier this week at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York.
http://blog.art21.org/2011/01/21/gastro-vision-martha-roslers-kitchen-mise-en-scene/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Art21_News

@khm mediathek:
Rosler, Martha   [Regie] : Vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained  / Regie und Drehbuch: Martha Rosler . – Originalfassung . – Toronto  : Art Metropole , [S.a.] . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 40 Min.) : farb. . – (Art Metropole 1/2 inch videotape series )
Sign.: VID V 1546 Znr.: 99 V 216

Performance Saga  : Begegnungen mit Wegbereiterinnen der Performancekunst  / Hrsg.: Andrea Saemann …. . – Zürich  : Fink . – DVD : farb. Rosler, Martha : Martha Rosler , 2008 . – 1 DVD (57 Min.) : farb. + 1 Textheft (28 S.) . – 978-3-03746-118-1 Interview 07 ;
Sign.: DVD V 2910 Znr.: 09 DV 394

Surveillant Architectures Group: Seminar Summer 2011

viewing and production (talking, writing, pitching, critiquing, performing)

TUE  6pm – 8pm screenings
WED 10am – 1pm

start April 5th 2011
room2, glasmoog, Filzengraben 2a

110122 by arte-e-parte pix: aep

The seminar continues with an analysis of surveillant cultural practices. Where observation itself has become art, various forms-, films-, video surveillance have amplified and tested the role of observation in social, cultural, political and institutional relationships.
Talks and lectures as art praxis today, have also raised issues of observation.

Talking Avital Ronell‘s »The Test Drive« as »inspiration testing the terrain of what might be possible« – the seminar will engage new electronic communication tools and consider the event spaces and audiences for which they are develoyed.

The midterm assignment is to develop three ideas for a talk utilizing any number of forms including: recitation; scholarly reading; introduction to a screening; performative lecture; performative installation; artist lecture; literary performance; historical lecture; music; clothing activism;
political proclamation; architecture or community action.

Final project presentation of a 40 minutes talk live or online.