We Do IMAGIT!

The exhibition shows a variety of keyboard applications and a selection of the artistic research findings, dedicated to the topics of recent developments in the use of new technical possibilities and devices, the term nonverbal communication and its qualities to overcome linguistic borders, culture-specific codes and hegemonies as well as the inconceivability to the effects of data traffic. Visitors are very welcome to the test the applications and give their feedback to the creators as well as to join the many talks and workshops at the GPN icluding the special performance McFly McFly by IMAGIT-resident Gabriel S Moses.

Within the evaluation meeting all performed activities have been wrapped up and the agenda for the reporting process was set. Additionally, the further handing and communication of the project outcomes have been concluded.

The exhibition shows a variety of keyboard applications and a selection of the artistic research findings, dedicated to the topics of recent developments in the use of new technical possibilities and devices, the term nonverbal communication and its qualities to overcome linguistic borders, culture-specific codes and hegemonies as well as the inconceivability to the effects of data traffic. Visitors are very welcome to test the applications and to give their feedback to the creators as well as to join the many talks and workshops at the GPN including the special performance McFly McFly by imagit-resident Gabriel S Moses.

It is assumed that grand narratives are ineffective today in an age of “post-ideology”. But even in a world said to be run by algorithms, data and interfaces, story is key in locking people into the grid. So much has been said about control through gamification but much too little is discussed of the role of story. During this session Vladan Joler and Gabriel S Moses, former and current residents of the Critical Interface Politics research group, will address this issues and more by presenting and discussing the outcomes of the research & artistic residencies that they carried out within the European framework IMAGIT at Hangar.

Participants: Vladan Joler, Gabriel S Moses, Adam Etzion, Critical Interface Politics research group.

The participants met every afternoon and had different sessions from 14:00 to 18:00 (presentations, discussions), the ideas were developed day-by-day through dialogues between participants. The workshop’s final public event was held at Trafó Klub, which gave opportunity the participants to introduce their works in professional environment. The works were developed through the intensive, dialogue - based workshop. Wide - range interpretations were shown in various genres like live - and recorded performances, videos and installations.

In Europe, the heavy-pillared academies of the past centuries still dominate when it comes to teaching and research in the fields of art and design. Yet actors of the artistic and design practice are organising themselves into collaborative groups that are networked world-wide, reaching far across the borders of national states. The light and open architectures of China and Japan have a chance to rebuild their academic landscapes anew. In South America, public temporary solutions of bricolage co-exist with private prestigious buildings of the rich elites for the purpose of art and design studies. In Africa, self-organised groups and individuals are stepping in where there is a lack of institutionalised infrastructure. Such initiatives have the potential to act as a model for finding new ways of critical research and learning in art and design.

Can the arts – applied as well as fine, experimental arts – offer a potential space (Winnicott) where new forms of relations can be developed beyond institutions and other borders? For a discussion of the boldest ideas, researchers, artists, and activists from all over the world will gather in Karlsruhe in February.

Read more: www.potentialspaces.hfg-karlsruhe.de

A special highlight in regards to imagit has been occurred by a musical performance by Walls & Birds, based on interactions between the app-using audience and the performers themselves. Visitors included peers and teachers from the university, cultural agents based at ZKM Karlsruhe and public guests. The event highly intensified a playful but critical approach regarding digital driven media arts in public lead-outs.

Vladan Joeler's residency focused, on one hand, on finding practical methodologies to develop forensic analysis on the different agents that have access to our data and, on the other, implementing and disseminating tactics and strategies to protect our digital identity through different devices connected to the network.

The three visuals on tracking forensics are results of the research residency.

Tracking Forensics Atlas - Tracerouting Top 100 Domains

Gabriel S Moses & Adam Etzion will also be invited to participate in the ongoing investigation of the IMAGIT research group which involves contribuiting to the development of the “Critical Interface Toolbox”, an online resource for critical interface design. As well as to experiment, test and give critical feedback on the IMAGIT Application.

We are looking for an artist working with the concept of “Bias” within Interfaces, willing to contribute to the research that we are carrying out through the materialisation of an artwork.

The artwork can be developed in any artistic media. We encourage artists to submit proposals that raise critical approaches to the material and immaterial architectures of mediated culture through designed interfaces.

more information:

https://hangar.org/en/recerca/convocatories/espanol-convocatoria-membrana-2-residencia-artistica-para-una-aproximacion-critica-de-la-interfaz/

During this one-day workshop we will reveal, deconstruct and re-articulate the material and immaterial elements that construct Interfaces in order to reflect on its role and influence within the social, political, economic, cultural and emotional spheres of the networked society. Therefore, the main goal of this workshop is to stimulate and re-appropriate subjectivity, an essential process in the generation of critical thought about the nature of technology, and in the imagination of alternative techno-paradigms which may coherently respond to our environmental and human conditions. Another focus will be set on Interfaces of communication-based applications for mobile devices and how to outbid their limits.

The workshop will be held in English. Please bring scissors, cutters and your laptop. Students of all fields are welcome.

December 7th, 2016
10:00h – 17:00h
Room 323 (Entropia)

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Prof. Michael Bielicky
Department of digital media / Postdigital Narratives
Lorenzstr. 15
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany

On view - November 22 - 28, 2016   Read more: Labor gallery

more information:

https://hangar.org/en/workshops-artist2artists/taller-tracking-forensics-joana-moll-andrea-noni/

Interface Politics is a publication which includes all presentations and keynotes held during the First International Conference Interface Politics that took place in BAU and HANGAR on 27, 28 and 29 of April 2016. The conference was organized by GREDITS, HANGAR, MEDIACCIONS (Research Group in Culture and Digital Communication UOC) in collaboration with Arts Santa Mònica and IMAGIT and with partial funding from Creative Europe Program of the European Union. The Conference aimed to reflect on the role and effects of interfaces in current communicative and productive systems to produce alternative narratives against the apparent naturalness projected by the instruments.

You can download the PDF below.

Attachment: Publicacions_Gredits_04_V1_3.pdf

The content showed how a further development of the narrative in messenger-apps can offer more possibilities for communication, e. g. in form of animations and sounds. Further, how the basic structure of the communication-visualisation could be opened up to a topic related structure instead of a timely-linear one via setting up hyperlinks. Visitors have been invited to experience these functions by a pre-setup tablet.

https://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/rundgang#en

https://www.instagram.com/hfg_karlsruhe/ 

https://www.facebook.com/hfg.karlsruhe/?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser 

A greater focus has been placed on the visualisation and playfulness of the IMAGIT app-concept. Among a diversity of activities, the exchange was highlighted by presenting these ideas publicly within the frame of the GPN 2016 and at a much visited closing event.

Within the frame, on May 29th members of the IMAGIT-team presented conceptual ideas at a well frequented workshop including a livid discussion with experts about goals and challenges of realisation.