We Do IMAGIT!

Communication is one of the most important skills we have. There wouldn't even be a >we< without it. The exploitation of the global operating Internet opened up a complete new sphere for communicating in culture, daily life and science. The challenge for this project is to reach out for new ways of exploring these spheres by combining the usual codes for communication with a new visual and sensual approach.

This project is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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31. 05. 2017 | IMAGIT

Borders of communication in the Digital Environment

After two years of international cooperation, the IMAGIT project creations were presented also in Prague within a thematic event on Tuesday 30th May 2017. Main topic of the event was presentation of four mobile applications, that map the sphere of digital communication and its borders.

Communication is one of the most important tools that mankind possesses. How does it change, evolve and devalue the communication of people in the global digital world? How does it affect our social, professional and personal lives?

The multi-genre European project IMAGIT attempted to find answers to these questions and beyond. During two-years of cooperation amongst four countries, mobile applications were invented, mapping the sphere of digital communication and its borders in an innovative manner - be it linguistic, legislative or technological. The Czech partner of the project, digital agency Brainz, introduced IMAGIT and its creations on Tuesday 30th May 2017 at 18:00 in Kino Pilotů in Prague.

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29. 05. 2017 | IMAGIT

Final Event & Evaluation Meeting in Karlsruhe

After twenty months of international cooperation, the IMAGIT project said goodbye with an interactive exhibition during May 25-28, 2017 at GPN 2017 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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.

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24. 05. 2017 | IMAGIT

Final meeting & presentation of the IMAGIT project at GPN in Karlsruhe

After twenty months of international cooperation, the IMAGIT project says goodbye with an interactive exhibition during May 25-28, 2017 at the GPN 2017 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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.

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09. 05. 2017 | IMAGIT

Final presentation of the IMAGIT project in Hangar / Barcelona

Open session with the current residents of the Critical Interface Politics research group on May 9th at 19’00 h. Data & Interfaces: Invisible storytelling in the age of algorithmic governance.

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 JolerGabriel S MosesAdam EtzionCritical Interface Politics research group.

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25. 03. 2017 | IMAGIT

Hajnal Németh’s workshop in HUFA (March 20 - 25, 2017)

In the framework of Hajnal Németh’s workshop the students were thinking about a wide topics: questions. The workshop’s main title was a question mark standing alone, but it’s topics included wide possibilities of interpretation.

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.

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16. 02. 2017 | IMAGIT

IMAGIT in Karlsruhe - Conference Potential Spaces

How can Art and Design be studied and researched in the 21st Century? The conference took place from February 16 - 18, 2017 at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). IMAGIT status meeting contained of a recap of mutual activities, catch up with the programmers on app development and drafting the strategy for the final presentation. The participants joined the conference “Potential Spaces” in order to the project stream how a possible transfer of the studies and research in art and design could look like in the future, including a lecture by Miklos Peternak of the Imagit consortium.

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

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20. 12. 2016 | IMAGIT

Very Christmas Lounge Table Dinner

Event took place within the annual winter exhibition of HfG Karlsruhe, this year in form of a festive lounge and dinner event with presentations of ongoing student-works.

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.

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18. 12. 2016 | IMAGIT

Research residency carried out by Vladan Joeler

During his residency in Hangar in the period from November 15 - 26 and December 12 - 18, 2016, Vladan Joeler worked in collaboration with the research group Critical Interface Politics in the development of a research project on "Ethical Uses for Data Collection".

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

Tracking Forensics Atlas - Tracerouting Top 100 Domains

Tracking Forensics Atlas - Mapping ISP : Guifi.net



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01. 12. 2016 | IMAGIT

Open call for MEMBRANA # 2 – Residency For Artistic Interface Criticism

The programme MEMBRANA #2 – Residency For Artistic Interface Criticism aims to provide support to a visual artist interested in developing an artwork based on the concept of Interface Bias. The artist Gabriel S Moses & Adam Etzion will develop project during a eight weeks residency at Hangar (Barcelona).

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/

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30. 11. 2016 | IMAGIT

Workshop: Poetic Deconstruction of the Interface

We are announcing a workshop Poetic Deconstruction of the Interface lead by artist Joana Moll and interaction designer Aurelia Friedland, seeks to critically reveal, analyse and connect the complex network of agents that converge on the configuration of Interfaces.

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



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22. 11. 2016 | IMAGIT

Exhibition Beyond the Words

An exhibition by the students of HUFA (Hungarian University of Fine Arts) & HfG (University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe) in the frame of the IMAGIT project.

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

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15. 11. 2016 | IMAGIT

Workshop Tracking Forensics

The workshop “Tracking Forensics”, teached by Joana Moll and Andrea Noni, with the participation of Vladan Joeler, it’s carried out in Hangar from 18th to 20th of November.

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10. 11. 2016 | IMAGIT

Interface Politics - publication for download

You can now have a peek at the publication of this year's "Interface Politics Conference" that was in direction of our partner HANGAR and at which all of us from IMAGIT participated.

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

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19. 09. 2016 | IMAGIT

Annual Exhibition 2016: Review and Photos

Within the yearly, well frequented exhibition of student works at HfG, students and their supervisors presented the current status of the IMAGIT development-process in form of an interactive video-installation.

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.

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14. 07. 2016 | IMAGIT

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design: Annual Exhibition 2016

IMAGIT is participating with presenting conceptual ideas to an extension on narratives in mobile messenger applications.

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13. 06. 2016 | IMAGIT

Student Exchange and Public Presentation by HUFA & HfG

Between May 24th and June 5th 2016 six students from HUFA Budapest visited HfG Karlsruhe to exchange and work on together on different aspects of the IMAGIT project.

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.

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06. 06. 2016 | IMAGIT

Public Workshop with brainz at GPN 2016

The GPN (Goulash Programmers Night) is one of the biggest events for programmers among Europe.

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.

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