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By julianabrunello, May 4, 2010
A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – AFFECT Gjis van Oenen Geert Mul Eric Kluitenberg Moderator: Jeroen Boomgaard SESSION 2 – INTERFACE Alexander Galloway Christa Sommerer Steven van Thije Moderator: Geert Lovink SESSION 3 – OBJECT Yvonne Droge Wendel Ronald van Tienhoven Johan Hoorn [...]
For: A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello Johan Hoorn is a computer scientist and technologist whose work consists of affective computing, which means programming human things, or robots as a third body as one might say. He and [...]
For: A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello Ronald Tienhoven first assures us that he is not a true theorist, but an artist. His theoretical thinking is however very well developed, as we could witness during his speech. He [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello The Moderator Klaas Kuitenbrouwer started the third session of the conference by introducing some of the thoughts that Willem van Weelden had for his keynote speech, but could not attend due [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 2 – Interface Report by Juliana Brunello Christa Sommerer‘s main topic is interfaces in art. She starts by citing Lev Manovich: the language of new media. He predicted that “we will see a language of interface develop as [...]
By julianabrunello, May 3, 2010
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 2 – Interface Report by John Haltiwanger Steven van Thije spoke to address the notion of interface and how it relates to art, especially in the sense of the museum. Invoking Michael Serres’ *The Parasite*, Steven discussed how [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 2 – Interface Report by John Haltiwanger Alexander Galloway presented a deep investigation of interfaces. His first example is the contemporary airport, which is split into four stages. The first is the check-in kiosk, where we see the [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – Affect Report by John Haltiwanger Eric Kluitenberg’s presentation concerned the relevant future paths for affective interactive art. As a first example, Eric showed footage of Radio Ligna’s “remote controlled flashmob” I am(not)sterdam to highlight a central [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – Affect Report by Juliana Brunello Art, as part of public interaction strategy, is capable to break open the technological paradigm, which is colonialized by technology. When you analyze the role of technology in society or the [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – Affect Report by Juliana Brunello What does interactive art do to, with and/or on behalf of us? Gijs van Oenen thesis to this (these) question(s) is that this represents a function of the processes of the [...]
