independent Media Art @ Stadtwerkstatt in Linz Austria
Stadtwerkstatt is an alternative media art & culture space in Linz Austria. Astrid Esslinger and Gabriele Kepplinger are artists who have worked with and developed Stadtwerkstatt. In Linz, Stadtwerkstatt grew out of various influences such as Fluxus, Beuy´s concept of social sculpture, the squatter scene and punk, with the intention to shape living environments with the collective power of a community. Esslinger and Kepplinger will detail the beginnings of Stadtwerkstatt as well as it's more recent Media Art projects:
* data-bending * Art Games * Machinima * realtime audio-video * software-as-art/art-as-software * Hacker/Cracker Art * Free & Open Source Software Culture * blogs, vlogs + RSS feeds as Art
courses that follow New Media 01 in the New Media path of FVNM incl:
my Graduate Seminar next semesternext semester (SPRING 2009) i am teaching a Graduate Seminar on the topic of experimental Media Art Histories as filtered through Chronophobia (both the book Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960's by Pamela M. Lee + the condition which is the fear of the duration or immensity of time). in particular we will compare these issues with their manifestations in New Media Art, particularly Art Games. to do this we will read from Game Studies + Game Theory the ways in which time plays out in games. time in games is often measured against the threat of one's own "imminent symbolic death" in the game. this will be the conceptual framework for our readings, screenings + discussions.
(Film, Video and New Media department at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago; New Media Art Histories; Art Games + Independent Gaming Cultures; Open Source, Artware + early Video Art; Computer Witchcraft + Majikal Media Art)