Kathy Rae Huffman, Curator

Program 1: Definition
From the research lab to the game environment, the digital environment offers female "players" new mechanisms to render herself a heroine. (49 minutes)

Arghyro Paouri
Etant donne le bleu (Given the blue) (1992 2 min.)

Erin Seymour
Code Switching (1999 5 min) [from single channel installation]

Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid
On the Flies of the Marketplace (1999 7 min.)

Kristin Lucas
Watch Out for Invisible Ghosts (1996 5 min.)

Ericka Beckman
Hiatus (1999 30 min.) [from 16 mm film]

Program 2 - Transformation
Cyber processes and the Internet offer digital opportunities to be referenced, examined and experienced to the extreme. (46 minutes)

Max Almy
Leaving the 20th Century (1982 11 min.)

Lynn Hershman
Seduction of a Cyborg (1994 6 min.)

Rebecca Bollinger
Alphabetically Sorted (1994 5:37 min.)

Julia Meltzer/Amanda Ramos
Chatlandia (1995 5 min.) [excerpt from a sound installation]

an intensive, 4 hour workshop with kathy rae huffman, who is the new director of hull time based arts, kingston upon hull, uk. huffman has been professor of electronic art, rensselaer polytechnic institute, ny, for the past two years, and was formerly curator at the institute of contemporary art, boston, where she commissioned work for the public television station wgbh-tv. she also lived in austria for 7 years, where she spent most of her time travelling to other countries, researching media festivals, or online and in emerging net culture.

what will this workshop cover?
1. we'll talk frankly about everything you need to know about new media festivals, competitions, and institutional priorities for media art outside of austria .... (we'll look at websites, catalogues, cd roms and videotapes).

2. we'll discuss what are the requirements for: residencies? commissions? visiting artists? or even one year lecture gigs abroad. how does one get "in the door" and communicate needs, ideas, and involve the institution or community where you will work. understanding the contract, and follow up, keeping in touch and building bridges for your colleagues (your personal info net).

3. what is involved in curating a show (and what about including yourself)?

4. what about websites? what role do they play in new art strategies?

the discussion and presentation will be in english (the international media festival language).

only students should be present at this workshop. it will be focused on their needs. students should be encouraged to bring festival announcements, catalogs, web addresses, or other "invitations" that they want to get opinions about, or that seem interesting to them. i'll focus on events that cater to emerging artists.

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      "media hacking" - workshop
      "viral and guerilla strategies for subversive communications projects"

       by rtmark and ubermorgen.com
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extensive how-to information about making an aggressive clone website/
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this course will serve as a brief introduction to media "art," i.e. activist projects that collaborate with or, alternatively, aggress the news media in order to convey a social message. an historical overview will spark discussion of methods used by various media "artists," including the video news release, the press release, the public self-conflagration, etc. the saner techniques will also be discussed in technical terms, the goal being to enable participants to utilize them for their own purposes.

i think something that includes the idea of "collaborating" with the media (as well as aggressing it) would be good. wolf in sheep's clothing sort of thing, perhaps.... by "collaborating" i mean: a lot of reporters want to write about serious, important issues like the huge power of corporations, and just need an excuse to do it. if you understand what they're looking for, and give it to them, they may write about it....
in those cases one is of course still hacking into the news outlet, but there's a gentler side to it, collaborative, making something nice with another human being sort of flowery rosy beautiful hippy thing... and some kids are hippies, we don't want to scare them off!
i think the "attack" language is good too....

media hacking defined as hacking, touching the legal border but not specifically as illegal activities such as intrusion and theft. finding and "misusing" weak-points in large systems, reverse engineering and viral marketing.

the students will be presented a series of projects, they will be guided in brainstorming and developing a media hacking project and they will be actively supported in launching this action on the given level. partial backing by the institution [in collaboration with prof. dudesek] shall give them the freedom to be active in areas otherwise untouched.

after and during the action the students shall be supported mentally, technically, conceptually and communications wise.

todays world, specially in the age of the internet, requires know how in the field of generating attention. specially for artists... the students will learn to use marketing and pr strategies for subversive actions. this will help them market their own artistic and/or scientific projects/projects... they will know what special ideas and strategies will open up better chances to penetrate the international market of attention.

lectures
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ray thomas

hans_extrem
      #media-hacks from etoy and etxtreme.ru
      #viral and guerilla marketing strategies
      #media-hack examples from corporate and art world:
            -carbon defense league
            -jodi.org
            -fpo.at
            -luther blisset
            -irational.org
            -melissa virus
            -icq-direct-marketing
            -porn-marketing

karel dudesek
      media-hacking project presentation

actions/projects
consulting from idea to documentation, limited timeframe [april-june99]

possible collaborations
there may be chance to get local billboard-space for this action. other collaborations, for example with journalists, will be project-related.

kurzbeschreibung
gemeinsam mit timothy druckrey wird in zusammenarbeit mit den studierenden an einer webseite gearbeitet, die "the history of broadcasted media" kontextuell bearbeitet. unter dem topic broadcasted media sind fernsehformate, telekommunikationsprojekte, webprojekte und videoart ebenso thematisiert wie deren konzepuelle und theoretische aufarbeitung in texarbeiten, die seit den den 60er jahren entstanden sind. media art ist bisher als history nur sehr fragmentiert oder perspektivisch bearbeitet worden. diese fragmente und segmente einer möglichen geschichtsschreibung gilt es, anhand dieses projektes zu überprüfen, nachzuvollziehen und gegenmodelle einer history zu entwerfen. das projekt versteht sich als modell, das mit der kontinuierlichen weiterarbeit u. a. mit studierenden des instituts für medientheoie und in nachfolgenden semestern am ordinariat für visuelle mediengestaltung erweitert wird.

kurzbeschreibung
darstellung der universität, spektrum, arbeitsbereiche, ordinariate, studierende, storys, lehrende, lokation, datenbankbasiert etc.

projektleitung
dudesek, schmitz, neuwirther, suess, huber

kurzbeschreibung
darstellung des museumsquartiers, spektrum, ausstellungsbereiche, storys, lokation, datenbankbasiert etc.
hier handelt es sich um die erstellung eines piloten/demo; zusammenarbeit mit kunsthistorikern und redaktion von museumsquartier

kurzbeschreibung
ist klima, atmosphaeren, genuss, immersive cyberspace, abstrakt, poetische welten, navigierbar, oder projektionen, keine politik, keine kritische medienhaltung, kein infospace, genussorientiert wie nahrungsmittel sind.
ambient visual and audio space, sinnlichkeit, erotik, klimas, ambient, keine aufklärung, kein zynismus, angenehm.

kurzbeschreibung
entwicklung von innovativen fernsehformaten, entwürfe bis zur semiprofessionellen realisierung
kooperationen mit fernsehanstalten und produktionsfirmen
erstellung eines piloten, einführung ins fernsehen, digital tv, settopboxen, web tv, automatische redaktionssysteme, digital sets, datenbanksupport, storyboards
künstlerische, unterhaltende oder informative fernsehformate, video oder computerbasiert

kurzbeschreibung
userinterfacedesign, informationsvisulisierung, datenbankbasiert
navigation
webbasierte systeme 2d und 3d

westbam and william - low spirit berlin
http://www.low-spirit.de/

negativland - don joyce
http://www.negativland.com/

kurzbeschreibung
darstellung des ordinariats, spektrum, arbeitsbereiche, technisches setup, studierende, storys, lehrende, lokation, datenbankbasiert etc.
design des logos