UbiScribe: Collocollaboracontentquery?
UbiScribe is a nomadic research project about pervasive publishing in networked media. This public colloquium presented topical issues raised from current research conducted for UbiScribe, at the Design Department of the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht.
Früher (seit Platon und noch vorher) ging es darum, vorhandenem Stoff zu formen, um ihn zum Erscheinen zu bringen, und jetzt geht es eher darum, einen aus unserem theoretischen Schau und unserem Apparaten hervorquellenden und sich übersprudelnden Strom von Formen mit Stoff zu füllen, um die Formen zu 'materialisieren'.
– Vilém Flusser in „Form und Material“ (1987), published in Vom Stand der Dinge: eine kleine Philosophie des Design, 1993
Vilém Flusser was early to recognize the informative power of
(computational) media. Clearly in music and architecture many examples
of computer-enhanced creation exist, but also in typography and text and
image creation we find algorithmically processed emerging form. Most
importantly, also new habits and types of interaction emerge as "forms"
or ways of understanding, discussing and collaborating on artistic
content. With this colloquium, we want to investigate how digital media
and communication technologies provide production, processing and access
to content in such a way as that by these technologies alone emerge
manifest forms.
Where once form resulted from minute design, construction and fabrication, increasingly we see it wildly emerge from the technological (read: computational) processing of data, providing abundant proposals for designers, artists and authors to be thoughtfully selected and proceeded in cultural production
The work of four UbiScribe researchers – Jouke Kleerebezem, Arie Altena, Sandra Fauconnier and Tsila Hassine – is presented in dialogue with practices, thoughts and projects by several international guests.
Moderator: Florian Cramer (D/NL), course director,
Piet Zwart Institute
http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/staff/jjfcramer/
Paired presentations:
Jouke Kleerebezem (NL/F), artist
http://www.nqpaofu.com
and
Paul Perry (NL), artist
http://www.alamut.com
Arie Altena (NL), researcher
http://www.ariealt.net
and
De Geuzen (NL), artists' collective
http://www.geuzen.org
Sandra Fauconnier (B/NL), researcher and archivist
http://www.spinster.be/participation
and
Saul Albert (UK), artist and cultural producer
http://www.twenteenthcentury.com/saulcv
http://theps.net
Tsila Hassine (IL), artist and media designer
http://www.geuzen.org/tracer
and
Jorge Blasco Gallardo (E), writer and organizer
