Heath Bunting (UK) opened his "Identity Bureau" in the Open Zone of transmediale.11. Here, he sold off-the-shelf natural persons he has created and also advised on how to use or make one's own Identity. Usually, his customers are artists and art lovers. This time, a young graphic designer from Venezuela came to his stall to inquire about a new identity that will allow him to travel freely in Europe. He says he loves European culture and is inspired by it, but finds it difficult to stay in Europe and go from one place to another for visa issues.
The idea behind the project is that "our identity is constructed as human beings that can possess one or more natural persons and control one or more artificial persons. The higher up in the class system the better the access to status variety." In this chance meeting at transmediale.11 that is documented here, it also touched the issue of a certain national identity giving you better or worse access to cultural and other global recources.
Heath Bunting has worked with performance, intervention, pirate radio, fax/mail art and BBS systems before becoming an active participant in the explosion of the Internet. In 1996, Bunting set-up the server irational.org , a system for irrational information and products for the roaming and displaced.
Publiziert am 22 März 2011 um 12:08 Von PAP!
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transmediale is a festival for art and digital culture, founded in 1988 under the name of VideoFilmFest. transmediale 2012 will take place from 31 January to 5 February at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. With the new Artistic Director Kristoffer Gansing, everything will revolve around the theme in/compatible. Incompatibility refers to the condition that arises when things do not work together. The festival investigates the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition for cultural production in times of crisis. In the spirit of ruptures, gaps and creative hacks, the festival for digital art and culture will celebrate its 25th anniversary with an international programme featuring discussion panels, artworks, video screenings, workshops, performances and art interventions. Starting from January 2012 we will present a special selection of videos from the videoprogramme Satellite Stories, curated by Marcel Schwierin. The videoprogramme of transmediale 2012 raises the question of the compatibility between human beings and the products they create. Whether we look to politics, the financial markets, architecture, traffic, fashion or in particular to the mass media: we create an environment that is intended to satisfy our needs, but one that also consistently makes demands upon us that we cannot achieve. The products seem to develop a life of their own, and are no longer adapted to suit human needs; instead, we are forced to adapt to them in order to avoid becoming incompatible ourselves. Le festival des arts et cultures numériques transmediale se tiendra du 31 janvier au 5 février 2012 à Berlin. Cette 25ème édition s'articule autour du thème de l'incompatibilité. Un état qui survient lorsque différents éléments ne fonctionnent pas entre eux. Hormis une exposition et une série de conférences, le festival organise des projections - rassemblées sous le titre Satellite Stories, les films sélectionnés abordent eux aussi la notion de compatibilité : compatibilité entre les humains et les objets qu'ils créent. Marcel Schwierin, le commissaire de cette série de films commente pour ARTE creative une oeuvre par semaine.
Sehr cool! Manchmal denkt man, ein David Lynch-Film sei gestartet, aber die Rückwärtseffekte helfen vor allem bei der Verdeutlichung der (sozialen) Rituale.
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