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TRANSLATION IS A MODE. | ÜBERSETZUNG IST EINE FORM.
Group exhibition, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna/Austria, April – May 2010
The path of translation is a long one when a text is to be transferred into another language and ascribed new purposes in order ultimately to learn that each new reception entails a change in meaning in the sense of interpretation — translation, a mode? Based on philological-linguistic translation theories, the exhibition Übersetzung ist eine Form | Translation is a mode shows language-based conceptual art…
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IN OTHER WORDS…? DISCOURSES WITH POETIC FUNCTION
Group exhibition, Kunstpavillon Tirol, Innsbruck/Austria, March – May 2010
Regarding the development of contemporary market tendencies, the exhibition In other words…? Discourses with Poetic Function traces strategies of a kind of cultural versioning in the sense of interpretation. The exhibition shows nine contemporary Austrian conceptual art approaches that resort to already existing cultural texts from everyday activities or social-political conventions and/or social relations, and reuse them two, three, or multiple times…
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LANGUAGE TO BE LOOKED AT AND/OR THINGS TO BE READ
Art blogging/online curating, January 2010 – ongoing
A vvork-ish online collection of images, following Robert Smithson’s idea of language, which “operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in the unresolved or partially resolved tension of disparates. A word fixed or a statement isolated without any decorative or ‘cubist’ visual format, becomes a perception of similarity in dissimilars” — in short a paradox…
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WRITING EXHIBITIONS — 7.9 CUBIC METRES, STANLEY PICKER GALLERY
Performance lecture, Kingston upon Thames/UK, November 2009
Writing Exhibitions was a two day event at the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston-Upon-Thames, on November 28 2009, exploring connections of language and exhibition making. The event was the concluding part of Guess Work Guest Work, an exhibition by David Berridge and Compulsive Holding (Hyun Jin Cho and David Johnson) and included a performance re-lecture of the exhibition You Own Me Now Until You Forget About Me…
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MANIFESTATIONS OF HERE AND NOW — REALTIME IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Symposium contribution, Liverpool/UK, September 2009
As a moment in a continuum, as a continuity of a procedure, as a sequence of events: in the present the phenomenon of time — leaving traces on its way from the past to the future — can’t be considered without reflecting upon the phenomenon of space. If for a long period, time was understood as “the province of the poet” and space as “the province of the painter”, nowadays, with the entrance of digital media into…
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TIMEBASED, IN PRINCIPLE – IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETTS
Exhibition and art event, Fluc am Praterstern, Vienna/Austria, June 2009
The exhibition Timebased, in Principle in the Viennese club Fluc presents three artists whose practice in the fields of film/video, visual arts and literature is immediately interwoven with the principle of time. Without remaining on a formalistic level Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Kargl – aka carlos katastrofsky, and Jörg Piringer combine questions of material and form with the discursive dimensions of…
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TRANS.FORM.WORK — INTERNET-BASED ART IN THE REAL SPACE
Symposium contribution, Buenos Aires/Argentina, March 2009
Translation is a mode. (Walter Benjamin) – Why is it still easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single work of Internet-based Art in a museum space? This essay was presented as a lecture at the 3rd Inclusiva-net Meeting with the title Net.Art (Second Epoch). The Evolution of Artistic Creation in the Net-system, organised by Medialab-Prado Madrid and Centro Cultural de España Buenos Aires. It reflects upon…
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PHENOMENA OF INTERFERENCE — MULTIPART EXHIBITION
Solo exhibition, Copenhagen and Arhus/Denmark, December 2008 – March 2009
The focal point of the solo exhibition Interference by the Vienna-based artist Michael Kargl – aka carlos katastrofsky is not the disturbance the concept of interferences is normally bound to, but that space of transition, where these interferences appear and which they constitute themselves at the same time. Interferences not only describe defects, they also designate a global phenomenon: these are the natural processes of…
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CURATING, COMMUNICATION & OPEN SOURCE — DISCUSSION FORUM
Online discussion project, October 2008 – December 2008
A temporarily run forum set up by the curators before the opening of the exhibition Interference for the discussion of ideas in curating and exhibition methods. This can be seen as an attempt to make the structuring of the project open source. The discussions where about the shifting borders between the work of an Internet artist and the one done by a curator who wants to show the work in a physical…
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CUREDITING — CONTEXTUALISING INTERNET-BASED ART
Symposium and catalogue contribution, Rijeka/Croatia, October 2008
The essay was presented at the conference (New) Media Art in Museums organised by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka/Croatia. It reflects on the conditions of exhibiting and archiving Internet-based art in the real space. From the viewpoint of the curator it assumes that curating is translation and translation is a mode and tries to merge the concepts of curating and editing…
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CUREDITING — TRANSLATIONAL ONLINE WORK
Collaborative editorial project, Toronto/Canada, September 2008
A curatorial/editorial project in collaboration with the online journal Vague Terrain which starts from Walter Benjamin’s point of view of translation formulated in the essay The Task of the Translator in the early 1920ies. Relating the so-called original and its translation by using the metaphor of a “tangent which touches the circle in one single point only to follow thereafter its own way”, the project’s goal is to access what can be understood as…
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YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME.
Group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana/Slovenia, May – November 2008
The exhibition is an attempt to display Internet-based art and its characteristics in the real space. Speech and the ability for meta-reflection on one’s own language are inherent characteristics of human beings. The main common ground of all projects shown in the exhibition is their starting point in the exploration of our language with its arbitrary systems and rules, its corresponding functions within society, as well as…
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DIGITAL QUOTATIONS — ART AFTER THE ARTIST
Text contribution, Barcelona/Spain, August 2008
Appropriation in Creative Practice is a collection of projects and texts curated by the Barcelona-based platform Dispatx Art Collective which directly addresses the complex relationships between original and copy. From a series of diverse perspectives, the participating artists have established specific practices in order to be most effectively critical, utilising methods of discourse and their own frames of reference. Using appropriative measures to…
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TAGALLERY — META/COLLECTIONS OF META/DATA
Collaborative online curating, January 2007 – March 2010
An experimental online exhibition space extending the idea of a tagged exhibition and transferring the main tasks of non-commercial exhibition spaces to the discourse of an electronic data space and a networked environment. To post a link and thus to relate two or more contents is a basic method to create a freely accessible and modular network of personal associations on the World Wide Web. — Yet, what if a…
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RE:INTERVIEW SERIES — E-MAIL-CONVERSATIONS
Online interview project, May 2006 – ongoing
An editorial project which was set up in 2006 to investigate general tendencies within media and Internet-based art. Drawing its title from simple e-mail communication, the reply button of any e-mail program is thought to open the discourse on a specific theme and can be expanded arbitrarily. Starting point for those inter-communicative reflections is the context, meaning is generated not just…
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CURATING MEDIA/NET/ART — NETWORKED ANTHOLOGY
Networked book and project documentation, October 2007
The considerations of curatorial methods for media and Internet-based art is the core domain of the publication Curating Media/Net/Art, edited and published by CONT3XT.NET in October 2007. The networked anthology focuses on the problems of curatorial work being located at the interface between representational space and presentational forms of traditional art formats, in the computer art…
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THEORIES & RESOURCES — CURATING BIBLIOGRAPHY/ORGANISATIONS
Online research project, November 2006
The Curating Bibliography/Organisations is a link collection. It provides a list of texts, essays and books which all served as information spaces for the editing of the networked anthology Curating Media/Net/Art. The resources are listed in alphabetical order and have to be understood as a filtered “screenshot” of information concerning the curation of media and Internet-based art. The list is based upon…
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CIRCULATING CONTEXTS — [CC]-MAILINGLIST
Online discussion project, June 2007 – August 2007
Five common topics concerning the curation of media and Internet-based art: 1) visualizing work.flows and (filtering-)processes 2) virtual/real representations in real/virtual spaces 3) facing participation / the lack of collaboration 4) web 2.0 – curatorial facilities or technical barriers 5) involvement of (art-)institutions / rise of significance. The discussions were edited and published in the netwoked anthology Curating Media/Net/Art and are made readable…
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PUBLICCURATING — METHODS RESOURCES THEORIES
Research blog, November 2006 – November 2008
The weblog Publiccurating was a research-project set up in November 2006 with the aim to build up a living information archive of methods, resources and theories concerning the curation of media, Internet-based and video art. With the changing conditions of the production and reception of art on the Internet, not only the art itself changed but also the possibilities of curation and thus require process-oriented forms of…
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RICH.TXT — ART LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Research blog, January 2006 – January 2008
The weblog Rich.txt — Art Language Technology was a research-project collecting artworks, resources and theories concerning the changing constitutions of language in the digital realm. The resource, run from January 2006 to January 2008, broached the issues of the linguistic and literary category text and its special characteristics on the Internet. The resource now exists as an archive…
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ATCALLS — CALLS FOR ARTISTS AND THEORISTS
Online service project, May 2004 – August 2008
Social utopia: free circulation of relevant information ought to be a social sculpture and undermine the capitalistic functionality of some fields of artistic practices. Executed as a free platform of information about calls concerning media art and theory the aim of AtCalls — Calls for Artists and Theorists was to decrease the pressure of competition by providing equal access to all interested parties. Often artists — especially in the net-context — are acting as collectives…
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WURSTMASCHINE — YET ANOTHER ZINE
Pdf-magazine, January 2004 – January 2007
The Internet-zine is to be considered as a border-crossing project in between art and science. It stands for the interface of free communication and the actual restrictions of the everchanging coyright-issue. The collected texts in Wurstmaschine — Yet Another Zine are neither shortened nor in any other way altered in both form and content, they are simply brought to a magazine-format. Inspired by the neverending availability of information on the Internet this…