CUREDITING: TRANSLATIONAL WORK—MAGAZINE

LAUCH: September 2008 coming soon ...
TAGS: curating editing translation publication
DESCRIPTION: Within the framework of discoursive strategies the curation of Internet-based Art in a medium of its own and in physical space can be specified as translational work: The transfer of structures, meaning and (personal) experiences into documentary, mediative and distributive formats is one of the core activities of the curator and often bound to the production of written documents. Unlike the working conditions of a traditional curator, the curator of Internet-based art is working in and within the same medium as the artist which brings us to the consequence that "curating is an adaptive discipline, using and adopting inherited codes and rules of behaviour."

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YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME.—EXHIBITION

LAUNCH: 15 May 2008 ongoing
TAGS: media net art exhibition conceptual-art gallery
DESCRIPTION: All projects shown in the exhibition YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. are originally Internet-based artworks. The main common ground is their starting point in the exploration of our language with its arbitrary systems and rules, its corresponding functions within society, as well as with its absurdities and restrictions for the individual. Rather than to focus on the isolated—literary/literally—artwork, the exhibition highlights more general artistic tendencies leading once again to a discursive process, which originates from the Internet and finds its way back to the "virtualities of our real life".

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CURATING MEDIA/NET/ART—BOOK

LAUNCH: 2007 ongoing
TAGS: curating media net art models theories resources
DESCRIPTION: The considerations of curatorial methods for (New) Media and Internet-based Art is the core domain of this publication edited and published in October 2007. It 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 ghettos as well as in the realm of Electronic Art, Net and Media Art.

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CARLOS KATASTROFSKY—WORKS 2004-2006

LAUNCH: 2007 ongoing
TAGS: katastrofsky conceptual media net art documentation
DESCRIPTION: A booklet displaying conceptually strong reflections upon the conditions of beeing an artist who works with and within the online medium. The publication is a documentation of Michael Kargl's artistic work from 2004 - 2006. The Media artist, also known as carlos katastrofsky, was born in Tyrol and is now living and working in Vienna.

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RE:MAGAZINE—E-MAIL CONVERSATIONS

LAUNCH: 2006 ongoing
TAGS: e-mail conversation contextualisation magazine pdf
DESCRIPTION: An editorial project which was set up in 2006 to investigate general tendencies within Internet-based Culture and 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...

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TAGALLERY—META/COLLECTIONS OF META/DATA

LAUNCH: 2007 ongoing
TAGS: experiments curating exhibitions media art
DESCRIPTION: 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. 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 link turns into the representative of the artefact, the context and the exhibition at once?

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PUBLICCURATING—METHODS RESOURCES THEORIES

LAUNCH: 2006 / ongoing
TAGS: curating methods theories resources
DESCRIPTION: An ongoing 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 (New) Media 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 display too.

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CC—CIRCULATING CONTEXTS

LAUNCH: 2007 closed
TAGS: mailinglist circulating context curating media art
DESCRIPTION: A slightly moderated mailing list hosted from 1 June to 31 August 2007 with the aim to discuss five common topics concerning the curation of (New) 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

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RICH.TXT—ART LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

LAUNCH: 2006-2008 closed
TAGS: blog textuality language media art technology
DESCRIPTION: A research-project collecting artworks, resources and theories concerning the changing constitutions of language in the digital realm. The weblog, 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 application of language theory to New Media publishing resulted in the recontextualisation of the Internet and its main medium, language. It is now useable as an archive.

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ATCALLS—CALLS FOR ARTISTS AND THEORISTS

LAUNCH: 2004-2007 closed
TAGS: calls artists theorists media net art
DESCRIPTION: A service-project for the free circulation of relevant information which was tought to be a social sculpture and undermine the capitalistic functionality of some fields of artistic practises. Executed as a free platform of information about calls concerning fine arts, Media Arts and theory the aim was to decrease the pressure of competition by providing equal access to all interested parties.

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WURSTMASCHINE—YET ANOTHER ZINE

LAUNCH: 2004-2006 closed
TAGS: netzine copy_paste art science technology copyright
DESCRIPTION: Wurstmaschine 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 are neither shortened nor in any other way altered in both form and content, they are simply brought to a magazine-format.

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