installation

City Lab with guests Michelle Teran and Bas Van Heur (with video documentation)

Start: 2009-05-23 17:00

PUBlicIMAGenING event focusing on City as a Lab,
a vanue for dynamic interactions of assumed and unknown,
protective and invasive, mediated and un-accessible...
Session will feature a dialogue between artist Michelle Teran and academic Bas Van Heur, on topics of:
trans-disciplinary work, positions of critique and engagement within a public sphere
including reference to their recent work, theoretical descourses and polemics around cities (un)visible media (infra)structures.

Location: at JVE, hosted by ANNEX
Introduction and moderation: Željko Blaće, JVE researcher
Responders are invited to contact in advance for coordination zeljko.blace@janvaneyck.nl

INTERVIEW with: MICHELLE TERAN ...on paths of exposing urban media scapes

Michelle Teran explores the interplay between social and media networks within urban environments and creates performances, installations and online works. She received numerous grants and awards (recently: Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention - interactive art and
the 2nd prize in the Vida 8.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition)
http://www.ubermatic.org/

Contents:
* 1 art background...before current practice
* 2 contexts/processes of development
* 3 ...inspiration/methods...
* 4 surveillance/observation dichotomy?
* 5 parasites & failures- limitations/inhibitions
* 6 articulation of work in/with public sphere
* 7 art as instigator or symbolic critique

PUBlicIMAGinING

project initiated by Željko Blaće as speculative design research at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, on the topic of visual mediation and civic engagement with urban space. Its aims are set: to articulate proactive discourse in theoretical research and examine and test strategies of engagemnet with public in event series. Its production aspect is set in speculative design of open, participatory and distributed media sysyem prototyps that operate as tools for systemic visual observation of urban spaces and utilizing their visual outputs...

Project aims to establish a discourse of a proactive engagement through:
a) designing a prototype media system for the collective production of observation images of urban public spaces, producing visual material that would support different perception modes focusing on suble environmental changes, over a longer periods of time;
b) promoting praoctive discourse and engaging public with articulation of public space (utilizing: posters, public actions, serveys, installations...) and desimanating it in academic environment (using publications, events and conducting workshops)
Production aspects of the project are set to experiment with SlowCAM setups, development of a website that would document/support project development and tools as CompilingMovies as integrated visual media...more on PUBlicIMAGinING!