The Next Layer blogs http://tnl-6.local/blog The Next Layer is a collaborative environment combining open source, experimental and artistic research methodologies. en-US The Broken Mirror - Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia http://tnl-6.local/node/1491 <div class="image-attach-teaser image-attach-node-1492" style="width: 100px;"><a href="/node/1491"><img src="http://tnl-6.local/files/images/DSCN9420keyword.preview.thumbnail.JPG" alt="Fields - Keynote Lecture" title="Fields - Keynote Lecture" class="image image-thumbnail " width="100" height="75" /></a></div> <p>Starting from the premise that the financial crisis of 2008 made only visible a deeper, structural crisis of information society, the exhibition Fields was conceived as a survey into possibilities of renewal through art. Art used to be understood as a mirror of society. Then, in the twentieth century, media became the preferred mirror of mass society. At the end of the 20th century, information superseded the media and was supposed to become the perfect mirror - the dreamworld of digital utopia. But this mirror is broken, as virtuality and the real have collapsed into an 'integral reality' (Baudrillard). Reality has lost its shadow, its capacity to dream, its underbelly of radical alternatives. As the world is urgently in need of a new social imaginary, the exhibition Fields is an articulation of that search. Fields is about an epistemic shift from subject-object relations within traditional, hierarchical ontologies towards new, networked, horizontal connections. While this slow, glacial transformation happens anyway with a degree of inevitability, we cannot awaken from the dreamworld of digital utopia soon enough. What can an art after information be like? How can we articulate artistic imaginations of a new society? How can we talk about it, categorise and develop such a vision as a more long term, infrastructural goal?</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1491" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1491#comments English Conference Fields Mon, 26 May 2014 06:47:37 +0000 Armin Medosch 1491 at http://tnl-6.local Fields Exhibition Setup http://tnl-6.local/node/1490 <p>Some Video impressions from the setup, done by a young videoartist called auto-awesome.<br /> <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/95255923" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/95255923">Fields Exhibition Setup</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/arminmedosch">Armin Medosch</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1490#comments English Event Fields Wed, 14 May 2014 07:57:57 +0000 Armin Medosch 1490 at http://tnl-6.local And the coolest Scientist of the Year is .... Luc Steels http://tnl-6.local/node/1489 <p>And the award for coolest scientist of the year goes to .... Luc Steels. The author of the Talking Heads Experiment played a gig with cover versions of the Talking Heads, Vienna April 15, on the occasion of the conference of evolutionary linguists ... and, ah, by the way, who said evolutionary linguists can't dance. Watch this video via Google Plus. Have to apologize for the poor sound quality, which is due to the Asus Google Nexus being unable to cope with live gig loudness. The poor filming is entirely my own fault ;-)</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1489" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1489#comments English Event Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:15:44 +0000 admin 1489 at http://tnl-6.local Press Release: FIELDS exhibition http://tnl-6.local/fieldsexhibition <div class="image-attach-teaser image-attach-node-1483" style="width: 100px;"><a href="/fieldsexhibition"><img src="http://tnl-6.local/files/images/top_pond_small.thumbnail.png" alt="Fields Logo by Martins Ratniks" title="Fields Logo by Martins Ratniks" class="image image-thumbnail " width="100" height="38" /></a></div> <p>The exhibition "Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations" will open on May 15th at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. FIELDS, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch will show work by app. 40 artists and is part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture. You find the full announcement and press release below.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/fieldsexhibition" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/fieldsexhibition#comments English Event Culture Capital Fields Riga Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:49:59 +0000 Armin Medosch 1482 at http://tnl-6.local Die Zukunft im Rückspiegel - von der Geschichtlichkeit der Kunst mit (neuen) Medien http://tnl-6.local/node/1481 <p>Braucht Medienkunst eine Geschichte? Ausgehend von der Konferenz Media Art Histories, Riga 2013, und einer Reihe von Interviews für die Sendung "Braucht Medienkunst eine Geschichte?", ORF Ö1, Radiokolleg, 27.-30.Januar 2014, wirft dieser Artikel einen inter-subjektiven und polyphonen Blick auf die Geschichtlichkeit von Kunst und Medien.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1481" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1481#comments English Article media art histories Medienkunst Medienkunstgeschichte Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:39:19 +0000 Armin Medosch 1481 at http://tnl-6.local Technopolitics in a Nutshell: Commented Reading List on Key Categories http://tnl-6.local/node/1480 <p>This article presents in overview form some of the key categories of Technopolitics together with essential reading. Technopolitics is a project that has began as a collaboration between Brian Holmes and me on these pages in 2010. Since 2011 a Technopolitics working group exists in Vienna. There is a lot of additional material which you can find spread out over Thenextlayer, so I thought for newcomers its time to collect a few basic references.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1480" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1480#comments English Article Technopolitics bibliography techno-economic paradigms Technopolitics Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:58:38 +0000 Armin Medosch 1480 at http://tnl-6.local Radiokolleg - Braucht Medienkunst eine Geschichte? http://tnl-6.local/node/1479 <p>In dieser Sendung folgt Armin Medosch den Windungen der Doppelhelix aus Geschichten der Medienkunst und der Geschichte der Medien im sozialhistorischen Kontext.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1479" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1479#comments Deutsch Event media art media art history radio Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:09:56 +0000 admin 1479 at http://tnl-6.local A Canadian Story - Railways, Telephones, Satellites, an Interview with Robert Adrian X http://tnl-6.local/node/1478 <p>Robert Adrian X is one of the true pioneers of art as telecommunications. This file presents just a few random samples from an interview with him about the need for a history of media art. Bob mixes his thoughts about the meaning of communications with his memoirs about working those technologies from the late 1970s onwards. The beginnings were characterised by the specifically Canadian situation, a vast country that needed telecommunications to keep its ends together.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1478" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1478#comments English Recording media art media art history Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:53:45 +0000 Armin Medosch 1478 at http://tnl-6.local Contradictions of a Tiger Cub, Part I http://tnl-6.local/node/1477 <p>Video sequence taken during recent Vietnam trip. What strikes me is the contradicition between Vietnam's apparent dynamism, allegedly having joined the club of fast growing economies as a 'tiger cub' - in reference to the other Asian 'tiger economies' such as Taiwan, South Korea or Thailand - while at the same time this catching up modernisation process starts from a very low level.</p> <p>Check out this river view of a village between Can Tho and Cai Be, in the Mekong delta.</p> <p><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6_i_Lf_evAOTHFwTG1hTFVhUTQ/preview" width="640" height="385"></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1477" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1477#comments English Poetry Technopolitics Can Tho Vietnam Technopolitics Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:51:32 +0000 Armin Medosch 1477 at http://tnl-6.local (Lecture) NEW TENDENCIES (1961-1973) - PROGRAMMED ART AS FUTURE GENERATOR http://tnl-6.local/node/1476 <p>In a two stop lecture tour I will be talking about New Tendencies in Zagreb on December 6th and in Ljubljana on December 7th. Here I share the abstract for the Ljubljana talk and links to the event websites.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1476" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1476#comments English Event New Tendencies Ljubljana Matko Mestrovic new tendencies Project Atol Zagreb Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:23:11 +0000 admin 1476 at http://tnl-6.local