The Next Layer - Conference

The Broken Mirror - Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia

Armin Medosch — Mon, 26 May 2014 06:47:37 +0000

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 At the end of the 20th century, information superseded the media and was supposed to become the perfect mirror - the dreamworld of digital utopia.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?

Energy

Armin Medosch — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:28:07 +0000

Medosch A, Mey K, Šmite R, Šmits R. 2011. Energy. Acoustic Space. 8

Networks and Sustainability

Armin Medosch — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:28:07 +0000

Medosch A, Šmite R, Šmits R. 2011. Networks and Sustainability. Acoustic Space. 10

Stress Test for Regulation Theory

Armin Medosch — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:19:56 +0000

On 8th and 9th of July 2010 I attended the conference "Regulationstheorie in der Krise" (Regulation theory in the era of crisis) jointly organised by the University of Vienna and the Renner Institute (political academy of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPOE). The title transports a double meaning, it refers to the crisis of regulation theory as well as to what has regulation theory to say about the current crisis? I do not claim to be an expert in economics and I am also a newbie to the regulation approach. However, I found this conference very interesting and thought provoking, so I try a summary in English.

Four Pathways - first results

Brian Holmes — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:26:03 +0000

The first full seminar of the series "Four Pathways through Chaos" was held in Toronto on May 1-2, under the auspices of the European Graduate School, with about 10 students attending. It was a great success, very interesting! And very directly related to the research into Technopolitics. What I did was to transform the Introduction on methodology and the lectures on Assembly-Line Mass Production into stand-alone PDFs, consisting mainly of quotes from books accompanied by images and transitional comments.

Memories and Perspectives of the OURMedia Network

doll_yoko — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:12:18 +0000

Dagron AG. 2006. Memories and Perspectives of the OURMedia Network. OURMedia 6.

Thenextlayer at Getting Published Tuesday 28th April

Armin Medosch — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:50:42 +0000

Getting Published Tuesday 28th April

This panel discussion will bring together a range of speakers who will
highlight different routes into getting published within and external to
academia. It will be followed by a discussion around the benefits and
challenges inherent in these routes in particular in relation to new
possibilities afforded by new media/ web 2.0.

Chaired by Kenneth Armstrong, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of
London. Speakers include:

Sarah Stanton, Cambridge University Press
Rachel Kirton, Taylor and Francis On Line Development

Collaborative Panel Application

Lindsay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:01:26 +0000

Hello Both

Although I do not feel that my work fits in in a day to day note-taking way here on TNL (the reader numbers on specific posts are testament to this), and thus (for this and other reasons) have withdrawn from major participation on TNL, I was intrigued Doll by your suggestion at making an application to this conference for a combined proposal/panel.
http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/874

Handshakes amongst strangers: P2P and the production of disorder within informational capitalism

doll_yoko — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:44:32 +0000

This is an attached slide-show (with notes)* from my presentation at The Second IT & Disorder Workshop held at the University of Technology, Sydney, on 26 March 2009. I need to work this up into a paper for publication in a uni e-journal very very soon! But I seem to be more devoted to d/l'ing endless stuff 'for research' from my favourite sites.... Anyway this presentation went well, and I felt i had redeemed myself after 2 really embarrassing presentations late last year.

WAAR Poster

Lindsay — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:30:07 +0000