[rohrpost] self-tracing / self-watching @ transmediale

[Mindaugas Gapševičius]

On Sunday, February 1st 2015 at the transmediale festival, students from 
the Weißensee Academy of Art develop a social sculpture in the cafe 
stage of the HKW.

DAY: Sun 01.02.
DUR: 360 min
PLC: hkw cafe stage

The recent issues on surveillance systems create a sense of how fragile 
digital communication is and also shows how easily our personal data can 
be accessed. On the other hand the average user of social networks like 
Facebook or Twitter doesn’t care so much whether private information 
goes public or not. Far from it: self-tracing, self-watching, 
self-publicity and self-quantification is considered useful for 
individual purposes. In Fall 2014 weißensee academy of art berlin 
offered a seminar on above issues. As a result a social sculpture is 
developed in the cafe stage of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt during one 
day of the transmediale. In a collective approach while arranging and 
rearranging individual contributions, the installation changes its 
shape. At the same time the installation builds its own story.

Contributions to the installation by: Anne Brouwer, Louise 
Douet-Sinenberg, Hannah Fiand, Jana Jedermann, Elizabeth Johnson, Lukas 
Jakob Löcker, Dora Petrova, Pascal Reinhard, Phillip Schaefer, Stefanie 
Schwarzwimmer, Carme Servalls Munar, Vera van de Seyp, Dafna Stoilkova, 
Daniele Tognozzi, Maria Turik

Coordination by: Hannes Brunner, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Felix Groll
Organized by: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Supported by: transmediale, top e.V.

More information: http://self-tracing.com
http://www.transmediale.de/content/self-tracing-self-watching