[spectre] Fwd: CONF: Leaving a Mark: Onsite - On Surface - Online (Karlsruhe/online, 8-9 Dec 23)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

(in this conference on various forms of graffiti, notice the talks 
related to Inge Hinterwaldner's project at KIT Karlsruhe on programmed 
internet art and research on reading software traces...)


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Betreff: CONF: Leaving a Mark: Onsite - On Surface - Online 
(Karlsruhe/online, 8-9 Dec 23)
Datum: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:24:16 +0100
Von: ArtHist <arthist at lists.clio-online.de>

From: Inge Hinterwaldner
Date: Nov 27, 2023
Subject: CONF: Leaving a Mark: Onsite - On Surface - Online 
(Karlsruhe/online, 8-9 Dec 23)

Karlsruhe, KIT, Englerstr. 7, bldg. 20.40, Grüne Grotte / online, Dec 
8–09, 2023
Registration deadline: Dec 6, 2023

A visual marking of a territory or an event, messages left indicating 
“this is my hand”, “this is my name”, “this is how far I got” can be 
found throughout the millennia and in a variety of cultures. The 
contexts vary as well as the means for the inscriptions. They can be 
sharp slate pencils leaving tiny comments on wall paintings, aerosol 
sprays covering whole trains or typed messages in computer code. In most 
cases, graphein/graffiare happens manually, be it in direct contact with 
the substrate, at a close distance, or remote with a keyboard. Each time 
it is a situated practice, reacting to an existing cultural setting, 
often emphasizing the site specificity, imagining audiences. These 
communicative gestures are embedded in larger cultural settings from 
which they draw their strength, motivation, legitimacy, virtuosity or 
subversive power. And to which they contribute a further layer of 
signification. They may allow glances into long forgotten past 
practices. They may open the eyes and empower for alternative channels 
of messaging.

In this workshop we focus on what can be learnt from processes of 
markings for which we find arguments to label them ‘graffiti’. As the 
backdrops for such cultural practices are vastly diverse, we encourage 
the presenters not to take the term for granted, but to make explicit in 
their talk what theory and concept of graffiti they build on. This can 
help finding the right points of contact in the discussion even when 
phenomena diverge considerably.

Three research groups meet with special guests and discuss their 
perspectives on graffiti.

Graff-IT investigates the presence of graffiti in Italy, from the 
7th-16th century, and aims to develop a new interdisciplinary approach 
to the study of medieval and Renaissance graffiti as a historical 
source. The actions of writing under investigation have an 
extemporaneous and personal character. They are not commissioned but are 
acts beyond any control from the elites and authorities. As such, these 
written documents are exceptional and valuable complements to official 
writings. (Prof. Dr. Carlo Tedeschi, palaeontology, Università degli 
Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara)

INDIGO aims at the basis to systematically document, disseminate and 
analyse almost 13 km of uninterrupted graffiti along Vienna’s Danube 
Canal in the next decade. Graffiti community engagement and regular 
photo visits allow INDIGO to build a spatially, spectrally, and 
temporally accurate record of most (il)legal sprayings, engravings, and 
other personal expressions on the Canal’s public urban surfaces. (Prof. 
Dr. Geert Verhoeven, archaeology, Universities of Ghent and Vienna and 
Prof. Dr. Norbert Pfeifer, geodesy and geoinformation, Technical 
University Vienna)

COSE deals with programmed internet art and seeks to reveal their inner 
workings, as well as their embeddedness in the various niches of the 
World Wide Web. A close inspection on artistic and activist practices 
that might be withdrawn from view due to different reasons is deemed 
necessary for providing analytical instruments and a general 
understanding of our media-technological condition. Here, graffiti 
practices may shed light onto loopholes in systems by exploiting them 
creatively.
(Prof. Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner, art history, KIT Karlsruhe)

when: December 8-9, 2023
where: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstr. 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, 
Germany, bldg. 20.40, Grüne Grotte
to join the conference online, please announce your interest until 
December 6, 2023: inge.hinterwaldner at kit.edu

Program

December 8, 2023
09:30 welcome coffee

10:00 Introduction
Inge Hinterwaldner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / IKB)

10.15 Graffiti as Performative Signs (Middle and Early Modern Ages)
Carlo Tedeschi (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara / 
DiLASS):

11:00 'Jeux de lettres' of an itinerant writer. Function and symbolic 
aspects of graffiti between the Middle and the Early Modern Ages
Simone Allegria & Pier Paolo Trevisi (Università degli Studi "G. 
d'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara / DiLASS)

11:45 coffee break

12:00 Graffiti in Prison. Some examples from Early Modern Italy
Marco Albertoni & Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski (Università degli Studi 
"G. d'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara / DiLASS)

12:45 lunch break

14:00 Excursion with photogrammetry demonstration
Benjamin Wild (Technical University Vienna / GEO)

15:15 INDIGO and the Graffito: Navigating Definitions and Digital 
Representations
Jona Schlegel (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute / LBI ArchPro)

15:45 Street Walls to Digital Archives: Preserving? Cultural? Heritage?
Massimiliano Carloni (Austrian Academy of Sciences / ACDH-CH)

16:15 Engineering meets graffiti: How can photogrammetry digitally 
safeguard the ephemeral?
Benjamin Wild (Technical University Vienna / GEO)

16:45 coffee break

17:15 Where’s my spray? Virtual workshop of graffiti in VR Chat 
Virtualilly (independent) / Mayte Gomez Molina (Karlsruhe Institute of 
Technology / IKB)

December 9, 2023

10:00 welcome coffee

10:15 Presentation of Benjamin Wild’s photogrammetry results

10:45 Tag the lens – artistic browser extensions as graffiti
Daniela Hönigsberg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / IKB)

11:30 coffee break

11:45 Taming the Wild – The Legal Corset for Graffiti (Art)
Thomas Dreier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / ZAR)

12:30 Private systems, public mischief
Emma Dickson (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / IKB)

13:15 final discussion / wrap up


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Leaving a Mark: Onsite – On Surface – Online (Karlsruhe/online, 
8-9 Dec 23). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 27, 2023. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/40708>.