<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(sorry for x-posting)<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are proud to present two current initiatives that are working in the field of new media arts and will actively participate in ongoing discussions, as well as in international activities such as conferences, exhibitions, panels and such.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please contact us at info(at)<a href="http://artisticbokeh.com/" target="_blank">artisticbokeh.com</a> to get in contact with us regarding our project, possible cooperations or any other issues. Additional information about the research and our aims will be published throughout december.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>*ARTISTIC BOKEH*</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The format of “documentation” is an essential part of reflecting, presenting and structuring knowledge. ARTISTIC BOKEH works in cooperation with expert networks with backgrounds of DSLR video and DIY cameras, and includes a self-reflexive component which addresses the medium “documentation” as such. The main aim is to research aesthetic/qualitative parameters of experimental documentation, apart from working on and finding new terms for what was previously known as “new media arts”.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Researching and developing new documentation formats, conducting experiments and using “documentation as a method”, Artistic Bokeh currently works as subdivision of the project Artistic Technology Research at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and runs a lab together with international practitioners.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://artisticbokeh.com/" target="_blank">http://artisticbokeh.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>*ARTISTIC TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH*</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">»Artistic Technology Research« observes possible transformations from artistic, technological, playful and “critical engineering” (see J. Oliver, G. Savičić and D. Vasiliev) backgrounds to inject and intertwine them using methods (and developing methodologies) that systematically combine research methods from artistic and scientific realms, creating a field of proto-research: </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">“research about/for/through arts, arts about/for/through research” (Dombois, 2009). Furthermore, the project includes a practical approach to problem-solving, so the understanding of »Artistic Technology« is closely related to the greek term of techne which includes the Critical Arts as well as critique as the “culture of the modern society”. The project is composed of “practices, actions and interactions” that will involve diverse audiences and is intended to measure and discuss contemporary (artistic) media practices as well as offering “connections” to social and cultural sciences. Based on “action research” and extending it to include “documentation as method” the project is designed to connect to open research and open discourses. The entire process will work following an interdisciplinary approach of knowledge-building and at the same time facilitate popular awareness of applied critical research. Artistic Technology Research is a project in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts, supported by the FWF science fund. </div>
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---- CURRENT ACTIVITIES ----</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>*Mapping Spaces of Online Discourse*</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Artistic Technology Research presents the results of their collaboration with the Utrecht media lab SETUP: together, they engaged in mapping the collaboration and communication within production communities. Mailinglists, Twitter communication, search queries and online repositories constitute instable and often neglected repositories of social interaction online. Using these data for visualizations and for a mapping of how communication and interaction developed made explicit how online discourse evolves, which actors matter and what stories traces of online life can tell about participants and social formations. The results are data analysis, network visualizations and infographics which make the implicit interactions as well as the often neglected 'digital imprints' of internet use explicitly visible. On display are Data Portraits by Frank-Jan van Lunteren, network visualizations by Ryanne Turenhout and data analysis by Matthias Tarasiewicz.<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Open Studio Cooperation with Mirko Lazović, Daniel vom Keller and Jelena Mišković.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
The works that will be presented:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Daniel vom Keller: Future Ground/New Diversity, sculpture</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Mirko Lazović: While staring at the wall, interactive video</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Jelena Mišković: Black snow- Geometry strikes back, video</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
2012-11-20, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">19:00, artist studio 513 (access through studio 501), Hof 7</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://artisticbokeh.com/page/exhibition-mapping-artistic-technology-vienna-artweek" target="_blank">http://artisticbokeh.com/page/exhibition-mapping-artistic-technology-vienna-artweek</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>*Exhibition: Documenting Artistic Technology*</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
A small exhibition of process artifacts is representative for the works and conceptual positions in experimental and playful investigation of technological and social configurations through media art. Artist’s views on practices of research and production are investigated through video interviews, of which several are on display in the exhibition booth. With BitcoinCloud, the Artistic Technology Research Lab presents a media art approach to alternative currencies and investigates playfully new material and economic realities.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Displayed works:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Prayas Abhinav: mas*ing, closed circuit communication device</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Setup.nl: Tracking Cookies, laser-cut qr-code cookies / emotion mapping</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Fran Ilich: Spacebank - A Latin American virtual community investment bank trading online since the beginning of the Otra Campaña Zapatista in 2005.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Opening:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2012-11-20, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">18:00, Artistic Bokeh exhibition booth at Electric Avenue, quartier21</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://artisticbokeh.com/page/artisticbokeh-mq" target="_blank">http://artisticbokeh.com/page/artisticbokeh-mq</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.m-q.at/index.php?page_id=664&lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.m-q.at/index.php?page_id=664&lang=en</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Exhibition visible until 06-2013.</div>