It’s all about the time in between creating all the digital tools + toys and having them integrated in our every day life. Actually its the most amazing moment in the life cycle of a tool. The work is done and now its time to play.
How do we find conscious ways of being active, both in the digital and the physical sphere, without just becoming part of a system of data overflow? From 12-14 September 2013, we discussed this at the reSource 006: Overflow event at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. (Video by Lemon Face Films, Pedro Deltell)
An Ecosystem of Excess is an attempt to create a post-human eco-system, a living community of speculative organisms and their environment. The project takes the idea that we are surrounded by "man-made extreme environments" as its starting point. A man-made extreme environment is a site of excess, where leftovers of our capitalistic desires and consumerist actions are accumulated.
12-14.9., Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mindpirates e.V. | How do we find conscious ways of being active, both in the digital and the physical sphere, without just becoming part of a system of data overflow? Discussions, workshops & performances. Read full post
For the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research 2013 jury members Kristoffer Gansing, Marcel Rene Marburger and Lioudmila Voropai have selected the new resident Pinar Yoldas and her project An Ecosystem of Excess.
How do we come to know about things, particularly when they are designed to go unnoticed? Information and meaning need one another, like material and media. What frustrates and unties these binds are the interest of this workshop. | Read more.
The reSource for transmedial culture constitutes a substantial part of the transmediale 2012 programme with a constellation of workshops, talks and performances distributed into five different sub-themes: reSource Methods, reSource Activism, reSource Networks, reSource Markets, reSource Sex. Read full post
