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Screenshot Collage

Screenshot Collage workshop

Do you also always have several windows open on your screen? Does this look more like a hidden object game than a work surface? And does this sometimes result in exciting combinations?

In this workshop we explore the creative possibilities of screenshots. We experiment with the physical and digital space they open up and create exciting picture-in-picture or even room-in-room collages.
For this we will use the video conferencing tool Jitsi.

You need: paper, pens, tape, objects for physical experiments in the room, computer with internet access.

The workshop is led by Anna Kälin, computer scientist and art educator, and Patricia Huijnen, art educator HeK.

The workshop starts at the given time – online via video chat. The link to the video conference will be sent to you personally via e-mail after registration. Gather the material and off you go!

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Digital Culture Overload

The last cultural event visited before the Lockdown of Malta due to Covid-19 was the talk of Klio at Valletta Contemporary on ‘Digital Culture Overload‘.

New media art curator Klio Krajewska gave a talk about the prevalence of digital culture in contemporary life.
During the talk works by the following artists will be presented and discussed: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Disnovation.org, Guli Silberstein, Winnie Soon, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Shota Yamauchi and others.
Klio is a member of the curatorial team of WRO Art Center and the WRO Media Art Biennale. She is also Head of New Media Arts at Watermans Arts Centre in London and associated with the Parisian environment of sound art.

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CTM & TM: End-to-End 2020 Highlights

end-to-end, p2p, my to me

Sad by Design

Double Counting: The Odum Oration

Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2020

Exchange #1: The Wheres and Whens of Networks

Exchange #2:Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud

Exchange #3: Next to Devastation

Exchange #4: Deplatformization and the Ethics of Exclusion

Exchange #5: Neural Network Cultures

Research Networks

Revolutionary Networked Politics

Commoning by P2P Care

SILENT WORKS. The Hidden Human Labor in AI-Driven Capitalism

THE HUMAN SEARCH ENGINE: On Smashing the Googlearchy and Other Millennial Pursuits

The Councils of the Pluriversal: Affective Temporalities of Reproduction and Climate Change

AIDOL World

End to End Closing Session

End to End Symposium
The symposium of transmediale at Volksbühne Berlin features two intensive days of in-depth exchange, screenings, performances, and artistic interventions. More than 50 artists and thinkers will examine networks as social, technological, and artistic infrastructures. Looking back at an era of network idealism, they will ask if the network is still a viable model to react to urgent challenges such as climate change and the consequences of artificial intelligence—and what a future after the network society might look like.
PhD Workshop Participants

Autonomous Pirate Machinery

Double Counting: The Odum Oration (Cycles of Circulation)

John Julian and Jamie Allen during Double Counting: The Odum Oration

Cycles of Circulation

Asunder

Present.Perfect.

Welcome to the Federation. the What, Why and How of Alternative Social Media #1

Welcome to the Federation. the What, Why and How of Alternative Social Media #2

Revision: Neural 25+1, Critical Publishing and Archiving

Revision: Piratbyrån (2003–2009) Piratbyrån

CiTiZEN KiNO #84: Asymmetric Media and the Simulacrumbs (for the 20th Anniversary of Indymedia)

The Eternal Network

To Seek Nows, To Breed Futures #2

Forest Walk #3

Don’t Forget to Change The Beat From Time To Time—About Counter-Raving

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Video Theory & Video Vortex

Prof. Treske will first talk about his book Video Theory. The publisher’s review details the significance of the work, noting that “video is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower. It is nearly omnipresent, available on demand.” Because cameras all around us are constantly creating video and ‘uploading, sharing, linking and relating,’ what the reviewer calls ‘an ocean of video’ has come to cover our planet. Although this ocean might look like ‘bluish noise and dust” from far away, it may in fact “embed beautiful and fascinating living scapes of moving images: objects constantly changing, rearranging, assembling, evolving, collapsing but never disappearing—a real cinema.’ In the book, the author ‘describes and theorizes these objects formerly named video, their forms, behaviours and properties.’
Then we will discuss the Video Vortex 12 conference: Video Vortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again in Malta for a conference in late September 2019 (http://vv12.org). In this edition, we are in particularly focused on bringing new research, theory and critiques of online video – in addition to questions around its integration with social media – to Malta. If you are a graduate student or researcher/critic engaged in the theoretical challenges of contemporary (moving) image cultures, then please do join us for the conference.
Given its ease of access and use, video has historically been aligned with media activism and collaborative work. Now, however, with video’s prevalence across social media and the web, its dominance of the internet of things, the role of the camera in both the maintenance and breaking down of networks – in addition to the increasing capacity of digital video to simulate that which has not occurred –we require novel theories and research. That is to say, that rapidly changing technological formats underscore the urgent need to engage with practices of archiving and curation, modes of collaboration and political mobilisation, as well as fresh comprehensions of the subject-spectator, actors and networks constituted by contemporary video and digital cultures.
Speaker profile

Professor Andreas Treske is an author, media artist and filmmaker, writing about online video and culture. He graduated from the University of Television and Film, Munich, where he also taught film and video post-production. He lectures with the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Since 2008, he has been involved in the Video Vortex network.

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Digital Arts on the British Waterways

During the on the image conference Adnan presented the boattr 360 project.

This paper discusses the network of the British Waterways as a digital social commons, through the researcher’s journey on the narrow boat ‘Quintessence,’ and the development of the ‘boattr’ prototype in collaboration with MAZI, a Horizon2020 research project. For three years, the researcher joined the community of bargees, travellers, who use the canals to live on them, with a temporary permit to stay for two weeks in one place. The paper offers a critical view on the housing situation in the UK and EU in general. The paper also looks into capabilities offered by Do-It-Yourself (DIY) networking infrastructures – low-cost off-the-shelf hardware and wireless technologies – and how small communities or individuals can deploy local communication networks that are fully owned by local actors, including all generated data. These DIY networks could cover from a small square (e.g., using a Raspberry Pi) to a city neighborhood (e.g., RedHook initiative) or even a whole city (e.g., guifi.net), and in the case of boattr, the towpath of the canal network. This paper is being proposed in combination with an installation of a running boattr prototype, micro-computer book. This boattr installation lets the conference visitor experience the ‘boattr’ project through accessing the boattr micro-computer book over any WiFi enabled device. The installation encompasses a photographic triptych showcasing canal life, and a micro-computer through which the viewer can be immersed into a journey on the canals.

Past, Present, Future, Digital Arts, Mesh Networks, Video 360
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UN/GREEN: NATURALLY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES

Adnan presented the boattr.uk project during the RIXC festival.

The 2019 RIXC Festival 2019 aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of “green” by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for the discussions and artistic interventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. The festival will feature the “Un/Green” exhibition opening that takes place in the Latvian National Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference which aims to ‘un-green’ greenness, eco-systemically reconnect post-human postures, and discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial Intelligences.’

‘Green’, symbolically associated with the ‘natural’ and employed to hyper-compensate for what humans have lost, will be addressed as the indeed most anthropocentric of all colours, in its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness and artificiality. Are we in control of ‘green’? Despite its broadly positive connotations ‘green’ incrementally serves the uncritical desire of fetishistic and techno-romantic naturalization in order to metaphorically hyper-compensate for material systemic biopolitics consisting of the increasing technical manipulation and exploitation of living systems, ecologies, and the biosphere at large.

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Restorative Justice & AI paper presentation @MEA conference

Adnan presented the paper on restorative justice and AI during the MEA conference in Toronto.

MEDIA ETHICS. Human Ecology in a Connected World was the 20th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), a four-day international conference hosted by the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.

THE CONFERENCE drew attention to the ways that contemporary communication practices and emerging technologies are marked by ethical issues and decisive political, societal and cultural questions.

WITH THIS AGENDA, conference participants shared research that engages with the nature of contemporary media, communication, and technological struggle, and the potential that communication, media, and digital technologies hold for enacting positive social change.

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boattr.uk @DCAC

Adnan presented the boattr.uk project at the DCAC conference.

The aim of the DCAC 2019 is to bring together technology, art and culture in the Digital Era, as well as to provide a forum on current research and applications incorporating technology, art and culture, to deepen cooperation,exchange experiences and good practices.

Researchers, artists and scholars are encouraged to participate in the discussion about the interaction between interdisciplinary creativity, technology, arts and culture. Authors are invited to present original papers for oral or poster presentation in the fields of New Media Arts and Digital Culture.

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OFFSHORE TOUR OPERATOR

We organised a remote walk through Victoria, Gozo.

The Great Offshore (Le Grand Large) is a documentary artwork, that invites us to a journey into the depth of the offshore industry.

The work gathers together documents, narratives, photographs and objects, collected during several trips in some of the most notorious tax havens : Dublin, the City of London, Zürich and Pfäffikon, Switzerland, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, the Channel Islands, Jersey & Guernsey, Wilmington Delaware, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Cyprus, Amsterdam, Luxembourg.

The various documents brought back from those exploratory travels are agenced like an encyclopedia, that seeks to index and underlign the infrastructural aspects of the tax evasion industry, that is lying at the heart of the neoliberal machinery.

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boattr.uk @IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging

Adnan presented the boattr project during the EI 2019 conference.

Founded in 1947, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (imaging.org) is a professional international organization dedicated to keeping members and others apprised of the latest scientific and technological developments in the field of imaging through conferences, educational programs, publications, and its website.

IS&T encompasses all aspects of imaging science, with particular emphasis on digital printing, electronic imaging, color science, image preservation, photofinishing, pre-press technologies, hybrid imaging systems, and silver halide research.

History

In 1947 a group of 81 researchers from the National Archives, US Navy, National Bureau of Standards, Signal Corp Engineering Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, Bell & Howell Co., and Eastman Kodak Co.—to name a few—worked together to form the Society of Photographic Engineers. The goal was to establish a society to concentrate on publishing scientific papers in the area of photographic engineering. Before this, papers where published in a multitude of publications mixed with other papers of various non-related material. The membership more then doubled before 1950. The first issue of “Photographic Engineering” was published in January 1950.

As a result of “Photographic Engineering”, the newly formed Society was able to bring in 18 corporate members, including Bell & Howell Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical, Graflex Inc., and Kollmorgan Optical. By the end of 1950 the Society had 33 corporate and more than 270 individual members.

The Society of Photographic Engineers changed it’s name in April 1957 to the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE). Shortly thereafter the first issue of the “Journal of Photographic Scientists and Engineers” was published. On Jan. 29, 1992, the name of the Society was changed to the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T).