writes about culture, science and technology for the Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free culture, pornography (and everything in between).
In summer 2010, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) invited submissions for the transmediale Award 2011. For the first time this year, together with the Mozilla Foundation/Drumbeat, transmediale announced the inaugural Open Web Award. In a session lasting several days, the internatinal jury nominated the most outstanding works from an impressive pool of more than 1000 submissions.
transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have announced the creation of the new Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that: > are on the web and about the web > use open and free technology > incite participation and/or collaboration
transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Marisa Olson is New York based, artist, curator, and professor. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College-London, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her work combines performance, video, drawing & installation to address the cultural history of technology, the politics of participation in pop culture & the aesthetics of failure.
