Seit der Wirtschaftskrise ist die Kreativindustrie zum Standortfaktor geworden. Politiker schwärmen von einem neuen Wachstumsmarkt, der bald die Automobilindustrie überflügeln soll. Wir fragen: Wie sehen die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen im Verhältnis zwischen Kunst und Kapital aus? Möglicherweise ist es bald nicht mehr so, dass die Wirtschaft der Kultur beim Wachsen und Werden hilft, sondern umgekehrt.
Mit Techniken aus der geophysischen Archäologie (Offenlegen und Kartografieren), narrativen Deplacements (filmische Manipulationen von Zeitlichkeit) und kodierten Psychogeographien wird dieser Workshop dem Stadtflaneur der Zukunft neue Schablonen und Vorgehensweisen aufzeichnen.
The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) is a new media art laboratory run since 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The collective implements an open-community methodology, which is concerned with the needs of cross-collaborative actions to technological development, and its practical use in daily life.
Scott Kildall (*1969) is a cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to form interventions into various concepts of space. He is a graduate of both Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships and awards from the Kala Art Institute, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Turbulence.org and is currently a resident artist at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. Scott is also a founding member of Second Front — the first performance art group in Second Life.
Nathaniel Stern is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theater performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, concrete sculpture and slam poetry. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.