Issue 4/2004
Old Media
Present-day culture seems to be heading at top speed towards a complete media reformatting. Or at least that is what the ideologists of the new media and virtual future worlds would have us believe. The digital system has started to assert itself as the smallest common cultural unit in many different arenas, be it in the constant expansion of the info-sphere or in the revamping of all previous storage systems. Reason enough to enquire after the continuance of »old« methods of recording, representation and archiving. It is not simply that the written and audio-visual stores of the past remain an essential precondition for neo-conceptual and other (culturo-) historical artistic practices: a genealogy of media also assigns them an indispensable role in any kind of sophisticated understanding of the present. An in-depth look at the history o... » read more
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Black Gold
Listening with the fingers as well as the ears. A plea for haptic music
Heinrich Deisl
Open Systems, Affective Turbulences, Local Feelings
The 7th DEAF festival in Rotterdam investigated interactive art systems and network conditions
Gregor Jansen
Neighbouring Tactics
A review of Hilchot Schenim, an exhibition project by the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Nat Muller
Half Analogue, Half Digital
The 2004 media-art festival »Avanto« in Helsinki focused on the counter-cultural potential of audio-visual experiments
Christa Benzer
Lost & Found (VI)
In 2005, the Austrian Film Museum is sending the restored works of the filmmaker Owen Land (George Landow) on a world tour
Christian Höller
Cemeteries of Old Media
The continued interest in optical machines and visual apparatuses
Petra Erdmann
Old Media
Under the Volcano
The archaeology of globalisation
Krystian Woznicki
Calculating and Calculators
The algorithmic and generative as an aesthetic strategy
Yvonne Volkart
Media on Trial
The newly revived genre of courtroom drawings – in the case against Milosevic
Ana Peraica
Dismantling the Situation
Interview with the Palestinian filmmaker Azza El-Hassan
Nicolas Siepen
Comparable, But Very Different
The film »13 Lakes« by James Benning
Martin Beck
Tilting Effects, Disturbances
Interview with the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
Christian Höller
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Stills from a film by Mathias Poledna
The Guggenheim Museum: A Business Plan
Hans Haacke
Voice Over
The exhibition »Phonorama« looks at the history of the voice as a medium
Roland Schöny
The ABCs of Conferencing
Experiment, play, reflect
Trebor Scholz & Geert Lovink
»Bunker Museum Kinmen«
The southern Chinese island of Kinmen on the way to finding its identity
Maren Richter
Artscribe
»Wie wollen wir regiert werden?«
Doro Wiese
»Black Atlantic - Travelling Cultures, Counter-Histories, Networked Identities«
Florian Zeyfang
»Four Roses«
Marek Wasilewski
Jeanne van Heeswijk: »Games People Play«
Dóra Hegyi
Gianni Motti und Christoph Büchel: »Under Destruction #1«
Ciprian Muresan
»Dependent Objects«
Mechtild Widrich
»Ethnic Marketing«
Rachel Mader
Lodz Biennale
Berenika Partum
Grupo Suma - »Suma Gráfica«
Jens Kastner
»Entre Pindorama«
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
»Cordially Invited«
Melanie Ohnemus
»Para Sites - when space comes into play...«
Matthias Dusini
Books
Jürgen Habermas / Jacques Derrida:
Philosophie in Zeiten des Terrors
Susanne Karr
Casino Luxemburg / Rooseum Malmö / O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz:
Nedko Solakov - A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey
Walter Seidl
Thomas Frank:
What´s the Matter With Kansas?
Anette Baldauf
Marjane Satrapi:
Persepolis
Martin Reiterer
Monika Bernold / Andrea Braidt / Claudia Preschl (Hg.):
Screenwise
Christa Benzer