DEAF07 - Interact or Die!
DEAF07 Dutch Electronic Art Festival - Interact or Die!
Interact or Die!
In a world dominated by an omnipresence of media and telecommunications we are expected to act in and with the networks these systems create. Interactivity in this context becomes an intrinsic part of our societal, political and economic ideals creating new forms of cultural and social structures. Our positions as participating citizens, creative consumers or critical activists force us into the role of being co-author or determinant element of the landscape of (media)realities we live in, in this sense interactivity is mostly promoted to fulfill social, cultural and political ideals. But direct interaction with such systems and networks often leads to unexpected and unforeseen results inspiring diversity and variation instead of fulfilling one single social and political ideal at will.
Interaction
is a characteristic of every living being. Interaction is the formation
of connections and networks, and the bringing about of organisation,
structure and memory through interplay within them. Interaction changes
bodies and objects giving rise to variation. Interaction is not a
morphing of exsisting structures but adding information to them, and
therefore the formation of thoughts and structures.
To better
understand interaction within and between networks, and the social,
cultural and artistic forms it generates, we must analyze the
principles according to which it works. In biological networks,
structures arise spontaneously through self-organization on the basis
of interactions which affect each other. Technological networks, by
contrast, are formal and stringently controlled and permit hardly any
self-organization or spontaneity. Social and cultural interaction,
however, does not fit into this binary division: it is hybrid and
continually yields surprising outcomes, even though strict control
functions are at play at the same time. Flexibility and temporariness
are therefore key terms when we talk about interaction in fields such
as art, culture, architecture and other domains.
DEAF07 is about sloppy, messy interaction: interaction whose outcome is malleable and not definitive. Yet such forms last a surprisingly long time; they are robust because they are able to continually reorganize and adapt. Rigid blueprints, that mostly understand interaction within a cause and effect process, offer no solutions to today’s big social and ecological problems, such as global warming, immigration, multiculturalism, cultural dynamics and the effects of globalization. In these processes, interaction is unfolding messily, and in much more elusive ways than we ever suspected. DEAF07 thus will address the questions of how organization and structure arise through this kind of interaction, and how they become effective. These questions are being considered from artistic, architectural, social, political and cognitive perspectives.
DEAF07 will show us the results of this for art, culture and science, in theory and in practice. Projects vary from the tactical use of media and networks by artists and activists to sub-themes such as cultural dynamics. Topics include the design of networks and interaction in and between them; the relationship between power, control and self-organization in technological systems and in social networks; and the demand for diversity and variation in a globalization process whose hallmark is standardization.
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Presentations and discussions about media art education in China, at DEAF07.
Interrupting Realities was a seminar about artistic approaches to mixed reality. It took place during DEAF07, 2007.
An evening curated by Ludic Society, as part of DEAF07.
Presentation with a twist about city branding and tourism.
UbiScribe is a nomadic research project about pervasive publishing in networked media. This public colloquium presented topical issues raised from current research conducted for UbiScribe, at the Design Department of the Jan van Eyck Academie ...
Workshop about tracking technology; took place during DEAF07.
Electronic hands-on workshops on media ecologies, part of DEAF07.
'Transdisciplinary Innovation' was one of the seminars of DEAF07.
'unDEAF_Exposed' was the closing sunday event of the DEAF07 satellite project unDEAF.
V2_ celebrates its 25th birthday with an ultra dynamic performance night. Groundbreaking pioneers that have connected new media, performance, sound and image over the last 25 years are performing in an unusual setting.
Exhibition of interactive installations, video's and other electronic art, part of "Interact of Die!" the 2007 Dutch Electronic Art Festival.
A presentation at DEAF07 about guerrilla tactics in media.
Presentation at DEAF07 about political engament and free speech.
Book launch of the second Mag.Net Reader at DEAF07.
Book launch at DEAF07 of The Chinese Dream by Neville Mars.
Evening programme, curated by Lu Jie, about The Long March, part of DEAF07.
Expert meeting at DEAF07 about digital archives for media culture and media art.
Public presentations of various archives, following an expert meeting earlier that day.
Presentation about media art in China, part of DEAF07.
Presentation about new media art in China, part of DEAF07.
Presentation fo the Cool Media Hot Talk Show project.
Presentation at DEAF07 about I-TASC, an official project of the 2007 International Polar Year.
Presentation about the project greatfirewallofchina.org at DEAF07.
An evening curated by Paul Koek about Dick Raaymakers, part of DEAF07.
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