Dieter Mersch: Tertium datur (Einleitung in eine negative Medientheorie)December 28

Dieter Mersch entwirft das Programm einer negativen Medientheorie. Ähnlich der negativen Theologie, die nur negative Aussagen über Gott macht, negiert die negative Medientheorie eine Festschreibung des Medienbegriffs und weist darauf hin, dass sich das Medium dort, wo es ETWAS zeigt, verbirgt. Der Künstler, von Mersch als Meister der Paradoxie konstruiert, könnte aber womöglich in einer gleichsam paradoxen, weil immer ...

December 28, 2006 at 10:55 pm | Tele Lectures, Theory & Research | No comment

Networking - The Net as an ArtworkDecember 27

Tatiana Bazzichelli (who lives in Berlin) is an expert on italian media activism and net(work) art. She curated the exibition "hackitart" in Kunstraum Kreuzberg in 2004. Now she wrote a book on the same subject: The Networking. La rete come arte. The book (with a preface of Derrick De Kerckhove and an epilogue of the videoartist ...

December 27, 2006 at 10:33 am | Theory & Research, english | No comment

Tom Sherman: What is Transmedia?December 17

The term transmedia is often used to describe the way a corporation establishes an idea by implanting similar messages across a range of media concurrently. An idea (or image or sound) is implanted simultaneously in video, television, radio, print and through the Web, thoroughly infecting a media environment. Audiences make connections between multiple representations of the same idea. Ideas are reinforced as various content sources ...

December 17, 2006 at 6:52 pm | Theory & Research, english | No comment