Five LoopsFebruary 23

[deutsche Fassung siehe unten] Loops repeat themselves endlessly. Fragments and pieces of garbage are the material of these repetitions. The discourse moves around the thematic centres of freedom of movement and freedom of communication, inferiority and self reflection. In the first contribution Florian Schneider talks about the meaning of freedom of communication. The second loop is inferior in every respect and ...

February 23, 2007 at 4:09 pm | Online Showcase, english | No comment

Sybille Krämer: Performance und ZeugenschaftFebruary 21

Tesla, 16 Juli 2005, im Rahmen der performance art Konferenz Sybille Krämer entwickelt erste Ansätze einer Theorie der Perfomance, in der sie der Frage der Spur und der Zeugenschaft nachgeht. Krämer, führt mehrere DFG-Forschungsprojekte im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereichs Kulturen des Performativen an der Freien Universität Berlin durch, hat sowohl zu mathematischen Fragen (symbolische Maschinen, Kalküle) als ...

February 21, 2007 at 5:57 pm | Tele Lectures, Theory & Research | No comment

Formats and the culture of the 21st century – 7 thesisses on convergence of the media and differentiation of formatsFebruary 6

Druckversion (pdf) in german as published in the whoistwho (berlin-brandenburg.media 8.0, Sep. 06), scroll down for german version. 1. We find ourselves on a treshold: In modern history all media (printing, radio, television and so on) converge partly or totally with the computer. This convergence which will take place within the next five to ten years ...

February 6, 2007 at 2:04 pm | Online Showcase, Theory & Research, english | 1 comment