Herzliche Einladung zum ersten gemeinsamen Umtrunk!

Zeit: Montag, 26. Juli 2010, ab 19.00 Uhr

Ort:  Biennale-Büro von Transforming Freedom, tagR.tv u.a. 

MQ-Hof hinter dem Freiraum (Fürstenhof), Eingang gegenüber dem Kiosk

 

 

 

 

 

 

PETIT PLINQUE. Ein Moment mit Plinque und Gästen.

Das Wiener KünstlerInnenkollektiv Plinque zeigt in seiner vierten Ausstellung Arbeiten von sich und geladenen KünstlerInnen.

Mit: Alfredo Barsuglia, Bernhard Buhmann, Paul Busk, Eva Chytilek, Alan Cicmak, Julius Deutschbauer, Christian Eisenberger, Hanakam & Schuller, Stefanie Hilgarth, Hösl & Mihaljevic, Claudia Larcher, Leo Peschta, Roman Pfeffer, Wendelin Pressl, Liddy Scheffknecht, Nita Tandon, Armin B. Wagner, Erwin Wurm

 

 

Museumsquartier, quartier21 / Hof 2 / Raum Transforming Freedom / tagR.tv

Eröffnung: Do, 29. April, 19:00 Uhr

Öffnungszeiten:
Freitag, 30. April 16-19h
Samstag, 1. Mai 16-19h
Sonntag, 2. Mai 12-16h

selbst, wenn und und*

elffriede.transforming freedom (biberbau VII.)
liegt, sitzt, steht im zeichen nicht abbrechenden (auf-)zeichnens,
raumdurchmessend, -aufrauhend, -abrundend, -durchforstend...
eine zigfache raumzeichnung mit schwebezuständen in lindenbaum, akustischem elch, zeicheniglu undundund

*elffriede.seismograph, edition ch, wien 2007

Abschlussveranstaltung:
Montag, 15. Juni 2009 / 20 Uhr
elffriede.freedom transformed
(seismographischer epilog)

+

die entstehung des nichts III.
ein abgezirkeltes universum, das nichts darstellt:
sabine maier + jörg piringer + elffriede
(keine performance, ein wunder)


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Kuratorin: charlotte zott aka sari piechart / network glimpse
Presse: http://diestandard.at/?url=/?id=1242316869527

The scope of artistic interventions that become possible with Twitter is probably immeasurable. At Transforming Freedom  we're trying to get our fingers dirty as well and have set up a very, very low tech installation at the Quarter for Digital Culture (QDK) that also involves Twitter.
But it also involves human technology, or rather, the human-as-technology, which is one of the least reliable technological systems available to date. Think Seveso, think Tchernobyl, think the current economic crisis, of course (the upside of this miserable technology that is mankind: the perfect simulation of our flaw-ridden world is impossible, we will therefore never be fed into the matrix, as the matrix wouldn't be nor progess without us).

 

Our installation, the working title of which I hereby proclaim as "Clouds for Bad Bankers", is thus not only based on the magic that is the Twitter API in conjunction with hashtags, it also requires that we, the enablers at Transforming Freedom, regularly jump into action, that we examine our dedication to the project. It is, however, already apparent that we will fail miserably.

Here is the layout of the installation: We have set up an ugly, bulky CRT monitor on which a twitterwall is running, searching for tweets tagged with #tfeet (as in: Transforming Freedom + tweet). In the same room, there is a ladder at the top of which the cloud of unfathomable wisdom, which also serves as TF's logo, is attached. At the bottom of the ladder, there is cardboard figure, a banker man who seeks to drink from the cloud.

But he needs to be fed to climb the ladder, to ascend towards the cloud, and he lives on the mentioned #tfeet tagged tweets. Since our li'l bad banker is made of cardboard, he relies on us, the enablers, to move further up the ladder - and we will do so whenever a certain number of tfeets have been accumumlated. The Twitterwall is currently at six tfeets - as soon as 20 tfeets have been reached, the enablers will have to leave the place they're at and race towards the QDK, move the man one rung further up the ladder... I guess it's obvious who the weakest link is in this installation.

Notwithstanding this challenge: We've built in a further complication, to bring in some confusion, to egg us on a little, but also to make things a little less no-nonsense. You think you get it, but actually, you don't - just like the economic crisis. So here it goes: After a critical-mass tweet has been posted, we've got three hours to make our banker move - if we stay within the time limit, we get a bonus, but for every minute we miss from these three hours, we lose € 1.000.000,-, so we win what remains of a max of € 180.000.000,- Our currency: a cauldron full of Powerpoint clip art gold.

If you want to see us run - add #tfeet to your tweets often! No worries if it's out if context - the banker will take anything he can to get a taste of the cloud!
Btw, anybody reading this who can show us a way to reliably count hashtagged tweets, allowing us to pinpoint e.g., tweet no. 20 - ideas?
The twinstallation will be activated May 12, and it will continue until March 23. If need be for a second banker, we'll build one.

Within the Coded Cultures festival an exhibition of Mamoru Okuno (JP) takes place in the room of Transforming Freedom between 15 April and 30 April 2009, 10 a.m. - 22 p.m.

The word "etude" is often used to represent small music composition that is designed to gain certain technique of the instruments or also for composers to display certain musical ideas as a sketch. mamoru´s "etude" is a series of works that is related to everyday objects, mostly cheep and easy-to- nd, which would be transformed into something unexpected by a simple idea. The original work is text; however they take various forms to be realized.

Artist statement mamoru okuno (JP): At quartier21, I would like to make sound installation and  performance for "etude no.12 - plastic lm" in two variations. One with glass bottle I found in Austria; joghurt bottle, and the other with white light. At the opening I would do special performance involving the audience and continue to do variations at open studio for 4 days. I hope to see you and make good sound.

Again upon invitation by Transforming Freedom, the internet study group at the graduate centre for social sciences, meets up at Room D on April 1st. This time the topic will be conspiracy theories on the web.

See internetforschung.wordpress.com for more information.

Hosted by Transforming Freedom, the second edition of Geek Girl Dinner Vienna is to take place on 30 March 2009, at 7 p.m., Raum D, MQ. Potential members of “Geek Girl Dinner” are female bloggers, tinkerers with computers, coders, designers and/or other folk who love and live the web. New geek girls welcome anytime – until a sponsor has been found (let us know if you're interested), attendees pay for food and drinks themselves.

See also http://geekgirldinner.pbwiki.com/