Congratulations to the following four nominees of Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011!
The Vilém Flusser Theory Award (VFTA) promotes innovative media theory and practice-oriented research exploring current and pending positions in digital art, media culture and networked society. The call was open to publications, positions, and projects from a broad range of theoretical, artistic, critical or design-based research that seeks to establish and define new forms of exchange, vocabularies and cultural dialogue. more...
With this project the Australian games theorist Mez Breeze examines how processes of knowledge production and entertainment models change under the influence of artificially generated stimuli. The work belongs to the “Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_project“ which addresses how information is absorbed within artificial environments making its insights accessible via a link-in system more...
In this essay the American media theorist Jordan Crandall explores new approaches to analyze the calculating techniques of tracking technologies. Crandall posits "program" as his key analytical and structural principle to determine the new hybrids these algorithmically augmented technologies promote. more...
The collaboration between artist/researchers Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka seeks to open up the term 'media archaeology' in order to use it as an art practice to excavate bodies of memory held not only by the human mind but also especially by the media themselves. Thus turning to objects, chemicals and electronic circuits, Hertz and Parikka operate in close vicinity to such practices as DIY, circuit bending or hardware hacking. more...
With her poetic manifesto Brazilian artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez transfers ideas around cultural cannibalism and anthropophagic practices coined by her countryman Oswald de Andrade's in his text "Manifesto Antropófago“ from 1928 into the present digital age---For in today's world, it is the virtual world which poses the new frontier making everyone a potential coloniser. more...
Deadline: 31st July 2010
Festival Dates: 01 - 06 February 2011
The Vilém Flusser Theory Award (VFTA) promotes innovative media theory and practice-oriented research exploring current and pending positions in digital art, media culture and networked society. Echoing media philosopher and cultural nomad Vilém Flusser[more...]more...
