Armin Medosch
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Armin Medosch (*1962) is a writer, artist and curator working in the field of media arts and network culture, based in London and Vienna. Recent projects include the exhibition Waves, which he initiated and co-curated, and which was held in May 2008 in Dortmund and August 2006 in Riga; the Ars Electronica theme conference "Goodbye Privacy" in 2007 and the symposium "Creative Cities", Vienna, March 2009, both created in collaboration with Ina Zwerger; the wireless public art project Hidden Histories / Street Radio realised together with Hivenetworks, Southampton, 2008; recent writing focuses on topics related to new media technologies and social change, and has appeared in publications such as the data browser readers 01, 02, Node.London Reader I/II, as well as on http://www.thenextlayer.org, a shared platform for collaborative research. research student in Arts and Computiational Practice at Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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London
Vienna
Research
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- Waves, artistic research, curatorial practice, open source, technology, social change
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Waves - Art, Technology and Social Change
Abstract
This research investigates media art through practice based and theoretic research. It looks at seminal exhibitions in the history of media art as a way of understanding its paradigm shifts. The thesis proposes that paradigm shifts in media art and society are key to an understanding of the dynamics of media art practice. To further such an understanding, a new method is under development, which places art in a historic context. Rather than explaining or trying to define what media art is, this inquiry explores the multi-layered relationships between art forms using and thematizing new technologies and the overall historic development driven by economics, politics and other strong social determinants. The framework for this research posits that there are cycles or Waves also in the development of techno-economic paradigms, from business cycles to the great surges triggered by the invention of new paradigm shaping technologies. The postwar period serves as the larger time bracket for this investigation, with the paradigms of Fordism, lasting from ca 1940 to 1974 and the paradigm of Postfordism which started then and has lasted ever since, as the main ordering elements. The selected exhibitions allow to zoom in at particular moments within the trajectory of the respective paradigm and thereby show clear links between techno-scientific and sociocultural currents of. the time and specific expressions in art, science, discourse. An online open source content management system has been installed and used to develop the tools of intellectual labour especially with regard to new critical and collaborative practices. The framework of Technopolitics gets developed collaboratively on this platform, whereby the Waves research explores a specific thread in relation to it, as an application or layer of the meta-narrative. The chosen methodology is about mapping out a subject in a new way rather than creating a specific "theory" of it. This methodology shows the potential to be fruitful not only for the Waves project but applied in other inquiries as well.
My publications
- AM. 2008. Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, Introduction . Waves - Catalogue. :12124--22132.
Catalogue Essay, Introduction
. 2008. Paid in Full: Copyright, piracy and the real currency of cultural production.in Deptford.TV Diaries II - Pirate Strategies
. 2007. 45 RPM / Revolutions Per Minute - Radio Art Histories Remixed. The Next Layer.. 2006. Waves - electromagnetic waves as material and medium of art.. Acoustic Space.. 2006. Waves - an introduction. Waves - electromagnetic waves as material and medium of art.. 2005. Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations "inna Babylon". How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free and Open Source Software... 2003. Freie Netze - Geschichte, Kultur und Politik offener WLAN-Netze. Telepolis. :230.. 2003. Piratology: the deep seas of open code and free culture. Dive.. 1995. Flash B. Phantastische Bibliothek.. 1989. Dona - Dicke Japaner können platzen. Phantastische Bibliothek.. 1985. The warrior (Theater piece).P. 1989. Reno enraged. Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles, ORF Kunstradio.Š. 2008. Spectropia: Acoustic Space No. 7. Acoustic Space. 7T
