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Grasping instability as a primary binding element between media and technology is essential in defining the message of works which challenge our notion of art. Because these works often stand outside the common assumptions of aesthetics, process and expression, new strategies of reception must be developed. We need in fact to see different, and we need to act different. Methodologies employed, for example, by the Rotterdam based international art and urbanist collective "STEALTH.[u]ltd", use the process and materiality of electronic "media" to define artistic action. These are means which require us to enter a mode of deterministic alienation and employ the mechanisms of stealth as a key strategic element in accessing these altered forms of understanding.



Date : January 13 (Sat.) 6:30pm - 8:00pm
[Finished]
Venue : ICC special event space
Capacity : 250 persons (first-come basis) English/Japanese translation
Admission : Free
Organizer : NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Support : The Royal Netherlands Embassy

Live on the Internet
Talk Event will be broadcasted on the internet.

INFRActures: Translations between the Sonic, Spatial and Temporal, Dec 2005 @ V2_
project co-created by Nat Muller and Stephen Kovats featuring
STEALTH.[u]ltd, Edwin van der Heide, Cevdet Erek, mxHz.org and Kyong Park
Photo : Jan Sprij


Stephen KOVATS
Media researcher and architect Stephen Kovats is chief curator and program developer at V2_Institute(www.v2.nl) for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam and is appointed as the director of transmediale Berlin from spring 2007. In 90s he initiated the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's Electronic Media Interpretation Studio which hosted numerous international projects exploring the relationships between media space, political culture and electronic art including Ostranenie Electric Media Forum focusing on the shift of society and cultural landscape in Eastern and Central Europe. In parallel, he has been actively engaged to the culture networking programs and telecommunication projects which investigate the spatial structures of terrestrial electromagnetism, communications mobility and technological isolation systems.

Stephen KOVATS




Stephen KOVATS