transmediale.05 explored the BASICS, the aesthetic and ethical foundations of artistic practice with digital technologies in a hyper-potential culture. It presented models of an artistic practice whose ethics derive not from past value systems, but from an appropriation of an extreme and contradictory, contemporary culture.
Moving through the city streets with a video scanner reveals a hidden layer of personal fragments and stories which are broadcast by the private owners of surveillance cameras. The accumulation of these autonomous yet synchronous acts contributes to an invisible ad-hoc network of media permeating the socially codified spaces of our urban environments: the café, the apartment building, the store, the parking lot, and the street. Life: a user's manual is a shared experience in visualizing the invisible.
knowbotic research's naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign 3.0 focuses on the mechanisms of detainment of so-called 'unlawful enemy combatants' – as held at Guantanamo – who can be regarded as 'here' and, at the same time, 'elsewhere', not anymore on the territory of the nation state, and thus banned, stripped off from the legal framework which the nation state guarantees ('naked bandit'). The project investigates the mechanisms of such an inclusive exclusion and the inherent formations of power.
knowbotic research lives in Zurich and works in situ. The art group has been experimenting with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres.
transmediale.05 explored the BASICS of artistic practice in a frantic and hyper-potential digital culture: aesthetical and ethical norms underlie the use of technology in art.
