gregor schneider, süßer duft

Just a very example as Wilfried Hou Je Bek explained:

In psychoanalysis the word psychogeography is used in relation to phenomena of location based hysteria: you are perfectly sane, you enter a particular room and within a split second you are stark raving mad. Only when this response is universally shared and not dependent on a random individual neurosis, this power of a room can be called psychogeographic. 

From the age of 16, Gregor Schneider (born in Rheydt in 1969) has been transforming the interior of the home he inherited from his father in the small town of Rheydt, Germany. A work in progress until 2007, he has constantly added new rooms, separated others, removed mod-cons, and blocked up windows, adding fake ones in their place. The result is a labyrinthine structure which he has entitled Haus u r (House u r). Occasionally, visitors are invited to spend the night there and share his personal space.

The Space Between

Latifa Echakhch
Micro vide/Empty microphone, 2006
dimensions variable.

The exhibition The Space Between addresses certain dynamics where simple gestures suggest an alteration and a politicization of temporal and spatial conditions inherent in the work and between the artwork and the viewer. This is manifested both in the content and in the formal structure of the work.

Situated technologies! not only GPS.

‘Situated technologies‘ is rather more human than ‘locative media’. Situated technologies not only know where we are, but also reach for what we are doing, and potentially, even how we are feeling.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies?

Non-lieux

Travelling Without Moving

« Je suis dans un de ces jours où je n’ai jamais eu d’avenir. Il n’y a qu’un présent immobile, encerclé d’un mur d’angoisse. » – Fernando Pessoa

Nam June Paik:
“They travel to communicate, either to somebody. Or you just travel, driving, that means you are communicating with yourself through machines, like psychoanalysis. When you drive without reasons that is exactly like video feedback. Video feedback is communicating with yourself through machines. The psychic existence is the same whether you drive or if you do simple video feedbacks, it’s the same ontological structure.”

Futuresonic 2008

The curatorial statement of Futuresonic 2008 is probably the greatest since it was founded. It’s no more only an electronic gadget show because it takes more social/political/cultural/artistic attentions around the digital culture and contemporary creations. Thankfully, Futuresonic 2008 rethink of Paris ‘68 before people forget it in France. ( French Bobo were already depressed for a while after the presidential election.)

The Social Theme – The Social – Social Networking Unplugged
Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype lies ever greater isolation and conformity. Join us as we go in search of the social.
Web 2.0…
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
(Paris ‘68 slogan remixed)