FACELESS

Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin, Germany
Curator: Bogomir Doringer, Elisabeth Hajek and Esther Brandl
Artists: Martin Backes, Jeremy Bailey, Aram Bartholl, William Basinski, Evelyn Bencicova & Adam Csoka Keller, Heiko Bressnik, Thorsten Brinkmann, Asger Carlsen, Ben DeHaan, Nezaket Ekici, Shahram Entekhabi, Karin Fisslthaler, Pablo Garcia, Caron Geary aka Feral is Kinky, Sofie Groot Dengerink, Adam Harvey, Thomas Hörl, Ursula Hübner, Ute Klein, Jakob Lena Knebl, Marc Lee, Geoffrey Lillemon, Vanessa Lodigiani, Manu Luksch, Lauren McCarthy, Rosa Menkman, Simone C. Niquille, Andrew Norman Wilson, Bernd Oppl, Gerda Postma, Eva-Maria Raab, Daphne Rosenthal, Tarron Ruiz-Avila, Hester Scheurwater, Tim Silver, Jan Stradtmann, Sergei Sviatchenko, Saša Tkačenko, Levi van Veluw, Addie Wagenknecht & Stefan Hechenberger, Bernhard Willhelm a.m.m.
http://www.facelessexhibition.net

Exhibited Artwork

Pic-Me - Fly to the Locations Where Users Send Posts

Online Project for Interactive Media Art Installations

With Pic-Me you can virtually fly to the locations from where users send randomly selected posts to Instagram, thus creating another view on how the media handles posts on social networks. One might describe these posts – images or short videos accompanied by comments, tags and geolocalisation – as a kind of digital small talk or personal conversation. Different than face to face conversations more …

Jimei X Arles, Xiamen

HEK, Basel

Festival IMAGES, Vevey

Realtime Stories - Mapping the Free Flow of Information Around the World in Realtime

Generative Net-Based Installation

Realtime Stories - Mapping the Free Flow of Information Around the World in Realtime is a net-based art installation consisting of four large wall-sized projections and eight audio channels. Visitors can see and hear what's happening in real-time around the world. Stories about people's current day-to-day issues are visualized as an endless flow. Visitors realize how different lives are lived more …

Aktionshalle, Zurich

Aktionshalle, Zurich

ZKM, Karlsruhe

Publication

Faceless - Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Edition Angewandte, Gerald Bast
Book, 304 pages, colour illustrations, 24 x 16.8cm
2018
English
Doringer, Bogomir / Felderer, Brigitte
ISBN Print 978-3-11-052771-1, eBook 978-3-11-052770-4
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/481591
Current positions and approaches in contemporary art and media practice
Artistic strategies in the age of global surveillance

The contributions to this book explore a phenomenon that appears to be a contradiction in itself – we, the users of computers, can be tracked in digital space for all eternity. Although, on the one hand, one wants to be noticed and noticeable, on the other hand one does not necessarily want to be recognized at the first instance, being prey to an unfathomable public, or – even less so – to lose face.
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