YOU_ser 2.0

Celebration of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Curator: Peter Weibel, Bernhard Serexhe
Artists: Kees Aafjes, Antonio Barrese, Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, Jim Campbell, Peter Campus, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Masaki Fujihata, Ronald Genswaider, Kurt Hofstetter, Informationlab, Airan Kang, Hung Keung, imhk lab, Marc Lee, David Link, Armin Linke, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jonas Mekas, Enrique Rivera, Eva Paulitsch, Uta Weyrich, PIPS:lab, reacTable, Lisa Reinerth, Axel Roch, Mehi Yang, Scenocosme, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, susigames, telewissen, Herbert Schuhmacher, UBERMORGEN.COM, Martin Walde, Matthias Gommel
https://zkm.de

ZKM, Karlsruhe

ZKM, Karlsruhe

You_ser: The Century of The Consumer
In the nineteenth century, the twentieth century was imagined as one of mobilization and personalization technologies. These fantastical visions arrived with the PC and mobile phone. Such technologies have changed art, too. In the twentieth century, the history of the beholders of art and visitors to museums acquired new accents. After 1945, audience participation began to enter as part of the artwork in New Music and in the fine arts. Media art established the participation of the beholder in the creation of an artwork as interactivity between beholder and artwork: in terms of mutual influence (this interaction can be realized on the first floor of the ZKM | Media Museum). In the twenty-first century, through the possibilities of the Internet, the beholder now also generates the content of artworks, which are exchanged and freely distributed online. The beholder becomes a user. Over the next one to two years, the exhibition YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer will show the first contours of this new user-based art through changing art works and positions.

Breaking The News – Be a News-Jockey
2007 / Interactive Media Installation
Marc Lee

Friends enquired as to whether I could help invent news to their liking? Such questions often develop into interesting discussions. Friends tell us about their favorite headlines and we answer with new stories. Jokes are then told about us being their personal news-jockeys (NJ). We created NJ so that we can have the same discussions with you.
Name a headline or your favorite word and we will create a modified "Streaming- Newsstation" for you. The media station Breaking The News deals with the world of news. Up-to-date reports from the internet are immediately transmitted in the space. You can create news on any conceivable theme and receive comprehensive insight into current or up-to-date news of the world focused on your own interests. In addition, you become a news-jockey by juggling around, virtually with films, texts, sounds and pictures.

Breaking The News is a game with surprising coincidences, accidents and mistakes. Provocative, paradoxical irritations and unseen content but also conscious disorientations emerge. In this way, one attempts to generate and discover new forms of expression and discourse.

ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe

Loogie.net
work in progress / Interactive Network Installation
Marc Lee

"Be the first to know – watch Loogie.net"

Loogie.net generates brand-new news from individual searches. The automated news magazine consists of two mutually complimentary but autonomously functioning parts: Loogie.net News, the internet news machine and Loogie.net TV, the television news program By a mere press of the button, Loogie.net TV shows current television news broadcasts on self-selected thematic priorities. By means of individual searches via a special television remote control, one can determine what is broadcast on television, thus obtaining a customized news broadcast. In a second step, the current television program can be thematically focused according to one’s particular interests and priorities. Loogie.net News is an automated, real-time news magazine online. It can compile and prepare an article on request and one may even permit oneself the pleasure of infiltrating it with one’s own input. It is not only possible for the text to be spoken and transmitted – it is also stored, namely, tracked by Google and thus creating confusion among other users. What Loogie.net has to offer is unique in that it generates news the thematic selection of which is determined by the user. The contents are searched for on the internet in real-time and exclusively compiled by computer algorithms.

Exhibited Artwork

Breaking the News - Be a News-Jockey

Interactive Net-Based Multi Screen Installation

Just tell us a headline or your favourite words, and we'll create a modifiable streaming news-station for you. Breaking The News is an interactive installation, transmitting in real-time information from the internet. The user becomes a live performer, a News-Jockey. Play Video: Breaking the News - Be a News-Jockey Background Friends ask: Could you help me to cook up more …

Dock18, Zurich

Shift Festival, Basel

Shift Festival, Basel

Loogie.net TV - Be the First to Know!

Interactive Online News Channel

Loogie.net TV shows you the latest world news about the subjects you choose. By putting in keywords with a special remote control or by SMS you can determine which subjects will be shown on television, and you will be presented with news fit to your specifications. Additionally, in a second step your TV program can be narrowed down and focused on your own main areas of interest. The content of more …

plug_in, Basel

Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

Diploma Exhibition, Zurich

Publication

You_ser 2.0, Celebration of the Consumer

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 68 pages
2009
Deutsch
Peter Weibel, Bernhard Serexhe

http://zkm.de/publikation/youser-20, Exhibition
You_ser 2.0 - Celebration of the Consumer
Edition ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe

In its exhibition YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer the ZKM engages with the effects on art and society of net-based, global creation and demonstrates for the first time in technologically advanced installations the link between "user generated content" and contemporary art. The new installations presented in the exhibition transfer the potential for users’ creative collaboration developed in the internet into an artistic context and enables the visitors to emancipate themselves. They can act as artists, curators and producers. Visitors to the exhibition are central as users, as emancipated consumers. YOU are the content in this exhibition! YOU are a part of the universe: YOUniverse. YOU are the user of the world and part of the world, and with that a participant in the world. Whoever is a part of the world also bears some responsibility for the world, of which they are a part. Through their participation, the YOU, the user, has the chance to change the world.In the most technologically advanced environments and installations, the most recent state of the art of participation, pARTicipation, is being shown. That reinforces that tendency, which becomes established in the spirit of the enlightenment for democracy, for untrammelled access to education for all and for the creativity of all.

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