YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Curator: Peter Weibel, Bernhard Serexhe
Artists: Giselle Beiguelman, Torsten Belschner, Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Margo Bistis, Bas Böttcher, Joachim Böttger, Ludger Brümmer, Martin Burckhardt, Shane Cooper, Götz Dipper, Monika Fleischmann, Ronald Genswaider, Matthias Gommel, Axel Heide, Mogens Jacobsen, Norman M. Klein, Andreas Kratky, Susanna Kraus, Marc Lee, David Link, Armin Linke, Bernd Lintermann, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Michael Mangold, Catalina Ossa Holmgren, Nam June Paik, Philip Pocock, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Kamila B. Richter, Enrique Rivera, Axel Roch, Herbert Schuhmacher, Michael Schuster, Jill Scott, Jeffrey Shaw, Gregor Stehle, Wolfgang Strauss, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Stephan von Huene, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Julie D. Woletz, Erwin Wurm, Mehi Yang, PIPS:lab, susigames, telewissen
https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2007/10/youser

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 …

Ars Electronica, Linz

NGBK, Berlin

plug_in, Basel

Publication

You_ser, The Century of the Consumer

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 64 pages
2007
Deutsch, English
Peter Weibel

http://zkm.de/publikation/youser Deutsch, English
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
YOU_ser,
Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten
21.10.2007 – 30.04.2009, ZKM | Medienmuseum, EG

Im 19. Jahrhundert ist das 20. Jahrhundert imaginiert worden als Technologie der Mobilisierung und Personalisierung. Mit PC und Handy etc. sind diese Phantasien eingetreten. Diese Technologien haben aber auch die Kunst verändert. Die Geschichte der Betrachter von Kunst und der Besucher von Museen hat im 20. Jahrhundert neue Akzente erhalten. Nach 1945 hat in der Neuen Musik und in der bildenden Kunst die Partizipation des Publikums als Teil des Kunstwerkes eingesetzt. Die Medienkunst hat die Teilnahme des Betrachters am Entstehen des Kunstwerkes als Interaktivität zwischen Betrachter und Kunstwerk, im Sinne einer wechselseitigen Beeinflussung, etabliert (im 1. Stock des ZKM | Medienmuseums kann man diese Entwicklung nachvollziehen). Im 21. Jahrhundert erzeugt nun der Betrachter durch die Möglichkeiten des Internets auch die Inhalte der Kunstwerke, die untereinander ausgetauscht und im Netz frei verteilt werden können. Der Betrachter wird zum Nutzer/User. Die Ausstellung »YOU_ser: Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten« zeigt in den nächsten ein bis zwei Jahren mit wechselnden Kunstwerken und Positionen erstmals Konturen dieser neuen Nutzerkunst.

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