SIGNAL 5th year
start with the "enlightener" takes a position + guests
20 minutes
"brussels based!"
slides only for fluidity / speed / no film / sound (too much time)
christopher hewitt ... performance art / turku festival documentalist of performance art
knoledge of work round control and surveillance from 60s on
censorship ... political context / budapest
warsaw, working with migrants
enlightneer olivier r. how we control ourselves on the net == imposing limits on ourselves (online , in public space)
day before : sellar guy from new york talking about post 911 new york
vitrine installation
anonymity in the city : everyone becomes a cop
art in the public space is now radically different (for instance, forget working in train stations)
(the day after) te level of care and solidarity arisen as a result from 9/11 ... people assisting each other, making claims for multiculturalism, the counter-effects ... a "positive" counter-current. curing and caring.
stare (PW)?
circularity of trained statistical modelssoftware assumptions
challenge the notion of the "all powerful" algorithm ... that operates in isolation / "becomes self-aware" ... the need to not start from scratch, understading a tool as a way to understand
understanding what a tool needs to work.
(1) the camera
(2) having a database complete enough to work in different places / different countries
works that question... (the constant way ;)
(give a sense of constant...)
send a list of links to the videos / loops
good if not over prepared (not too formal)
what is the answer we give ... what do we want to make people think
(role of humor? how to place ourselves)
challenge to not allow a critique (disempowerment of given too much agency to a software process) ... (me: the image of the football goal camera / simulated replay)
?! write / prepare a short text good to send this to the beofre (2 days before to share with the tranlation
workshops afterwards
enlightener will sum up at the end of the day.
anne-louise assisting the preparations
check our biographies
Wed 21 sep
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