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ninawenhart — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:28:42 +0000

i don’t post here so often. for my research projects and artwork, please see:

my CV and online portfolio

prehysteries of new media

media art histories, a collaborative blog

some writing

sound projects

flo

ninawenhart — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:51:29 +0000

re:live 09 photos + conference proceedings

ninawenhart — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:55:10 +0000

jonCates and i created this photo-pool of the re:live conference:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1296072@N21/?added=6

tweets from the conference are tagged #relive09, #relive2009 or just #relive

the conference proceedings are available online: http://mediaarthistory.org/relive/ReLive09Proceedings.pdf

guest lecture @ Bruce Jenkin’s “Preserve/Present Moving-Im Med”

ninawenhart — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:45:35 +0000

guest lecturer at Bruce Jenkin’s “Preserve/Present Moving-Im Med” class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about the histories of Ars Electronica and their archives

wed, dec 02, 2009

link to the class program: http://www.saic.edu/courses/Film_Video_New_Media_Preserve_Present_Moving-Im_Med_479.html

the upgrade! chicago – wed, oct 21st 2009

ninawenhart — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:50 +0000

on wednesday, oct 21st 2009, i will give a presentation about how ars electronica re/co-shaped the city of linz.

at the nightingale, chicago, 8pm, admission is free

http://upgradechicago.org/

the nightingale:
1084 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642
map

abstract:

ARS ELECTRONICA: re:shaping a city’s cultural identity

30 years ago the first Ars Electronica festival took place in Linz, Austria. Ars has grown to be one of the most influential Media Art festivals and centers in the world. But while much has been written about it, and still more will be talked about its history when Ars celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2009, there has not yet been a comprehensive study about Ars Electronica’s influence on the local community and its impact on the cultural development of Linz. This paper investigates the socio-cultural, artistic and geographic traces Ars Electronica has left on the city of Linz. This Media Art historical account also details a very personal history, as the author, being four years old at the time of the first festival and amazed by its fireworks display, remembers the festival’s beginnings from her personal experience and – having worked for Ars Electronica’s Futurelab for many years – from a professional perspective as well.

The main question of this talk is how the then marginal field of art, science and technology, placed in an even more marginal, working-class and steel-producing city contributed greatly to the creation/development of a new cultural identity of the city, the art scene and the community as a whole. My investigation into the histories of this cultural institution focuses on the regional impact, regional being interpreted as geographically located/rooted as well as interpersonally built.

RAIN – a playlist for the austrian “summer” of 2009

ninawenhart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:16:17 +0000

it is june, so supposedly summer. but not in austria. in austria, it has been raining for weeks. so last night, we collaboratively put together this list of rain-songs on facebook. the result so far is this paylist:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8BC2DCE80343EB8D

cutup

ninawenhart — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:10:38 +0000

random thoughts on collaboration in digital arts, collection of texts, urls, quotes,…

to take a closer look, visit: putuc.blogspot.com

media art histories now on wordpress

ninawenhart — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:37:50 +0000

i just made a backup of our mediaarthistories.blogspot.com blog on wordpress. there are still some bugs to fix – all posts were imported twice and all the original blog-authors were reduced to just one and this can only be “healed” if the blog-authors also create wordpress-accounts, which sux.
one aspect that is very different is that blogspot does not make a difference between tags and categories like wordpress does; and wordpress interpreted all blogspot-tags as wordpress-categories. that is a fundamentally different thing now.

original blog: mediaarthistories.blogspot.com

backup-blog: mediaarthistories.wordpress.com

IX @ Hacker Space Festival

ninawenhart — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:36:08 +0000

IX will be presented in the exhibition and the conference at the Hacker Space Festival in Paris, on Monday, June 29th 2009.

schedule: http://www.hackerspace.net/schedule

presentation at re:live conference, Melbourne

ninawenhart — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:33:17 +0000

I will give a presentation at the re:live conference in Melbourne, Australia in November. The conference is the third in a series of media art histories conferences (re:fresh, re:place) and will take place from November 26th to 29th.

http://www.mediaarthistory.org/relive/