Archaeology of New Media
Rajele Jain
keywords:
Abraham Moles Achim Lipp Alfred Biolek Laurie Anderson Bernd Girod Bernd Kracke Dominik Graf/Peter Brinkmann Fabrizio Plessi Gunter Rambow Hannes Hoff Hartmut Jürgens Herbert W. Franke Ingo Günther Jeffrey Shaw Jody Burns John Sanborn Jörg Gutjahr Vilém Flusser Jose Encarnacao Jürgen Claus Ludwig Wilding Martin Potthof Matthias Kron/Heiko Idenson Wolfgang Menge Horst Königstein Michael Pfleghar Michael Rutschky Patrick Purcell Peter Kolb Peter Weibel Rene Berger Siegfried Zielinski Titus Leber Volker Beckmann Wolf Donner
Archaeology, or archeology,[1] is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology
In 1989/1990 the first Academy for Media Arts was inaugurated, a visionary project by Prof. Manfred Eisenbeis, under the umbrella of the MIT with its artists Otto Piene and Laurie Anderson. The KHM, "Kunsthochschule für Medien" in Cologne/Germany, then invited for three months inumerous thinkers, artists, scientists, media theorists, science fiction authors and technicians to discuss the future of humankind under the developments of the New Technologies. I have been witnessing this initiation of that what today is called Media Art and Theory, and documented those speeches with my SVHS camera, at that time a quite expensive device. Archaeology - as "the study of human activity in the past", not only reveals some facts about how life and thoughts were then. We can also discover some ideas, doubts, warnings and critics forgotten all the way down to the present comprehension of media technology. If technological developments are not taken for granted, if it becomes clear that there have been alternatives in the beginning, too, the awareness can increase that every direction could be discussed and even freshly decided.
Furthermore: there is always something humorous to find when we view the undertakings of human beings decades ago! In twenty years, the participants of this symposium might as well laugh about some of their "innocent" endeavors from today, and actually that is the most important attitude at all.
Rajele Jain, November 2014
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Rajele Jain
Natural de Düsseldorf, na Alemanha, Rajele Jain vive em Portugal desde 2004. Mestre em Filosofia e em Biologia pela Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf (1978-1984), estudou filosofia oriental e cultura indiana na Universidade de Madras, na Índia, além de ter feito uma pós-gradução em Media Art e Design pela Academia de Media Art em Colónia, Alemanha (1989-1993).
Nas últimas duas décadas tem-se envolvido em projetos interdisciplinares e interculturais, evidenciando as suas facetas de artista, leitora, escritora, curadora, investigadora e realizadora.
Distinção "Gisela Bonn Award" por ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) em 2012 pelo seu filme "The Nine Movements of the Eyelid". Fellowship pela Academia de Media Art em Colónia em 2000. Prix Ars Electronica, com o grupo artístico Knowbotic Research, em 1993.
Diretora e programadora do festival TEMPS D'IMAGES PRÉMIOS DE CINEMA para FILMES SOBRE ARTE (desde 2008). Fundadora e diretora da associação cultural VIPULAMATI:AMPLE INTELLIGENCE, Associação para a promoção do uso criativo dos novos media (desde 2005).
www.rajele.net
www.films-on-art-portugal.org
www.vipulamati.org
Rajele Jain
keywords:
Abraham Moles Achim Lipp Alfred Biolek Laurie Anderson Bernd Girod Bernd Kracke Dominik Graf/Peter Brinkmann Fabrizio Plessi Gunter Rambow Hannes Hoff Hartmut Jürgens Herbert W. Franke Ingo Günther Jeffrey Shaw Jody Burns John Sanborn Jörg Gutjahr Vilém Flusser Jose Encarnacao Jürgen Claus Ludwig Wilding Martin Potthof Matthias Kron/Heiko Idenson Wolfgang Menge Horst Königstein Michael Pfleghar Michael Rutschky Patrick Purcell Peter Kolb Peter Weibel Rene Berger Siegfried Zielinski Titus Leber Volker Beckmann Wolf Donner
Archaeology, or archeology,[1] is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology
In 1989/1990 the first Academy for Media Arts was inaugurated, a visionary project by Prof. Manfred Eisenbeis, under the umbrella of the MIT with its artists Otto Piene and Laurie Anderson. The KHM, "Kunsthochschule für Medien" in Cologne/Germany, then invited for three months inumerous thinkers, artists, scientists, media theorists, science fiction authors and technicians to discuss the future of humankind under the developments of the New Technologies. I have been witnessing this initiation of that what today is called Media Art and Theory, and documented those speeches with my SVHS camera, at that time a quite expensive device. Archaeology - as "the study of human activity in the past", not only reveals some facts about how life and thoughts were then. We can also discover some ideas, doubts, warnings and critics forgotten all the way down to the present comprehension of media technology. If technological developments are not taken for granted, if it becomes clear that there have been alternatives in the beginning, too, the awareness can increase that every direction could be discussed and even freshly decided.
Furthermore: there is always something humorous to find when we view the undertakings of human beings decades ago! In twenty years, the participants of this symposium might as well laugh about some of their "innocent" endeavors from today, and actually that is the most important attitude at all.
Rajele Jain, November 2014
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Rajele Jain
Natural de Düsseldorf, na Alemanha, Rajele Jain vive em Portugal desde 2004. Mestre em Filosofia e em Biologia pela Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf (1978-1984), estudou filosofia oriental e cultura indiana na Universidade de Madras, na Índia, além de ter feito uma pós-gradução em Media Art e Design pela Academia de Media Art em Colónia, Alemanha (1989-1993).
Nas últimas duas décadas tem-se envolvido em projetos interdisciplinares e interculturais, evidenciando as suas facetas de artista, leitora, escritora, curadora, investigadora e realizadora.
Distinção "Gisela Bonn Award" por ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) em 2012 pelo seu filme "The Nine Movements of the Eyelid". Fellowship pela Academia de Media Art em Colónia em 2000. Prix Ars Electronica, com o grupo artístico Knowbotic Research, em 1993.
Diretora e programadora do festival TEMPS D'IMAGES PRÉMIOS DE CINEMA para FILMES SOBRE ARTE (desde 2008). Fundadora e diretora da associação cultural VIPULAMATI:AMPLE INTELLIGENCE, Associação para a promoção do uso criativo dos novos media (desde 2005).
www.rajele.net
www.films-on-art-portugal.org
www.vipulamati.org