ArtCast

For reasons of transparency and completeness: While we were turned down, these projects do receive funding from sitemapping.ch:

• Symposien: «Wider die Norm – Der kreative Umgang mit Suchmaschinen» / Tweakfest, Zürich, Patrick Hofer, Johannes Gees.
• Ausstellungen/Festivals: «Colour it beautiful» Museum Liner Appenzell, Toni Stooss; «Übermorgen, [F]loriginal» / [plug.in], Basel, Annette Schindler; «Syn chron – Carsten Nicolai» / Biennale 05, Bern, Peter Kraut; «Generosa Enterprise» / Monte Generoso, Beat Signer, M.C. Norrie, Curt Walter Tannhäuser; «Neue Medien unter Dach und Fach» / Haus für Kunst Uri, Peter Stohler; «Version» / Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Genf, André Iten; «Festival di Arte Elettronica», Lugano, Fabio Besomi; «Gamehotel», Zürich, Tina Cassani, Bruno Beusch.
• Andere kuratierte Konzepte: «dorkbot.swiss», Basel, Genf, Luzern, Zürich, Mona Pletsch; «Click here!» / online, Annina Zimmermann, Villö Huszai; «Beam_On», Basel, Bettina Back, Judith Lichneckert; «Digital Art Weeks» / Zürich, Jürg Gutknecht, Arthur Clay; «Do it yourself!», Basel, Thomas Schmutz; «All Inclusive Last Minute», Zürich, Fabian Thommen, Mario Purkathofer

ArtMobs goes out and remixes the MoMa. Try it. In iTunes it's here.

Now that we know, thanks to the O'Reilly-Makezine, how to do enhanced podcasts (with images changing during the course of the show and links associated to the content etc.), I'm tempted to try it out sometime. Although it makes the production an order or two of magnitude more complicated! Imagine us taking you to interesting ateliers (just the obvious idea) and being able to "show" you what we are talking about with the artist. Well, "to show" may be exagerated, looking at the imagesize, "give an idea" comes closer. Still, when I think of it, I don't want to lose the "beauty" of audio-only. Otherwise we could do video. Not to do video, was a conscious decision. We have to choose the enhancements wisely to not fall into the "image-trap", I guess.

Today - during our summerbreak - something special: Not a new interview, but - in this form - an unpublished one out of our archives... In the year 2000 Malcolm McLaren, maybe best known for his role as mastermind behind the punk-legends Sex Pistols, had an exhibition of his artwork in the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in the german city of Karlsruhe called "Casino of Authenticity and Karaoke". At this occasion I sat down with him, together with Rene Agiugah, a reporter from the german newspaper taz.

What you'll hear McLaren saying in the interview - among many other inspiring and provocative things: "Failure is liberating! (...) I'm no less punk than i was yesterday! punk rock is basically about the noble persuit of failure! (...) Johnny Rotten became my archenemy! (...) Bury the fucking legend! (...) The Situationists were major mentors of mine! (...) Everything the Situationists said in the sixties became true. (...) When I helped put 'Good save the Queen' on number one and had it banned from the radio at the same time, Guy Debord called me up on the telephone - I've never spoken to him in my life - and he said: 'Thank you very much for getting my record to number one!' As far as he was concerned he owned that record and he owned that idea. And I thought, brilliantly audacious and truely wonderful and I never forgot it. I agree with him, it was his idea, yes! (...) The internet will define this centuries culture and politics. (...) Mr. Napster is a Saint! (...) open source software: fantastic! (...) I'd much rather see a world where things are for free, but - what's more important than that - where things are not for sale! that's the distinctive idea!"

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