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FACELESS Part II FACELESS part II 28.09. bis 24.11.2013 // Di bis So 13 bis 19 Uhr freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL // MuseumsQuartier Wien www.quartier21.at // Eintritt frei EINTRITT FREI VORWORT FOREWORD FACLESS part II We want to be recognized and understood GUIDED TOURS In Brush Strokes for Freedom Adam Harvey Sehr geehrte BesucherInnen! Dear Visitors, without ever losing face. with the artist/curator Bogomir Doringer* shows how with make-up and clothes Das Ausstellungsprojekt verfolgt ein Phäno- Info and registration: [email protected] the current facial recognition of video Ver- und Enthüllung sind Begriffe, die in der Concealing and revealing are terms that men, das widersprüchlich anmutet. Wir Part two of the project focuses on works Language: English surveillance can be tricked. Medienberichterstattung der letzten Monate have been getting a lot of mention in media ComputerbenutzerInnen und User, die wir that show us various ways of appearing in Guided Collectors’ Tour & Reception In collaboration with quintessenz oft zu lesen waren. Im realen wie im virtuellen reporting in recent months. In real and virtual uns im digitalen Raum verständigen und the neverending book of faces while evading with artist/curator Bogomir Doringer* Raum manövrieren wir uns durch Anonymi- space, we maneuver through anonymity austauschen, sind dort in alle Ewigkeit any tracking and measurement. The desire during VIENNA FAIR with playwright Biljana Srbljanovi c´ tät und Überwachung und befinden uns auf and exposure, and at every step and wiederzufinden. Unser virtuelles Erscheinen to not be simply consumed and digitally featuring masks by artist Jelena Miskovic* November 15, 19:00 „Schritt und Klick“ mitten in der politischen click find ourselves in the midst of the unterliegt dabei einem Prozess, in dem Bilder processed in a facial sellout is more than just October 13, 19:00 Diskussion um den gläsernen Menschen. political discussion revolving around mass ständig gefiltert und manipuliert werden. a purely aesthetic undertaking. With sharp Limited capacity VIENNA ART WEEK surveillance. Man ist wahrzunehmen und will dennoch wit and justified anger, the works exhibited Online registration required: SYMPOSIUM Im zweiten Teil der Ausstellung FACELESS nicht wiedererkennbar sein, sich nicht so demonstrate concrete recommendations and www.viennafair.at/vip Performance with artist Andrew Newman* geht es daher umso politischer zu. Etwa This is why the second part of the exhibition ohne Weiteres einer unüberschaubaren critical methods that can help us succeed November 21, 22 & 23, 17:00 wenn die Künstlerin Jill Magid nieder- FACELESS is even more political than Öffentlichkeit ausliefern. Man möchte erkannt in maintaining privacy, intimacy, and secrets WORKSHOPS In The old in out in out Andrew Newman ländische Spione porträtiert oder Andrew the first. Examples include artist Jill Magid’s und verstanden werden und dabei nie das even in the face of the all-too public world Information and registration: [email protected] performs the role of a faceless bureaucrat Norman Wilson aufdeckt, dass der größte portraits of Dutch spies and Andrew Gesicht verlieren. of the web. A face and an expression can doing knowledge work. He applies value Suchmaschinenanbieter der Welt auch Norman Wilson’s uncovering of the fact give away too much about us. But all the Hey You with the Awesome Face to blank sheets of paper, stamping them „Arbeiter vierter Klasse“ beschäftigt. Adam that the largest search engine in the world Im zweiten Teil des Projekts sind nun more creative are the means to change these with artist Jeremy Bailey* and shuffling them between inboxes and Harvey‘s Stealth Wear, eine Tarnkleidung, also employs what are called fourth class Arbeiten zu erleben, die unterschiedliche only seemingly defined surfaces, make them for 12 to 18 year olds outboxes. It is evident from this action die vor Überwachung schützen soll, kann workers. Adam Harvey’s Stealth Wear, a line Möglichkeiten aufzeigen, wohl im unendli- illegible or even invisible without running October 19, 11:00 –17:00 that Newman does nothing useful; a toxic hier als mediale Brücke zu Ari Versluis und of camouflage clothing designed to protect chen Buch der Gesichter zu erscheinen und the risk of suffering social death and ceasing Location: Foyer Arena21, quartier21/MQ asset, worthy of liquidation. Ellie Uyttenbroeks Fotoprojekt gesehen the wearer from surveillance, can be viewed sich dabei jeglicher Erfassung und Vermes- to appear in this world. Learn how to take creative control of your werden. Es zeigt, wie Individuen verschie- as a media bridge to Ari Versluis and Ellie sung zu entziehen. Der Wunsch, in einem face on the internet to win friends and Lecture with journalist and art critic dener sozialer Gruppen gesichtslos werden, Uyttenbroek’s photographic project showing facialen Ausverkauf nicht einfach konsumiert The works and projects presented are also influ ence people. This workshop will walk you Josephine Bossma* weil sie sich in Haltung und Dress Code how individuals from individual social groups und digital weiterverarbeitet zu werden, media policy interventions and instructions through the creative theory and tools neces- November 21, 19:00 gleichen. become faceless because they resemble bleibt dabei nicht allein ein ästhetisches on how to manipulate our appearance to sary to hijack your webcam, use live image Living in the flickering spotlights of social each other in attitude and dress code. Unterfangen. Die ausgestellten Werke escape being identified beyond our control processing software to augment your identity, media makes us not only vulnerable to the Beim Besuch des freiraum quartier21 zeigen – mit scharfem Witz oder auch and yet not give up our own identity. and stream the result as a performance gaze of others, but it also enforces a stark INTERNATIONAL/MQ sind Sie selbstver- Needless to say, when you visit freiraum gebotener Wut – mit konkreten Vorschlägen online – or maybe just impress your friends. form of self-reflection. In her talk entitled ständlich keinem Dress Code unterlegen. quartier21 INTERNATIONAL/MQ you are not und kritischen Methoden, wie es gelingen In an exemplary contribution to the exhibition, Hiding in Plain Sight she examines how Trotzdem wollen wir Sie einladen, das subject to any dress code. Still, we would mag, in der allzu überschaubaren Öffentlich- artist, activist, and researcher Zach Blas FACELESS and „Urban Man“ specific tools are an intrinsic part of the Maskentragen in Betracht zu ziehen. Wer like to invite you to consider wearing a mask. keit des Netzes dennoch Privatheit, Intimität formulates a communiqué in which he makes at the Social Design Department – way we see and represent ourselves, and sich im ersten Teil der Ausstellung mit einer If you had yourself photographed wearing und Geheimnisse zu bewahren. Ein Gesicht it clear that a face can also be used as a University of Applied Arts Vienna how we aid in the construction of our own der „Zensurbalkenbrillen“ der Künstlerin artist Addie Wagenknecht’s “censor bar und sein Ausdruck mögen vielleicht ver- weapon. He opposes the fact that biometric with artist/curator Bogomir Doringer* vulnerability. Examples of the work of various Addie Wagenknecht abbilden ließ, konnte glasses” in part one of the exhibition, you’ve räterisch sein. Doch als umso kreativer data is used to deduce sexual orientation or October 21,18:00 (lecture) artists show the need and possibility to bereits erste Erfahrungen mit der Anonymität already had a little taste of online anonymity. stellen sich auch die Möglichkeiten heraus, ethnic backgrounds from facial features and October 22 & 23, 10:00 –17:00 (workshops) playfully or critically adapt, subvert or modify (im Netz) sammeln. Auch im zweiten Teil You will have an opportunity to mask and diese nur scheinbar eindeutigen Oberflächen hence create categories of marginalization Location: 1030 Vienna, Vordere everyday media environments. wird es Möglichkeiten zur Maskierung und disguise yourself in the second part as zu verändern, unleserlich, ja unsichtbar zu and defamation. The artist developed Zollamtsstraße 3, Studio on ground floor Verhüllung geben. well. We also want to inform you that this machen, ohne dabei Gefahr zu laufen, einen a digital mask composed of facial features In collaboration with University of Applied Presentation with game designer exhibition invites you to not only observe, sozialen Tod zu erleiden und gar nicht mehr from many people. Collective overinformation Arts Vienna, Department Social Design and net activist Wolfie Christl Überhaupt wollen wir Ihnen mitteilen, dass but also participate: American artist Zach vorzukommen in dieser Welt. becomes an instrument against the violence November 21, 19:30 diese Ausstellung nicht nur zur Rezeption Blas, for instance, explains how to deal with of invasion for surveillance purposes. CV Dazzle Makeover Machine What if you had control over millions einladet, sondern auch zur Partizipation face recognition, and German conceptual Die präsentierten Arbeiten und Projekte with artist Adam Harvey* of Internet users’ personal information? auffordert: Der US-Amerikaner Zach artist Aram Bartholl teaches how you can verstehen sich auch als medienpolitische The exhibition supplies at an once defiant for all ages Ever wanted to run your own Tracebook & Blas beispielsweise klärt auf, wie man make your own Guy Fawkes mask, a key Interventionen und Anleitungen zur Manipu- and ironic bid against a dynamic force that October 26, 12:00 –17:00 Smoogle?
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