City Lab with guests Michelle Teran and Bas Van Heur (with video documentation)
2009, April 23 - 1:49pm — zblace
PUBlicIMAGenING event focusing on City as a Lab,
a vanue for dynamic interactions of assumed and unknown,
protective and invasive, mediated and un-accessible...
Session will feature a dialogue between artist Michelle Teran and academic Bas Van Heur, on topics of:
trans-disciplinary work, positions of critique and engagement within a public sphere
including reference to their recent work, theoretical descourses and polemics around cities (un)visible media (infra)structures.
Location: at JVE, hosted by ANNEX
Introduction and moderation: Željko Blaće, JVE researcher
Responders are invited to contact in advance for coordination zeljko.blace@janvaneyck.nl
Michelle Teran explores the interplay between social and media networks within urban environments and creates performances, installations and online works. Her work has been often awarded and commissioned, but also often considered subversive and higly critical. During her stay in the Maastricht, Michelle will investigate local media networks (focusing on video surveillance), conduct a 2 day workshop at Jan van Eyck and propose an urban action.
http://www.ubermatic.org/
Bas Van Heur is a post-doc researcher at the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio, Maastricht University, within the project 'Cities and citizens writing history and shaping the future'. This research builds on his work in cultural studies, urban geography and political economy, but continues these interests in an explicitly trans-disciplinary setting. Bas is co-organizer of the 'Lieu de Passages' conference, which critically investigates Maastricht's cultural politics and it's nomination for European Capital of Culture 2018.
http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/default.asp?id=309
[video documentation made by Annette Busch of Kein.org]