ARTISTTALK » Paraflows

Amelia Andersdotter (se)

neja — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:38:22 +0000

Post-democracy is the state wherein which much political power and many le-
gislative, including interpretative, competences are moved away from directly
elected representatives of the people, to a global level where diplomatic repre-
sentatives of representatives of governments make very detailed requirements
on how the legislation in the signatory states of the trade agreements should
look and behave. Coupled with the development of trade agreement conflict
resolution systems, such as arbitration courts to resolve disputes between the
contracting parties, which give indicating guidelines not only on how the parties
have conformed with obligations relation to gradual reduction of tariffs, but also
on the nature of legislative or administrative measures permitted in the signa-
tory states, this poses a significant democratic deficit. The writing and the inter-
pretation of law, effectively, reside outside of the parliamentary system and
much power is transferred to the executive of each nation.

Anouk Wipprecht (nl)

neja — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:42:04 +0000

With a background in Fashion Design (2000-2010), her interest lead towards com-
bining her fashion study with interaction design/user experience design. And as
she started with the integration of robotic parts in combination with Arduino’s
during 2006, her interest grew towards “animating” her designs.
Microcontrollers are used to prototype before making customized circuit boards
to ‘feed’ the electronically -equipped dresses and instead of using ordinary
electronics like LED’s, her projects are based on more ‘uncontrolled’ materials
like special e -foils, wearable smoke providers, and tube-systems consisting of
colored liquid. Curator of the TECHNOSENSUAL ‘Where fashion meets Tech-
nology’ exhibition that took place at MuseumsQuartier Wien, she gives an insight to what it takes to create ‘Electronic Couture’.

Johannes Grenzfurthner (at)

neja — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:34:45 +0000

In a media-based society it is the signs and signifieds, the meanings and habits
and conventions of speaking and thinking, the images and stereotypes which
control everything. This is something I would call the cultural grammar of reality
– and power is formed within it. Access and non-access to each and every
thing is regulated in its realm. What is OPEN and what is CLOSED is defined in
a complex process of negotiation, and we partake in it every single day. We
are not as helpless in changing the way of the world, as we might think. But
this process also has a downside: We have to be careful what we wish for.

We just might receive it.