The decision to work with media is determined by many factors: Conceptual, strategic, emotional, political…

Media and Mediality is a transdisciplinary series of events that scrutinizes the choice of media. 

Why was which medium used for an artistic, scientific or socio-political project? The aim is to intensify the discussion about media, their choice and significance.

Three short presentations followed by a discussion.

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Juliane Heise

Visual artist and lecturer (LfbA) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Department of Art – Mediation – Education

And it does fly – the sheet metal!
A look at sculpture, material and consequences.
 
My artistic medium is primarily sculpture.
In the 15 minutes I talk about the choice and meaning of this medium, about (sometimes surprising) experiences with materials, about decisions and artistic strategies. 

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Andrea Sick

(Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of the Arts Bremen, curator at Frauen. Kultur.Labor thealit;  andreasick.de)

Performative media. Use and performance.

Current project examples are used to map the medialities of action spaces.

The choice of media can thus appear plausible within the recorded (unfinished) processes. 

Plausible here means contradicting or thwarting the potential logic of the action space.

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Jürgen Weichardt

Member of the ECA’s Founding Committee

In the web of big data

Looking at clouds evokes melancholy; diving into clouds means bathing in big data. He who dives, wins. And art?

On the clarity of cloud remnants.