A television broadcast about the exhibition I curated for KUNST HAUS WIEN. See also my book on Hundertwasser published by Prestel.

The new exhibition by Alexandra Uccusic titled GLOCKENREIHER is due to open Tuesday April 5th 2011 at the legendary villa designed by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

First Preview of the GLOCKENREIHER Exhibition

A videoclip catches key thoughts and mood of the MAK NITE panel discussion on November 9th 2010 that took off from the piece PALACES & COURTS by Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller. I had the pleasure of participating in this discussion and meeting the artists and several other nice people.

The exhibition “René Burri – Photographs” at KUNST HAUS WIEN brings together works of this legendary Magnum-Photographer from more than four decades, celebrating the humanistic and aesthetic genius of the man who took many of the photographs that have become icons of the 20th century. More Info.

René Burri Exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN

A Video documentation of the OPEN SOURCE LIFE Conference that I had the pleasure of curating for Ars Electronica this year is now available. The conference took place on Saturday, September 4th 2010, in Linz.

Round II with Andreas Hirsch, Carlo Ratti, Ginger Krieg Dosier and John Thackara.

Round III with Amelia Andersdotter, Maxwell Salzberg and Geert Lovink.

Round IV with Saskia Sassen, Joichi Ito and Derrick de Kerckhove.

Florian Brody applies “Accomplishing more by doing less” and puts forward his message: Don’t innovate! By innovating in order to make things better, we at the same time win and loose. Brody promotes adapting a habitus of mindfulness and awareness. Knowing before we know it. Embracing the greek concept of prognosis and the corrsponding buddhist concept.

Poet Allen Ginsberg had talked about taking an old form and using it come up with a new form. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

In her framing talk Silja Graupe applies Asian Perspectives on concepts of enabling innovation, thus cherishing Chaos. Chaos acts as the context of a spontaneous encounter of “swift” and “sudden”, where they both assume meaning. But we are warned by this old asian saying: We cannot see the true face of mount Lu because we are standing on top of it. Thus prepared we move from space to BA and – as in Japan – we change slippers for each different room we go to.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

Curating last week’s Creative Industries Styria Convention 2010 in Graz – staged by cis.at – allowed me to meet with some great minds and to reflect on this phase of paradigm shift in the creative industries currently under way.

Workshop Opening

The event brought two days full of inspiring input and experiences: Three workshops on Creative Semantic Web, Design Commons and Cloud Creativity, led by Steve Rogers from Google, Andrea Goetzke from New Thinking and David Sasaki from Global Voices. Followed by an evening with Science Fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow. More on the results of the Convention as soon as the documentation is complete.

Convention 2010

With all good aspirations, which were maybe never really good, with all the great hopes, which were maybe all too naive from the beginning, which all the expertise, which was all too often obviously pressured not be objective, with great and encouraging pilot projects in Denmark and other countries – the summit of Copenhagen failed both the climate and humanity.

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