CURRENT BLOGGERS for the INFORMAL programme:

DANIELA CASCELLA,  Italian writer based in London.
Her research is focused on sound and listening and her recent work explores Writing Sound in connection to landscape, memory and autobiography. Her book En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing will be published by Zer0 Books in autumn 2012.
Cascella’s contribution for the Informal programme will be writing a text of aural memories and boundaries.

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DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP, music duo consisting of Alex Ward (guitar/vocals) and Jem Doulton (drums).
Their contributions will explore the different levels of (in)formality inherent in composed and improvised musical material, private and public performance, and recording as documentation and artifact.

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FLORIAN WIENCEK, PhD-Fellow at Jacobs University Bremen, Research Center “Visual Communication and Expertise”. Currently he is visiting PhD-Fellow at Duke University (Art, Art History and Visual Studies).
Wiencek’s contributions will explore “in-form-ality” in documentation of media art, ranging from informal approaches to documentation to its (in)formational character.

 

PAST BLOGGERS:

STEVEN BALL, artist and writer
Blogger for the ACCELERATION programme.
Ball contributed a series of speculations around accelerating the glitch materiality of digital media objects and its implications.

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FEDERICO CAMPAGNA,  writer, migrant and anarchist. He is one of the editors of http://th-rough.eu and part of the radical publisher Verso.
Blogger for the TRUTH programme.
Campagna’s contributions explored the issues of remembering and forgetting within the struggles for revolutionary social change.

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LORENA MUÑOZ-ALONSO, writer and curator, Selfselector
Blogger for the SIMPLICITY programme, Muñoz-Alonso brought a weekly look at the curatorial concepts of or-bits.com from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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TAMARIN NORWOOD, artist and writer, Homologue
Blogger for the ON-LOOKING programme, Norwood’s contributions took a broad linguistic approach to ON-LOOKING, with a series of speculations about relations of subject and object in terms of their parallels in language.

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MORGAN QUAINTANCE, curator, musician and writer
Blogger for the ACCELERATION programme.
Quaintance contributed a series of blogs entitled Views From An Accelerated Reality. Topics covered will include Granular Synthesis, Chopped and Screwed music, and the rise of Ketamine.
He also wrote for INTERCHANGES with a series of ongoing interviews with artists whose works engage with the Internet. Spanning from first generation Net. artists to the latest surf club members, these conversations reveal how approaches changed during the evolution of the Internet from a Hyperlinked environment to socially networked space.

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JENNY STEELE, artist, researcher and lecturer.
Blogger for the TRUTH programme.
Steele’s contributions explored notions of certainty, fallacy, knowledge and democracy – in relation to her experiences of physical and digital navigation within both the UK and China, where she had spent 6 weeks on a research residency in Chongqing.

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NATHAN WITT, artist working with text and trying work with the notion in an as light-as-possible manner, as a means of conscientiously objecting to the tyranny of materiality.
Blogger for the TRUTH programme.
Witt’s contributions explored notions about old-fashioned aspects of truth: morality, ethics, the cultural desire for verificationism and factuality- and also the artist’s motive.

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OTHER CONTRIBUTORS:

TANJA SCHIMPL, photographer

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