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en plein air – Ethnographies of the Digital

En plein air – literally painting outdoors – was a polemic against the white walls of the studio. The same exercise of leaving the atelier in order to observe was formulated by Bronisław Malinowski as the most fundamental requirement of ethnology. Engaging with the digital en plein air, the book unites essays outlining the authors’ experiences, interviews and recordings, poems, collages working on semi-fiction and scientific texts. Thereby, disparate definitions, forms, and fields of the digital collide.

The book is published at the occasion of http://warehouse.industries. Together with two of the authors we invite you to launch en plein air with us: Tilman Richter speaks about the soon-to-be digital self and Bryana Fritz performs Indispensible Blue.

Tilman Richter: She KNOWS no Hatred
Despite its ceaseless efforts to disguise its own nature: the internet is text-based. It’s a 

diagram, a list of lists, a form of book-keeping that distinguishes between order and noise, now and then, the self and its possessions. The form in which the internet rearranges the networks and relationships we live by can be found in writing and reading long before social networks came to life as billion dollar companies. Reading the diaries of Merve publisher Heidi Paris and author Rainald Goetz, Tilman Richter attempts an ethnography of the soon-to-be digital self.

Bryana Fritz: Indispensible Blue
Folders are opened and closed, lines appear, boxes light up, colors and sounds plop up – a desktop poem unfolds. If software exerts a choreographic force on its users, how can dance be a way to escape the pre-programmed patterns? With Indispensible Blue and the various forms it takes, Bryana Fritz continues to explore the uncanny valley between poetry and dance on the everyday user surfaces. Everything looks and sounds extra generic, but then the gloss of exactly that comes up, entangled in the glitch of the cursor movement.

 

Reading
by warehouse (Pujan Karambeigi, Anneliese Ostertag (CUP), Tabea Rossol, Pierre Schwarzer, Lukas Stolz), Bryana Fritz, Tilman Richter


Past Performances

  • 2019-01-08, Special Occasion , diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, Crellestraße 22, 10827 Berlin

2019-01-08, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, Crellestraße 22, 10827 Berlin