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> >[fringe] invites you to:
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> >DESIGNINART with
> >Timo Arnall / Oslo School of Architecture
> >Andrew Morrison / Intermedia, University of Oslo
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> >April 20th
> >Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
> >16:00-18:00
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> >Welcome!
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> >more information at http://www.tii.se/reform
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> >DESIGNINART
> >Art and design have long had a close and contested relationship. Critical
> >issues - intention and function, audience and interaction, method and
> >artifact - are shared and between the disciplines. Today, the incorporation
> >of new interactive and time-based technologies into processes and practices
> >have again challenged and blurred the borders between traditional notions o
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> >art and design. Shifts in the cultural and institutional context have also
> >altered perspectives - these days galleries and museums seem to be filled
> >with 'design' exhibitions.
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> >More recently, the emergence of critical design (with much of its roots in
> >conceptual art), new media art, experimental and interaction design suggest
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> >to some extent an increased exchange or reversal of roles between the artis
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> >and the designer. In these forms of practice, designers are focusing less o
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> >solving the problems at hand and more on artifacts and methods for
> >speculation and critique. Various artists, in turn, are focusing on
> >conceptual art practice to work with systems or patterns as 'solutions' in
> >particular situations. Inspirations, methods, and roles are blurred in an
> >emerging territory of creative and interdisciplinary practice, requiring
> >that we re-examine basic notions and foundations.
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> >Perhaps we are exploring new notions of material and immaterial artifacts..
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> >Perhaps we are in a discovery phase with new technologies and techniques...
> >Perhaps we are at a turning point in societal and cultural aspiration...
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> >DESIGNINART is a series of events exploring these notions in concept and
> >practice arranged by [fringe], a new media and electronic art and design
> >collective initiated by the RE:FORM studio of the Interactive Institute.
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> >Taking the frame of Sweden's 2005 Year of Design, DESIGNINART aims to
> >surface and experiment with traditional notions - raising new examples,
> >voices and participation in culture of creative practices.
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> >We invite participation from designers, artists, architects, musicians,
> >sociologists, theoreticians, educators and students of art and design, with
> >a special focus on new media and electronic art alongside interaction and
> >critical design.
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> >Themes or questions
> >·borrowing and cross-fertilizing methods and techniques
> >·defining 'quality' in art and design
> >·design beyond utility
> >·new genres and modalities
> >·art of systems or patterns solutions
> >·high design & free art
> >·function and intent
> >·technological impact and inspiration
> >·new skills and traditional experience
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> >for more information contact [log in to unmask]
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> >www.tii.se/reform
> >www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/fringe.htm
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