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• Virtuelle verdener og rum
• X 17. april 2002
• Kunst i virtuelle verdener
• Primærlitteratur Primærlitteratur Johansson,
  Troels Degn. 2000 "Staging Collaborative
  Relations Superflex' Art for the Internet"

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• Kunst i virtuelle verdener
• Hvordan kan virtuelle verdener bruges som medie
  for samtidskunsten?
• Hvordan bruger den danske kunstnergruppe
  Superflex virtuelle verdener i deres såkaldt
  relationelle/sociale kunst? Hvordan hænger
  kunstkritikeren Nicolas Bourriauds begreb om
  relationel kunst sammen med Superflex praksis?

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Staging Collaborative Relations Superflex' Art
for the Internet Troels Degn Johansson Assistant
Professor
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Staging Collaborative Relations Superflex' Art
for the Internet - foredrag ved
netkunst-konferencen CULT 2001, Kulturnet
Danmark, 3.-5. oktober 2001
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• Superflex as Net-Art or Collaborative Art?
• Not only because some of their projects make use
  of the Internet Superchannel, Karlskrona2
• Not only because Superflex establishes project
  networks for cross-disciplinary collaborations
• Perhaps especially because Superflex establishes
  a common net environment that both make use of
  the Internet and networks based on art

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• Superflex Net Environment
• The Internet as technology seems less important
  than the net as a conceptual principle
• Networking as an organisational principle seems
  less important than the idea of networking, that
  is, network as a principle of art
• Superflex thematises the net and networking
  by staging them Staging collaborative relations
  by means of the Internet

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• Collaborating with Superflex
• Two years strategic partnership with art group
  Superflex with reference to the development of
  the Karlskrona2 concept a geographically based,
  virtual 3D-world (3D MUD).
• Applied research as a media studies scholar in
  Internet-based visualisation of landscape and
  urban space -- using e.g. Karlskrona2 as a
  medium.
• Research also in problems regarding Superflex
  work as fine art relational art, cyberculture,
  etc.

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Superflex - www.superflex.dk
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• Superflex - Introduction
• Superflex are Bjørnstjerne Christensen, Jacob
  Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen students from the Royal
  Danish Academy of Fine Arts currently holding
  the Danish state art foundation scholarship.
• Considerable international interest for app. 4-5
  years, part of the wave of Scandinavian
  relational artist
• Also a company which should be economically
  sustainable. Office in central Copenhagen.

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• Karlskrona2 and Superchannel
• Two out of Superflex current main projects
  both based in the Internet as a relational
  medium and cyberspace as a communication
  environment
• Karlskrona2 a 3D Multi-User Domain (MUD) based
  on a digital model of the minor Swedish city
  Karlskronas central, old square.
• Superchannel A combination of streaming media,
  web-chat and a local, public accessible studio.

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• Superflex Project Karlskrona2 / Wolfsburg2

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• Superflex Karlskrona2
• A 3D Multi-User Domain (3D MUD) based on a
  digital model of the city centre incl. the
  UNESCO-protected square
• Video screen linking real and virtual city
  centres
• Special privileges to local citizen users
• Addressing an IT strategy for regional
  development in Karlskrona/Blekinge council

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• Superflex Karlskrona2

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• Superflex Karlskrona2
• Karlskrona2s current ActiveWorlds interface
  featuring a 3D display, a chat window, a
  navigation panel, and a web browser

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• www.karlskrona2.org
• Download install program and install the K2
  application
• Further info on site

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• www.superchannel.org

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• Superflex Superchannel
• Web-casted streaming media (RealMedia)
• Local art galleries used as Superchannel TV
  studios - or libraries and public spaces which
  are made into art spaces by the staging of
  Superflex.
• Continuous web-chat dialogues by the web-cast
  audience.
• A common Superchannel site featuring a list of
  channels, a news section, and an archive

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• Superchannel and Karlskrona2
• Locally anchored networks featuring concentric
  communications staged by relational net-artist

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• Superchannel and Karlskrona2
• Locally anchored networks featuring concentric
  communications staged by relational net-artist

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• Staged by Art
• - dealing with Karlskrona2 as a planning studies
  scholar I am
• Staged as a common 3D MUD user
• Staged on the art scene to present my
  experiences with the application of relational
  art
• Staged as a media scholar using K2 as a concept
  and a technology to promote a critical
  understanding of 3D-visualisation in planning
  communication

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• Superflex Art Stage
• Superflex thus stages processes, actors, and
  project partners on the neutral foundation of
  art It creates networks, makes thing happen --
  and documents the results as stages of
  development before in the art world (galleries,
  etc.)
• Superflex works outside the art world in the
  name of art -- their projects have a particular
  aim and cause in a society, they are not aimless
  as in traditional art (aimlessness, aesthetic
  pleasure and contemplation).

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• Superflex Art Stage
• Staging of relations seems to be a general
  strategy for Superflex as relational artists
• Anything, that is, any system of relations seems
  in this sense potentially to be stageable in
  the name of art, with Superflex signature
  social, economic, representational, etc. -
  perhaps also urban systems?
• To stage relational systems is for relational
  artist just to recognise the basic function of
  art.

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• Staging of Future
• Reality is staged as realised scenarios
• The staging of relations applies to a possible
  causality, not to prognoses, and a particular
  outcome that may finalise the project it is
  about If, not when What if
• Relational art is in a fundamental sense
  opportunistic Its material is opportunity, what
  may possibly be realised

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• Staging of future
• The staging of relations is progressive, ideally
  infinite -- unlike most art works!
• Relational art is in this sense larger than
  life and art -- since both are usually
  understood in terms of an ending The limitation
  of Life and art form.

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• Superflex - Characteristics
• Superflex consists of anonymous artist
  personalities -- what is important is business,
  the case, the cause To make things happen
• The orange colour is Superflex signature
  Anonymous orange connotes both techno
  aesthetics and (public) service functions.
• Although Superflex seems to devote themselves
  primarily to function, service, and technology,
  their art should be understood critically as fine
  art.

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• Superflex as Relational Art
• Nicolas Bourriaud esthetique relationelle
• Relational art A conceptual orientation in art
  that seeks to create relations between
  individuals, institutions, etc. -- sometimes also
  designated as social art.
• Relational art is about the special (economical)
  contexts which are established and maintained by
  art as such marginal/alternative economies.

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• Relational Art
• Nicolas Bourriaud the work of art can be
  approached as a form of reality, and no longer as
  the image of an image. (Bourriaud - with
  reference to Plato)
• Nicolas Bourriaud to establish a network or
  relational universe current art is composed of
  these mental entities which move like ivy,
  growing roots as they make their way more and
  more complex. (of Esthetique relationelle)

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• Relational Art as Net-Working
• We should perhaps understand pictures in art,
  pictorial art, as invitations rather than
  representations? Invitations to continue oneself
  the work which has been initiated by the
  art-work.
• Invitations are directed towards the future, re-
  presentations towards the past.
• Networks (Internet, relations) are seen as
  something organic Art grows as art work becomes
  inspired by art work.

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• Superflex Network-Art -
• - based on invitations
• Karlskrona2s log-in-interface