Person: Simanowski, Roberto
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deutscher Literatur- und Medienwissenschaftler und Gründer des Online-Journals für digitale Kunst und Kultur Dichtung-Digital
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- ArticleNetzkunst plugged: Interview mit Annette SchindlerSimanowski, Roberto (2001-08-08)Annette Schindler, vormals Leiterin des Kunsthauses Glarus und Exdirektorin des Swiss Institute New York, leitet das September 2000 in Basel eröffnete Forum für Neue Medien [plug in], dessen Ziel es ist, Netzkunst online zu präsentieren und zugleich offline als ein Begegnungs -und Vermittlungsort zu dienen. Damit baut Basel – wo 1995 der Schweizer Ableger von The Thing gegründert wurde, wohin das Medienfestival Viper von Luzern aus zuwanderte und wo die Schule für Gestaltung, der Studiengang elektronische Musik des Konservatoriums und demnächst wohl auch der Studiengang des neugegründeten Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Basel für eine entsprechende Szene sorgt – seinen Ruf als führende Schweizer Medienkulturstadt weiter aus. Eigentlich ein paradoxer Vorgang angesichts des Delokalisierungseffekts, für den die Neuen Medien so bekannt sind. Aber auch das Internet wird getragen von realen Personen, die an bestimmten Orten leben und diskutieren, und selbst digitale Produkte benötigen neben den Weiten des Netzes offenbar einen konkreten Raum für die Begegnung mit der Öffentlichkeit. Im Falle [plug in] befindet sich dieser Raum in priviligierter Lage gleich neben dem Museum für Gegenwartskunst und erhält durch Almodovar-Mitarbeiter Frederico Cambero aus berufener Hand sein Design. Es scheint, die Garage-Zeiten sind auch im Bereich der Netzkunst vorbei. Ob das gut oder schlecht ist, wie das [plug in]-Konzept konkret aussieht, wie [plug in] seinen Gegenstand umreißt und wie die Kuratierung von Netzkunst im Hinblick auf Präsentation, Verkauf und Archivierung aussieht, wollte Roberto Simanowski von Annette Schindler wissen - und fiel dabei gleich mit der Tür ins Haus.
- ArticleLiving for Hypertext: Interview with Deena LarsenSimanowski, Roberto (2000-11-05)Deena Larsen is an activist you will always find arround: at Hypertext Conference, at Digital Art and Culture Conference, at CyberMountain, and in many chats and workshops on hypertext. Roberto Simanowski talked to her about writing, promoting, and selling hypertext, the 4 labyrinths, the reader can be lost, and about her more recent work Disappearing Rain, that minglies fiction with non fictional websites.
- ArticleVery Nervous System and the Benefit of Inexact Control. Interview with David RokebySimanowski, Roberto (2003)The Canadian artist David Rokeby (1960) has been creating interactive sound and video installations since 1982. His work directly engages the human body or involves artificial perception systems and intends to explore time, perception, issues of digital surveillance and the relationships between humans and interactive machines. In 1982 Rokeby started developing Very Nervous System, a real time motion tracking system, which monitors the user's action via video camera, analyses the data in the computer and responds to the interactor's input. On the basis of this system - which is also used in music therapy applications and as an activity enabler for victims of Parkinson's Disease - Rokeby created several interactive installations with real-time feedback loops using video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers, and sound systems. Rokeby has graduated with honours in Experimental Art from Ontario College of Art in 1984, he has exhibited and given talks in Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Japan and Korea, including the Venice Biennale in 1986, Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) in 1991 and 2002, the Mediale (Hamburg, Germany) in 1993, the Biennale di Firenze (Florence, Italy) in 1996 and the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. Rokeby was, among others, awarded the Petro Canada Media Arts Award (1988), the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art (1991 and 1997), and the Award for Interactive Art of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2000). Roberto Simanowski talked with him about "systems of inexact control" which reject the control fetish, about their pragmatic role in every day life, about the bastardization of aleatoric art, about interactivity as the decline of critical distance and about technology as a genre.
- ArticleComputerspiele im Prüfstand: Interview mit Claus PiasSimanowski, Roberto (2002-01-30)Claus Pias ist wissenschaftlischer Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl "Geschichte und Theorie Künstlicher Welten" der Fakultät Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er beschäftigt sich mit Computerspielen, deren Entstehung und Eigenschaften er in seiner Dissertation "Computer Spiel Welten" (2000) untersuchte. Roberto Simanowski sprach mit ihm über Medienforschung, über Ästhetik, Ethik und Handlungskonzepte von Computerspielen sowie über ihre kulturtechnischen Vorläufer im vordigitalen Zeitalter.
- ArticleFrom Surfiction to Hypertext: Interview with Raymond FedermanSimanowski, Roberto (2001-06-09)Raymond Federman, born in France (1928), emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 (after he survived deportation to Auschwitz as the only person of his family), is one of contemporary literature's most radical thinkers and influential authors and critics. He was a Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at The State University of New York at Buffalo (he is now retired] but considers himself primarily a fiction writer. Federman has published several books of criticism on the work of Samuel Beckett as well as contemporary literature, numerous essays and articles, four volumes of poems and ten novels, written in English or French, translated into German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Rumanian, Hebrew, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese. Federman has received numerous awards, and was a fellow/artist in residence in France, Israel, and Germany. There he gave his poetic lectures in 1990 (published in 1992 in Edition Suhrkamp) about Surfiction and the prospects of literature. Roberto Simanowski talked to Raymond Federman about contemporary aesthetics of spectacle, the concept of surfiction and critifiction, and its relation to hyperfiction and realfiction.
- ArticleDie Aaleskorte der Ölig: Interview mit Frank KlötgenSimanowski, Roberto (2000-08-22)Die Aaleskorte der Ölig von Dirk Günthers und Frank Klötgens ist einer der Preisträger des 98er Pegasus-Wettbewerbs für Internet-Literatur (Besprechung in dichtung-digital). Ein Text-Bild-Geflecht, das sich als Film ausgibt, 6,9 Milliarden Lesarten verspricht und eigentlich eine Parodie auf den Hypertext darstellt. Ein Werk, das nur Freunde oder Feinde hat. Roberto Simanowski sprach mit Frank Klötgen über die Ölig, den Ekel, Publikumsbeschimpfung, literarische Vorblider und die deutsche Szene der Netzliteratur.
- ArticleUseless Programs, Useful Programmers, and the production of Social Interactive Artworks: Interview with Scott SnibbeSimanowski, Roberto (2006)Scott Snibbe, who holds Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Fine Art, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Brown University, creates electronic media installations that directly engage the body of the viewer in a reactive system. His work has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Artport (New York), Eyebeam (New York), and The Kitchen (New York); the InterCommunications Center (Tokyo); Ars Electronica (Austria); The Institute of Contemporary Art (London); and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). He has been awarded a variety of international prizes, including the Prix Ars Electronica, and a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship. Snibbe has taught media art and experimental film at Brown University, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Rhode Island School of Design and UC Berkeley. He has held research positions at Adobe Systems and Interval Research. His works are designed to have specific social effects: to create a sense of interdependence, to promote friendly interaction among strangers, and to increase viewers’ concentration. Roberto Simanowski talked with him about kids, parents, Buddhism, benches and walls.
- ArticleNach der Konferenz ...: Interview mit Michael GieseckeSimanowski, Roberto (2000-10-22)Prof. Dr. Michael Giesecke, bekannt durch seine Arbeiten über die Geschichte des Buchdrucks, ist zugleich einer der Organisatoren eines Symposiums über eine Literatur, die des Buches gar nicht mehr bedarf. Roberto Simanowski sprach mit ihm über die Zukunft der Literatur in den Neuen Medien, die Rolle der Literaturwissenschaft in diesem Prozess, über Begriffe und Goldgräberstimmung.
- ArticleConvergences in creating and understanding digital art: Interview with Richard KarpenSimanowski, Roberto (2002-07-26)Richard Karpen is Professor of Music at the University of Washington in Seattle where he has been teaching composition and computer music since 1989. He is also Director of the UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Karpen is acknowledged as one of the leading international figures in Computer Music for both his pioneering compositions and his work in developing computer applications for music composition and sound design. His works are widely performed in the U.S. and internationally. Roberto Simanowski talked with him about the aim of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media and the relation between digital media and academic world.
- Articleand/and/and - reading and thinking hypertext: an interview with J. Yellowlees DouglesSimanowski, Roberto (2000-03-25)J. Yellowlees Dougles, Director of the William and Grace Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, has been researching and writing on social construction of digital technologies and on hypertext focusing on the the applicability of literary theory, narratology and aesthetics to hypertext environments. In her essay "How do I stop this thing" (1994) she discusses the effect of hypertext's displacement of closure on the act of reading with special regard to Michael Joyce's "Afternoon". Her recent book "End of Books or Books without End" (2000) - "A classic of hypertext theory and criticism" (Jay David Bolter) - examines how interactive fiction works, takes a careful look at the state of hypertext criticism today, and suggests how the future development of interactive narratives relate to the New Realism. (see extended abstract, order from Eastgate Systems). Roberto Simanowski talked with her about satisfactions and limitations of hypertext, about its three paradoxes, and about her hyperfiction "I Have Said Nothing".