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29 November 2011
IG Architektur, Vienna

	book launch Space (Re)Solutions Intervention and Research in Visual Culture Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer (eds.) and talk The Border Bookmobile Lee Rodney (University of Windsor, Canada) 29 November 2011, 7.30 pm IG Architektur Gumpendorfer Straße 63B, 1060 Vienna

The Border Bookmobile is a research platform and mobile exhibition of books, artist projects, photographs and ephemera about the urban history of the Windsor-Detroit region and other border cities around the world. The collection is housed in a 1993 Chrysler Voyager minivan that travels throughout the region. Produced in the Chrysler Minivan Assembly Plant, the largest auto factory in Windsor, the van acts as a symbol of the economic cycles of the region and the vicissitudes of manufacturing and trade that constitute local history.

26-27 November 2011
Triangle Network Conference

Networked
Dialogue and Exchange in the Global Art Ecology

26-27 November 2011
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD

The Networked conference will discuss the needs and values of networks in the development of cultural dialogue and organisational sustainability. The conference will introduce and explore the approaches of the Triangle Network, which is soon to celebrate its 30th anniversary, in the context of other networks that support and promote the visual arts, culture and international development.

Intended to inspire new ideas, strategies and connections between artists, cultural operators, organisations and supporters, the conference will discuss networks from the point of view of users such as artists, organisers (grass-roots organisations and arts professionals), researchers (curators, social anthropologists, architects and urbanists) and funders (funding agencies, trusts and foundations).

Networked is organised by Triangle Network in consultation with Sonya Dyer, Kate Fowle, Todd Lester, Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer and Mary Ann de Vlieg

Conference programme

11 November 2011
Die Stadt ist uns nicht egal

Networked Cultures, Relationen und Ressourcen
Peter Mörtenböck und Helge Mooshammer

11 November 2011, 18.00 Uhr
Wiener Planungswerkstatt
Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 9, 1010 Wien

Vortragsreihe im Rahmen der Ausstellung Die Stadt ist uns nicht egal
22. September bis 14 Dezember 2011

11 October 2011
Universität Graz

Grenzbereiche, Netzwerke, Märkte
Strukturen der Organisation visueller Kultur
Peter Mörtenböck

11. Oktober 2011, 15.00 Uhr
Universität Graz
Humboldstraße 48, 8010 Graz

Vortragsreihe Visuelle Kultur/en im interdisziplinären Gespräch
Oktober 2011 bis Jänner 2012

12 July 2011
Leibniz Universität Hannover

Dialog- und netzwerkorientierte Strukturen in Architekturausstellungen
Peter Mörtenböck

12. Juli 2011, 18.00 Uhr
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Herrenhauser Straße 8

Vortragsreihe dienstags um 6
Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft

3-4 June 2011
Political Equator 3

Political Equator 3
Conversations on Co-existence: Border Neighbourhoods as Sites of Production

A 2-Day Cross-Border Event, San Diego/Tijuana
3-4 June 2011

Political Equator 3 is a 2-day cross-border mobile conference held on the 3rd and 4th of June 2011. This event is co-organized by the Center for Urban Ecologies at the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, and two community-based, non-profit organizations on both sides of the border, Casa Familiar in San Ysidro, California and Alter Terra in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

The third program in a series of bi-national conferences, PE3 continues to engage pressing regional socio-economic, urban and environmental conditions across the San Diego –Tijuana border. These meetings have been focusing on a critical analysis of local conflicts in order to re-evaluate the meaning of shifting global dynamics, across geo-political boundaries, natural resources and marginal communities.

From the schedule:

DAY 02
SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2011
The event will be located under a tent at a site between the estuary and Home Land Security’s new border fence, next to a sediment basin, where the pollution from Los Laureles’s informal settlement in Mexico has been seeping into the estuary on the US side.

12:30—2:30 pm
Performance: A Public Border Crossing
Beginning from the tent, an unprecedented border crossing will take place, as participants cross the border by foot from the US into Mexico through the culvert beneath the border fence to enter Los Laureles canyon for the last part of the event.

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26-30 April 2011
Gasworks, London

Supply Lines
Visions of Global Resource Circulation

28 April 2011, 6.30 pm
Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH

Led by artist and curator Ursula Biemann, Supply Lines is a long-term collaborative art, research and exhibition project by an international team of artists and theorists working in areas of spatial culture, geography, art history and cultural theory. Supply Lines is set to examine the conditions and values of natural resources (e.g. water, oil, silver) and of their extraction, and to explore the ensuing social and spatial relations.

Gasworks is hosting the first installment of Supply Lines in the form of a meeting between the participants. This will be followed by a public event on 28 April 2011 from 6.30 - 8.30pm, including presentations, screenings and discussions around the research and work in progress.

Participants include: Mabe Bethonico, Ursula Biemann, Alexa Höber, Ed Kashi, Uwe H. Martin, Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, George Osodi, Emily E. Scott, Paulo Tavares, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan and students from Goldsmiths' MA in Visual Cultures.

11-12 April 2011
MACBA / University of Barcelona

Visualizing Europe
The Geopolitical and Intercultural Boundaries of Visual Culture

11-12 April 2011
MACBA / University of Barcelona

The 2nd Conference of Visual Culture in Europe will be held at University of Barcelona, Spain on April 11-12, 2011. The conference will focus on the interplay between the enlargement of the geopolitical design of the European Union and transnational visual studies in the region.
By juxtaposing issues such as intercultural negotiation, migratory aesthetics, diverse understandings of neighborliness, and symbolic struggle, this conference attempts to elaborate on the decolonial dilemmas that the reinvention and promotion of Europe as a coherent and diverse cultural reality is facing today, both spatially and symbolically.

Organised by global visual cultures
Conference convenors: Joaquín Barriendos, Anna Maria Guasch

From the programme:

11 April 2011
11:45 a.m.
PANEL II / Universidad de Barcelona (Aula Magna)
Moderated by Marquard Smith

ÇEUconographies: Actual trends in EU image politics
Petra Bernhardt & Andreas Pribersky

Bodies, Borders, and Bio-Imaging: Biological Tropes and the Migration of Persons and Organs To and In Europe
Max Liljefors

Other Markets. The visual culture of informal trade
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer

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24-25 March
Technische Universität Graz

Stadt und Psyche
Das urbane Imaginäre

Technische Universität Graz
Rechbauerstraße 12
24-25 März 2011

Aus dem Programm:

Donnerstag, 24 März 2011
16.30 Begrüßung, Einleitung
Michael Zinganel
17.00: Anti - Terror - Architektur: Die Gestalt der inneren Sicherheit
Peter Mörtenböck
17.45: “Suche Stadt, bin Psyche“. Zur Beziehung von Sichtbarkeit und Ordnung
Helge Mooshammer
18.30: Der Gastarbeiter und die Straße. Filmische Intervention ins Protektionsflächenimaginäre
Anna Schober
19.15: Disskusion
Moderation Michael Zinganel

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10 March 2011
Open Space, Open Systems Vienna

TRADING CULTURES
book launch & discussion

Thursday, 10 March 2011, 7.30 pm
Open Space, Open Systems Vienna

So-called social revolutions are unsettling the established political order in many different pockets of the world. We watch a wave of change, where a seemingly unhindered expansion of trade in new technologies and commodities connects with a new range of social relations. Self-organisation, social networks, transnationalism are all buzzwords that circulate these transformations, but in what ways exactly do our own everyday realities forge links with these sites of multiple trans-action? And, in the spirit of Open Systems, what other models of socio-political organisation might these experiences of transversal movements inspire us to?

Gulsen Bal, director of Open Space – Open Systems will discuss these and related questions in conversation with Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer to celebrate the joint launch of Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt, the most recent publication of their ‘Networked Cultures’ project, and of the online atlas Informal Market Worlds, marking the beginning of their new project ‘Other Markets’.

Networked Cultures was initiated at Goldsmiths College, London in 2005 and investigates contemporary cultural transformations through examining the potentials and effects of networked practices. Collaborating with art, architectural and urban practices across Europe and beyond it explores platforms of agency in which cultural relations have become key in negotiating a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across institutional, social or geographic boundaries.
www.networkedcultures.org

Other Markets expands these explorations into networked ecologies through collaborative fieldwork on informal markets around the world. Conceived as a working tool, the atlas ‘Informal Market Worlds’ will comprise multi-level analyses into the ways informal markets yield adaptations to the use of territorial, social and legal resources. It aims to conceptualise the emerging paradigm of ‘trans-urbanisation’ – how a transnational transfer of politics, values and ideas into the realm of urban action provokes new forms of latitudinal civic engagement.
www.othermarkets.org

9-12 February 2011
CAA conference 2011 New York

CAA 2011 Conference New York
College Art Association
99th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York

Session: The Architectural Exhibition and/as Critique
Society of Architectural Historians

From the great expositions in the nineteenth century to the present, exhibitions have transformed architectural culture. This session will examine those instances in which the architectural exhibition – focused either on contemporary or historical work – is used to critique design practices and operate as a change agent. How have exhibitions challenged existing historical narratives? How does the discursive format of the exhibition differ from that of the written text? How has the exhibition revolutionized architectural writing, both journalistic and academic? The critical agency of the exhibition might be variously located: in institutional practices, curatorial decisions, strategies of display, or the discursive modalities of the exhibition itself – in forming new kinds of critical structures
or creating new terminologies and points of entry.

Chairs: Karen Koehler, Hampshire College; Eve Blau, Harvard University

Exhibitions as Practice: Raumkunst at the 1906 German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden
Wallis Miller, University of Kentucky
Constructing the Nation: China's Architectural Exhibition, 1936
Cole Roskam, University of Hong Kong
The New Domestic Landscape: Italian Radical Architecture on American Soil
Ross Elfline, Carleton College
Making Architectural Exhibitions Work: The Networked Cultures Dialogues
Peter Mortenbock, Goldsmiths, University of London
Discussant: Barry Bergdoll, Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University

Saturday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York

Session: Architectural and Spatial Design Studies

In recent years, there has been a plethora of scholarly works that address spatial and architectural operations from various perspectives. Established disciplines that have an innate relation with space (e.g. architectural history or urban geography) have not provided forums that are open enough to include these diverse viewpoints. Thus, despite their commonalities, these approaches lack a space for exchange. This session presents papers that bridge studies of space and architecture with the field of design studies, and that may also be affiliated with a variety of other fields, such as cultural and urban geography, spatial anthropology, and media studies. Papers will address spatial topics of various scales, from the scale of the interior space to that of a geographical region, and spatial practices beyond the design of buildings, such as spatial representation, spatial narratives, spatial policies, and users’ practices.

Chair: Jilly Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design

Hausprojekte as Transgressive Urbanism in the New Berlin
Daniela Sandler, University of California, Santa Cruz
Other Markets: Informal Spaces as Harbingers of Urban Change
Helge Mooshammer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Designing Radio Space in Interwar Canada
Michael Windover, McGill University
Re-engaging Cultural Heritage Archives: Imagining Human Values Embedded in Protected Sites
Lydia Matthews, Parsons The New School for Design
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, The New School
Discussant: Sarah Teasley, Royal College of Art

16 December 2010
Forum Stadtpark Graz

unPERFEKT
Vortragsreihe über Räume abseits perfekt geplanter Architektur und Städtebaus

Do, 16.12.2010, 17.00 Uhr
Forum Stadtpark, Saloon
Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz

Netzwerk Kultur
mit Peter Mörtenböck und Helge Mooshammer

Parallel-Architekturen, Parallel-Gesellschaften, Parallel-Leben. In Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Entwicklungen ist aus dem Kunst- und Architekturschaffen der letzten Jahre eine neue Form von Praxis hervorgegangen, die sich auf kollektives Produzieren, prozessgeleitetes Arbeiten und ein Agieren in transversalen Projektplattformen stützt. Eine solche „disziplinlose“ Praxis von unaufgeforderten Einmischungen in räumliches Geschehen, macht das dysfunktionale Regelwerk der Top-Down-Planung lesbar und kreiert ein Feld, das inmitten der Bemühungen dieses Versagen zu verbergen, neue Formen der Zirkulation erzeugt.

Diskussion: Ursula Musil, FORUM STADTPARK

4 December 2010
Sea of Marble, Istanbul

Sea of Marble: A Navigational Convergence
Mermer Denizi: Yakın Seyir
Symposium

4 December 2010, 9:30
Sanat Limanı, Antrepo No:5

Participants:
Ursula Biemann (Zurich) & Shuruq A. M. Harb (Ramallah), TJ Demos (London), John Palmesino (London), Vyjayanthi Rao (New York), Alex Villar (New York), Relli De Vries (Tel Aviv)

xurban_collective: Güven İncirlioğlu (İzmir), Hakan Topal (New York), Mahir Yavuz (Linz) and Atıf Akın (İstanbul)

Project Partners: Helge Mooshammer & Peter Mortenbock (London /Vienna)

The project Sea of Marble: A Navigational Convergence (2009–10) is developed as an exhibition and a symposium, and aims to address the seas as defined by various manifestations of global trade, economy, and the flow of bodies. It endeavors to develop visual and narrative strategies to tackle with the particularities and potentialities that the sea presents.

Download symposium booklet (pdf)

9 November 2010
Bauhausuniversität Weimar

Um Gottes Willen, was machen denn die da? Zur Raumbildung von Sexualität und Sicherheit
Vortrag Helge Mooshammer

Dienstag 9 November 2010 19.00 Uhr
Audimax, Bauhausuniversität Weimar

im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Redefinition

mit Helge Mooshammer, Sebastian Thaut, Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley, Magnus Larsson, Andreas Ruby, Ilka Ruby, Tim Edler, Julian Schubert, Elena Schütz, Leonard Streich, Luis Callejas, Eik Frenzel, Stéphane Malka, David Van Severen, Kersten Geers und Peter Grundmann

veranstaltet von horizonte

28 October 2010
lungomare Bozen/Bolzano

NETZWERK KULTUR – RÄUME DER TEILNAHME
Konferenz mit Peter Mörtenböck und Helge Mooshammer

28. Oktober 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Lungomare, Rafensteinweg 12, Bozen

www.lungomare.org

Im Rahmen der offenen Forschungswoche SYMBOLISCHE AKTIONEN FÜR UNSERE GEGENWART

Ein Lungomare-Projekt in zwei Teilen
Teil 1: Eine Forschungswoche für alle, vom 25. – 30. Oktober 2010

mit Brave New Alps, Jacopo Candotti, Helmut Heiss, Eva Mair & Katherina Putzer, Maja Malina
kuratiert von Angelika Burtscher und Daniele Lupo
kuratorische Assistenz: Michele Fucich
Advisors für die Stammtische: Christine Helfer, Giorgio Mezzalira, Waltraud Mittich

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21 - 23 October 2010
space RE:solutions Vienna

space RE:solutions
Intervention and Research in Visual Culture

International conference hosted by the Visual Culture programme
Vienna University of Technology

21 - 23 October 2010

The conference aims to generate a discursive platform for both theoretical and practical approaches of engagement in spatial processes. Focal point is the dynamics of critical and creative work in the field of visual culture. Exploring the blurring boundaries of intervention and research, the conference will embrace the unpredictable movements and ambivalences of individual and collective, real and virtual, centre and periphery, activism and academy.

16 - 18 September 2010
University of Cork

Ordnance: War, Architecture & Space
An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE) and School of the Human Environment (University College Cork)

This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the often hidden relationship between militarism and the design and construction of architecture and space in the modern period. Historically, military imperatives have been embedded in the way society is organized and, from the Renaissance onwards, the needs of offence and defense played an increasingly influential role not only in the physical shaping of the city and landscape, but also on the means by which they were represented. Recent events, notably the ‘War on Terror’ have reinforced these impulses within the city, extending and deepening systems and architectures of surveillance.

16th to 18th September 2010

excerpt from conference programme:

Friday 17 September 2010
9.30-11 am PARALLEL SESSIONS

9 THREAT

Security Assemblages and Spaces of Exception: The Production of (Para-) Militarized Spaces in the ʻWar on Drugsʼ
Markus Kienscherf, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin

The Political Aesthetics of Counter-Terrorism Design
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, Vienna University of Technology and Goldsmiths, University of London

Making Way for the War on Terror in a Canadian Suburb
Joy Parr, Geography, University of Western Ontario.

28 - 30 June 2010
Metropolis Laboratory Copenhagen

METROPOLIS LABORATORY 2010
28-30 JUNE 2010

DANSEhallerne, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 20, COPENHAGEN

29 June 2010, 3.00-4.30pm

Networked Cultures presented by project director Peter Mörtenböck (AT/UK) and co-director Helge Mooshammer (AT/UK)
The presentation will include an interaction with off-site contributors to the Networked Cultures project through excerpts from the Networked Cultures documentary.

Programme 28-30 June 2010

Initiated in 2007, the Metropolis Laboratory and Metropolis Biennale in Copenhagen is already established as a focal point for a generation of international artists, researchers and practitioners involved with urbanism.

Part think tank, part network and part project base, Metropolis Laboratory 2010 will be held at the former Carlsberg Breweries in the heart of Copenhagen. Itself a historic environment, the area is gradually being transformed by arts and cultural institutions – among others DANSEhallerne.

Metropolis was initiated by Copenhagen International Theatre as the frame for a 10 year programme (2007-2017). The main theme of Metropolis is the urban condition as perceived, commentated, contested and developed in the realm of the arts.

Metropolis is in particular looking at interdisciplinary initiatives which reflect an increasing engagement and relevance of the arts in the public realm – from community theatre, site specific work, arts, architectural collaborations and new media. Working in the arts in this complex and often turbulent environment, not only aesthetic but also urban, social and political issues are not only relevant but often agenda setting.
New technologies change the nature of the understanding of the public realm and concepts of community. Urban planning and market mechanisms often collide with the notions of naturally evolving and diverse but balanced and vibrating urban environments.

The acclaimed loss of “cityness” and of interaction and engagement with the city together with the threatening stereotypes of urban expansion of the past generations has created a vital forum where the future of the city must be rethought and retested.

In this context the role of Metropolis is to replace “artworks” by “art that works”. Not becoming less “art” but becoming more relevant and putting the artist at the core of this change of practice which we see in many cities, where a more organic, complex, artistic and culturally based philosophy of urban change is being seen as a guiding principle.

Metropolis Laboratory is organised as a professional forum with invited researchers and practitioners from the social sciences, the arts and architecture, alongside with producers, curators, community representatives, developers and local authorities.

February 2010
[transcript] Verlag

Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer

Netzwerk Kultur

Die Kunst der Verbindung
in einer globalisierten Welt

Erscheint April 2010

Bielefeld, [transcript] Verlag
für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale Praxis
Reihe Kultur- und Medientheorie

ISBN 978-3-8376-1356-8

Netzwerke sind zur Leitfigur des Zusammenlebens im 21. Jahrhundert geworden. In Gestalt von transnationaler Politik, globaler Ökonomie, neuen Medien und sozialen Bewegungen verkünden sie Hoffnung und Bedrohung zugleich. Dass Netzwerke und vernetzte Kulturen vor allem auch Kreativität hervorbringen können, zeigt dieser Band: Er liefert eine faktenreiche und vielschichtige Analyse der Schauplätze der geokulturellen Neuordnung und demonstriert anhand von zahlreichen Allianzen in Kunst, Architektur und Aktivismus, wie durch kollektive Kreativität neue Strukturen politischer und sozialer Teilnahme entstehen.

11 March - 11 April 2010
Mestna Galerija Ljubljana

Installation of Networked Cultures documentary at

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Art Institutions and New Publics

Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana

11 March - 11 April 2010