{"id":8251,"date":"2017-08-26T09:51:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T07:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2017-08-27T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T07:58:26","slug":"call-open-call-for-wrong-works-scripting-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/?p=8251","title":{"rendered":"call: Open call for wrong works: Scripting the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: 15 September 2017<br \/>\nCall for entries<\/p>\n<p>Open call for wrong works: Scripting the Other<\/p>\n<p>SCRIPTING THE OTHER is a pavilion (online exhibition) in the third<br \/>\nedition of The Wrong &#8211; New Digital Art Biennale (Nov 1, 2017 &#8211; Jan 31,<br \/>\n2018).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re calling for works that explore the notions of the Other and<br \/>\nOtherness in online, performative scripting and writing. The work should<br \/>\npreferably have some live, dynamic function &#8211; e.g. through (ambivalent)<br \/>\ninteraction with user\/audience, communicating, streaming, mashing<br \/>\ntextual-visual sources and feeds, live coding,<br \/>\nstream-of-consciousness-or-data writing or scripting.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to use internet as an instrument of the Other, and<br \/>\nantitheses to the echochamber of the self, and set up an interface<br \/>\ntowards it, as if communicating with or observing an undefined, unknown<br \/>\nor uknowable entity, operating system, or AI. The exhibition examines<br \/>\ntext and text-visuals in meeting with an inordinant &#8216;Here Comes<br \/>\nEverything&#8217;, the role and protocol of author, reader &#8211; entangled and<br \/>\nundermined.<\/p>\n<p>If possible, the exhibition will take form as an embodiment of the Other<br \/>\nwith the works selected being incorporated within it.<\/p>\n<p>Works for the exhibition should be made for web browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline: 15. September 2017<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"mailto:mail@noemata.net\">mail@noemata.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scripting the Other is part of the project Other Writing initiated by<br \/>\nNoemata and funded by Arts Council Norway. Noemata is a production site<br \/>\nfor digital and netbased art affiliated with PNEK (production network<br \/>\nfor electronic art Norway).<\/p>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Live coding&#8217; meaning programmable live and that the writing process is<br \/>\nmade visible and part of the execution, or put in another way, that it<br \/>\nincludes a visible operational meta-level where the text is<br \/>\ncoded\/generated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ambivalent interaction&#8217;: To challenge and undermine ideas about<br \/>\ncommunication, meaningfulness, identity, noise\/signal, writer, reader,<br \/>\nand the like, in relation to text. For example, the audience\/browser<br \/>\nshould ask questions about what this text _is_ &#8211; is it communication? do<br \/>\nI write? who&#8217;s writing? do I read? both? &#8211; and at least to conclude that<br \/>\nthe text has its proper life and symbolically approaches the Other (the<br \/>\nopposite to self and identity). Ambivalent interaction is a metaphor for<br \/>\nthe way we operate on the internet &#8211; how internet opens up for a game of<br \/>\nidentity, partly necessitated in the face of an overwhelming and<br \/>\nfrenzied &#8216;other&#8217;, something which in turn has created a feverish market<br \/>\nfor simulacra, representation and imitation &#8211; think of social media<br \/>\nacting as a &#8216;big data&#8217; simulacrum, and &#8216;selfies&#8217; acting as a kind of<br \/>\nmockery mirror. In reality, this kind of identity has an equivalent<br \/>\nvast, dark side, &#8216;other&#8217;, as a reaction, since our default state on the<br \/>\ninternet is both anonymous and transparent (two antitheses of identity).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Other&#8217; as a writing process, and the category &#8216;Scripting the Other&#8217;<br \/>\nas an aggregate term for text or text-visuals not immediately<br \/>\ncategorizable: &#8220;The concept that the Self requires the existence of the<br \/>\nOther &#8230; Lacan associated the Other with the symbolic order and<br \/>\nlanguage. Levinas connected it with the scriptural and traditional God,<br \/>\nin The Infinite Other. &#8230; Ethically, for Levinas, the &#8220;Other&#8221; is<br \/>\nsuperior or prior to the self; the mere presence of the Other makes<br \/>\ndemands before one can respond &#8230; Levinas talks of the Other in terms<br \/>\nof &#8216;insomnia&#8217; and &#8216;wakefulness&#8217;. It is an ecstasy, or exteriority toward<br \/>\nthe Other that forever remains beyond any attempt at full capture, this<br \/>\notherness is interminable (or infinite)&#8230; it has not been negated or<br \/>\ncontrolled. &#8230; The &#8220;Other&#8221;, as a general term in philosophy, can also<br \/>\nbe used to mean the unconscious, silence, insanity, the other of<br \/>\nlanguage (i.e., what it refers to and what is unsaid), etc.&#8221; &#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Other\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Other<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCRIPTING THE OTHER will explore through such a hybrid reading-writing<br \/>\nprocess an integration to a wider operational identity, perhaps with a<br \/>\nreference to analytical psychology and its individuation process if we<br \/>\nlook at the unconscious as &#8216;the Other&#8217; and internet again as the<br \/>\nunconscious through big data which we are interacting ambivalently with.<br \/>\nIf we associate &#8216;the Other&#8217; with the symbolic order and language, and<br \/>\nassume that the unconscious has a language, we can treat the internet<br \/>\nwith its endless stream of data as a stream-of-(un)consciousness and<br \/>\n&#8216;Other&#8217; in the meeting with the browser, identity and traditional reader<br \/>\nand writer.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;nihilogue&#8221; (e-lit term introduced by Espen Aarseth, 1997) &#8211; a text<br \/>\nwhich has neither origin or impact (author or audience), for everyone<br \/>\nand for no one, in the sense that it is automatic or unconscious, and<br \/>\ncorresponds approaching the &#8216;the Other&#8217;, an existence evading control,<br \/>\nand in a stream which is continuously and increasingly diverging; can be<br \/>\ncompared with a &#8216;default state network&#8217; in the brain, whirring<br \/>\nconstantly, a dream without a dreamer.<\/p>\n<p>The reader\/audience might interact with the script, either in plain text<br \/>\nor commands, and the script will process the input and respond in<br \/>\ndifferent manner similar to the role as &#8216;other&#8217;\/unknown\/internet; that<br \/>\nthe input for instance can be filtered through social networking,<br \/>\nsearch, databases, algorithms, providing &#8216;resonant&#8217; answers, i.e. the<br \/>\nanswer is a kind of reverberation of the situation where the context<br \/>\nplays part and changes (as is often the case on the internet &#8211;<br \/>\neverything is context, everything is protocol).<\/p>\n<p>The scripting might serve as communication between transmitter and<br \/>\nreceiver, where the aspect of &#8216;Other&#8217; is put in the background and<br \/>\nintervens more sporadically. These modes can be compared with the Other<br \/>\nas &#8216;insomnia&#8217;, &#8216;wakefulness&#8217;, &#8216;ecstasy&#8217;, &#8216;presence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The scripting might have a relatively pure and transparent interface, a<br \/>\nwriting surface, in the meeting between the transmitter and<br \/>\ncomputer\/internet\/recipient, where these different roles avoid defining.<br \/>\nAs mentioned the writing surface can provide a sort of resonance space<br \/>\nbetween identity and &#8216;other&#8217;, as the scripting uses the input to process<br \/>\ntextual mass from the net, and thereby intervening in the writing<br \/>\nprocess which might reveal an associative-resonant meaning. The<br \/>\nscripting can itself start this process and the user act as a resonant<br \/>\nsearch machine for it.<\/p>\n<p>Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/thewrong3\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/thewrong3\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thewrongbiennale\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thewrongbiennale\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/noemata.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/noemata.net\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/noemata.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/noemata.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: 15 September 2017 Call for entries Open call for wrong works: Scripting the Other SCRIPTING THE OTHER is a pavilion (online exhibition) in the third edition of The Wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,103,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calls-general","category-digital","category-digital-culture","category-electronic-art","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}