TransCoding - von Intellektuellenkunst zu partizipatorischer Kultur

The interdisciplinary multimedia art and research project TransCoding enfolds over time and across a digital participatory community inviting reflection, creation, self-empowerment, communication and active participation across pre-conceived borders. Yet, it can also be pinned down to concrete artworks: a multimedia solo show for one performer, live-electronics and visuals and an audiovisual installation. With TransCoding we wish to encourage participation in art and generate a new audience by initialising an online/offline community that picks up on a given frame in an artistic, social and interactive way using every day media of participatory culture. Through this online platform we hope for input across boundaries that will show its influence in the 2nd and 3rd step of the project. creating a multimedia-solo-show for one violinist, live-electronics and video aiming for performances at festivals and concert podia. Influenced by or in exchange with the community we would like to explore a given topic by crossing between popular culture and high art. and as a final step by generating an audiovisual installation that will reflect on and evaluate the artistic and scientific results as well as the contributions of the community putting it together to an interactive world that can exist and travel independently from any performing artist. By offering participatory culture via web 2.0 as part of our arts project we invite an often for high art unavailable audience (age 20-30) to speak out, share a discourse and take influence on the approaching art project. Practice based arts research here is not just about the artistic process also reaching into new contexts. We apply findings and theories from media sociology to an artistic process and investigate their applicability and meaning in the arts. The (commonly hierarchic) relationship artist and audience/community will be defined to one of permeability and mutual influence. We hope to raise interest in participation in art as a way to discuss and express one`s identity, achieve personal empowerment and to further a sense of their belonging to a peer group by participating in an arts project. TransCoding proclaims a change in perspective from a retrospective academic investigation of an artwork to an art project in which a digital participatory community challenges the unquestioned dominance of the position of professional artists and humanities scholars. Key Research Questions: How can we establish an online/offline community that picks up on the topic of new media art and cross-over culture and wants to be actively involved in the discourse? Will this lead to a fruitful interactive exchange between the digital producers, fans and contributors and the researchers/artists that add meaning to both? What kind of strategies do we need to apply to further and unlock the creativity of the community for maximum benefit? What is the role of the artist/researcher within this community? And based on the interactive exchange with the global and local community, and our artistic research, will we be able to create an

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