Reflection & Dissemination

Critique: Emiko and Hideaki Ogawa

Emiko Ogawa is currently working at Ars Electronica and is responsible for the Prix Ars Electronics and the planning of exhibitions within Ars Electronica Export, Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Festival. She also works as a creator and researcher and is the creative director of “h.o”.

Hideaki Ogawa is working at the Ars Electronica Futurelab on intentional projects, art works and innovative research, as artist, curator and researcher. He is teaching at the University for Art and Design Linz. He started the multidisciplinary artist collective and activity of “h.o” in 2000, and is its representative and artistic director.

Speculation

Crafted Logic

What if digital electronics emerged from textile handcrafts? How would technology be different if craftspeople were the catalyst to the electronics industry, via textiles manufacturing?

Crafted Logic is part of a larger research into creating electronic components from scratch.

Reflection & Dissemination

Critique: Ekmel Ertan

Ekmel Ertan works as artist, curator and educator. He is the founder and artistic director of Istanbul based amberPlatform (by BIS, Beden-İşlemsel Sanatlar Derneği / Body-Process Arts Association), a research and production platform on art and new technologies. Ertan is also the curator of the international “amber Art and Technology Festival” since 2007.