Saturday, 3.10.2009 – baselcitystudios
10.00 PANEL V: OPTIONS OF TELEPHONE INTERACTIONS
Talking to someone on the phone is only one aspect of today’s numerous uses of the telephone. With the emergence of mobile communication the primarily rigid communication medium has developed into a multifunctional accessory of everyday life and a basic commodity whose growing importance for the individual oscillates, among the multitude of applications offered, between camera and contact management. By taking recourse to empirical methods, this panel will discuss different approaches of phone use in everyday communication and
research.
Heli Rantavuo (Helsinki): Connecting Photos: Cameraphone Photos in Mobile, Internet and Face-to-Face Communication
Thilo von Pape (Hohenheim): Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer? Zum Einfluss des Mobiltelefons auf die soziale Integration Jugendlicher
Andreas Bänziger (Basel): Der unerhörte Dritte - Supervision in Telefoninterviews
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Chaired by: Ulla Autenrieth (Basel)
12.00 LUNCH BREAK
PANEL VI: LITERATURE AND TELEPHONE
The occurrence of cell phones in contemporary literature causes a change in narrative techniques. The ubiquity of SMS and unexpected calls produces narrative contingencies and weakens the position of an auctorial narrator and a teleological plot. On the other hand, this moment of “Plötzlichkeit” (suddenness) can also be understood as a production of effects of presence (epiphanies) that accommodate to the old form of epic narration (Peter Handke). In both cases cell phones in literature blur the strict distinction between speech and writing and mark a trend that reflects the significance of literature in mediated culture. This panel also wishes to discuss the extent to which the literary occurrence of the cell phone as one the most important recent status symbols continues the affirmative use of brands of 1990s “pop literature” and – in looking back – how literary negotiations and investigations of the telephone as a non-mobile-medium should be remembered.
Heinz Drügh (Frankfurt am Main): 'Tülülütüt, tülülütüt'. Zu Ingo Schulzes und Daniel Kehlmanns Erkundungen des Handys
Philipp Schweighauser (Basel): Rauschende Kommunikationen: Eine sehr kurze Geschichte der literarischen Akustik im amerikanischen Raum, 1890-1966
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Chaired by: Simon Aeberhard (Basel)
14.45 COFFEE BREAK
15.00 PANEL VII: MOBILE MEDIA CULTURES
As an artefact of media and technology, the cell-phone is deeply embedded in daily life. It is a self-evident and influential element in a world of portable and mobile culture with its seemingly ubiquitous accessability and availability. At the same time, the development of the mobile medium refers to (leading) images of mobility and of a discourse of the mobile, the portable, and its dis/connections. This panel focus on these questions and the relations of a mobile culture, referring at the same time – over the cell-phone – to a broader history of mobile media.
Heike Weber (Berlin): Das Versprechen "mobiler Freiheit": Mobilisierungen und Vernetzungen in der Geschichte von Medienportables
Erika Linz (Siegen): Mobile Präsenz. Das Handy auf dem Weg vom Kommunikationsmedium zur Cyborgtechnologie
Regine Buschauer (Basel): We think we´ve got a rat in the department. Zum "Indiskreten" mobiler Medien
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Chaired by: Andy Blättler (Basel)
17.00 COFFEE BREAK
17.15 PANEL VIII: GLOBALLY DIS/CONNECTED
Nicholas Knouf (New York) (via Skype): Transnetworks
Richard Wright (Southend-on-sea): Social Telephony and an Aesthetics of Connectivity
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Chaired by: Raffael Dörig (Basel)
18.45 TRANSFER TO [PLUG.IN]
19.00 APÉRO RICHE
19.45 !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK & SVEN KÖNIG
"OPERA CALLING" (2007)
«Opera Calling» is an artistic intervention into the cultural system of the Zurich Opera. By means of a audio-bug placed within the auditorium of the local opera house, the outside public is given access to the performances on stage. The performances are retransmitted to the public not through broadcasting, but by telephoning each person in Zurich individually.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik is an artists collective which works on the production and the imparting of mediacultural projects. Bitnik's main focus is to investigate digital and analog media and the impact they have on society. This exploratory work is put into practice in artistic exhibitions, interventions in public space and in the development of social software and interfaces. Thereby !Mediengruppe Bitnik aims at creating a field for social and cultural action and collaboration. Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo from !Mediengruppe Bitnik will be attending /dis/connecting/media for a presentation.
Afterwards conversations and guided tour through the exhibition "Pronto! Art and telephony".
