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about me

Us(c)hi Reiter studied graphic and design at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist and project developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. From 2005 till 2017 Reiter run the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz. She continues to research Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the frame of cultural production and art as well as work on conceptual and performative setups. She is one of the main founder of Art Meets Radical Openness and since 2018 still active at the board of the association. Currently she works for the architekturforum oberösterreich.

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Us(c)hi Reiter studierte Grafik und Design an der Kunstuniversität Linz. Als Künstlerin und Projektentwicklerin mit besonderem Interesse an net.activism und audiovisueller Kommunikation arbeitet sie seit 1998 mit verschiedenen Gruppen und Künstlern zusammen. Von 2005 bis 2017 betreibt Reiter die gemeinnützige Kulturorganisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz. Sie forscht weiter an Free/Libre/Open Source Software im Rahmen von Kulturproduktion und Kunst sowie an konzeptuellen und performativen Setups. Sie ist eine der Hauptbegründerinnen von Art Meets Radical Openness und seit 2018 im Vorstand des Vereins tätig. Derzeit arbeitet sie für das architekturforum oberösterreich.

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collaborativ works projects

The Tech Oracle 2015

This project was curated and initiated by ESC Graz and Constant – Association for Art and Media, Brussels
http://esc.mur.at/en/projekt/iterations

Within the group of following people (Pascale Barret, Julien Deswaef, Heidrun Primas, Ushi Reiter, Agnese Trocchi, IOhannes m zmölnig) we processed the The Tech Oracle in 12 days.

About The Tech Oracle
TTO reflects on the disproportionate confidence that we currently place in services of the WorldWideWeb. Because it seems as if we would not only look for practical answers in the web, but also for instructions for the next steps in our lives.

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About ITERATIONS
ITERATIONS can be considered as an experimental arrangement with blurred boundaries. The project creates a situation based on art extending into other fields and disciplines: informatics, sociology, privacy studies, network theory or copyleft studies.


ITERATIONEN kann als Versuchsanordnung gesehen werden, die unscharfe Grenzen aufweist. Sie erschafft eine auf Kunst basierende Situation, die sich auf andere Bereiche und Disziplinen erstreckt: Informatik, Soziologie, Privacy Studies, Network-Theory oder Copyleft Studies.

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independent projects

The end of Shopping…

[ End of Shopping…]
Copyright © [ 21.10.2014] [ Us(c)hi Reiter]
Copyleft : Dieses Werk ist frei, Sie können es gemäss den Festlegungen der Lizenz « Art Libre » weiterverbreiten und/oder modifizieren.
Ein Exemplar dieser Lizenz findet sich auf der Website von « Copyleft Attitude » http://www.artlibre.org sowie auch auf anderen Websites.

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projects servus.at

servus.at

servus.at is a cultural network-based initiative in Linz, Austria. Its an artist run space and technical infrastructure. servus.at offers virtual and physical access opportunities for artists, hacktivists and cultural producers. One of the main objectives of servus.at is to implement the ideas of a “free society” in a daily practice of cultural and artistic production dealing with technology and to develop a network of trust.

Working for this initiative was and is challenging.

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curated/programmed

Art Meets Radical Openness

AMRO-Art Meets Radical Openness
http://www.radical-openness.org/

The event is rooted in the successful Free Software movement of the early 2000s. In conjunction with the Austrian-wide initiative Linux Weeks, servus.at was a co-organizer from the beginning with an event in Linz (LiWoLi – “Linux Weeks Linz”)

The cultural, artistic and socio-political focus of the association, which is still marked by the spirit of the Free Software movement, has been systematically expanded with a new cooperation with the Institute for Time-Based Media (Art University Linz) beginning in 2008. Social, societal and political aspects arising from the pervasion of technology in everyday life are shifted into the foreground.

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Consequent to a local development, the term “freedom” has been transferred in this context to culture and art, thus engendering a new title: Art Meets Radical Openness.

Art Meets Radical Openness
Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture

“Art Meets Radical Openness” is a community festival, an open lab, and a meeting point for artists, developers, hactivists, and idealists involved with the culture of sharing and communal production. They are catalysts that spark new discourses and open up new directions of thinking. Free Open Source Software, open tools in general and the use of free licenses are the precondition and basis for the digital practice of a community like this, which impels social transformation. This tangible transformation goes beyond a digital practice and also changes our real life.

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2009 sound

TNETAP

USHI REITER / MARKUS DECKER 2009 UA
www.fsfeurope.org/donate/donate.de.html

In unserer Auseinandersetzung mit den zauberhaften Phonographen tauchen wir in die Welt des krachenden und ächzenden Klangs der Geschichte ein. Ein Sound-Experiment, bei dem sich noch heraus stellen wird, ob es Geschichte schreibt. Die produzierten Walzen werden jedenfalls nach dem Konzert als Kunst Objekte versteigert. Der Erlös geht an die Free Software Foundation Europe. Ein Projekt, das Edison Thomas Alva als Verfechter von Patenten sicher nicht gefallen würde.

invited by IMA

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2005 sound

club 5 vienna

Some images from the concert 4 June in the frame of Wiener Festwochen

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sound

reiter/decker

reiter/decker

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seit jahren arbeiten reiter/decker an verschiedenen soundscape- ordnungsmustern. ausgangspunkt der zusammenarbeit war eine konkrete erforschung der raum-zeit-ton komponenten im film. (outofsync). reiter/decker manipulieren ausschliesslich intuitiv und manuell. turntables, computer und sythesizer (unlimited tools) bilden ein ungesynctes netzwerk fuer sound.
das unspektakulaere banale dient als akustisches und visuelles ausgangsmaterial. plattenkratzen, nadelaufsetzen, soundfetzen, verbinden sich in einem dialog mit statischen soundwellen und fuehren zu einem muster auf der suche nach der richtigen soundrille. die erforschung des eigenen bildes/identitaet durch manipulation und zeit stehen im zentrum von reiters visueller arbeit. in form meherer tv-monitore sind sozusagen mehrere “bandmitglieder” anwesend die die eigentliche dauer der improvisation.

urls: http://firstfloor.org/dr/indexx.html

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2012 collaborativ works projects

blower

BLOWER – a reactive installation that takes webserver logfiles and represents search terms by fan airflow and so transforms abstract notions into a corporeal medium. BLOWER deals with statistic logfile analysis and data representation. The installation is connected to the internet and automatically determines through a perl script the search terms employed to find a a specific web host. The first 150 search terms are connected to 300 stacked fans. Popular search terms create stronger airflow than less popular. Starting from the question what are the terms people search for, one finds oneself in one of the rare situations where visitors disclose their wishes and desires. Thus the motivation for the website visit can be identified quite easily. Through BLOWER the exhibition audience can experience this statistical data material directly. Additionally the data is send by Bluetooth to the visitors’ mobile phones.

This projects was made possible through the initiative servus.at

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2009 collaborativ works projects

Das Linz0nein Programmbuch!

Ein Jahr durfte Kunst und Kultur eine Hauptrolle in Linz spielen.
Ein Gastspiel, das nun zu Ende ist?

Das Programmbuch von abgelehnten und zurückgezogenen Projekten existiert als Ausschnitt dessen, was nicht Teil der europäischen Kulturhauptstadt 2009 war.

Unser Interesse galt den Spielregeln, die in so einem Ausnahmejahr bestimmt haben, wer oder was auf welche Weise davon Teil sein konnte oder wollte. Namhafte AutorInnen haben unsere Publikation mit ihren kritischen Beiträgen zum Konstrukt „Kulturhauptstadt“ unterstützt.

Am 29.12.2009 wird der Restbestand der Linz0nein-Bücher live und vor Ort zu einem manifestartigen Kunstwerk verarbeitet. Mit dieser Aktion endet auch für uns das Jahr des “Ausnahmezustandes” und es beginnt ein “Normalzustand”, an dem es zu messen gilt, welche Werstschätzung die Stadt Linz Kunst und Kultur in Zukunft einräumen wird.

Restexemplare des Linz0nein-Buches gibt es bis 29.12. in ausgewählten Linzer Buchhandlungen!
Später werden die Bücher nur noch in ausgewählten Bibliotheken aufliegen.

Eine Online Version kann unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz runtergeladen werden!
Creative Commons License
Linz0nein Programmbuch von http://linz0nein.org/en/system/files/linz0nein_programmbuch.pdf steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Österreich Lizenz.

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2007 independent projects

N2N – neighbour to neighbour

Mit meinem Projekt nutze ich die Gelegenheit die Haltestelle Ungartor in einen “Prüfstein” für Offenheit und Nachbarschaftsfreundlicheit zu verwandeln. Mit der Überwindung meiner eigenen Grenzen und der Feststellung selbst so gut wie keine Verbindungen in das Nachbarland Slovakei zu haben, nutze ich das Projekt zur Kontaktaufnahme mit BewohnerInnen aus Bratislava und Hainburg. In einem kommunikativen Prozess will ich die neu gewonnenen Kontaktpersonen überreden eine ihrer Zimmerplanzen für den Warteraum der Station Ungartor zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das Projekt transportiert meinen persönlichen Ausstausch mit NachbarInnen in Bratislava in den öffentlichen Raum und übergibt die Zimmerpflanzen für die Dauer des Projektes in die Obhhut der HainburgerInnen.

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2007 sound

Polyphonic Ensemble

Polyphonic Ensemble conducted by reni hofmüller
context: Ladyfestwien 07 in Vienna, 16.5.2007

performed by
+ barbara kaiser | anita hofer | cordula bösze | ushi reiter | nivaea | christina nemec | audrey samson | reni hofmüller

listen to concert: download the .ogg file

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2006 sound

City of Women 2006 / IMA Salon

Turntable improvisations by Ushi Reiter and live visuals by Starsky

See images: http://www.firstfloor.org/ur/nomusic/ima_06/
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Turntable improvisations by Ushi Reiter and live visuals by Starsky

“Scratching records, placing the needle in the groove, scraps of sound all conjoin into a dialogue with static soundwaves and space. The performance starts with material that picks up from sound material of the 20th century produced exclusively by women. In addition to searching through net archives for this purpose, the work of contemporary sound producers will also play a key role. Vinyl records will be produced especially for the performance.” (Ushi Reiter)

“Live visual performances do not try to tell a story or create a linear course of action. Instead, their content is associative and ambiguous, enabling a sequence of images to be created. The logic of sequence is a result of the image contents and their extensive meanings, as well as the different methods of interconnecting images, and of linking images with music.” (Starsky)

links:
starsky.at
cityofwomen.org

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Reiter manipuliert ausschließlich intuitiv und manuell. Im Netz gefundene digitale von Frauen produzierte Sounds werden auf eine analoge Platte gepresst und dienen, neben einer zwischen den InitiatorInnen getauschten Sammlung an akustischem Material als Ausgangsmaterial für die Improvisation. Plattenkratzen, Nadelaufsetzen, Soundfetzen, verbinden sich zu einem Dialog mit dem visuell bespielten Raum und führen zu einem Muster auf der Suche nach der „richtigen“ Soundrille.

Reiter’s manipulations are entirely intuitive and manual. Digital sounds produced by women and found on the Net are pressed on an analogue record, and along with a collection of acoustic material exchanged among the initiators, they serve as the starting material for improvisation. Scratching, needle drops, sound scraps conjoin into a dialogue with the visually filled

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2005 sound

Club Vienna

Some images from the concert 4 June in the frame of “Wiener Festwochen

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2004 sound

Mapping the city with sound

Audiomobile

http://www.firstfloor.org/ARL/audiomobile/

Ars Electronica 2004
Application provided by Matt Smith
and Sandra Winter

Mapping Linz with sound

Sounds by:
(Dietrich Killer, Maex Decker,
Uschi Reiter, Markus Binder,
Andrea Sodomka, Peter Kulev).

firstfloor.org production

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2003 collaborativ works projects

v.o.n. karawane

2003 Festival der Regionen

Ein interdisziplinäres Spektakel
7 Tage zwischen Politik und Kunst
v.o.n. karawane

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Karawanen und Fahrendes Volk waren für Herrschende von jeher eine Quelle der Unsicherheit und des Argwohns. Verfügten sie doch häufig über Informationen, die man den eigenen Untertanen gerne vorenthalten hätte. Mit ihrem Wissen um Zustände und Verhältnisse in anderen Regionen und Reichen säten sie oftmals Unruhe und Unzufriedenheit unter die bis dahin gehorsamen Untertanen. Vor allem aber brachten sie so manche Lügengebäude und Mythen, auf die sich viele Herrschaften stützten, zum Wanken und manchmal gar zum Einsturz. So wurden sie immer wieder verfolgt, vertrieben, und es wurden schauerliche Geschichten über sie verbreitet. Methoden, die im übrigen auch heute noch aufrechterhalten werden. Ob durch fremdenfeindliche Gesetze, mörderische Grenzsicherungen oder die Diffamierung von MigrantInnen als Jobkiller, Sozialschmarotzer oder DrogendealerInnen.
Die Karawane, die von 29. Juni bis 4. Juli von Kohlgrube nach Linz zieht, wird auf ihrem Weg jeden Abend Station machen und in Veranstaltungen Aspekte der neoliberalen Globalisierung thematisieren. Und das mit einem Erscheinungsbild, als sei sie direkt einem wüsten Albtraum von W. Bush entstiegen.

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Caravans and travelling people have always been a source of unease and distrust to those in power, since they had access to information that one had rather kept safely away from the rest of the people. With their knowledge about the state of affairs in other regions and reigns, they tended to cause unrest and discontent amongst usually obedient subjects. They could even seriously damage or destroy some of the myths and constructed lies that many ruling power systems rested upon. Over and over again they ended up being chased, and chased away, and the most horrifying stories were spread about them. These same methods, by the way, are still very much in use today; be it in xenophobic legislation, in the deadly safeguarding of borders, or in defaming immigrants as job killers, drug dealers or for generally taking advantage of the welfare system.

… with a look of George W. Bush‚s worst nightmare come true. The caravan crossing Upper Austria, consisting of eight camels and about 20 people, will keep up this tradition and adress dominant power constructs and modern myths. Such as the myth that “There‚s no alternative” (Margaret Thatcher) to capitalism and neo-liberalism. But also the omnipresent disinformation and oppression by mass media under the influence, as most recently seen during the war on Iraq, will be a target.
On its way from Kohlgrube to Linz, the caravan starting June 29th and running through July 3rd will stop every evening to set up camp and cook, inviting everyone (locals, caravan participants, curious bystanders) to deal with different aspects of neo-liberal globalisation in a series of events: film projections, discussion groups or panels about issues such as the construction of animosity, world rule, fit for fun, power of the media, xenophobia, resistance, or affirmative pop culture. The caravan will also meet other travellers, such as the Volxtheaterkarawane (Wels) or Kanak Attak (Linz) for specific evening programmes.

Projekt: karawane.servus.at
DVD order: dagmar@servus.at
technisches Setup/technical setup:

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2003 independent projects

Der Wahl-Automat

Installation 2003 aktuelle Kunst Graz
schleife
Eine Massnahme der Bundesregierung zur Unterstützung der Entdemokratisierung . Um die Wahlwerbekosten für zukünftige österreichische Nationalratswahlen zu senken werden in ganz Österreich Wahl-Automaten an öffentlichen Plätzen landesweit zur Verfügung stehen.

Webpage: Der Wahl-Automat (ICONS)
download: Icons

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1999 collaborativ works projects

LIQUIDSHELL

1999

Paradigm
Liquid Shell is a passagework into the networks of micro-perceptions that allows provisional utopias to emerge between structured contingencies.
Liquid Shell is micro perception management for a detopia between spaces.
Micro-alliances, proximity zones, and packet affinity nodes advance on the collapse homomorphic states within Liquidshell architecture. Each border interface curves the trajectivities of informatic limits as anomalous transmissions, which can then assemble imperceptible infrastructures of bio-synthetic actions. These micro affects unbind the currents of directed mutability and re-shift the devouring force of commodity space.

Background
By means of reformatting human processing and cognition telecommunications triggered deep structural modifications in a contemporary society, to name just a few here we can mention:
– formation of synthetic public space where instead of physical space users share phase space of protocols and packages on the Internet;
– development of synthetic products such as interactive worlds where patterns of perception are integrated into the content architecture;
– and finally as a result of two aforementioned factors, ongoing crystallization of synthetic content, i.e. origination of self-referential media discourses, which can not be explicated into text only formats.
Now we face the situation when not only space in which we navigate but space in which we think becomes reformatted and translated into media adequate format.

Backbone
Liquidshell is a synthetic public space where both simulatory and social discourses merge within the neurointeractive architecture to form new biotronic sequences of time based content. From the structural point of view the architecture of Liquidshell mimics content formatting principles of neural networks which it encapsulates: it confronts society with flexible, interchangeable systems of perceptual references and spatial markers.
The utopia of publicly available fully integrated information systems available from different physical locations in its architectural homonymity resembles spurious memory constructs, which are responsible for the formation of new “languages” and hence new forms of content in neural networks.
Liquidshell opens neurological perspective of media and displays closure of alienation and desublimation of production through integration of a product and perceptual system.
Structurally, Liquidshell is designed to reflect on a forking effect of neuro and nodal economy which media imposes on contemporary culture and society. We utilized several precursory spaces and ideas developed in the last hundred years. To name just two most important:
– science art of the beginning of this century (which introduced a representation of abstract concepts by means of spatial forms);
– contemporary research in architecturally integrated information systems.

Production and Crew
Liquidshell is developed by The Thing Laboratories (http://lab.thing.net)
under the transcendental guidance of basicray (http://www.basicray.org).

– Vladimir Muzhesky » conceptual design | 3D design | interaction design | network spinology
– Wolfgang Staehle » conceptual design | rationality
– Gisela Ehrenfried » social matrix operator
– Ricardo Dominguez » propaganda advisor
– Uschi Reiter » graphic monads | interaction design | communications
– Jaehee Jung » 3D entities | graphic design | communications
– Un-Chi Wang » 3D architecture generator
– Walter Palmetshofer » future shell administrator
– Chien-Hung Yeh » interaction design | package wizardry

Exhibition: Synreal (Vienna)
27 – 31 May 1999 | Museumsquartier Vienna Austria

others:
http://www.basicray.com
http://www.firstfloor.org/ur/lshell

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2000 2001 2002 collaborativ works

XXERO

2000 – 2002

xxero is a collaborative, text-based environment and a platform for real life meetings. Since program code and text is the only way to create, language is the inevitable element of navigation and construction.
What gets written, gets done at the same time! By presenting xxero with its virtual minds we want to encourage TICT (Traditional Interactive Communication Technology) as a useful practice to dive deeper into the system behind.

www.xxero.servus.at



2004
Virtual Minds Bremen
Ausstellung/Exhibition

For the virtual minds exhibition and congress at Bremen we decided to focus on the hybrid idea of the congress with every participant being defined as a virtual mind — congress speakers and bots being approached on the same level.
We installed a shop display at the former Rossmann store where every visitor could buy a package containing a sport prop alike starting number with all information needed to access xxero from within the exhibition or from home. As the shop situation — besides the expectable art audience — attracted many regular shoppers, especially on shopping Saturdays, the xxero-shop sold “TICT identity starting numbers” to all sort of different accidentally participating people. The package contained only the basic information necessary to find xxero, to log in and to slip into the predefined xxero identity which corresponded to the number printed on the starting number3. The participants were asked to wear their numbers while staying in the virtual minds context. After entering the XXERO-MOO they found more hints and tasks on how to use it when participating in the real life of the town.Like this a set of simple anchors was defined for the participants meeting in virtual as well as in real life xxero context. They formed the rule set for a network of communicational modules4 evolving in a playful way and getting more and more complex the more the participants switched between virtual and real life contacts.