Warum2.0 exposition at V2_ Rotterdam

From the 21 Jan­u­ary — 01 Feb­ru­ary 2009 V2_ in Rot­ter­dam will turn into a media war-zone with the instal­la­tion arena ‘WARUM2.0′.

WARUM2.0 is a pub­lic exper­i­ment where the vis­i­tors can explore doc­u­men­tary images and media shaped by YouTube, Sec­ond Life and sur­veil­lance cam­eras. Pas­sively watch­ing is no longer suf­fi­cient — instead we need to select, eval­u­ate and choose. The instal­la­tion fea­tures unique videos from Dar­fur, Afghanistan, Haiti, Gaza, Iraq and Kosovo by acclaimed cam­era­man Daniel Demoustier, as well as inter­views with cul­tural the­o­rist Paul Vir­ilio. The instal­la­tion can be seen as an ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion of media and the influ­ence of medi­ated images that more and more deter­mine our rela­tion with the world around us.

Warum 2.0 is a pro­duc­tion by CARGO and Ste­faan Decostere, with Chris­t­ian Decker, Edwin Uyten­broek, Jonas Hansen, Chris Devriese, Johan Blaeke, and with stu­dents archi­tec­ture TU Delft/Media Stud­ies.
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