Recording from Boom Pearls talk, april 18, 2009
talk on a video about a courttrial, a collision between law and art, two systems that are very virtual in the sense they are based on rules.
Joachim Stein is an experimental thinker and artist, who challenges concepts of reality, play and work. He improvises and constructs narratives by doing what seems absurd and by using found situations and constellations. In 2007 Stein initiated and helped realize a TV documentary about people’s lives in Second Life. During Ars Electronica 2007 he provided workout, diet and medication plans that helped people achieve their Second Live avatar’s body in real life. In his latest work he used Second LIfe as a tool for re-enacting and filming of a court trial about a copyright case he had provoked by deliberately using and altering a digital map without permission.
Here’s a link to a talk he did at Pecha Kucha, Was ist Kunst? in relation to the court trial mentioned above.