{"id":9979,"date":"2018-06-05T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ima.or.at\/?page_id=9979"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:54:30","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cArt Engineers vs. Machine Divas. A Retro-Utopian Investigation of Machine Theater\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research:<\/p>\n<p>An important part of the project \u201cArt Engineers vs. Machine Divas\u201c consists of interviews with women artists using technology for their work in nowadays expanded \u201etheater space\u201c. Artists, whose work is somehow related to the idea of the \u201cMachine Theater\u201d. Artists moving between Internet stages, space art projects and robot actors, who have transformed the figure of the \u201cartist engineer\u201d from the early 20th century and augmented it with many new forms.<br \/>\nThe description of positions and approaches of these women artists, especially of their roots and their preoccupation with \u201cmachines\u201d in all their various forms, is the aim and the theme of this investigation.<br \/>\nWe are asking for their first experiences with technology, their technological utopias, their experiences on exchanging know-how with other artists or technicians.<br \/>\nIncluding questions like:<br \/>\nWhat are your stages?<br \/>\nWho are your actors?<br \/>\nWhat are your \u201cmachines\u201d?<br \/>\nFurthermore we are asking for verbal statements about the part machines play in the artist\u2019s work, and what they mean to them.<br \/>\nOn the one hand the intention of this research is the creation of a pool of information on woman artists using technology for their work in an expanded concept of \u201emachine theater\u201c.<br \/>\nOn the other hand we are searching for new questions to be asked, in order to specify and define the role of contemporary women artists working in this special field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArt Engineers vs. Machine Divas. A Retro-Utopian Investigation of Machine Theater\u201d The research: An important part of the project \u201cArt Engineers vs. Machine Divas\u201c consists of interviews with women artists using technology for their work in nowadays expanded \u201etheater space\u201c. Artists, whose work is somehow related to the idea of the \u201cMachine Theater\u201d. Artists moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9979\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}