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Creative Commons Sponsored Software ccHost Releases Version 4.0
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SOUND//BYTES_
elektronische und digitale Klangwelten
03. März - 15. April 2007
Pressegespräch: Freitag, 2. März 2007, 11 Uhr
Eröffnung: Freitag, 2. März 2007, 19 Uhr
****please scroll down for english version****
Überall ist Klang - SOUND//BYTES macht aufmerksam auf Un-Gehörtes.
Die kommende Ausstellung im Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst benutzt den
Begriff des Soundbytes, um sich mit der künstlerischen Erforschung neuer
Klangmaterialien sowie mit elektroakustischen Konzepten und
Installationen zu beschäftigen, die bewusst Tonfragmente und digitale
Technologien als Basis der klanglichen Gestaltung verwenden.
Die ausgewählten künstlerischen Werke sind konsequente Untersuchungen
unterschiedlicher Klangmaterialien, -qualitäten und -parameter. Dabei
geht es weniger darum, ungehörte Klänge oder neue musikalische
Strukturen zu erfinden, vielmehr werden vorhandene Materialen verwendet,
hinterfragt, umgeformt, überlagert, umgenutzt und in einen ungewohnten
Kontext gestellt. Installationen, Performances, Präsentationen,
akustische Spaziergänge und Interventionen in der Stadt Oldenburg bieten
dem Besucher vielfältige Möglichkeiten, die Beiläufigkeit von Schall,
Geräuschen, Rhythmen, Frequenzen und elektromagnetischen Feldern zu
hinterfragen und alltägliche Situationen akustisch neu zu entdecken.
Das Soundbyte steht für die kleinste digitale, audiolinguistische
Einheit und dient als Grundlage für Strategien des Sampling, der
Transformation und der Re-Kontextualisierung. Neue Dimensionen des
akustischen Raumes werden durch digitale Kommunikationsmedien
erschlossen und eröffnen ungewöhnliche Hörerfahrungen. Impulse bekommt
die Kunst gegenwärtig durch die Einbindung neuer Medien der mobilen
Kommunikation. Sie begegnen uns alltäglich: mobile Telefonie, Internet,
Wireless LAN und GPS. Im Gegensatz zur Situation im Konzert erlebt der
Zuhörer durch Mobilität und Interaktivität neue, sich überlagernde,
elektroakustische Klang- und Datenräume, die durch digitale Apparaturen
und Techniken geschaffen werden.
Jens Brand (D)
In seiner Installation und seinem Vortrag am 8. März 2007 stellt uns
Jens Brand seine neueste Version aus der Serie des „G-Players“ vor,
der im Prinzip wie ein regulärer Compactdisc- oder Schallplattenspieler
funktioniert, mit dem man allerdings nicht die Rillen einer
Schallplatte, sondern per Satelliten die Oberfläche der Erde virtuell
abtasten kann. Diese Information wird in Sound umgesetzt. „G-Turns“
ist das Online-Projekt, das in Oldenburg am 2. März 2007 seine Premiere
feiern wird. Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung wird man die Möglichkeit
haben, Strecken der Erdoberfläche, die man gerne hören möchte,
auszuwählen und die Klänge kostenlos unter www.g-turns.com herunter
zu laden.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S)
Für Carl Michael von Hausswolff, der an der Schnittstelle von bildender
Kunst, experimenteller elektronischer Musik und Performance arbeitet,
sind feine Interferenzen im Stromnetz oder Störungen, die sich auf dem
Wege der technischen Kommunikation ereignen, formbares Ausgangsmaterial
für seine akustischen und visuellen Umsetzungen. In seinen
Installationen RADAR und SPIRICOM und in dem Konzert „Circulating over
Square Waters“ am 2. März 2007 wird er diese zu Gehör bringen.
Yunchul Kim (KR/D)
Yunchul Kim macht für den Besucher die unzähligen Codes eines
Datenstroms in Echtzeit seh- und hörbar. ASCII Zeichen und Töne formen
einen eigenen Organismus in Wellenformen, der die Aktivitäten des
Servers spiegelt und somit für uns wahrnehmbar wird.
Thomas Köner (D)
In seiner Videotriologie „Péripheriques“ verzaubert Thomas Köner den
Betrachter durch sich überlagernde Soundscapes und Bilder urbaner
Straßenszenen aus drei globalen Metropolen. In der Ausstellung wird
der erste Teil "Harar (annicca)" zu sehen sein, bei dem Bild und
Tonüberlagerungen miteinander korrespondieren und Originaltöne vom
gefilmten Ort sich mit imaginierten Klängen mischen.
Christina Kubisch (D)
Christina Kubisch lädt die Besucher von SOUND//BYTES ein, die
elektromagnetischen Felder der Stadt Oldenburg mit einem speziellen
Kopfhörer akustisch zu entdecken. Auf einem Plan wurden von ihr
besonders typische oder besondere Klangorte der Innenstadt von Oldenburg
markiert. Der Spaziergänger erlebt eine individuelle Klanglandschaft -
hervorgerufen durch z.B. Sicherheitssysteme, elektrische Einrichtungen
oder mobile elektronische Geräte - die er aufnehmen und auf DVD gebrannt
mit nach Hause nehmen kann.
Akitsugu Maebayashi (J)
Auch Akitsugu Maebayashi überlagert zeitlich und räumlich
Wahrnehmungsebenen, indem er das Echo eines Metronoms, das er bei einem
Spaziergang durch Oldenburg binaural aufzeichnet, mit dem Live-Geräusch
des Metronoms in der Ausstellung konfrontiert und überlappen lässt.
Binaurale Aufnahmen sind „Stereo“-Aufnahmen mit besonderer
Aufnahmetechnik, die mit Kopfhörern die beste Möglichkeit bieten, einen
räumlichen Höreindruck realitätsnah zu reproduzieren.
Kaffe Matthews (GB)
Kaffe Matthews ermöglicht, im Gegensatz zum mobilen Zuhören
(Podcasting) oder der starren Sitzhaltung in einer exklusiven
Konzertsituation, eine andere Form des Hörens: Liegt der Besucher im
„Sonic Bed“, werden Klangqualitäten von experimenteller
elektronischer Musik durch den ganzen Körper fühlbar.
micromusic (CH)
Die Schweizer Gruppe micromusic hat mit ihrer Internet-Plattform und
ihren Performances viele Freunde aus dem Bereich der Computerspielszene
gefunden, denn sie komponieren mit Gameboys oder alten Atari-Konsolen.
Die Erschaffer dieser Low-tech-Music-Community, carl (Gino Esposto),
wanga (Paco Manzanares) und bacon (Michael Burkhardt), jammen sich in
ihrem Konzert am 16. März 2007 mit Gameboys, Mini-Samplern und Laptops
durch micromusic-, aktuelles Pop- und found-footage-Material und haben
so schon manches Ohr in Extase und Tanzbein in Schwingung gebracht. Nach
mehr als 2 Jahren Pause sind die 3 Freunde nun zum ersten Mal wieder
live zu erleben - in Oldenburg im Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst.
Annina Rüst (CH)
Die Stipendiatin des Edith-Russ-Hauses für Medienkunst im Jahr 2006,
Annina Rüst, entwickelt ein Sound-Remixing System, bei dem in Räumen und
öffentlichen Orten mit WLAN der Computer als Klanginstrument benutzt
werden kann. Sie benutzt VoIP-Software, um ihre Interventionen im
Stadtraum durchzuführen. Der Spaziergang durch die Stadt oder die
PC-Arbeit in öffentlichen Räumen entwickelt sich zu einem akustischen
Erlebnis, das zum vorherrschenden Bestandteil eines Gesamtszenarios aus
Umgebung, Situation und körperlicher Aktion wird. Der performative
Charakter dieser künstlerischen Aktionen verweist dabei auf eine
zentrale Kategorie der elektroakustischen Kunst: das Flüchtige und
Ephemere, die in Verbindung mit Begriffen wie Präsenz, Vergegenwärtigung
und Konzentration für ein medienkritisches Bewusstsein von zentraler
Bedeutung sind.
Die Ausstellung wird gefördert durch das Land Niedersachsen, die
Niedersächsische Lottostiftung und die Schweizer Kulturstiftung pro
helvetia.
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08
fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61
info@edith-russ-haus.de
www.edith-russ-haus.de
Führungen Jeden Sonntag, 15 Uhr
Führung von der Kuratorin Katrin Werner am 4. und 18. März 2007
Gruppenführungen nach Absprache
Öffnungszeiten
Dienstag - Freitag 14 - 17 Uhr
Samstag und Sonntag 11 - 17 Uhr
Montag geschlossen
Eintritt: 2,50 / 1,50 €
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We would like to invite you and your friends to join us for the opening
of the exhibition!
SOUND//BYTES_
electrical and digital sound scapes
3 March - 15 April 2007
Press conference: Friday, 2 March 2007, 11 am
Vernissage: Friday, 2 March 2007, 7 pm
Sound is everywhere - SOUND//BYTES is drawing attention to previously
unheard-of things.
The forthcoming exhibition uses the term ‘soundbytes’ in order to
deal with artistic research into new acoustic materials as well as
electronic acoustic concepts and installations which use sound fragments
and digital technologies in acoustically-based design.
The works of art selected for the present exhibition represent
consistent and coherent studies of various acoustic materials, qualities
and parameters. What matters here is not so much inventing unheard-of
sounds or new musical structures but rather rediscovering available
materials, changing them into sound, questioning their assumptions,
restructuring them, overlapping them, re-interpreting them and placing
them in an unusual context. Installations, performances, presentations,
acoustic walks and interventions in the City of Oldenburg offer the
visitor manifold possibilities to question echoes, sounds, rhythms,
frequencies and electro-magnetic fields and to perceive everyday
situations acoustically in a new way.
The soundbyte stands for the smallest digital, audio-linguistic unit
and serves as the foundation for sampling, transformation and
re-contextualisation strategies. New dimensions of acoustic space are
opened up by digital communications media to provide unusual listening
experiences. Acoustic art as a concept is currently receiving fresh
stimuli through new mobile communications media being tied into the mix.
We encounter them daily: mobile telephones, the internet, wireless LAN
and GPS. Unlike the concert situation, the listener experiences through
his mobility and interactive relationship with these media, new,
overlapping electronic acoustic sound and data spaces created by digital
appliances and technologies.
Jens Brand (D)
In his installation and lecture on 8 March 2007, Jens Brand will
present his newest version of the ‘G-Players’ series, which in
principle functions like a regular CD or record player. However, it does
not revolve in the grooves of a record but reads reads the Earth’s
surface virtually via satellite. The data thus obtained are translated
into sound. ‘G-Turns’ is the online project that will première in
Oldenburg on 2 March 2007. Guests at the vernissage will be able to
choose stretches of the Earth’s surface they would like to hear and
download those sounds as freeware at www.g-turns.com.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S)
For Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who works on the interface between the
visual arts, experimental electronic music and performance, delicate
interference in the grid or disturbances caused on the paths of
communications technologies are formable raw material he can translate
into acoustic and visual terms. His take on them can be heard in
installations RADAR und SPIRICOM and at his concert „Circulating over
Square Waters“ on March 2nd 2007.
Yunchul Kim (KR/D)
Yunchul Kim makes it possible for visitors to see and listen to the
limitless codes of a data stream in real time. ASCII signs and tones
form an organism in their own right in wave form reflecting the
operations of the server so we can perceive them.
Thomas Köner (D)
In his video trilogy ‘Péripheriques’ Thomas Köner enchants viewers
with overlapping soundscapes and pictures of urban street scenes from
three global metropolises. At the exhibition, the first part, ‘Harar
(annicca)’ will be on view. In it image and sound overlappings
correspond and original sounds from the filming location blend with
imaginary sounds.
Christina Kubisch (D)
Christina Kubisch invites visitors to SOUND//BYTES to discover
acoustically the electromagnetic fields of the city of Oldenburg with a
special headset. She has marked the sound places of downtown Oldenburg
that seem to her particularly typical or special. Pedestrians experience
an individual soundscape - generated for instance by security systems,
electrical appliances and facilities or mobile electronic devices -
which they can record, burn on a DVD and take home with them.
Akitsugu Maebayashi (J)
Akitsugu Maebayashi also overlays temporal and spatial perceptual
planes by confronting the echo of a metronome that he has recorded
stereophonically on a walk through Oldenburg with the live sound of a
metronome at the exhibition and overlapping them. ‘Binaural’
recordings are stereo recordings made with a special recording technique
that uses earphones as the best possibility of realistically reproducing
a spatial acoustic impression.
Kaffee Matthews (GB)
Kaffe Matthews makes possible a different form of listening that is
utterly unlike mobile listening (podcasting) or the rigid seating
posture in an exclusive concert situation: the visitor lies in a
‘Sonic Bed’ so that the sound properties of experimental
electronic music are sensorily perceptible all over his body.
micromusic (CH)
micromusic, a Swiss group, have made many friends from the Computer
Game scene with their internet platform and their performances because
they compose with Gameboys or vintage Atari consoles. The creators of
this low-tech music community, carl (Gino Esposto), wanga (Paco
Manzanares) and bacon (Michael Burkhardt), who have thrown many an ear
into ecstasies of rapture and made many a leg jig to their tunes, will
conduct a jam session at their concert on 16 March 2007 with Gameboys,
mini-samplers and laptops through micromusic, current pop and
found-footage material. After a break of more than two years, the three
friends are now re-united for the first time live - in Oldenburg at the
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst.
Annina Rüst (CH)
Annina Rüst, the 2006 scholarship holder at Edith Russ House for Media
Art, is developing a participatory sound remixing system with which the
computer can be used as an acoustic instrument in rooms and public
places with the aid of WLAN. She uses VoIP software to carry out her
interventions in urban spaces. The walk through the city or PC work in
public spaces turns into an acoustic experience that becomes the
dominant element of an overarching scenario consisting in environment,
situation and physical action. The performative character of these
artistic actions refers to a category pivotal to electronic acoustic
art: the fleeting and ephemeral, which, linked with concepts such as
presence, visualisation and concentration are of central importance to
developing critical awareness of the media.
The Exhibition is founded by Land Niedersachsen, Niedersächsische
Lottostiftung and the Schweizer Kulturstiftung pro helvetia.
Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08
fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61
info@edith-russ-haus.de
www.edith-russ-haus.de
Guided Tours every Sunday at 3 p.m.
Guided Tour by the curator Katrin Werner on March 4th and 18th 2007
Group tours upon request
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday 2 - 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday closed
Admission: 2,50 / 1,50 €
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COLLAPSE Volume II
The second volume of Collapse resumes the construction of a conceptual
space unbounded by any disciplinary constraints, comprising subjects from
probability theory to theology, from quantum theory to neuroscience, from
astrophysics to necrology, and involving them in unforeseen and productive
syntheses.
Collapse Volume II features a selection of speculative essays by some of
the foremost young philosophers at work today, together with new work from
artists and cinéastes, and searching interviews with leading scientists.
Against the tide of institutional balkanisation and specialisation, this
volume testifies to a defiant reanimation of the most radical
philosophical problematics the status of the scientific object,
metaphysics and its 'end', the prospects for a revival of speculative
realism, the possibility of phenomenology, transcendence and the divine,
the nature of causation, the necessity of contingency both through a
fresh reappropriation of the philosophical tradition and through an
openness to its outside. The breadth of philosophical thought in this
volume is matched by the surprising and revealing thematic connections
that emerge between the philosophers and scientists who have contributed.
Ray Brassier (Middlesex University, author of the forthcoming Nihil
Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction) gives the first full-length
exposition and critical examination in English of Quentin Meillassoux's
important book Après la Finitude, which mounts a radical critique of
post-Kantian philosophy on the basis of its inability to account for the
literal meaning of scientific statements concerning 'arche-fossils'
existing anterior to the possibility of their phenomenal manifestation.
Building upon his thesis in Après la Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux (ENS,
Paris) proposes a reprisal of Hume's problem of causation from a radical
ontological persective. By affirming the absolute contingency of natural
laws, Meillassoux argues for a revival of a realistic metaphysics which he
calls speculative materialism and brings to light a powerful
new ontological concept of time.
In an extended interview, Roberto Trotta (theoretical
cosmologist, Lockyer Research Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society at
the Astrophysics Department at Oxford University) describes in detail his
work as a scientist engaged in surveying the 'arche-fossil', and discusses
the ways in which the cross-disciplinary nature of the search for dark m
Via: Hein Bekker
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This week's events at ICEBOX in Cape Town. www.liquidfridge.co.za has
the rest of the line-up, which I'll post next week.
See you there,
Hein Bekker
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ICEBOX 02 Cape Town
Date: February 28 - March 10, 2007
Venue: Various
Web: www.liquidfridge.co.za
Liquid Fridge presents a festival of contemporary creativity in
audio/visual art. With the focus on the electronic, open and South
African, ICEBOX combines music, film, video and interactive media
through a programme of screenings, performances, club nights, workshops
and an exhibition.
ICEBOX 02 Cape Town features music-makers, free thinkers and electronic
tinkerers Bernhard Loibner (Austria), Brendon Bussy, Com.it, CY Cowboys,
Garth Erasmus, Heather Ford (Johannesburg), Dean Henning (Durban),
Julian Jonker, Rebecca Kahn (Johannesburg), Microstripe, MTKidu
(Johannesburg), Radioboy, Story Boy, and many other proponents of
eclectic sounds and plush pixels.
Supported by the Austrian Consulate Cape Town, CAPE Africa Platform,
iCommons and netbek. Press support by BRAND, Enjin and one small seed,
and online by Kak Duidelik and Swikiri. With thanks to alt film,
Bell-Roberts, INTERFACE, Magmart, MTKidu and rustpunk.
Visit www.liquidfridge.co.za to learn more.
ICEBOX 02 Screening
Venue: Labia on Kloof, Lifestyle on Kloof, 50 Kloof Street, Cape Town
Date: Wednesday, February 28 at 8.30pm
Cost: R25
An evening of innovative short-form narratives, documentaries, music
videos and animations by over 20 independent creators from South Africa
and abroad.
Featuring both award-winning and rarely seen work, the line-up includes
Ana Alvarez-Errecalde (ES), The Blackheart Gang (SA), Jaco Brouwer (SA),
Tessa Comrie (SA), Fopspeen (SA), Goldfish/Iaminawe (SA), Kidult (SA),
Dmitry Kmelnitsky (US), Lark/Ontwerp (SA), Chris Moore (SA), Giorgio
Partesana (IT), Andrew Schnetler (SA), Mike Scott (SA), Daniel van der
Merwe (SA), Lisa Vinebaum (CA), Tina Willgren (SE) and Dale Yudelman
(SA), as well as Microcinema International's "Independent Exposure"
series and the Magmart video art festival (IT).
ICEBOX 02 Exhibition
Venue: Bell-Roberts CUBE Gallery, 89 Bree Street, Cape Town
Date: Opens Thursday, March 1 at 6pm. Closes March 10
Eerie soundscapes and abstract electronica are entwined with
computer-generated imagery and appropriated digital video in brief,
meditative journeys and waltzes of fusion and fission. Sound painters,
picture mixers and media hackers aim to challenge the viewer's
preconceived notions and question the status quo, yet at times to simply
entertain the talented listener.
The line-up includes work from Kisito Assangni (TG), D-Fuse (UK), The
Dualist (SA), Fabian Giles (MX), Josh Goldman (US), Henry Gwiazda (US),
Corlia Harmsen (SA), Hanna Husberg (FR), Jose Insua (US), Jun'ichiro
Ishii (FR), Dmitry Kmelnitsky (US), Argyro Koutsibela (GR), Bernhard
Loibner (AT), Jenni Meredith (UK), Vesna Milicevic (CS), Giorgio
Partesana (IT), Carol Pereira (US), John Vega (US), Hagen Wiel (DE) and
Dale Yudelman (SA).
The exhibition also features "A Light Distraction." Sonic engineer
Martin Sims and electro-acoustic artist Brendon Bussy have collaborated
in creating a light centred installation. Technologies normally used to
measure and show change in the level of sound energy have been re-wired.
Now the viewer can control input - in fact create change, leaving as a
measure of their interaction, light.
ICEBOX 02 Workshop and Performance
Venue: CAPE Africa Platform, 71 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
Date: Saturday, March 3 at 1pm
Cost: Donation
An afternoon of presentations on appropriation art, music mash-ups,
circuit bending for sound, intellectual property rights and how digital
artists can both protect and share their work for collaboration. The
workshop also features a live audio/visual performance by MTKidu.
Creative Commons-licensed videos will be available for free, legal
download onto USB flash drive.
"How to stop worrying about the big C and learn to love CC: An Artists'
Guide to IP" presented by Heather Ford (executive director) and Rebecca
Kahn (writing and research fellow) from iCommons, Johannesburg.
What is copyright? How does it affect my art and creativity? Is there
such a thing as "legal remixing" and how do artists still make a buck
while giving their stuff away for free?
The Creative Commons South Africa team explain how copyright affects
artists and creators, the common pitfalls, and the practical steps you
can take to make sure you are in control of your creativity. They also
introduce participants to Creative Commons raw materials that are freely
available to legally remix and share, and show video work by artists
from South Africa and abroad, who are using copyright to spur global
collaborations, broaden their communities and kick-start their careers.
"Song of Solomon" presented by writer, sound artist and cultural
producer Julian Jonker.
"Song of Solomon," devised by Julian Jonker and technologist Ralph
Borland, is an algorithmic audio collage using more than 70 performances
and adaptations of Solomon Linda's composition "Mbube," also performed
and adapted as "Wimoweh" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The installation
intends to provoke questions about the archetypal models of creativity
that inform Western intellectual property law; in its implementation at
the Durban Art Gallery in September 2006, the installation arguably
infringed South African copyright law in various ways.
He also discusses the interaction between other forms of appropriation
art and intellectual property law, specifically mash-ups and DJ mixes.
"Basic Circuit Bending" presented by electro-acoustic artist Dean
Henning from rustpunk, Durban.
Bleeps and sweeps aplenty as Dean Henning discusses and demonstrates how
simple, low-cost technology (including toys) can be re-purposed for
musical performance.
"Live beat construct and visual manipulation" performance by MTKidu from
Johannesburg.
The dynamic design and electronic music duo perform live, and afterwards
share experiences in live audio/visual experimentation.
ICEBOX 02 Screening
Venue: Zula Sound Bar, 194 Long Street, Cape Town
Date: Sunday, March 4 at 7pm
Cost: Free
An evening of innovative short-form narratives, documentaries and
animations from Ciro Altabas (ES), Dany Campos (ES), Sally Giles (SA),
Dmitry Kmelnitsky (US), Frédérique Zepter (FR), Microcinema
International's "Independent Exposure" series, and the Magmart video art
festival (IT).
The screening is presented in partnership with alt film, a group
established to collect and screen film by creative South Africans, as
well as work that most powerfully incorporates and describes the
inevitable evolution of the medium.
Via: "Turbulence"
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Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
present:
OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media: Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz:
"The Challenges and Affordances of Participation in the Age of Networked
Individualism"
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/
DATE: February 28, 7 pm
VENUE: Emerson College, Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston
Streamed live online and broadcast to Second Life!
Free and open to all!
This Floating Points event will start with Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz
both presenting their positions about opportunities and problems with
participation in sociable web media. They will then discuss each others
argumentation and end with a debate open to the public at large.
The sheer scale of current networked sociality demonstrates the potential of
sociable web media to democratize society through emerging cultures of broad
participation. While phenomena like information overload accompanied the
emergence of communication technologies for a very long time, this current
social turn is new. Millions of people can now perform themselves as
speakers, which is more pertinent than the question of quality or even
political orientation of the produced content. In his presentation, titled
"The Participatory Challenge," Trebor Scholz will investigate the
affordances of sociable web media by looking at examples of the different
intensities and motivations for participation in sociable web media and
their effects.
Is production the new consumption? In "Networked participation: Wisdom of
crowds or stupidity of masses?" Ulises Mejias will assess whether sociable
web media can live up to its promise of reinvigorating the public sphere.
While participatory networks are certainly posing an alternative to the ways
in which the old mass media generates and disseminates messages, there is
increasing skepticism about their ability to transform this aggregation of
(mostly self-referential) information into meaningful social change.
Furthermore, participatory media networks run the risk of being appropriated
by the same mass media networks that contribute to the alienation of the
individual within society. To understand why this is happening, we need to
engage in a critique of the network as a model for organizing social
realities. Only then will we be able to conceptualize new social realities
that incorporate the best of networked participation with other ways of
being in the world.
Ulises Ali Mejias is an educator and technocultural theorist whose research
interests include networked sociality, the philosophy of technology, and
learning design. He is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, where he
has taught a graduate seminar on the affordances of social media. His
dissertation, "Networked Proximity: ICT's and the Mediation of Nearness"
deals with the redefinition of social relevancy by digital media and
explores the limits of the network as metaphor and model for organizing
social realities. Mr. Mejias has been nominated two years consecutively for
an EduBlog award.
Trebor Scholz is a media theorist, artist, and activist who lectures
internationally on the affordances of networked sociality for media
activism, art, and education. As founder of the Institute for Distributed
Creativity (iDC), he contributed essays to several books, journals, and
periodicals and co-edited "The Art of Free Cooperation," forthcoming with
Autonomedia (NYC). He is currently assistant professor and researcher in the
Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo and
research fellow at the Hochschule fuer Kunst und Gestaltung, Zurich
(Switzerland).
For more information about the series, please visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/
Contact: jo at turbulence dot org
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Via: m
.
xxxxx workshop_5_6 Berlin
A (more-or-less) weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising
making and connection within the field of the existent.
3rd March: noise_produce part two - Circuit board etching with
crackle/kraakdoos and/or Schmitt triggers. Details see below.
10th March: SuperCollider with Fredrik Olofsson: Writing algorithms
that sound. Details see below.
March projected: GNU Emacs, noise_produce part three
Please RSVP m@1010.co.uk with interest as places are limited.
...or contact if you're interested in leading a related workshop.
Via: V2_
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TANGENT_BROTHERHOOD
presenting /The Lost Highway Expedition 2006/
http://europelostandfound.net/
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Friday March 09, 2007
20.00–23.00 (CET)
live REALMEDIA stream and IRC chat via www.v2.nl
During August 2006 /The Lost Highway Expedition/, brought an
international and cross-disciplinary group of ca. 200 artists,
theoreticians, journalists, photographers, architects and other cultural
practitioners together into an exploratory, and at times accidental
journey, along what was once, in the time of Socialist Yugoslavia,
called the ‘Highway of Brotherhood and Unity.’ Traveling for 26 days
along this geopolitical trajectory linking the capitals of what is now
called the Western Balkans, the expedition was a search for a form of
future cultural and spatial practice, taking as its starting point a
positive interpretation of the concept of Balkanisation.
Tangent_Brotherhood presents the expedition as a model of /open source
/and do-it-yourself collaboration in the form of a mobile, cultural and
artistically charged, and collectively authored project. /The Lost
Highway Expedition/ was initiated by eight individuals, loosely
connected through the School of Missing Studies and the Centrala
Foundation for Future Cities. Its backbone was formed by some of the
most engaged experimental art, media and cultural organizations spanning
Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana,
Podgorica, and Sarajevo plus a large group of active participants, both
stationary or traveling. These organizations, from the 1990’s onwards,
have been challenged and triggered by institutional breakdown and have
become – often unintended – the forerunners of alternative models of
cultural production in the region.
With participating explorers …
Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen (Stealth.unlimited, Rotterdam/Belgrade) are
urban researchers and practitioners.They conceive tools to explore the
shared authoring of space and urban culture. They are co-initiators of
/the Lost Highway Expedition/.
http://www.stealth.ultd.net/
http://www.schoolofmissingstudies.net/
Alenka Gregorič is the artistic director of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana,
Slovenia. She has written numerous essays, reviews and articles for
various art publications and from 2002 till the end of 2004 she explored
the contemporary art scene of former-Yugoslavia for Balkanis magazine.
With Škuc Gallery, she set the starting stage for /the Lost Highway
Expedition/.
http://www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si/
Yane Čalovski is founding member and artistic director of Press to Exit
Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia - an organisation exploring
unconventional approaches for ideas, projects and collaborations with
artists and curators form Macedonia and abroad. With Press to Exit, he
has formed part of the backbone to /the Lost Highway Expedition/. Yane
studied art and architecture in the USA, Japan and the Netherlands.
http://www.presstoexit.org.mk/
Kristian Lukić is a curator for digital art and culture at the Museum of
Contemporary Arts of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. As a previous member
of new media centre kuda.org, he is an example of the crossovers
appearing between the independent cultural scene and the re-emerging
institutional culture in the region. He is a cofounder of The Institute
for Flexible Culture and Technology - Napon (2006).
http://www.kuda.org/
http://www.napon.org/
http://www.msluns.org.yu/
