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Wednesday
February 4
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11:00
12:00
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ListeningOut
Speaker: De Arruda, Tereza [br], Nowak, Johann [de]
K1
The project ListeningOut deals with the relationship between art and technology through sound installations and soundscapes. These offer an opportunity to present time and space in the form of a 'sound object'. This presentation is the result of a two days workshop for artists and specialists. The presented works emerged from different contexts and urban experiences of artists from three European cities with different histories: Berlin, Lisbon and Sofia.
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Friday
February 4
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12:00
14:00
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BASEMENT presentation
Speaker: Antich, Arnaldo Coro [cu], Patten, James [us], Pentecost, Claire [us], Rakowitz, Michael [us], SPECTRAL SYSTEM [si], Temporary Services [us], Umatic [nl]
K1
During the panel the projects related to the workspace will be presented.
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20:00
21:00
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Freedom of Art and Research
Speaker: Kurtz, Steve [us], Pentecost, Claire [us]
K1
The Critical Art Ensemble has been advocating and pursuing tactical, artistic and media practice, campaigning for independent research and
free knowledge. Developing a critical discourse and activist practice, the CAE stands for the bottom-up appropriation of scientific knowledge and its utilisation for emancipatory purposes. - Together with European colleagues, Kurtz and Pentecost report about recent developments surrounding the CAE and discuss plans for an independent art and research campaign.
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Saturday
February 5
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11:00
12:00
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A Cultural Strategy for the International Space Station
Speaker: La Frenais, Rob [uk], The Arts Catalyst [uk], Triscott, Nicola [uk]
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Announcing a study into cultural use of the International Space Station, currently under construction in orbit around the Earth, commissioned by the European Space Agency. The Arts Catalyst leads this study (starting May 2005) with partners from the MIR network, including transmediale (D), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Nl), Projekt Atol (Slo) and Leonardo-Olats (US/Fr).
www.artscatalyst.org
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12:00
13:00
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iRights.info - Urheberrechte in der digitalen Welt
Speaker: Djordjevic, Vali [de], Grassmuck, Volker [de]
K1
The opportunity to digitally save, rearrange and broadcast music, texts and images, has fundamentally altered the world of media. The web portal informs about the laws and effects of copy rights in Germany.
www.iRights.info
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13:00
14:00
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net.art generator - Programmierte Verführung
Speaker: Cramer, Florian [de], Sollfrank, Cornelia [de]
K1
Hacker/cyberfeminist/net and conceptual artist Cornelia Sollfrank has been researching worldwide communication networks and bringing the artistic-subversive strategies of the classical avant-garde into the digital medium. Book presentation with Cornelia Sollfrank und Florian Cramer.
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14:00
15:00
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Nordic Pioneers
Speaker: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar [no], Midbøe, Lars Gustav [no]
K1
Lars Gustav Midbøe from Electrohype will give a short introduction on the curatorial process of compiling the exhibition "digital pioneers", a selection of early Swedish digital art from 1960 to 1984. This will be followed by a presentation by composer/artist Lars-Gunnar Bodin who made some of the earliest computer based visual artworks in Sweden. The exhibition "digital pioneers" was presented in Sweden in may 2004.
Reception with the artists concerning transmediale.05 on friday february 4th 2005, 17-19 PM [DAM]
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15:00
16:00
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MobLab
Speaker: Akaiwa, Yae [jp], Chen, Dominick [jp], Furudate, Ken [jp], Sembo, Kensuke [jp], Shikata, Yukiko [jp]
K1
An introduction of 'MobLab', the project which sets up a mobile laboratory and living space in a bus to travel from hosting institutions to other hosts throughout Japan for about three weeks in 2005. Four German und Japanese 'MobNauts' will participate at the events and workshops based on each local context. The bus is equipped with computers and all necessary facilities to work and communicate remotely and to connect globally while on the way.
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16:00
17:00
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DinnerFor1
Speaker: Hamann, Sigune [de]
K1
DinnerFor1 explores situations of personal awareness of isolation, loneliness and time passing set against conflicts of individuals in the public arena.
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17:00
18:00
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Temporary Services/ M. Rakowitz
Speaker: Rakowitz, Michael [us], Temporary Services [us]
K1
2001 Temporary Services invited Angelo, an incarcerated artist, to write and design a booklet about the many ingenious, practical, necessary, and sometimes downright bizarre things he has seen other prisoners invent. Angelo has generated about 110 pages of drawings and writings on prisoners' inventions. He has illustrated everything from immersion heaters with electrical plugs made from razor blades or paper clips and popsicle sticks, to cooking methods for making bologna jerky with light fixtures.
www.temporaryservices.org
Michael Rakowitz presents his work: paraSITE has been an on-going project since 1998. The artist produces individual, clear, plastic shelters for the homeless which are inflated and climatised by attaching them to out-take ducts in the ventilation systems of buildings.
The paraSITE units in their idle state exist as small, collapsible packages with handles for transport by hand or on one's back. While these shelters were being used, they functioned not only as a temporary place of retreat, but also as a sign of dissent and empowerment.
www.possibleutopia.com/mike
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18:00
19:00
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Radio Habana Cuba
Speaker: Antich, Arnaldo Coro [cu]
K1
Arnaldo Coro presents his work at Radio Havana.
Radio Havana Cuba was the first international radio station in Cuba - "a friendly voice that travels around the world." In 1961 Fidel Castro Ruz put it like this: "Cuba has a radio station that is already transmitting throughout Latin America and is heard by countless brothers and sisters in Latin America and the rest of the world. We are in the age of radio and the truth can travel far and wide!" Today, RHC broadcasts in nine languages with a varied programming that includes news, music and features. Arnaldo Coro is producing BREAKTHROUGH, a weekly update on science, technology and the environment. The issues discussed in his broadcast range from sustainable energy resources to computer recycling and software engineering. Arnaldo Coro will contribute his view on this topics with a series of workshops and presentations in the BASEMENT.
www.radiohc.cu
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19:00
20:00
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CITU (Creation Interactive Transciplinaire Universitaire)
Speaker: Benayoun, Maurice [fr], Duguet, Anne-Marie [fr]
K1
CITU is a new federation of university labs and research centres founded by CRECA, Paragraphe and CIREN at Paris University 1 and 8. - A discussion of collaborative networks for media and emerging arts.
www.citunet.org
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Sunday
February 6
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12:00
14:00
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live coding
Speaker: TOPLAP [us/uk/de]
K1
TOPLAP members present a diverse set of current livecoding environments including ChucK, feedback.pl, fluxus, jitlib, musique littéral, noisepattern, PureEvents, redFrik and The Thingee.
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14:00
15:00
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Infection as communication
Speaker: Ludovico, Alessandro [it]
K1
Computer viruses have proven to be important to media culture, as their ability to invade foreign systems in a very obvious manner reveals how vulnerable and badly protected many of our computer systems are.
www.neural.it
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15:00
16:00
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Pylon
Speaker: Gracie, Andy [uk], Hirschhorn, Michelle [uk], Southern, Jen [uk], Symons, Steve [uk]
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Along with Michelle Hirschhorn, who is the director of project's development, three installation artists work together to develop joint strategies for research, marketing and networking - without compromising their individual identity or integrity.
In this presentation we will introduce our working methods and the work of each member artist. pylon is keen to develop a dialogue with others who are working in a similar way or developing other strategies for supporting this area of practice.
www.pylon.tv
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17:00
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Art and New Media in Lebanon
Speaker: Mbarak, Ricardo [lb]
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Ricardo Mbarak will discuss emerging artists' approaches and roles in today's multi-cultural Lebanese society, where religion, politics, war and the post-war environment affect issues of identity and belonging.
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REFRESH!: Digitale Kunst: Innovation - Geschichte - Archiv
Speaker: Grau, Oliver [de]
K1
The MediaArtHistory Congress which will take place in October 2005 attempts to integrate the digital media art of our time with art and image history. A database for virtual art allows for the systematic archiving of media art and functions as an information resource.
Assistent: Christian Berndt
www. mediaarthistory.org
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19:00
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Wikipedia/Medienkunst
Speaker: wikipedia [de]
K1
The panel provides an impetus for updating the history of media art and media art theory, on the basis of the efforts of Wikipedia. Together with representatives from the Wikimedia community, the pool of experts of scholars and artists will be given an opportunity to share their opinions.
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19:00
20:00
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20:00
21:30
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Burma Report
Speaker: Myint, Maung Maung [no], Sugita, Kanjin [th]
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The situation of media, art and culture in the land of fear Two oppositional activist/media artists, who from outside of Burma/Myanmar are working towards a democratisation of the country, comment on the current situation.
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Monday
February 7
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12:00
13:00
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VOID- a stereo-endoscopy into a black-box
Speaker: Canavezzi, Sandro [br]
K1
The VOID interface is modeled as a meta-interface that is focused on a grey area - a tension field between two systems that are trying to communicate with one other.
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Sustainable Information Technologies for Cultural Applications
Speaker: Cornwell, Peter [uk/de]
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Computer infrastructure has become an essential element of organisations involved in media art work and cultural theory because of the rapid growth in communication and computing speeds, accompanying uptake by practitioners, and the growing urgency of conservation. The mass movement from film and videotape to memory storage is only one indicator ? streaming over the Internet, even of moving imagery, promises a completely new freedom for artists and accessibilities of institutions and collections.
However such infrastructures pose significant issues of investment and operational responsibility for institutions, especially because of the rate of advance - and redundancy ? of information technology and the need for security against loss or copyright infringement.
A new focus of sustainable computing at ZKM has begun to address these issues, providing very large capacity secure storage for digital conservation of moving imagery and the curatorial and archival support of collections, as well as provision of very high performance image generation and manipulation for artists. Throughout, this activity has sought to provide very high performance information services while reducing the dependency of exhibitions, collections and new production upon very expensive and cyclic equipment procurement. In this successful exploitation of open systems, cluster computing and fast networks in particular have been instrumental for this strategy. The development of a sustainable computing resource is presented, which uses these techniques together with a strategy of repeated upgrade to provide museum and artist production services, which grow continually at the pace of advance of the technology, with only incremental investment.
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Games, Made in...
Speaker: Behrmann, Malte [de]
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Computer games are increasingly recognised as a form of cultural production that deserves public support. The question arises whether computer games have a specific national cultural character: is there such a thing as a French, German or Dutch computer game? And how do culture, technical innovation and economic considerations influence funding politics ?
In cooperation with the German GAME Association and the European Federation of Independent Game Developer Associations.
Participants:
Fred Hasson (gb), Ass. of Independent Games Developers
Hermen Hulst (nl), TIGA Netherlands
Romain Poirot-Lellig (fr), Ass. of Multimedia Producers
Malene Rafn (dk), Danish Producers' Association
Moderation: Malte Behrmann (de), GAME Bundesverband
www.game-bundesverband.de, www.tiga.org, www.apom.org, www.pro-f.dk
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Media Skill Convergence
Speaker: Krell, Peter [de]
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People with a variety of professional backgrounds in music, arts and marketing are starting to get involved in computer game creation on different levels - a new mix of skills in game and media production is emerging. What is the reason for this development? Are these fresh players going to make the industry change? The cultural shift triggered by this process is significant for the potential entertainment value of games and also adds to the current cultural debate on games. How will the media art scene pick up on, adopt or iignore these new, industry-driven tendencies in the global interactive entertainment culture.
Antje Fallen (de), Electronic Arts, Musik Agentin für Computerspiele Angelique Szameitat (de), GfM, Mobile Games Expertin Jeremy Bischop, (uk), Edge Digital Games Europe, 3D-Game Developer Dennis Franken (de), Rotobee, 3D-Game Developer Björn Zaske (de), Moccu, Web-Game-Designer
Moderation: Peter C. Krell (de), Game Face
In cooperation with Game Face magazine.
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Kinoautomat
Speaker: Hales, Chris [uk]
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A detailed study of the often discussed Kinoautomat - the world's first interactive film system which was presented for the first time at the Expo in Montreal in 1967. The original material, which was never again shown after 1974, reflects the mood surrounding the revolution in Czechoslovakia. The project is extended by articles that document and contextualize this seminal work.
www.kinoautomat.org
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Tuesday
February 8
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Digital Playground
Speaker: Vorselman, Henry [nl]
K1
Every year thousands of Dutch pupils get learn about the computer's creative side through the short courses Digital Playground provides. They visit a museum or art gallery where they make digital recordings and edit these recordings to produce a short film, a website, a digital image or a soundscape. Teachers are amazed by the way Digital Playground succeeds in making their pupils enthusiastic about creating their own digital project. Children learn more about the images that surround them in this world of media, advertisements and entertainment. Key to Digital Playground are learning by doing, peer education, a non-school environment and the use of our own software application DP tutorials.
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eaST - Elementares architektonisches Seh - Training
Speaker: Junker, Susanne [de], Renner, Ben [de], Schmidt, Jan [de]
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The research project "eaSt" concentrates on modules for enhancing our visual perception of architectural spaces (proportions, lengths, widths, heights, lighting, colors, surfaces) through conceptual employment of media software (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Freehand, CAD - Software, 3D-modelling software), for usage in architecture and interior design as forms of computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL).
The modules extend the possibilities for "classic exercises" and lectures on architectural design in introductory courses of the Architecture Department at the TFH Berlin (University of Applied Sciences) through the employment of multimedia 3D components and through the addition of samples of contemporary student work.
To illustrate each basic element of architectural design, selections of students' work are analyzed and broken down into individual elements that can be digitalized (graphics, animations, short video clips, simulations and accompanying texts).
The modular system contains navigation which enables users to create "one's own room" within a module through alterations of the elements of the room and their dimensions (for example the shapes of the corners and their height, width, lighting, etc.).
The aim of the research project is to provide students with the opportunity for "playful interaction" with essential design elements. At the same time the project is to train students to shape their perception of space through exercises and to introduce them to new media.
Trial runs at the business of our cooperation partner (Dreispringer Mediengestalter) are scheduled to take place concurrently with the workshop tests in the courses on the basics of architectural design at the TFH Berlin in the summer semester of 2005.
www.east.architekten-tfh.de
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Knowledge Visualisation
Speaker: Judelman, Greg [ca], Schmidts, Uli [de]
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With the ubiquitous integration of digital communication technologies in our lives, an enormous quantity of information can be stored and transferred. But with increasing possibilities comes increasing complexity. As indicated by the dissatisfaction often experienced by users of information technology, current systems of accessing, organizing and navigating information are proving insufficient. Information visualization, the representation of information on an interactive map, is a strategy to make more efficient use of cognitive resources when processing complex information.
The design of mapping systems which can not only present information but communicate knowledge, however, must integrate the following issues: the nature and structure of information and knowledge, the strengths and limitations of the cognitive and perceptual systems, the social context of knowledge transfer, the semiology of representation, and the methods of interface design. This lecture introduces the challenges in knowledge visualization design and presents contributions from artistic and scientific points of view.
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swinging matter
Speaker: Jansen, Helge [de]
K1
Inspired by traditional dance from the East, in which sound plays a formative role, and also by a music-therapy practice called Vibroakoustik, Jannsen explores the close connection between sound and form.
www.feldabinda.de
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PLAN - The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network
Speaker: Hemment, Drew [uk]
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Introduction of a new international network (PLAN). Its aim is to bring together artists, activists and people from a of a variety of other backgrounds, and allow for a break from traditional computer interfaces.
www.open-plan.org
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