***  NEW ISEA2004 WEBSITE WITH PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS LAUNCHED ***

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                  http://www.isea2004.net
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The site introduces the biggest media culture event of the year by
highlighting the programme taking place in Helsinki, Tallinn and on a
multi-venue cruiser ferry (August 15-17) connecting the harbour cities. The
site features artist profiles, speakers, projects and themes. Stay tuned for
daily up-dates, and check it out!

ISEA2004, the leading symposium on new media culture, is shaping up to be an
incomparable mid-August destination for a programme-filled experience on
electronic arts, music, research and technology. The cruise on the Baltic
Sea provides a multicultural forum for networking and pleasure. The unique
experience extends from custom-made buffet-dinners to ferry's gym, night
clubs, pools and sun decks. Even the television programme on the ferry is a
part of the comprehensive experience.


         Tickets: http://www.isea2004.net/tickets

   ***  Book NOW to ensure your place on the ferry   ***

Group discounts (30% off for groups of 6 or more): contact Mika Minetti,
[log in to unmask], +358 40 7192280

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*** ISEA2004 - PICK-UPS ***

CRUISE: AUGUST 15-17
TALLINN: AUGUST 17-18
HELSINKI: AUGUST 19-22

TOP ARTISTS SPIN THE HOUSE DURING THE ELECTRIFIED CRUISE

Collaboration between Montreal-based MUTEK festival on electronic arts
brings AKUFEN, CRACKHOUSE, SKOLTZ_KOLGEN and DEADBEAT to ISEA2004. On the
ferry, Akufen will play 'Music for Pregnancy' - a work that thrilled crowds
at Tate Modern some time ago <http://www.isea2004.net/mutek>. One of the
world's leading VJs, CHARLES KRIEL (UK), has promised to drop dance-floor
bombs and introduce the latest VJ technologies during his house act
<http://www.isea2004.net/kriel>.

FELIX KUBIN ('refreshingly perverse', the Wire), the German-born pioneer of
electro-acoustic music and electronic pop, takes over the Riviera deck
<http://www.isea2004.net/kubin>. The pool party continues with the
underwater soundscapes created by 2Linja. The Finnish-British band ROGER
will add elegance and insight to Northern electronica while mixing in with
the FUCHS-ECKERMAN collective's bewildering FutureDJ project, thus creating
a DJ set of the future <http://www.isea2004.net/roger>. Aboard the ferry,
you also get to experience screenings of interactive films, installations
such as the locative sound installation 'Float' by TUOMO TAMMENPÄÄ (FI) and
TAMAS SZAKAL (HU) that will turn the ship's route into music
<http://www.isea2004.net/float>.

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES & MACHINE THERAPY: LEADING MEDIA-LABS PRESENT THEIR
INNOVATIONS 

During the Baltic cruise and at the conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki,
leading media labs from all over the world present their innovations, future
products and interdisciplinary projects. KELLY DOBSON (MIT media lab, USA)
brings her MACHINE THERAPY session to the ferry's gym
<http://www.isea2004.net/dobson>; THE SARAI MEDIA LAB (IND) introduces its
innovative research and creative projects in urban culture and new media,
and one of its initiators SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a keynote speaker in
Helsinki<http://www.isea2004.net/sarai>.

KATHERINE MORIWAKI (USA) presents proposals, prototypes and specific
outcomes of her research examining wearable technologies, fashion, emerging
communication infrastructures, networks and the body in Tallinn
<http://www.isea2004.net/moriwaki>. LOCATIVE MEDIA LAB (CA) comes to
Helsinki with their location-based media installation Trans-Cultural Mapping
as part of the ISEA2004 wireless experience. MAKROLAB (SLO) will host 8
artists and biologists researching the climate, weather and
telecommunication in a mobile laboratory, which this time finds its place on
a small island in front of Helsinki <http://www.isea2004.net/makrolab>.

STORYMUPE is a mobile storytelling application created and developed for
ISEA2004 by NOKIA Research Center and HIIT Mobile Content Communities
research project. Cruise participants can join the game by using java
clients in their mobiles, SMS, web or camera phones. LEON CMIELEWSKI and
JOSEPHINE STARRS (AU), world-famous for their animations, bring their
interactive Floating Territories game aboard the ferry. Cruise participants
get to build tribal allegiances and reflect their own migration history.

TOP SPEAKERS AT HELSINKI AND TALLINN CONFERENCES

Keynotes at the major ISEA2004 conferences held in Helsinki and Tallinn
include MICHEL MAFFESOLI,
MACHIKO KUSAHARA <http://www.isea2004.net/kusahara>,
JOANNA BERZOWSKA <http://www.isea2004.net/berzowska>,
JULIAN WEAVER <http://www.isea2004.net/weaver>,
ERKKI HUHTAMO <http://www.isea2004.net/huhtamo> and
MATTHEW FULLER <http://www.isea2004.net/fuller>.

In Tallinn, the Wearable Experience comprises project presentations of
state-of-the art ubiquitous computing in fashion and cultural practices. In
Helsinki, Wireless Experience maps current emerging cultural and social
practices of mobile and other wireless media.

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m-cult, centre for new media culture <http://www.m-cult.org>, is the main
organiser of ISEA2004, coordinating the programme and managing the event
across the cities and on the ferry. Other organisers in Helsinki include the
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma <http://www.kiasma.fi> and Media Centre
Lume <http://www.lume.fi>. In Tallinn, the main partner Estonian Academy of
Arts <http://www.artun.ee> works in collaboration with the Center for
Contemporary Arts <http://www.cca.ee>.  ISEA2004 is produced in association
with the Inter-Society for Electronic Art <http://www.isea-web.org>