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hello, this may be a tangent for some or many of you out there. but i am interested what sort of response it gets here on this list. i am interested in listening to what you do, so lets see how it bounces back :) best regards, andrew --- LOCATIVE MEDIA WORKSHOP (pixelACHE 2004 Festival) 29th March - 2nd April The deep-local Helsinki culture of mobility, systems and networks is manifested at the site of Rautatieasema (Railway Station). With it's interior, exterior, surrounding subterranean public-spaces, it is a centrepoint of urban Finland; A cartographic and temporal framework for partings, convergences, paths and destinations, all wrapped up in objective data and personal story. The tangible, intangible, physical and informatic.. The static and mobile.. INTRODUCTION The Locative media workshop held during pixelACHE 2004 Festival is the first event in the series of 6 "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshops initiated by RIXC Centre for New Media (Riga, Latvia). Each workshop will have a specific focus on outskirts and interregional networking, in the context of an enlarged Europe. An additional goal is to discover specific, deep and relevant layers of the local cultures, involving specific local communities in the process. http://www.rixc.lv - http://www.pixelache.ac Locative media may be understood to mean media in which context is crucial, in that the media pertains to specific location and time, the point of spatio-temporal 'capture', dissemination or some point in between. The term locative media has also over the last year been associated with mobility, collaborative mapping, and emergent forms of social networking. http://locative.org - http://locative.x-i.net CALL OF INTEREST The first workshop of the series will aim to explore and share locative aspects of documentation, context and content. A small international group of media artists, performers and researchers (8-12 persons) with tangential experience of 'locative' documentation, covering different disciplines are invited to attend. It is hoped this will include approaches ranging from textual, sound, digital film, GPS, performance, architecture, and archaeology, including recent/current locative media projects. A large portion of the scheduled workshop time will be dedicated to exploring activity/interaction in the specific and surrounding locus of the Rautatieasema (railway station) of Helsinki city centre. Participants are encouraged to bring their own desired technologies, although mobile equipment will hopefully be available for use. For those interested, it may be arranged for non-local persons to work with participants who benefit from local knowledge of the area, situated culture, relevant systems etc. Workshop activity can potentially engage with the pixelache 'signal|process' workshop and exhibition coordinated by Sophea Lerner with Centre for Music & Technology and MUU ry. The event takes place 15th March - 2nd April and explores the sonic landscape in the local area, sharing similar themes with the locative media workshop. More information at http://cmt.siba.fi/masa/projects/sp As part of the multidisciplinary exchange of method, a portion of the workshop will be structured with key presentations based on the participants previous/current projects. These presentations will be open to interested public. The coordinators of the other 'cultural mapping' project partner organisations - RIXC/Riga, TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Paris, Projekt Atol/Ljubljana - will also be invited to participate, sharing their plans and objectives of the workshop series to the group. Further towards the end of the week, with the beginning of the Pixelache festival programme, there will be an opportunity to re-present some of the workshop activity as a presentation or a performance to the public either at MUU Gallery or in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. The results of the whole workshop series will be presented in an exposition - 'Cultural Mapping Fair' - consisting of public interactive installations and other documentation. This exposition will take place during the 'Art+Communication' festival in Autumn 2004 in Riga, Latvia. PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP If you are interested in participating in the first locative media workshop of the series, please contact the organisers at [log in to unmask] before Friday 6th Feb 2004! Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for all selected participants, as well as per diems and necessary equipment and material costs. In due course, further details regarding program etc will be available at http://www.pixelache.ac/locative/ ORGANISERS Locative media workshop in Helsinki is a part of pixelACHE 2004 Festival, organised by Piknik Frequency and Kiasma Theatre. Workshop program designed by Andrew Paterson / UIAH Media Lab. The "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshop series is coordinated by RIXC Centre for New Media, and is realised with the support of the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union. Other partner organisations are TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Paris and Projekt Atol/Ljubljana.