>Hello Friends at CRUMB,
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>As some of you know, on Friday 9 May and Saturday 10 May we are staging an symposium entitled, user_mode in the Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern, which analyses the nature of emotional engagement within interactive art and design.
>Key contributers include artist Gary Hill, curator David Ross and theorist Lev Manovich. It also includes a presentation by Susan Collins who's art work Tate in Space was commissioned for the Tate website in 2002 and Joshua Davis who had a retrospective of his web-based works at the ICA in January.
>I have included the schedule below. Full programme details and biographies of the participants are available if you would like to see them.
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It would be wonderful to see some of you there. I would sincerely appreciate it, if you would be able to pass on the announcement about the event to colleagues and friends who you think may be interested in attending, and joining in the discussion.
>Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you would like further information, and we very much look forward to seeing you on Friday 9 May.
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>Best wishes
>
>Honor Harger
>Webcasting Curator
>Interpretation & Education, Tate Modern
>Digital Programmes, Tate
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>http://www.tate.org.uk/audiovideo/
>PH: (44) 020 7401 5066
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>Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and Tate Modern present:
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>user_mode
>= emotion + intuition in art + design
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>an international symposium
>London, UK
>http://www.usermode.net
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>Symposium
>Friday 9 May, Saturday 10 May, 1030 – 1830
>Starr Auditorium
>Tate Modern
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>Sunday 11 May, 1330 - 1800
>Wellcome Wing
>Science Museum
>London
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>Electronic Music Concert
>Saturday 10 May, 2000 – 2200
>Starr Auditorium
>Tate Modern
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>Tickets: £60 (£30 concessions)
>For tickets please contact
>Tate Ticketing:
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>PH: (44) 020 7887 8888
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>user_mode is a major international symposium involving a two day conference, an electronic music performance a media lounge, and an exhibition at the Science Museum. It examines one of the key concerns for many creative practitioners: how to engage the emotions of the audience or user.
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>Artists, designers and critics frequently refer to ‘emotional engagement’ but what is meant by this? Is it immersion, rapture, agency, re>fl>ection?
>This question is crucial to interactive art and design practice where the user’s response is sensitive to context and can in>fl>uence not only the form and content of the work but also, in some cases, the future direction of technological development.
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>Ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies are so embedded in our environment they play a signi>fi>cant role in the forming and reforming of personal identity and the >fl>ux of social relations. We are on the cusp of a wireless revolution that promises increased access to communications networks and signi>fi>cant changes to how we work, play, learn and live our lives. Attention is moving away from the machines themselves to the value of the experience they can offer. How do they enable us to feel and behave? How can they enhance that intangible thing, our humanity?
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>user_mode is a constellation of international artists, designers, technologists and theorists whose work addresses these issues from a range of practices. There will be presentations of art installations, AI, architecture, electronic music, networked role playing games, graphic communication, interaction design, net art, performance, smart textiles and wearable technologies.
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>The symposium is a framework for discussion and exchange through which different disciplines can offer their perspective on user engagement and bene>fi>t from each other’s insights. The symposium will ask if the participatory nature of interactive art and design offers a more profound experience than traditional forms of art and design. >
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>Supported by Intel Corporation.
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>PARTICIPANTS
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>- Akufen (Marc Leclair) [Canada]: a musician who constructs electronic compositions from micro samples of radio broadcasts.
>- Dr. Maribeth J. Back [USA]: a researcher, formerly at MIT, who will be presenting the Listen Reader book.
>- Simon Biggs [UK]: an artist who creates immersive art installations.
>- Natalie Bookchin & Jacqueline Stevens [USA]: an artist and a political theorist who are presently working on online multiplayer artworks.
>- Jonah Brucker-Cohen [Ireland|USA]: an artist and designer whose work addresses physical interfaces.
>- Anthony Burrill [UK]: a graphic designer working with sound toys and interaction.
>- Carol Collet [France|UK]: a textile designer who explores smart textiles and their socio-political context.
>- Susan Collins [UK]: an artist who creates participatory and immersive artworks.
>- Joshua Davis [USA]: a designer and artist who makes evocative web-based artworks.
>- Sara Diamond [Canada]: Artistic Director of Media & Visual Arts & Research, Banff Centre, Canada.
>- Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha [Netherlands]: artists and researchers who work with robotics and facial expression.
>- The Faraway Project : Kristina Andersen, Margot Jacobs & Laura Polazzi [Sweden|Italy] who work with wireless navigation and emotional space.
>- FoAM [Belgium|Netherlands]: represented by Nat Muller, FoAM are a group who create immersive environments in sound, interactive textiles and visual media.
>- Masaki Fujihata [Japan]: an artist who works with interactive installation.
>- Peter Higgins [UK]: an interaction designer who creates interactive discovery environments.
>- Anna Hill [Ireland]: an artist who uses sound recordings from the Aurora Borealis and human breath to create interactive experiences.
>- Gary Hill [USA]: an artist who creates some of the world’s most compelling video installations.
>- Crispin Jones [UK]: an interaction designer whose work explores pain and fear.
>- Stuart Jones [UK]: a sound artist who is presently working with responsive architectural environments.
>- Golan Levin [USA]: an artist and engineer who works with interactive sound and performance.
>- Lev Manovich [USA|Russia]: a theorist and writer of new media.
>- Irene McAra-McWilliam [UK]: Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art (RCA), UK.
>- Gordana Novakovic [UK|Yugoslavia]: a theorist presently exploring relationships between theatre and interactive installation.
>- Hannah Redler [UK]: curator for c|PLEX, West Bromwich, UK.
>- David Ross [USA]: a curator and former Director of SFMOMA and the Whitney, USA.
>- Janek Schaefer [UK]: a musician who works with the vinyl record as compositional tool.
>- Tobi Scheidler [Sweden]: an architect and designer at the Interactive Institute, Sweden.
>- Selectparks [Australia]: represented by Julian Oliver, Selectparks are a group of games developers working with multiplayer games, music and architecture.
>- Jenny Tillotson & George Dodd [UK]: a designer and a scientist working with the artistic properties of aroma.
>- Brendan Walker [UK]; a designer who is presently exploring methods of engineering thrill.
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>USER_MODE PROGRAMME
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>[ DAY ONE - FRIDAY 9TH MAY ]
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>Session 1: 1100 – 1300
>Poetics and Spectacle
>Gary Hill
>Gordana Novakovic
>Masaki Fujihata
>Chair: David Ross
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>Lunchtime Demo: Tobi Schneidler, the wireless lounge
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>Session 2: 1400 – 1600
>Interactivity & Subjectivity: the quality of experience
>Stuart Jones
>Maribeth Back
>Brendan Walker
>Chair: Irene McAra-McWilliam
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>Session 3: 1630 – 1830
>Sensory Experience: perception and feeling
>Jenny Tillotson and George Dodd
>Anna Hill
>Crispin Jones
>Chair: Sara Diamond
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> [ DAY TWO SATURDAY 10TH MAY ]
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>Session 4: 1100 – 1300
>Data Aesthetics: extending the palette
>Lev Manovich >
>Joshua Davies
>Jonah Brucker-Cohen
>Chair: David Ross
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>Session 5: 1400 – 1600
>Immersion: the individual and the social subject
>Simon Biggs
>Golan Levin
>Susan Collins
>Selectparks, represented by Julian Oliver
>Chair: Sara Diamond
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>Session 6: 1630 – 1830
>Social Ecologies: learning, playing, belonging
>Natalie Bookchin and Jacqueline Stevens
>Peter Higgins
>FoAM, represented by Nat Muller
>Tobi Schneidler
>Chair: Irene McAra-McWilliam
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>2000 – 2200: Electronic music concert
>Akufen (Marc Leclair)
>Janek Schaefer
>Golan Levin
>Ticketed seperately. Tickets £10 and £7 Email: [log in to unmask] PH: (44) 020 7887 8888
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> [ DAY THREE SUNDAY 11TH MAY ]
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>Session 7: 1330 – 1500
>Proximity, Distance and Communication
>Tobi Schneidler and Carole Collet
>The Faraway Project, Kristina Andersen, Margot Jacobs, Laura Polazzi
>Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha
>Anthony Burrill
>Chair: Hannah Redler
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>CONTACT INFORMATION
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>Honor Harger
>Webcasting Curator, Interpretation & Education, Tate Modern
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>PH: (44) 020 7401 5066
>URL: http://www.tate.org.uk
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>Tricia Austin
>Convenor
>Course Director Designate, MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments
>School of Graphic and Industrial Design
>Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>URL: http://www.csm.linst.ac.uk
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