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ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING -- THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL FOR
NEW MEDIA CULTURE
RIGA, LATVIA, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3 2004.
http://rixc.lv/04
The detailed programme of the event below and on the web.
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ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL FOR NEW MEDIA CULTURE
RIGA, LATVIA, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3 2004. http://rixc.lv/04
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The 7th International Art+Communication festival will take place in
Riga, Latvia, from September 30 - October 3, 2004. The festival will
offer a space of exchange for new media practitioners and grassroots
activists and who are critically exploring ideas of locality, in
response to the continental European (and global) "normalization
processes". The main themes of the festival will include the following:
- LOCAL CULTURE AND EUROPEAN NORMALIZATION - For the new media arts,
the internet has been an invaluable tool for mobilization beyond
borders, and while, as "net-workers", we may celebrate certain aspects
of the integration project, it also potentially poses a threat to local
diversities. This event is intended to shelter debates amongst
grassroots activists, new media theorists and practitioners critically
engaging with ideas of locality, in the broader context of the
continental European (and global) process of cultural and economic
integration and "normalization". How does "the local" assert itself
while at the same time avoiding becoming reactionary and
fundamentalist?
- SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY AND TACTICAL MOBILITY - The very power to
"officially" map a space equates to its domination, yet new forms of
networking have raised the possibility of a practice of collaborative
cartography whereby maps are generated and maintained from below. This
session is interested in creatively envisioning space through using
mapping as a metaphor to explore a whole range of actor centred
conversations
- LOCATIVE MEDIA - The term locative media in its most literal
interpretation marks a move from William Gibson's dislocated cyberspace
to Steve Mann's inter-dimensional cyborgspace; in which, a combination
of wireless networking and location-awareness, would allow for the
annotation of architectonic space with digital media. Yet, perhaps the
device is less interesting than the metaphors it congers. As this
session explores, locative media is, in fact, open to multiple
interpretations: as the site for old discussions about the relationship
of consciousness to place and other people; as the framework within
which to actively engage with, critique, and shape a rapid set of
technological developments; as
the context within which to explore alternative models of social,
political and economic relations; or, indeed, as a name for the
ambiguous shape of a rapidly deploying surveillance and control
infrastructure.
- SPECTRUM ECOLOGY - Electromagnetic radiation is the most ubiquitous
form of intelligible noise in communication history. There have been
several key technological advances that have contributed to this
flooding of the natural spectrum including the invention of
technologies for generating electricity and radio waves. As something
of a consequence of employing (these often disregarded) portions of the
spectrum to construct "pirate" distributio networks, artists and
activists have increasingly turned a critical eye on emissions from
"official" social, cultural, military, and physical sources
politicizing the issue of spectrum allocation. This panel looks at this
radio activity and the intentions, consequences, and technologies used
to examine and manipulate radio waves.
- TCM PRESENTATIONS - Bringing together organizations from Finland,
Iceland, Slovenia, Latvia, Norway and France, the Trans-Culture Mapping
network staged a series of workshops, over the spring and summer of
2004 that sought to explore the concept of locative media; in which a
combination of site-specific engagement, digital media, wireless
networking, and location-awareness would allow for the exploration of
specific locations and cultures on the fringes of Europe. Artists and
researchers employed ideas of contextualised mapping (cultural,
temporal, acoustical, historical and spatial) to develop open source
tools for envisioning a collaborative map of Europe. These
investigations into
locative media sought to raise new sets of questions, critical
perspectives and cultural practice.
ART+COMMUNICATION 7 WILL FEATURE: AN EXPOSITION OF DOCUMENTATION,
INSTALLATIONS AND ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS FROM THE TCM WORKSHOPS;
"MAPPING THE SPECTRUM" PERFORMANCES; AND A 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON
"COLLABORATIVE CARTOGRAPHY". Contact: rixc ( at ) rixc.lv
The Trans-European Cultural Mapping programme is coordinated by The
Centre for New Media Culture RIXC/Riga in collaboration with
K@2/Liepaja, TEKS/Trondheim,
LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Tours, Projekt Atol/Ljubljana, Locative Media
Network. The project is supported by the Culture 2000 Programme of the
European Union. The festival also is supported by Latvian Cultural
Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, French Cultural Center, AFFA,
British Council in Riga, radio NABA, daily newspaper “Diena” and
magazine “Rîgas laiks”.
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THURSDAY, September 30, 2004
19.00 – FESTIVAL OPENING PROGRAMME
[Location: Artists’ Union Gallery]
Presentation of “Acoustic.Space #5 – Trans-Cultural Mapping”
publication | Opening of the TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING exhibition: TCM
documentation exposition and artists’ installations: Jaanis Garancs/LV
– Parallel[land]scapes; Annie On Ni Wan/HK-SE – Geo Leds; Even
Westvang/NO & Timo Arnall/NO -– Time that land forgot; Jaume Nualart
(Catalonia) and others -– Think Tools for Revolution : Mapping Events |
Mark Bain –- SelfSensor // 24h performance -> call (371)8242323 |
Javier Garcia -- TCM
20.00 - LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCES
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Oskars Poikâns/LV (15 min),
Borut Savski/SI (25 min),
Edwin van der Heide/NL (30 min),
Sound Mechano & Choops/LV (20 min),
[log in to unmask] (60 min)
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FRIDAY, October 1, 2004
10.00 – coffee and registration
10.30 – 11.45 [conference panel 1]: ENDOCOLONIZATION / TRANS-LOCAL
MAPPINGS
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Moderator: Florian Schneider/DE.
Speakers:
Branka Curcic/YU -- ..on TransEuropean Piknik (15 min + 7 min video) |
Normunds Kozlovs/LV -- ..'branding' of European culture (20 min) |
Kristine Briede/LV -- ..Euro-Watching (10 min)
Heath Bunting/UK -- ..borderXing (15 min)
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11.45 – 12.10 [conference panel 2]: TACTICAL MOBILITIES
Moderator: Marc Tuters/CA-LV
Christian Nold/UK (15 min)
Florian Schneider/DE (15 min)
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12.10 – 12.30 Round table discussion (20 min)
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13.30 – 15.30 [conference panel 3]: SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY
Moderator: Marc Tuters/CA.
Keynote speakers:
Richard Rogers/NL-US (35 min)
Valdis Krebs/US-LV -- ..Social Network Analyses (35 min)
Mapping presentations:
Schyler Erle/US -- ..Mapping Hacks (10 min)
Pablo de Soto/SP -- .. Fadait(10 min)
Pierre Henri Ramboz/FR -- .. Matrix Traceroutes(10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
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16.00-18.00 [artists presentations] TCM WORKSHOPS and COLLABORATIVE
MAPPING
PROJECTS
Intro (vision) on TCM workshops by Rasa Smite/LV (5 min). Cheryl
L'Hirondelle/CA (tbc.) - ..Karosta workshop (10 min). LOCATIVE MEDIA
WORKSHOP / pixelACHE festival (Helsinki workshop) -- Andrew Paterson
(10 min), Teemu Kivikangas (10 min), Sara Kolster (10 min), Margot
Jacobs (10 min), Inari Virmakoski (10 min) Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel/UK
- MYRIORAMA (15 min) | OPEN SOURCE CITY (workshop in Strasbourg/France)
-- Pierre-Henri Ramboz (10 min), F2F (10 min), EXZYT (10 min), Alejo
Duque (10 min) |
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-20.00 LIVE
SOUND PERFORMANCES ‘MAPPING SPECTRUM’
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Adam Hyde/NZ (20 min),
Andrey Kiritchenko/UKR (20 min),
Sara Kolster/NL & Derek Holzer/US-NL (20 min),
G-Lab (Bumstein & Garbstein)/LT (20 min),
Vox Populi/FR (30 min),
I/DEX (BY) (20 min),
From 22.00 – Varka Crew DJs/LV presents: spyceed jah:ngle in Club Depo.
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SATURDAY, October 2, 2004
10.30 – coffee
11.00 - 12:30 [conference panel 4]
Moderator: Adam Hyde/NZ
Speakers:
James Stevens/UK -- ..freenetworks (15 min) |
Ugo Vallauri/IT (15 min) |
Sophea Lerner/FI – ..signal process (15 min)
Borut Savski/SI - ..Looking from below--Seeing from above (15 min)|
Mark Bain/US-NL - ..micro-radio (15 min) |
Discussion (15 min)
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13.30 – 14.20 Keynote Public Presentation:
Richard Barbrook/UK – New York Prophecies (40 min) |
Ilze Strazdina/LV-UK – RICHAIR2003 (10 min) |
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14.30 – 16.15 [conference] LOCATIVE MEDIA.
Moderator: Tapio Makela
Keynote: Eric Kluitenberg (30 min)
What is locative media?
Speakers: Ben Russell - ..as phenomenology (15 min) |
Peter Dubois & Edward Mac Gillavry/NL (15 min) - ..as geography |
Debate: Tapio Makela/FI, Saul Albert/UK, Jo Walsh/UK - ..as archivism
(30 min)
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16.30 - 18.30 [artists presentations] TCM WORKSHOPS AND COLLABORATIVE
MAPPING PROJECTS: ICELAND INSIDE AND OUT -- Pall Thayer (10 min), Annie
On Ni Wan (10 min), Even Westvang & Timo Arnall (10 min), Matias Arje
(10 min) Derek Holzer/US-NL & Sara Kolster/NL -- soundscape.fm (15 min)
MOBILE OUTSKIRTS (workhops in Lofoten/Norway) -- Kristin Bergaust (10
min), Laura Beloff (10 min) | SEMAPHORE (residency in Dunkerque/France)
- Adam Hyde (10 min) TCM PROGRESS - SOURCING THE INPUTS/ MAPPING THE
OUTPUTS (Slovenia/Finland workshop) -- Jo Walsh, Schuyler Erle (15 min)
[final discussion] Moderators: Ben Russell and Andrew Paterson.
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20.30 - LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCES ‘SCANNING SPECTRUM’ [Location: RIXC
Media Space]
Android/RU-LV (30 min),
Tuner Orchestra/FR (30 min),
si-cut.db/UK (30 min),
Man Eater Orcherstra/FR (30 min),
Clausthome (30 min)/LV
23.00 - SIGNAL-SEVER! TRANSIGNAL 5 – an 8 hour live signals
interception and
processing sound and visual performance by the Projekt Atol/Pact
Systems/Rx:Tx/DelRay/Droomof/Sound Meccano team and guests. Live from
Paris via
the W1 Satellite all over Europe, with the main beam pointed to Latvia.
24.00 – Festival closing party in club DEPO, featuring: The Mole/CA,
EGG/CA,
[log in to unmask], dj Stupid Dog/FR, Skan4/ LV and Nikotins/ LV.
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