Hi list,
following the fun we had last summer at ISEA06/Zero One San Jose with
our Crisis to Bliss Centre (www.crisistobliss.net), we're heading
next week to Cambridge (UK) to do a similar thing at the Enter Festival
The full Enter programme is here:
http://www.enternet.org.uk/enternet/unknownterritories/events.acds?
context=2659807
The conference: Enter_Unknown Territories is on 25-27 April 2007 at
Downing College and is an opportunity to hear about the new spaces,
relationships and challenges created by art and new technology
practices and provides an opportunity for academic, business and arts
world to meet share and discuss how to build and sustain
collaborative practice.
As part of this, our CRUMB Bliss-Out Centre will be a space for quiet
time, relaxation and reflection. Beryl and I, and Ele Carpenter as
well as other invited guests will adopt roles as specialist advisors,
and will respond to the discussions and debates raised during the
conference, charting out the known knowns and the known unknowns of
the field of new media art. Indian head massage, a self-help reading
library, media art bibliographies, a recipe exchange, teatime
blogging, open source embroidery, game and art therapy, a rousing
critique of relational aesthetics, and of course a nice cup of a tea
and sit down (with biscuits) will be available to all conference
delegates and visitors to Enter. Stressed out or disillusioned new
media artists and curators particularly welcome!
Register for the conference online here: http://www.enternet.org.uk/
enternet/unknownterritories/home.acds?context=2659795
and drop in on the CRUMB room either of those two days! see you there!
Sarah
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Enter_Unknown Territories
FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
25 APRIL 2007 (The Junction)
18:00-23:00
ENTER_LAUNCH
The conference will start on 25th April at The Junction with a
keynote speech and the launch of Uncommon Ground, a book co-
commissioned by Virtueel Platform and Utrecht School of Arts with
support from Arts Council England’s national Artists' Insights
initiative.
18:00 Canapés & Drinks in Junction Foyer
18:30 Enter_ Welcome - Annette Wolfsberger
18:35 ACEE Welcome - Andrea Stark
18:40 EEDA Welcome - John Snyder
18:45 Uncommon Ground introduction by Cathy Brickwood, David Garcia
& Willem-Jan Renger
19:00 Intro Keynote Bronac Ferran
19:05 Keynote by Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book):
“Yikes! What if everything (and everyone) really is connected? or
the evolution of human communication in the network era”
19:40 Q&A moderated by Sally Jane Norman
20:00 Reception in Junction Foyer
21:00 Koept.Net Night in A4
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2007 (Downing College)
Conference blogger: Sean Dodson (The Guardian)
09:45-10:45
Introduction Giles Lane (Proboscis)
Keynote Anne Galloway (Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton
University Ottawa, Canada)
“Where I come from, this is how we do things” and other ethics of
collaboration
Anne Galloway prepares the ground for the conference panels by
critically assessing the relations between people’s ethics,
aesthetics, world-views and expectations – and the challenges and
opportunities posed by cultural difference in collaborative
practice. How do we make sense of our actions and the worlds in
which we live? What happens when we encounter difference or
opposition? What would collaboration without consensus involve?
Where do we locate accountability, and to whom and what are we
responsible? How can we evaluate the ethics of collaborative work
and play?
10:45-12:15
PANEL 1
UNCOMMON GROUND
Creative Encounters Across Disciplines and Sectors
The Uncommon Ground panel will investigate some of the issues raised
in the recently published book which set out to map the challenges
and fault lines at the heart of today’s multi-dimensional landscape
of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Rather than assume that successful collaboration between the very
different cultures that populate this landscape would be based on the
search for common ground, the early findings of the research group
suggested the opposite was the case. The parties involved were
frequently motivated by the desire for the kind of ‘creative
estrangement’ that occurs when we find ourselves standing on
uncommon ground. The Uncommon Ground panel of experts will set out to
sets out to test the validity and limits of this proposition. And in
the process hope to also shed some light on why interdisciplinary
practice has acquired such urgency and prestige.
Chair: David Garcia (HKU)
Geke van Dijk (STBY)
Chris Dorley-Brown (Interact artist)
Garrick Jones (LSE)
Tim Putnam (Uni Portsmouth)
Willem-Jan Renger (HKU)
12:15-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-15:00
PANEL 2
ADVENTURING OUT - THE CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN DIFFERENT
CONTEXTS
Knowledge transfer is often regarded as a British term, promoted here
in the UK as part of the wider Creative Economy agenda - yet it is
often not well-defined or else defined more by what it is not than
what it is. If Knowledge Transfer (or Knowledge Engagement) is 'about
more than just widgets' to cite a recent lecture by Geoffrey
Crossick, Warden of Goldsmiths College, then what constitutes
effective knowledge exchange for the arts and humanities? How do we
know when it is working? Describing and contrasting different
examples and approaches to interdisciplinarity and knowledge transfer
in different countries this panel will consider the effectiveness and
intention of different strategies and support structures within
policy and practice.
Chair: Bronac Ferran
Jarmo Eskelinen (Forum Virium Helsinki)
Walter Herriot (St. John’s Innovation Centre)
Christopher Lindinger (Ars Electronica Futurelab)
Matt Ratto (Virtual Knowledge Studio)
Julie Taylor (AHRC)
15:00-15:45
SESSION 3
FUTURE SPACE
The worlds of traditional and 'new' media are beginning to clash.
Established ('old') media organisations are discovering that while
the passive 'couch potato' may not yet be an endangered species,
millions of readers, viewers and listeners are using computing and
networking tools to express themselves creatively. The explosion in
so-called 'user-generated content' is just one consequence of this
phenomenon. A more accurate term might be 'user-generated
creativity'. Nobody knows where this change in our communications
environment is taking us, but it's clear already that it's not a
passing fad and that it's not running out of steam. This session
reflects on the media revolution and ponders its implications.
Chair: John Naughton (Ndiyo)
Participants:
James Cridland (Digital Media Virgin Radio)
Joachim Stein (D)
Mike Taylor (Sky Movies Networked Media)
15:45-16:15
COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:45
PANEL 4
TOOLSHIFT/MINDSHIFT
New tools foster new forms of participation and new environments.
Shifts in technologies as well as the move towards participation and
collaborative learning are leading to new approaches to learning,
reflected in structures, design and environments. In this session
pioneer of collaborative and bottom up learning Stephen Heppell will
describe his recent work in architecture and educational development
in various countries. He will be introduced by Patrick Humphreys, a
Social Psychology expert at LSE and after his keynote Kelli Dipple
will respond to the issues raised by Heppell before opening to a
wider discussion with the speakers, including Joel Slayton of CADRE
and Zero01, on the future of learning environments in the 21st century.
Chair: Rob van Kranenburg
Introduction: Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
Keynote: Stephen Heppell (Heppell.net): Radical pedagogy for everyday
practice
Discussion Panel:
Kelli Dipple (Tate Modern)
Joel Slayton (CADRE)
FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2007 (Downing College)
10:00-11:30
PANEL 5
OPEN TECHNOLOGIES?
Enabling people to freely exchange and express ideas is essential to
the development and sustainability of creative energy, thus to the
development and sustainability of information and communications
technologies. We shall focus on the primarily social forces
underpinning “open technologies”, querying notions of generic
infrastructure with respect to hardware initiatives like Ndiyo and
Balloon, and software initiatives like FLOSS. Mediashed’s “free
media/ media which frees” promotion of public domain channels for
free speech will be set in context as a media ecology drive for
environmental and social sustainability. The role artists might play
in opening up our understanding of media systems, notably the ways
they can (or cannot) further the development of collaborative,
participatory creative processes, will be debated. From our Silicon
Fen vantage point, we shall discuss what different stakeholders might
gain from attempts to align and engage with these same processes, and
with the “Unknown Territories” they theoretically open onto.
Chair: Sally Jane Norman (Culturelab Newcastle)
John Bywater / Wookey (Balloonboard Project)
Sher Doruff (Waag Soeciety)
Graham Harwood (Mongrel)
Aymeric Mansoux (GoTo10)
Quentin Stafford-Fraser (Ndiyo)
11:30-11:45
COFFEE BREAK
11:45-13:00
Panel 6
CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
Knowing Me, Knowing You – Ah ha!
Against the backdrop of data protection, surveillance has become
omnipresent but is widely accepted within the UK as a part of our
daily lives. For the sake of security and safety, infringement of
individual privacy and the disappearance of private space seem to be
inevitable. Artists act as seismographs in this post-Orwellian
environment of continuous development of new surveillance and
security technologies by industry. But we know these are complex
areas, there are ambiguities within it – what can we learn from each
other and what is the value of exchange? The discussion will tap into
the surveillance elements of the art taking place as part of the
whole Enter_ event. We will also look at what artists do as observers
of society and revealers of the secret.
Chair: Bill Thompson
Session Industry
Michael Anti (Chinese political blogger & Wolfson Press Fellow)
Alex van Someren (nCipher)
Session Arts
Drew Hemment (Futuresonic)
James Coupe (Enter_ Commission)
Vicky Isley & Paul Smith (boredomresearch)
Manu Luksch (ambienttv.net)
13:00-14:30
LUNCH
14:00-16:30
Downing College & Domes
WORKSHOPS
ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS
LAB DEMOS
A chance for everyone to get their hands on tools and resources in a
sensuous and collaborative way.
- Bricolabs Workshop
- Mediashed: gearbox.mediashed.org Launch
- Polar Produce: Come Outside Bike Tour
- Mark Dixon: Network Workshop
- Platoniq: Block Booster Session
17:15-18:30
HIGH TEA / CLOSING
ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Proboscis Public Authoring Zone
Proboscis will run an autonomous Public Authoring Zone in a permanent
space in Downing College. Interwoven into the conference proceedings,
Proboscis will create a meta-narrative of the debates and dialogues
by inviting conference delegates to create eBooks (using the
prototype DIFFUSION eBook Generator) as well as an evolving
'landscape' of the conference themes, using Proboscis' StoryCubes
format.
http://diffusion.org.uk/generator/
http://proboscis.org.uk/storycubes
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