Dislocate 08 Art Technology Locality

Dislocate08 Art, Technology, Locality www.dis-locate.net
Yokohama, Japan
30th August - 21st September

We are pleased to announce the details of this year’s Dislocate event.

Dislocate is an ongoing project examining the relationship between art, technology and locality. Exploring the impact of new media upon our experience and expression of place, Dislocate08 examines the creative potential of the technologies which surround us to heighten our awareness of our locality, transforming our encounter with our direct environment and the manner in which we attempt to communicate this to elsewhere.

Over 40 artists from Asia, Europe and America will be brought together over a three week period between 30th August - 21st September in Yokohama, Japan to join in a series of exhibitions, workshops, live events, artist talks and symposia. Through these events we aim to join in a collaborative exercise in which we reconsider the urban space around us and question our place as well as the place of new media. Dislocate will offer a platform for critical debate, challenging preconceptions in an event which aims to bring together a network in the consideration of the social and cultural concerns of new media and encourage public engagements and research in the field.

Exhibition
This year Dislocate will be examining our movement through place/s - investigating how a technologically induced momentum through our surroundings (and the various multiple places which this implies), how this impacts upon our perspective of where we are. Audiences will be led on Trails through the city in which Journey itself the destination - utilizing public transport, cycling, walking - and will in effect be making an expedition into the condition and context of that particular environment which may be enhanced or obstructed by the application of new media practices. A key feature of the festival is its mobility, not just constrained to one gallery space, many of the works request the viewer to take routes through the urban landscape, using public transport, bicycle or by foot.

Symposium
Under the title of ‘Constructing Place’ Dislocate’s symposium will bring together artists, designers, architects, urban planners in the exploration of our conceptualization of space and the impact of emerging technologies upon our relationship with our surroundings. In a debate upon the components which formulate place and the shift in definitions which these are undergoing we will explore the terms under which we realize location and how technology can further ‘locate’ us.


Workshops
Yokohama is famous as a port of exchange, a gateway for international relations, a historical site of both commercial and cultural trade. With its various inlets and outlets, Yokohama is a buzzing network of transactions and communications. But with our rapid movement through fluctuating lines how can we take account of each footstep? Utilizing these networks, trains, subway, roads, alleys in a scrutinization of the moving city, workshops will set out an expedition in which we reflect upon our roaming through urban space and the fleeting exchanges which occur here.

Artists include: Blast Theory, Drew Hemment, Hirakawa Norimichi, Venzha Christ, Hamilton, Southern & St Amand, Shikata Yukiko, Maebayashi Akitsugu, Terrie Cheung & Brian Kwok, Disinformation, Zhenchen Liu and many many more


Schedule
30th August - 7th September Souzoukukan9001 www.9001.tv
6th September - 21st September ZAIM www.za-im.jp
30th August Opening event 9001
31st August Artist Talk 9001
6th 7th 13th 14th 15th September Artist Talk/workshops ZAIM
18th September Proboscis workshop ZAIM
19th September Yokohama Tour start at ZAIM
20th 21st September Symposium ZAIM
21st September Closing Event ZAIM

Dislocate is supported by Sasakawa Foundation, The British Council, Arts Council England and Musashino Art University


Please find further information at this link http://dis-locate.net/dislocate08press1.pdf
If you would like more information please do not hesitate to contact us [email protected]

Yours sincerely
Emma Ota

太田エマ
www.dis-locate.net
Dislocate
Ginza Art Lab
104-0016 Tokyo
Chuo-ku Ginza 7-3-6
Yogashi West 2F
Japan