DEAF04: Dutch Electronic Art Festival starting on 9 November

DEAF04: Dutch Electronic Art Festival starting 9 November

The seventh edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival - DEAF04 will
be opened on Tuesday 9 November in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) with a
unique opening act by Jamie Lidell, FM Einheit and the Poetry Machine, a
computer which generates a stream of word associations.

Dutch Electronic Art Festival is a biennial international festival for
electronic art, presented by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, in
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The festival is a presentation platform for
new media art - some of it commissioned by DEAF - and as a forum for
critical debate and art education.

By collaborating with local, national and international art and research
institutes, the festival creates a synergy between the various art
disciplines and the fields of architecture, philosophy, cultural and
sociological science.

During DEAF04, a number of provocative art projects will address current
social and political issues revolving around both open and closed
systems. Interactivity plays a central part in this, as it defines the
way we think about such systems. Within this thematic framework, DEAF04
presents interactive art as an open system continuously creating new
relationships.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

SEMINARS ON ART AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

How do we experience mixed virtual and physical environments? Is
wearable computing empowering us, or are we becoming more vulnerable and
disembodied? How can machines be designed to express emotion by
themselves? On Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November, various seminars
are focusing on thought-provoking issues in art and media technology.
The seminar Wearable Turbulence focuses on context-aware, human-centred
computing; The Art of Immersive Spaces questions the role of
human-computer interaction principles in the design of immersive spaces.
The seminar Affective Systems presents research in the area of emotional
computing. See http://www.deaf04.nl


TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM FEELINGS ARE ALWAYS LOCAL

The central question during the two-day symposium Feelings Are Always
Local (Friday 12 & Saturday 13 November) is - how do local systems arise
and maintain themselves in large, globalizing networks?

Alex Galloway, artist, teacher, computer programmer and joint founder of
the Radical Software Group, will discuss the protocols that determine
how computer networks and biological networks function and describes how
this form of distributed exercise of power can be used for political
resistance.

Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist working in
the field of interactive computer installation. In her lecture she will
elaborate on her work Mobile Feelings II shown in the DEAF04 exhibition.

Other speakers are media theorist Arjen Mulder, biologist Tijs
Goldschmidt, anthropologist Christopher Kelty, economist Loretta
Napoleoni, and neurologist Karim Nader. The symposium is moderated by
philosopher Manuel DeLanda.

For program details and reservations check http://www.deaf04.nl/symposium


WEB-CARTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP TACTICAL URBAN MAP HACK

In the Tactical Urban Map Hack workshop locative media artists will work
together with the public in the creation of open maps; the content
produced by the workshop being consolidated in an online digital map
that will be displayed live within the Cartographic Command Center at
the festival location. Check http://www.deaf04.nl/maphack


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DEAF04 - Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems
Tuesday 9 November - Sunday 21 November 2004
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
http://www.deaf04.nl

Contact for information & reservations:
Tel. + 31 (0)10 750 28 90
Fax + 31 (0)10 750 28 94
E-mail: [email protected]
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