LOCATIVE MEDIA WORKSHOP (pixelACHE 2004 Festival)
29th March - 2nd April
The deep-local Helsinki culture of mobility, systems and networks is
manifested at the site of Rautatieasema (Railway Station). With it's
interior, exterior, surrounding subterranean public-spaces, it is a
centrepoint of urban Finland; A cartographic and temporal framework for
partings, convergences, paths and destinations, all wrapped up in objective
data and personal story. The tangible, intangible, physical and informatic..
The static and mobile..
INTRODUCTION
The Locative media workshop held during pixelACHE 2004 Festival is the first
event in the series of 6 "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshops initiated by
RIXC Centre for New Media (Riga, Latvia). Each workshop will have a specific
focus on outskirts and interregional networking, in the context of an
enlarged Europe. An additional goal is to discover specific, deep and
relevant layers of the local cultures, involving specific local communities
in the process.
http://www.rixc.lv - http://www.pixelache.ac
Locative media may be understood to mean media in which context is crucial,
in that the media pertains to specific location and time, the point of
spatio-temporal 'capture', dissemination or some point in between. The term
locative media has also over the last year been associated with mobility,
collaborative mapping, and emergent forms of social networking.
http://locative.org - http://locative.x-i.net
CALL OF INTEREST
The first workshop of the series will aim to explore and share locative
aspects of documentation, context and content. A small international group
of media artists, performers and researchers (8-12 persons) with tangential
experience of 'locative' documentation, covering different disciplines are
invited to attend. It is hoped this will include approaches ranging from
textual, sound, digital film, GPS, performance, architecture, and
archaeology, including recent/current locative media projects.
A large portion of the scheduled workshop time will be dedicated to
exploring activity/interaction in the specific and surrounding locus of the
Rautatieasema (railway station) of Helsinki city centre. Participants are
encouraged to bring their own desired technologies, although mobile
equipment will hopefully be available for use. For those interested, it may
be arranged for non-local persons to work with participants who benefit from
local knowledge of the area, situated culture, relevant systems etc.
Workshop activity can potentially engage with the pixelache 'signal|process'
workshop and exhibition coordinated by Sophea Lerner with Centre for Music &
Technology and MUU ry. The event takes place 15th March - 2nd April and
explores the sonic landscape in the local area, sharing similar themes with
the locative media workshop. More information at
http://cmt.siba.fi/masa/projects/sp
As part of the multidisciplinary exchange of method, a portion of the
workshop will be structured with key presentations based on the participants
previous/current projects. These presentations will be open to interested
public. The coordinators of the other 'cultural mapping' project partner
organisations - RIXC/Riga, TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Paris,
Projekt Atol/Ljubljana - will also be invited to participate, sharing their
plans and objectives of the workshop series to the group.
Further towards the end of the week, with the beginning of the Pixelache
festival programme, there will be an opportunity to re-present some of the
workshop activity as a presentation or a performance to the public either at
MUU Gallery or in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.
The results of the whole workshop series will be presented in an
exposition - 'Cultural Mapping Fair' - consisting of public interactive
installations and other documentation. This exposition will take place
during the 'Art+Communication' festival in Autumn 2004 in Riga, Latvia.
PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP
If you are interested in participating in the first locative media workshop
of the series, please contact the organisers at [email protected] before
Friday 6th Feb 2004!
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for all selected
participants, as well as per diems and necessary equipment and material
costs.
In due course, further details regarding program etc will be available at
http://www.pixelache.ac/locative/
ORGANISERS
Locative media workshop in Helsinki is a part of pixelACHE 2004 Festival,
organised by Piknik Frequency and Kiasma Theatre. Workshop program designed
by Andrew Paterson / UIAH Media Lab.
The "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshop series is coordinated by RIXC Centre
for New Media, and is realised with the support of the Culture 2000
Programme of the European Union.
Other partner organisations are TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik,
ELLIPSE/Paris and Projekt Atol/Ljubljana.
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LOCATIVE MEDIA WORKSHOP (pixelACHE 2004 Festival)
29th March - 2nd April
The deep-local Helsinki culture of mobility, systems and networks is
manifested at the site of Rautatieasema (Railway Station). With it's
interior, exterior, surrounding subterranean public-spaces, it is a
centrepoint of urban Finland; A cartographic and temporal framework for
partings, convergences, paths and destinations, all wrapped up in objective
data and personal story. The tangible, intangible, physical and informatic..
The static and mobile..
INTRODUCTION
The Locative media workshop held during pixelACHE 2004 Festival is the first
event in the series of 6 "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshops initiated by
RIXC Centre for New Media (Riga, Latvia). Each workshop will have a specific
focus on outskirts and interregional networking, in the context of an
enlarged Europe. An additional goal is to discover specific, deep and
relevant layers of the local cultures, involving specific local communities
in the process.
http://www.rixc.lv - http://www.pixelache.ac
Locative media may be understood to mean media in which context is crucial,
in that the media pertains to specific location and time, the point of
spatio-temporal 'capture', dissemination or some point in between. The term
locative media has also over the last year been associated with mobility,
collaborative mapping, and emergent forms of social networking.
http://locative.org - http://locative.x-i.net
CALL OF INTEREST
The first workshop of the series will aim to explore and share locative
aspects of documentation, context and content. A small international group
of media artists, performers and researchers (8-12 persons) with tangential
experience of 'locative' documentation, covering different disciplines are
invited to attend. It is hoped this will include approaches ranging from
textual, sound, digital film, GPS, performance, architecture, and
archaeology, including recent/current locative media projects.
A large portion of the scheduled workshop time will be dedicated to
exploring activity/interaction in the specific and surrounding locus of the
Rautatieasema (railway station) of Helsinki city centre. Participants are
encouraged to bring their own desired technologies, although mobile
equipment will hopefully be available for use. For those interested, it may
be arranged for non-local persons to work with participants who benefit from
local knowledge of the area, situated culture, relevant systems etc.
Workshop activity can potentially engage with the pixelache 'signal|process'
workshop and exhibition coordinated by Sophea Lerner with Centre for Music &
Technology and MUU ry. The event takes place 15th March - 2nd April and
explores the sonic landscape in the local area, sharing similar themes with
the locative media workshop. More information at
http://cmt.siba.fi/masa/projects/sp
As part of the multidisciplinary exchange of method, a portion of the
workshop will be structured with key presentations based on the participants
previous/current projects. These presentations will be open to interested
public. The coordinators of the other 'cultural mapping' project partner
organisations - RIXC/Riga, TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Paris,
Projekt Atol/Ljubljana - will also be invited to participate, sharing their
plans and objectives of the workshop series to the group.
Further towards the end of the week, with the beginning of the Pixelache
festival programme, there will be an opportunity to re-present some of the
workshop activity as a presentation or a performance to the public either at
MUU Gallery or in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.
The results of the whole workshop series will be presented in an
exposition - 'Cultural Mapping Fair' - consisting of public interactive
installations and other documentation. This exposition will take place
during the 'Art+Communication' festival in Autumn 2004 in Riga, Latvia.
PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP
If you are interested in participating in the first locative media workshop
of the series, please contact the organisers at [email protected] before
Friday 6th Feb 2004!
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for all selected
participants, as well as per diems and necessary equipment and material
costs.
In due course, further details regarding program etc will be available at
http://www.pixelache.ac/locative/
ORGANISERS
Locative media workshop in Helsinki is a part of pixelACHE 2004 Festival,
organised by Piknik Frequency and Kiasma Theatre. Workshop program designed
by Andrew Paterson / UIAH Media Lab.
The "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshop series is coordinated by RIXC Centre
for New Media, and is realised with the support of the Culture 2000
Programme of the European Union.
Other partner organisations are TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik,
ELLIPSE/Paris and Projekt Atol/Ljubljana.