ISEA2004 Conference Programme & Keynotes

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> From: [email protected]
> Date: May 17, 2004 6:16:00 AM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ISEA2004 Conference Programme & Keynotes
>
> PRESS RELEASE, MAY 17, 2004
>
> 'I will be on the ferry because when I attended the ISEA94 in
> Helsinki, as
> a part of the conference we also had a 3 day ferry trip to St.
> Petersburg.
> It was the best conference experience I had in my life!'
> -Lev Manovich, Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCLA
>
> ISEA2004 CONFERENCE OUTLINES ANNOUNCED
>
> ISEA2004 conferences in Helsinki and Tallinn, and on a luxurious
> cruiser
> ferry connecting them, are key elements of the 12th International
> Symposium
> on Electronic Arts (August 14th-22nd). ISEA2004 starts with the
> electrified
> Interfacing Sound cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm, after which the
> Networked Experience cruise from Stockholm to Tallinn via Mariehamn
> inspires a range of panels, poster sessions and workshops. Networking
> sessions will also, for example, be hosted by the French Ministry of
> Foreign Affairs and the Asia Europe Foundation.
>
> After two dazzling nights on the ferry, ISEA2004 participants convene
> in
> Tallinn to cover the themes of Wearable Experience, Geopolitics of
> Media
> and Critical Interdisciplines: research/science, art and
> collaboration.
> Wearable technologies are explored through project presentations of
> state-of-the art ubiquitous computing in fashion and cultural
> practices.
> Issues of technology and embodiment provide a critical context to this
> discussion. Geopolitics of media looks at the ways in which new media
> practices reflect diverse media geographies and their relation to real
> life
> locations, globalization and activism. Part of the agenda of ISEA2004
> is to
> assess where new media culture and arts are at the moment. To this end
> the
> Critical Interdisciplines theme digs deep into the questions of
> relationships of computer engineering, design, media studies,
> anthropology
> and new theories emanating from natural sciences in relation to
> networked
> and other new media practices. Tallinn keynote speakers include Arturo
> Escobar (Colombia/USA) and Sarah Kember (UK).
>
> After Tallinn sessions, ISEA2004 culminates in Helsinki, exactly ten
> years
> after ISEA94, when the net was still an emergent field. This time
> Wireless
> Experience, Histories of the New, Open Source and Software as Culture
> and
> Critical Interaction Design will be explored.
>
> Wireless experience maps current emerging cultural and social
> practices of
> mobile and other wireless media such as radio and WiFi networks. A key
> theme is how wireless experience is enabling new ways to approach urban
> cultures and turn public spaces into "writable and participatory
> media".
> Histories of the new is a key theme to unravel not only the recent ten
> years of change within the Networked experience, but to look at diverse
> local histories of creative "new" media use since the 1960s. The theme
> also
> explores the very logic of how new technologies become integrated into
> the
> social and the cultural "sediments" of everyday life experience.
>
> Critical interaction design seeks to foreground critical discourse and
> work
> around sensitive, contextual, critical work on interactivity. It is
> also a
> platform for dialogue bringing together interface designers, computer
> scientists, media and cultural theorists as well as media artists (who
> are
> often hybrids of these). Open source software as culture addresses
> politics, economical or legal logic, and various cultural and social
> politics regarding open source, and software at large. The theme
> positions
> software as a cultural and a political object and as a subject for
> debate.
> Helsinki keynotes include Erkki Huhtamo (Finland/USA), Wendy Hui Kyong
> Chun
> (USA), Shuddhabrata Sengupta (India) and Matthew Fuller (UK).
>
> ***To download the full conference programme by sessions, visit our
> website: http://www.isea2004.net/programme.html***
>
> HOW TO JOIN ISEA2004 AT THE MOST AFFORDABLE PRICE?
>
> By combining the conference with the cruise, you will not only
> experience
> the full journey but save money on tickets. Our FULL EXPERIENCE offer
> to
> you is:
>
> - ISEA2004 conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki: 100,00 euros
>
> - ISEA2004 cruise: 2 nights, 2 buffet dinners, 2 breakfasts on the
> ferry:
> 204,00 euros
>
> - Fast ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki: 20,00 euros
>
> — !!! Your entire ISEA2004 package, a full week of business and
> pleasure;-) 324,00 EUROS PER PERSON !!! —
>
> HOW DO I GET THESE BENEFITS?
>
> Book on-line before FRIDAY MAY 28 at http://www.isea2004.net/tickets.
> Please note that there is a limited availability in this cabin
> category. On
> the website, you will find more information on pricing, including
> different
> cabin categories and accommodation possibilities in Tallinn and
> Helsinki.
>
> PRESS ACCREDITATION?
>
> Applying for press accreditation is easy. Download the accreditation
> form
> from our website at
> http://www.isea2004.net/travel\_info.html#accreditation
> and fill out the information required for the press registration. Send
> the
> form preferably as an e-mail attachment to [email protected] and we
> will
> instruct you further.
>
> TRAVELLING IN A GROUP?
>
> If you wish to make a group reservation for several cabins, contact me
> at
> [email protected] or by telephone +358 40 719 2280. I'm happy to save=

> your
> time and take care of your booking arrangements.
>
> Warm regards,
> Mika Minetti + ISEA2004 crew
>