[spectre] Wind As Context/May 24th - 26th 2012 in Hailuoto, Finland
(for your information, free for publishing and forwarding appreciated) Wind As Context Wilderness Art Conference May 24th - 26th 2012 in Hailuoto, Finland This is an international research conference for organizations and artists working in remote and rural regions of the EU and furthermore. The conference will explore the question of how contemporary and digital arts can be relevant within those areas and can be beneficial for local communities, visitors and artists alike. Hailuoto is an island in northern Finland located in the Gulf of Bothnia. Presented by Hai Art www.haiart.net contact: i...@haiart.net Phone: +358 400 258 968 Participants: Dr. Leandro Pisano (Italy) Exploring rural territory as (new) medium Leandro Pisano (b. 1973) is a curator, writer and new media producer for projects and events focused on new media, sound and technological arts. He is also specialized in ICT development strategies for rural areas. He is the founder and director of Interferenze new arts festival, an event taking place in South of Italy since 2003. He conducted lectures and presentations for new media art and design events worldwide (IST 2010, Tokyo; Doors of Perception 9, New Delhi; ISEA2011 Istanbul; ISEA2010 Ruhr, Dortmund; Dott07, Newcastle; Offload festival, Bristol). Leandro Pisano received his Master degree with honors in Ancient Greek, Latin and Italian Literature from University of Naples, focusing studies on digital philology, electronic teaching methodology and relationship between new media and classic disciplines. 25.4. morning presentation 11am @ Marjaniemi 25.4. evening presentation 8:30pm @ Cafe Bar Haiku Glenn Boulter (UK) Remote Possibilities – Sound Works in Cumbria 2009-2012 Glenn Boulter is an artist and curator based in Cumbria (UK). Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, his work incorporates print media, sound and performance. As a founder of sound art collective Octopus, Glenn co-curates the bi-annual Full of Noises festival since 2009. The festival occupies under-used spaces across the post-industrial town of Barrow-in-Furness ranging from the canteen building of a nuclear submarine plant to a Victorian public park. Octopus were recently awarded Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status in recognition of their approach to developing artists and commissioning new work, resulting in an ongoing program of residencies, public realm works, radio and education projects during 2012-15. www.octopuscollective.org 24.4. morning presentation 11am @ Marjaniemi 24.4. evening presentation 8:30pm @ Cafe Bar Haiku Rael Artel (Estonia) Life in the Forest centre and periphery from the point of view of contemporary art and cultural production and how these terms affect my lifestyle in the forest. Rael Artel is an independent curator based in the forests of Estonia. She graduated from the Institute of Art History at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2003, and participated in the Curatorial Training Program in De Appel, Amsterdam (2004/05). Since 2000, she has contributed to a number of magazines in Estonia and elsewhere, and curated shows in Estonia as well as in Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, New York, and Warsaw. In 2007 she initiated Public Preparation, a platform for knowledge-production and network-based communication, which since the beginning of 2008 has focused on issues of nationalism and contemporary art in Europe in the format of international meetings, exhibitions and publications. http://publicpreparation.org/ 26.4. morning presentation 11am @ Marjaniemi 26.4. evening presentation 8:30pm @ Cafe Bar Haiku Carsten Stabenow (Germany) Mediate Space - curating and producing in unusual environments Carsten Stabenow - Curator and artist, born 1972, studied Communication Design and postgraduate Interdisciplinary Studies in Berlin and has worked freelance as a communication designer and cultural producer. He is also a member of the Staalplaat Soundsystem and has realised several installations and performed worldwide at festivals and in museums. Carsten Stabenow is the founder of the German Media Art festival garage, initiator and artistic director of Tuned City and co-founder of the Berlin art and media production platform DOCK. Carsten Stabenow is Artist In Residence for the Sound Room in Marjaniemi which opens during the conference. www.tunedcity.de 25.4. morning presentation 11am @ Marjaniemi Leena Valkeapää (Finland) Living in the wind with reindeers Leena Valkeapää (1964) is a Finnish artist most known for her environmental art works. Recently she moved to a very remote location in Lapland off road only to be reached by boat or walking to write her doctoral study on Wind, Reindeer and Humans. She recently published In Nature, a dialogue with the works of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. Also working with http://bioartsociety.fi 24.4. morning presentation 11am @ Marjaniemi 24.4. evening
[spectre] Salon Ecosophy #2: Michael Saup: May 18(fri) 19-21:00 (JST) with USTREAM
Salon Ecosophy #2 Michael Saup “1001 SUNS – The Archeology of Future” Date: May 18 (fri) 19:00-21:00 (JST) Location: Iidabashi Bunmei, Tokyo http://bun-mei.org/ *Entrance: Donation welcome! USTREAM：http://www.ustream.tv/channel/salon-ecosophy Host: Yukiko Shikata / Salon Ecosophy Translation: Shuichi Fukazawa (German/Japanese) Co-operation: Iidabashi Bunmei Support: Andreas Erhart Split the atom's heart, and lo! Within it thou wilt find a sun. -- Persian mystic poem quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in The Seven Valleys 1860, Baghdad If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death (Time), destroyer of worlds. (Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Hindu Scripture Bhagavad Gita on the occasion of the first nuclear detonation Trinity in New Mexico 1945, putting Albert Einstein's abstract equation E=mc2 into reality) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations. -- Bible, Revelation 20:7 In this talk I will examine the shift from nuclear culture employing radiation released via atoms and bits stored via electrons towards the point we face now: mainstream paradigms of society are being inverted by the discovery of our possible final cultural heritage: a large drawing with an atomic pencil on the canvas of time, all accomplished by only two generations. It is at about time to base culture again on cultural values instead of technological assets. 1001 Suns is the title of the feature movie I am currently working on. The promethean ancient North American Indian story Raven steals the Sun sets the frame for the analysis of the beginning and ending of the nuclear age. A story as old as mankind already encarved on a column in Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, the oldest temple of mankind dating back to 11000 - 9000 BC. 1001 Suns will be a Human Fiction movie. Since we have the ability to make a choice, our collective that became connective will have to become corrective. As long as we transform our thoughts and words into a new reality, there is hope that we will invent a concept of a new future. This is what we must model for our children. Since the 1000 years (1000 suns) of imprisonment of Evil have obviously expired 1945 in the desert of New Mexico right after the fall of the German 1000-Year Empire, I have a lot of hope, that we will be able to take a step back in order to step out of the nuclear cave - the cave where Werner Heisenberg and his colleagues have left the forgotten first nuclear cave painting on the skin of time. Radioactive traces will be the heritage to the next generations and not the cultural artifacts. Margit Rosen/ZKM on Pulse8 by Michael Saup 1992 [Michael Saup] Born in Hechingen 1961, based in Berlin. Studied Music at Dominican University, San Rafael, California, USA, Computer Science at the University Furtwangen and Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Design), Offenbach. Instructed at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Visual Arts), Munich; artistic-scholarly staff member at the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule, Frankfurt/M.; from 1999 to 2005 Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Design)/ZKM, Karlsruhe. In Japan he exhibited the media art work “R111” at “ARTLAB-Prospect” exhibition in 2001, Tokyo, by Canon ARTLAB. Currently Saup is working on the new film “1001 Suns”. In Japan, he will show his latest work “SHIMA” at the “Possible Water” exhibition curated by Yukiko Shikata (July 7 – 21, 2012, Goethe Institut Tokyo). http://1001suns.com/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Lecture on collecting library music by Jonny Trunk: May 16, 9 pm. MACBA Auditorium. Free admission
*Lecture on collecting library music, by Jonny Trunk: May 16, 9 pm. MACBA Auditorium. Free admission * Teaser: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/teaser_memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula In this hybrid lecture/audition, Jonny Trunk will be sharing his collection of library music records, which he started in 1982 and now contains around 6000 LPs. Also known as *sonorizzazioni*, the term library music encompasses the audio productions made for professional use in the context of film, television and radio. This exciting musical underworld is part of the collective imagination, and yet it remains practically unknown to the general public. Jonny Trunk founded the label Trunk Records in 1995, and it soon gained a cult following as a result of its specialisation in unpublished jazz recordings and film and television soundtracks. Trunk Records was the first label to feature non-commercial library music, a genre that Trunk has written about extensively. Trunk hosts a radio programme at London radio station Resonance FM, and he regularly DJs around the world. He began collecting records around 1982, but rather than focusing on traditional record stores, he chose to comb second hand outlets and street markets. It didn't take long for him to realise that his obsession was not pop music or modern sounds, but film soundtracks and television music. His record collection now consists of around six thousand LPs. More info: http://www.macba.cat/en/lecture-memorabilia __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
