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Cultural Specificities of Media Arts in Asia Gunalan Nadarajan (SIN/US) The art world has its centres and peripheries the centres usually generating the primary discourses and practices that determine what come to be accepted as the possible and significant while the peripheries reflect their anxiety about the centres by blindly mimicking them or vehemently rejecting them. Globalization abetted by the proliferation of communication and information technologies is often touted to have complicated the sustainability of such distinctions. The global media arts topography that seems to have developed however has merely followed the contours of existing disparities in access to these technologies. This oft-neglected disjunction between the rhetoric of globalized media and the specific ways in which media technologies are actually being interpreted and exploited is most conspicuous in the media arts developments of Asia. (more) http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=53 Every body is a teacher. every place is a school Rob van Kranenburg (NL) It took me five years to figure out, to grasp, - understand - let me use the word resonate - these lines of Heraclite: and I rephrase them in my own lines - of all that which is dispersed haphazardly, the order is most beautiful. In the Fragments you read that these lines are incomprehensible as far as the Heraclite scholars are concerned. They can not link it as a line of verse with other words in other lines in verse. I read it and in reading I knew it to be true. Knowing that only as experience is not very productive in a society that has no non-iconic medium for transmitting these kinds of ex periences. In order to make this experience productive; read: make it politically viable and socially constructive - in order to find ways of transmitting, ways of teaching experiences like this - we textualise them. We find analogies, we read initial lines as metaphor, as metonomy. (more) http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=49 Cellsbutton: synchronizing shared authorship Deanna Herst (NL) As one of the first initiatives in Indonesia, Cellsbutton intends to develop a practical and theoretical framework for media arts in this country. The philosophy of this new media arts festival reflects the innovative approach of its founder, Jogjakartas House of Natural Fiber (HONF). Questioning the ramifications of technology and exploring the possiblities for new artistic practices is the starting point for the artists, designers and programmers of HONF. Their approach is interdisciplinary, focusing on crossovers between technology, art, philosophy, design and sciences. For HONF, the socio-cultural environment is an important context for their projects. More specifically, HONF expresses its social responsibility through a creative dialogue with local communities. One example once explained by Venzha: In Indonesia, telecommunication seems almost everywhere. But in fact, not many people have access to it. For the future we intend to build a telecommunication system that can help people and can provide a new framework to approach this situation of communication needs. (more) http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=50 ---------------------------------------------- CELLSBUTTON# 01 YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL#01 2007 20 - 30 august 2007 www.natural-fiber.com organized by the house of natural fiber, yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Research Workspace Workshop Exhibition Concerts Performance Screening City Project Project Presentation www.natural-fiber.com The house of natural fiber, yogyakarta new media art laboratory / HONF, was founded in 1999. Our main focus is artistic development and innovation of the arts. We intend to achieve this goal especially by introducing new media art projects and workshops to the cultural environment of Yogyakarta. Every program is aimed at interactivity with the people and their social and cultural environment. Thinking forward, positivity and creativity is the vision for our community. This vision is implemented in every program: we try to develop a symbiosis between art and technology. In our concept of the future of art and technology, the analysis of the specific role of technology within the arts in itself is crucial. University : 1. Gadjah Mada University (UGM) : research presentation bricolabs workshop 2. Duta Wacana University (UKDW) : research - presentation bricolabs workshop 3. Atma Jaya University (UAJY) : presentation workshop 4. Indonesia Institute of the arts (ISI) : presentation workshop discussion 5. Sanata Dharma University USD) : discussion presentation - sharing Space : 1. HONF laboratory : workspace discussion - screening 2. JOGJATRONIK : Opening Party - presentation 3. LIP (Lembaga Indonesia Prancis) : Concert workshop presentation - screening 4. Mes 56 : Concert workshop - presentation 5. Kedai Kebun Forum: workspace presentation Club / cafe : 1. OWN café : presentation screening - chillout - bar 2. Embassy club: DJ/live PA - visual- bar Special venue / camp / forest : 1. PPSJ (Wild Animal Rescue Centre) : concert discussion workshop - presentation ------------- www.natural-fiber.com Participant : Selina Shah (UK) Clare Shanahan (Ireland) Kevin / RYbN (France) Therese Schuleit (Germany) Brian Sherry (Ireland) Jin Hee Yoo (Korea) Marika Dermineur (France) Ariadna Alsina (Spain) PerezOldSkool (Malaysia) Jack / RYbN (France) Adam Paul Anderson (USA) R.Pramono Aji (Yogyakarta) Tommy Surya (Yogyakarta) Hendra Brawijaya / Saylow (Bali) Venzha (Yogyakarta) Hasan Murod (Yogyakarta) D H (Bandung) Anggun Priambodo (Jakarta) Benny Wicaksono (Surabaya) FIAT TV (Yogyakarta) Boy + Naro (Yogyakarta) Irene Agrivina (Yogyakarta) Achmad Pradekso (Yogyakarta) Prof. Irfan (Yogyakarta) Prof. Jaka widada (Yogyakarta) JackD2 (Yogyakarta) ZeTH (Yogyakarta) Inventory Reality (Yogyakarta) VJs : vjnumberone (Yogyakarta) motioninja / UVG (Jakarta) chainsmokingbastard (Bandung) video hack (Surabaya) digitalillusion (Solo) rootsdigitalized (Jakarta) the departure (Yogyakarta) digital hallucination (Bandung) publicspace (Surabaya) mocco (Jakarta) MUTH (Surabaya) Live PA : Electrocore (Yogyakarta) lintang enrico (Yogyakarta) Monotron Prostitute (Semarang) midijunkie (Yogyakarta) uncle 303 (Jakarta) apple stereo (Surabaya) Natural Airwaves (Bandung) DubYouth (Yogyakarta) Jahanam (Yogyakarta) Hengky strawberry (Yogyakarta) Crazyculture (Yogyakarta) Uma Guma (Yogyakarta) Terror Incognita (Semarang) The Projector (Surabaya) Godmode (Yogyakarta) SOAC (Yogyakarta) DJs : Sonny (Yogyakarta) Bima (Jakarta) Wza (Yogyakarta) Dasa (Bandung) Billy (Yogyakarta) DMZ (Bandung) Celcius (Jakarta) Dewa (Yogyakarta) Louvi (Yogyakarta) Fadlie (Jakarta) Navis (Yogyakarta) Alan (Yogyakarta) MCs : Mc Erno (Yogyakarta) Mc electrocore (Yogyakarta) XBO (Yogyakarta) Boy (Yogyakarta) Mc Jamze (UK) Steaming / Web / Interview / Recent Works : React Table (Spain) CIANT (Czech Republic) Station Mir (France) Andrius Rugevicius (Lithuania) Art Sensitive (France) Emmanuel Maa BERRIET (France) Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Caen (France) Michal Marianek (Czech Republic) Mains dOEuvres (France) Artskool (France) Yuichi Nagao (Japan) ---------------------------- www.natural-fiber.com venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? 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