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The 6th International ART+COMMUNICATION festival will comprise a series of events from May 15-18, 2003 conceptually located at the intersection of information networks and post-modern architectonics; while physically located in Latvia in Riga, as well as in Karosta, Liepaja and at the VIRAC Radiotelecope in Irbene.
> conference: media architecture The Media Architecture international conference will take place in Riga, from May 16-17. Discussions will include: how lessons from the social dynamic of 'virtual 'networks, can be applied to the creation of open, public physical spaces; designs for process-based architecture, and hybrid spaces; and how mapping/positioning and wireless networking impact on notions of space time and social organization.
> design concept and performances in media space: light affair Taking place in a central, but derelict section of Old Riga the theme of 'transformation of place' through networking (both physical and virtual) will be manifest in the conferences various facilities through installations, include evening programmes of media synesthesia (visible sound/audible light), as well as by the official initiation of an ambitious engineering project for the creation of Media Space - a new headquarters for RIXC.
> closing programme: acoustic space lab Finally, for the closing section of the festival, participants will be brought to the Irbene Radio Telescope, a former Soviet military satellite dish (d=32m) where participants from the 2001 Acoustic Space Lab symposium will present the DVD "RT-32: Acoustic Space Lab" and audio CD of their interpretations of data they gathered from scanning the planets, communication satellites and surrounding environment with this powerful telescope.
THURSDAY, MAY 15
19.00 - FESTIVAL OPENING PROGRAMME RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35, Riga
> Opening of festival exposition:
1 MATRIX - interactive installation by Luke Jerram (UK), using patented retinal after-image technology to create virtual light sculpture within the mind of a viewer 2 REAL TIME RIGA - project by Waag Society (NL) and Esther Polak (NL), co-produced with RIXC (LV). Every inhabitant has an invisible map of the city in his head. The way he moves about the city and the choices made in this process are determined by this mental map. For first time RealTime project was set up in Amsterdam, in fall 2002; now the project is restaged in Riga. RealTime project attempts to visualize these mental maps through examining the mobile behaviour of the city's users. 3 PSYCHOTRONIC GOVERNMENT - maps by Bureau d'Etudes (FR) 4 SOFT CINEMA - a dynamic computer-driven media installation by Lev Manovich (US). The viewers are presented with an infinite series of narrative films constructed on the fly by the custom software. Using the systems of rules defined by the author, the software decides what appears on the screen, where, and in which sequence; it also chooses music tracks.
> Presentation of the "Acoustic.Space (4): Media Architecture" reader. > Performance and live jam session by Planktons & Aquarell (LV), OP! (LV), Ugis Vitins (LV), others.
FRIDAY, MAY 16
10.00 - 18.00 MEDIA ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE day 1 in intersection of information networks and post-modern architectonics location: Artists' Union Gallery, 11. Novembra Krastmala 35
1-01 urban geographies and networked media / process-based architecture: Frans Vogelaar / invOFFICE (NL) / KHM (DE), Lev Manovich (US), Tuomas Toivonen / AULA (FI), Francesca Ferguson / Urban Drift (DE), Herve Trioreau (FR), Carl Biorsmark, Kristine Briede / K@2 (LV), Alex Adriaansens / V2 (NL)
1-02 hybrid space / interrelations of media art in public spaces, in virtual networks and architecture Eric Kluitenberg (NL), Tania Gorucheva / Media Art Lab (RU), Edwin van der Heide (NL), Luke Jerram (UK), Atau Tanaka (JP-FR), Tamas Szakal (DE), Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Christoph Theiler / machfeld (AT), Tim Boykett, Andreas Mayrhof / Times Up (AT)
20.00 PERFORMANCE AND FILM PROGRAMME location: RIXC Media Space, 11 Novembra krastmala 35
> 3D visual and sound interface demonstrations and performances by NAVIGABLE SOUND / labau (BE) | PINGSONIK / Rigasound.org (LV) | SEMEMA-INDUSTRIAL.NET (LV) | CELLULAE.NET / Jaanis Garancs (LV) > Films by Mike Stubbs (UK) HOMING, GIFT & CULTURAL QUARTIER | video by Wolf Kahlen (DE) KYOTO - RAW MATERIAL ON SUBLIME BEAUTY
SATURDAY, MAY 17
11.00 - 18.00 MEDIA ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE day 2 exploring potential of mobile media for social geography and locative art location: Artists' Union Gallery
2-01 cellspace / wireless networks, GPS and mapping-positioning Marc Tuters / GPSter (CA), Ewen Chardronnet / Ellipse (FR), Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol (SI), Wayne Piekarski (AU), Jaanis Garancs (DE-LV), Adam Hyde/ r a d i o q u a l i a (UK-NZ)
2-02 locative media / maps and psychogeography Konrad Becker / Public Netbase (AT), Brian Holmes (US-FR), Aske Hopman, Esther Polak, Tom Demeyer, Marleen Sticker / Waag Society (NL), Leonore Bonaccini, Xavier Fourt / Bureau d'etudes (FR), 0100101110101101.ORG / VOPOS (IT)
20.00 - 20.00 PERFORMANCES VISIBLE SOUND< location: RIXC Media Space
> LSP #2, Edwin van der Heide (NL) - a solo performance in which sound is used to control the movements of a laser. The result is a complex shape transforming space. (Realisation: Edwin van der Heide & Vladimir Gravof). > SENSOR DUO - Atau Tanaka (JP/FR) un Cecile Babiole (FR). A performance with two artists onstage: one producing sound and the other manipulating image, both articulated by movements of the arms and body. They interpret a unified compositional concept - one in light and the other in sound. > COMMA DATA SPACE (LIVE) Adam Hyde / r a d i o q u a l i a (UK-NZ) > SPECTROSPHERE by Clausthome (LV) - music and MR/F5 (LV) - video.
SUNDAY, MAY 18
13.00 - FESTIVAL CLOSING PROGRAMME location: VIRAC radiotelescope RT-32 in Irbene (near Ventspils).
> Opening of the permanent installation RT-32 and presentation of the DVD RT-32 - ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB. The DVD, produced by RIXC in Riga, 2003, is a multi-media exploration of the VIRAC radio telescope - a 32 m dish antenna in Irbene, Latvia. It covers the history of this top-secret Soviet era military object, including precise technical data and its conversion to scientific and civilian use, and introduces the international ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB symposium on sound art using radio and satellite technology that took place in summer 2001 at the site of the dish.
Organiser: The Center for New Media Culture RIXC (http://rixc.lv)
Information and accreditation: tel. +371-7228478 (rixc), 6546776 (mob.), e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv
Support: Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga City Council, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, French Cultural Center, AFAA, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nordic Council for Ministers Information Center in Riga, British Council Latvia, Latvian Embassy in UK, Apollo Interneta Pakalpojumi, Casablanka, "Studija", radio NABA and others.
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