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RAM5: OPEN SOURCE MEDIA ARCHITECTURE

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[RAM5]: OPEN SOURCE MEDIA ARCHITECTURE

The 5th RAM workshop entitled "Open Source Media Architecture" will take place from May 4th to 9th, 2004 in Riga, Latvia, organised by the RIXC.

Open Source ideas -- that has its origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the common
advancement of the field -- will be used to set up the context for the RAM5 workshop in Riga.

The aim of the workshop is to investigate into how the Open Source concept, applied in contemporary practice of architecture, locative art and streaming
media, can turn closed systems into open-ended narratives*. It also aims to explore how the Open Source concept changes the notion about copyright and
intellectual property, facilitates free access to the media content, and promotes enhancement of the public domain - leading a step closer towards an
interactive, shared and collaborative practice of copyright-free culture.

In this context, the workshop will focus on exploring the potential of open source architecture in city saturated with mobile communications; the impact of
ad-hoc wireless networking on architecture, art and social organisation; and the implication of streaming sound in acoustic cell-space of mobile media.

Accordingly three "media architecture" working groups will be set up:

[01] Open Source Architecture
[02] Locative Media Architecture
[03] Acoustic Cell-Space Architecture.

Additional activities will be devoted to introduce with Open Source software architecture - initiatives, tools and tactics; and to develop strategies to
protect open source (streaming and locative) media content.

The 5-day workshop programme will include working sessions of 3 thematic groups, participants presentations, public lectures in the evenings and night
performances. To close the workshop, a special event - "Open Source Day" will be organised for the wider public introducing the conceptual background of the
activity, including the workshop results.

RAM5: "Open Source Media Architecture" is a part of the "Re-Approaching New Media" series of workshops and events being held across 6 Nordic and Baltic
countries. The project is a collaboration between CRAC (SE), Olento (FI), RIXC (LV), Atelier Nord (NO), E-Media Center (EE), Vilma/Jutempus (LT).
http://www.ram-net.net

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The workshop addresses architects and designers, sound artists, open source activists and programmers, however open for everyone interested.

Deadline: March 2004

We ask for an informal application: please enclose your CV (or short bio) and short statement of your interest in the theme and/or what you might like to
propose.

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