Master Class on Urban Intervention by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

[anna balint]

From: Ars Electronica Center <announce at aec.at>
 

Master Class on Urban Intervention by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Call for Participation

HUMO: A mobile platform for the rapid deployment of huge images.
Master Class with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, February 3-7, 2003

HUGE AND MOBILE (HUMO):

This intensive experimental workshop will invite participants to develop and present 
urban interventions  using a mobile platform for the projection of huge images. 
Basically, we will place the world's most  powerful projector (which produces 60 x 60 
metre images with over 100,000 ANSI lumen intensity) on the  back of a pick-up truck 
together with a diesel generator, a GPS tracker, a pan/tilt platform and an  
assortment of lenses. The project will consist of rapid deployment of strategic 
images to transform urban  landscapes. Logos, emblematic buildings, quotidian spaces, 
suburban malls, advertising billboards, etc.,  will be the targets of unannounced, 
unregulated ephemeral interventions. Documentation of these projects  will be an 
integral part of the workshop, as the conditions of possibility of 
legal/political/aesthetic  viability are fast, short interventions below the radar of 
potential regulators.

The workshop will have the following sections:

1. Theory and precedents. Imparted by Lozano-Hemmer and theorist Brian Massumi
2. City scouting
3. Conception and development
4. HUMO Appointments
5. Documentation and publication

The HUMO workshop is limited to 10 participants. We seek to attract a diverse group 
of professional artists  who may have already worked with public space and who are 
comfortable working with digital imaging. The  participants will be selected by 
evaluating a statement of interest (Max 500 words) and a curriculum,  which should 
emphasize previous works that might illustrate technical or conceptual resonance with 
the  HUMO workshop.

More about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer www.lozano-hemmer.com

Application:
Application details and further information: http://residence.aec.at/humo
Contact: eva.kuehn at aec.at
Deadline for application: January 17, 2003.

The HUMO master class is an ENCART project supported by the European Culture 2000 
programme.
ENCART (European Network for Cyber Arts; partners: Ars Electronica Center, C3, V2_, 
ZKM).
More information about the project: http://www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities/

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