V2_/DEAF03: seminar + call for participation master class

Mon Jan 20 19:10:53 CET 2003

V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media and DEAF03  Dutch Electronic Art 
Festival 2003 invite you to participate in:
1. Seminar 'Copy the Rights!', 26 February 2003 (see text below Ad 1), 
registration now possible.
2. Master class 'Media Ecology' with Sher Doruff about interdisciplinarity, 
3 - 7 March 2003 (see text below Ad 2), deadline for application: 31 
January 2003.

Both the seminar and the master class will be in English.

Ad 1
Seminar 'Copy the Rights!'
Date: 26 February
Time: 11:00 - 17:00 hours
Location: Calypso, Mauritsweg 5, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Admission: 25,- euro, discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) 20,- euro

'Copy the Rights'! is a seminar about copyright. It will address various 
copyright aspects of opening up archives or databases, of archiving various 
expressions of digital culture and of (on-line) presentations of archive 
collections and databases. In a number of lectures and via hands-on 
presentations some examples of 'good practice' will be demonstrated. 
Archives, cultural institutes and copyright initiatives from both the 
Netherlands and abroad will inform the audience about their activities. 
Furthermore, a number of important recent international initiatives will be 
presented that offer alternative solutions to traditional copyright, such 
as a new kind of license, and open-access and open-content models. How 
useful and practical are these alternatives?

Moderation by Paul Rutten, head of the department Information and 
Communication at TNO Strategy and Policy (NL).

Program:
11:00: introduction by Paul Rutten
11:15: lectures by Darius Cuplinskas, Soros Foundation (H), Andy Powell, 
UKOLN (GB), Wendy Seltzer, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard 
Law School (USA) and Jon Ippolito, Guggenheim NY and University of Maine (USA)
14:00: lunch and hands-on presentations by Kingdom of Piracy, Nederlands 
Archief Grafisch Ontwerpers, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Joost Smiers 
(NL), DiColore (NL) and different lawyers and policy makers
16:00: debat
17:00: end

You can register for the seminar by sending an e-mail to tickets at v2.nl or 
via the festival website http://deaf.v2.nl. For more information on 
registration, phone: +31 (0)10 750.15.15.

Payment Procedure:
Your registration for the seminar becomes valid upon receipt of payment. 
V2_ will confirm your registration when both reservation and payment have 
been received. Your ticket(s) may then be collected at Calypso on the day 
of the seminar. In case of overbooking, V2_ reserves the right to cancel 
your registration. Please forward your payment to account number 245 38 96 
(Postbank) in favor of Stichting V2_, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 
mentioning your last name + 'seminar'. Alternatively, you can use the 
Direct Payment method at the festival website http://deaf.v2.nl.

Ad 2
Call for Participation
'Media Ecology', master class with Sher Doruff about interdisciplinarity
Date: 3 - 7 March 2003
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

'Media Ecology'
This master class will attempt to build an exploratory bridge between 
current discourse on collaborative dynamic systems and LiveArt's practice.

Since the context is inherently non-hierarchical and sensitive to bottom-up 
interaction it will focus on peer-to-peer exchange between the 'local' 
participants, guest presenters and an extended community of externally 
linked 'translocal' participants. It will address interdisiplinarity and 
interaction between mediums and persons as a processual dynamic with 
real-time, rich media multi-user creation. We will examine the conditions 
and qualia of live, networked, collaborative connections in relation to how 
we, as human agents provoke and negotiate events in distributed, online, 
interactive 'ecologies'.

During the week focus will fluctuate between theoretical angling and 
practical playfullness. Artists working with issues concerning information 
access, emotional computing, collaborative systems and social networks will 
present their work, interspersed with daily, hands-on, empirical assessment 
of online co-creation. The communication and digital processing of live and 
archived media, tools of LiveArt practitioners, inject a new set of 
conditions that reflect an emphasis on the gradient properties emerging 
from the process that evolve and grow the system itself. This is the 
beginning referent for the week's activities.

1. Theoretical correlations that will guide discussion within the context 
of real-time multi-user platforms and datamining methodologies include:
- emergence in complex systems
- distributed cognitive environments/pervasive computing technologies
- transformative iteration as aesthetic production
- synaesthetic perception
2. Guest presenters  artists and developers researching related issues will 
share their perspectives and research. Including Sharon Daniel, Michelle 
Teran, Sara Diamond, Just van den Broecke and Anne Nigten.
3. Hands-on presentations  participants will interface with translocal 
participants from the Anatomic Group at Waag Society in Amsterdam in 
assessing the potential and pitfalls of virtual engagement in media rich, 
self-organized, dynamic network scenarios. Playtime, in the enabling 
software environment KeyWorx (formerly KeyStroke), will be structured on a 
project basis, with participants focused on a common set of conditions, 
attributes and criteria relevant to the dynamic processing of media in 
networks. These online sessions will be streamed and archived for remix and 
recontextualization as an exploration of iterative content and dynamic 
change as emergent database.
4. Group projects in the workshop will involve preliminary designs for 
collaborative systems sensitive to cognitive/cultural aspects of real-time 
interaction, processual aesthetics and its relation to data classification, 
storage and access.

KeyWorx, developed at Waag Society, will serve as the primary experimental 
platform for this research. KeyWorx is an R&D project which enables 
collaborative distributed environments for multidisciplinary artists to 
create and disseminate new media performances from a shared workspace to a 
global audience. Live and archived media can be instantiated and modified 
by up to five participants in a session. The performance output is 
broadband streamed and/or beamed to local audiences and web viewers. The 
meeting and live interaction of diverse personalities and skillsets on a 
virtual, global stage will serve as a platform for an analysis of 
collective aesthetics.

Waag Society's Anatomic group in Amsterdam will be facilitated by Guy van 
Belle, Michelle Teran and Arjen Keesmaat.

More info about this master class: 
http://www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities/

Participants
The master class is open to 10 participants:
- who have some experience or interest in real-time interactive 
technologies such as MAX/MSP/nato/Jitter, Isadora, Image/ine, KeyWorx
- who have experience or serious interest in collaborative environments in 
arts practice

Application
Application details and further information:
http://www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities/
Contact: jeffrey at v2.nl
Deadline for application: January 31, 2003.
This master class is an EncART project supported by the European Culture 
2000 program. EncART (European Network for Cyber Arts; partners: AEC, C3, 
V2_, ZKM).

General Ad 1 and Ad 2:
The seminar and the master class are part of the Dutch Electronic Art 
Festival 'DEAF03 Data Knitting', organized by V2_, Institute for the 
Unstable Media (25 February - 9 March 2003 in Rotterdam)

More information can be found on 'DEAF03 Online': http://deaf.v2.nl
'DEAF03 Online' offers the possibility to view the symposium online and to 
participate in various festival activities.

For educational programs and/or guided tours during DEAF03 please contact 
Valentijn Webbers, valentijn at v2.nl or +31 (0)10 750 15 18