V2/DEAF: Subject: WOSEMA - Workshops/Seminars/Masterclasses

[marjolein at v2.nl]

Wednesday 26 February until Friday 7 March 2003
Locations: V2_groundfloor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Calypso, Mauritsweg 5, Rotterdam
Pakhuis Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade 66-68 (Kop van Zuid), Rotterdam
Goethe-Institut, Westersingel 9, Rotterdam

The WOSEMA-progam is 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, The Netherlands)

WOSEMA includes the following program parts:

Seminar ?Copy the Rights!?
26 February, 11:00 - 17:00 hours, Calypso.
Admission ? 25,-
Discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) ? 20,-.

?Copy the Rights!? is a seminar about copyright. It will address various 
copyright aspects of digitizing and opening up archive collections or 
databases (online), as well as the issue of copyright in a changing art 
practice: unstable art projects that center around recycling and copying 
material often arise out of collaborative efforts where the classic notion 
of authorship no longer applies.
In a number of hands-on presentations some examples of ?good practice? will 
be demonstrated.
Artists from both the Netherlands and abroad will present their activities 
to the audience.
?Copy the Rights!? has invited a number of prominent foreign speakers to 
inspire the debate on alternative copyright models  copyleft, open source, 
open content, open access  and whether these may fit within the Dutch context.

Moderator: Paul Rutten, head of the Information and Communication unit of 
TNO STB (NL).
The seminar will be in English.


Media Academy Day
27 February, 11:00 - 18:00 hours, Pakhuis Las Palmas, in the Arena.
Admission ? 10,-
Discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) ? 8,-.

The space of media art education begins to expand and cross ever-new 
disciplinary borders. We see an explosion of educational methodologies and 
structures. Both in the Netherlands and abroad, experimental educational 
models are being tested, responding to transformations within the social, 
economic and cultural domain where communication media play such a crucial 
role. Five institutions from the Netherlands and Europe chosen for their 
unique and innovative curricular models have been invited to present their 
programs and discuss their concepts and methodologies. Students will be 
invited to demonstrate their projects. Those creating the academic agenda 
will participate in a public panel to discuss their vision and strategy.

Invited academies are:
School of Communication and the Arts, Malmö (S),
Bauhausuniversität Weimar (D),
Intermedia Dept., Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (H),
Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea (I),
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich (CH),
Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)

The program is moderated by Geert Lovink (NL)
Workshops

During DEAF03 there will be a number of workshops that focus on the 
transfer of knowledge and expertise, aiming to stimulate (inter)national 
collaborative efforts. These workshops will treat DEAF03?s theme and 
discuss various aspects of information design, information accessing, data 
visualization, copyright issues and open-source software developments. The 
workshops are intended for artists, producers and developers from various 
segments of the cultural field and representatives of the scientific community.


Workshop ?Media Knitting?, in collaboration with Exstream, as a European 
Culture 2000 program.
A three-day hands-on workshop, the selection of participants is closed.
26 - 28 February, 12:00 - 22:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor.
Workshop presentation: 28 February, 20:00 - 22:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor
Admission free, reservations via ticketline

Collaboration between developers and artists from different disciplines 
often results in merged media or new media formats. ?Media Knitting? is a 
three-day hands-on workshop for artists, engineers, and designers working 
with software to knit various media formats and applications together for 
live or real-time interactive performances. The scope of the media used for 
collaboration in ?Media Knitting? will include video, streaming media, 
audio and 3D modelling. In this workshop thirty participants will work 
together to discover and patch each other?s domains together by means of 
software and human interaction. Several experts will be brought in from the 
commercial software field for Mac and Windows as well as from the field of 
?open source? and ?free software?. The participants and the workshop 
leaders will work together on the realisation of performances or media jam 
sessions. The end result of the workshop will be presented in an informal 
media concert open to the audience.


Workshop ?Data Perception?
1 March, 13:00 - 17:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor.
Admission ? 15,-.

As we?ve become more immersed in our digital environment, it occurs more 
significant that data can not be seen as neutral entities: the atoms of 
information acquire their meaning through contextualization and 
visualization. The constantly changing dynamics of the digital context has 
a tremendous impact on our experience. How can we master this constantly 
changing data environments and knitting these qualities together into a new 
single experience? Artists could question the shifting paradigms, and lead 
the way into new representations and their readings. ?Data Perception? 
tries to get a grip on such aspects as navigation, retrieval and perception 
in the field of multi dimensional environments; dynamic or static 
information; familiar geometries or abstract topologies; and mapping data 
spaces or assigning metadata.
?Data Perception? brings together diverse speakers who will present and 
demonstrate their own project specific requirements and solutions:Julie 
Tolmie (CDN), Ben Schouten (NL), Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák and Márton 
Fernezelyi (H), Sheelagh Carpendale (CDN) and Brigit Lichtenegger(NL).


Presentations/debat ?Data Quilting: XX Patterns in Media Practice and 
Theory Salon-like event?.
2 March, 14:00 - 17:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor.
Admission ? 8,-.

?Data Quilting? focusses specifically on gender issues in interdisciplinary 
collaborations and technology networks. Before 1920 American women were not 
allowed to vote and they had therefore been deprived of a public voice. The 
action of quilting had literally been the text/ile for expressing 
political, social and emotional positions. Nowadays quilts still signify 
palimpsests of meanings, which make up a testimony of their makers and 
time. One could argue that quilts are fabrics of knowledge: patches of data 
stitched together in particular ways to form a coherent whole. ?Data 
Quilting? considers the interstitial [inter/stitchial] information spaces, 
where a collaborative effort is made to thread skills and knowledge 
together. It wants to investigate which strategies women working in new 
media apply to foster collaboration and spur interdisciplinary practice.The 
major focus will be on identifying, testing, mapping, and exchanging patterns.
Moderator: Nat Muller (NL). Featured Guests a.o.: Michelle Teran (CDN), 
Nina Czegledy (CDN), Sara Diamond (CDN), Sharon Daniel (USA), Susan Kozel 
(CDN/GB), Thecla Schiphorst (CDN), Kristina Anderson (DK/GB), Anke Bangma (NL).


Presentations ?Knitted Europe?, a ?European Culture 2000? program.
27 February, 13:00 - 18:00 hours, Goethe-Institut.
Admission free, reservations via ticketline

?Knitted Europe? will showcase a range of best practice projects that are 
part of European programs like ?Culture 2000? and the ?Information Society 
Technologies Program (I.S.T.)? that promote collaboration between European 
art institutes and cultural organisations. These consortia will present 
either work in progress or recently finished projects and share their 
experiences with the audience. These projects are ?Realtime and Presence?, 
?MIR ­ Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research?, ?Code Zebra?, ?Virtual 
Media Centre?, ?Exstream?, ?Worldinfo.com?, ?Playing Field?, ?Interfacing 
Realities? and ?Worldinfo.com?.
A representative of the European Committee will comment on these programmes 
and four institutes will then present their projects and discuss the 
results with the audience. Dutch representatives of the programmes will 
discuss the chances for European collaboration in the future. ?Knitted 
Europe? is supported by the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam.


Masterclass ?Collaborative Culture?, a ?European Culture 2000? program.
Part of a series of four master classes, called ?Interfacing Realities?.
3 - 7 March, 11:00 - 18:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor.
Admission ? 200,- Student discount ? 100,-
For more information see also: www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities

Interdisciplinarity in current arts practice has several aspects. One of 
them is within the medium itself: digitized mediums or modalities such as 
sound, image, text, touch and gesture meld together. Another one is the 
collaboration between disciplines, including the sciences, engineering, 
technology, interdisciplinary arts and critical theory. The ?Collaborative 
Culture? master class will analyse these two aspects in their relationship 
with one another and with the emergent aesthetics within the culture of 
online communities.
Sher Doruff, a digital artist, will guide ten participants.This master 
class is part of a series of four master classes, called ?Interfacing 
Realities?. They focus on new concepts for information management in 
general, and the usage and creation of databases and archives in 
contemporary art practices in particular.


More information can be found on ?DEAF03 Online?: http://deaf.v2.nl
?DEAF03 Online? offers the possibility to view the presentations 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