SOFT FREEDOM, Trondheim Matchmaking 2005!
Espen Gangvik
espen at gangvik.no
Tue Aug 30 16:18:36 CEST 2005
where are you between the 17th and 23rd of october?
here’s a preliminary taste of this autumn’s greatest event!-)
feel free to distribute...
SOFT FREEDOM, Trondheim Matchmaking 2005!
Festival for art and new technology.
Trondheim, Norway
Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd of October 2005: NOVA conference centre /
Teaterhuset Avant Garden / Trøndelag Centre of Contemporary Arts
Trondheim Matchmaking is arranged by Trondheim Electronic Arts
Centre, TEKS, and is a meeting point to present innovative ideas and
artistic projects, a place to share knowledge, make contacts and
learn new skills and develop resources within new technology and
electronic arts.
New art projects with a need for technology – new technologies with
a need for substance: a place to bind together resources and
competence within the field.
TEKS continues to arrange Norway’s only festival for arts and new
technology!
This year’s event has got a general theme of “Soft Freedom”. As
co-curator and host for the day-program, we have invited Alan J.
Munro, http://www.munrobius.com, currently a Senior Researcher at the
Department of computer and information science, NTNU:
It’s a hundred years since Norway became a nation and 30 years into
a communications revolution and we are reflecting on just what it
means to be a citizen in these times. We are free to use open source
software, free to communicate with people and access information
across the world. But new technologies offer abilities to track and
surveil, which may radically change, or extinguish, basic privacies.
In terms of the world around us, intelligence may make the world
around us ‘soft’, even architecture becoming responsive and
manipulable. What is it to live in this world?
Trondheim Matchmaking this year takes place in week 42, Monday 17th
to Sunday 23rd of October, and we start the festival with a four day
long workshop; ‘Soft Freedoms’, where we invite professional
artists and art-students in Trondheim, to participate in discussions,
project development, and concept creation co-hosted by literature-
and new media theorist, researcher and codirector of "Virtueel
Platform", http://www.virtueelplatform.nl , Rob van Kranenburg, The
Netherlands and Alan J. Munro.
Wednesday and Thursday we show the “digital" theatre piece
“Knockings. Beacons. Smokesignals” Uli Winters/ Klaus Fehling/
Marcel Keller, Germany http://www.u-winters.de/puppen.html, presented
by mechanical dolls at Teaterhuset Avant Garden.
Friday and Saturday we enter the conference centre NOVA, where we
present, in quick shifts, a wide range of speakers, from home and
abroad; artists, researchers, technologists and philosophers. Like
previous years, the festival will be visited by many high-profile
researchers in the field!
Speakers and exhibitors will among others include:
Pablo Miranda Carranza, London/ Stockholm, architect/ artist: http://
www.armyofclerks.net
Army of Clerks -generative and algorithmic approaches within
architecture and design.
Rob van Kranenburg, The Netherlands, inovation consultant: http://
www.virtueelplatform.nl/person-1024.25.html&lang=en
Virtueel Platform; " We are entering a land where the environment
has become the interface, where we must learn anew how to make sense."
Thorbjørn Lausten, Denmark, artist: http://www.luxpress.dk
Scientific visualization, pictures from afar.
Adam Somlai-Fisher, Hungary, architect/ researcher/ artist: http://
www.aether.hu
Between the human, the physical and the virtual, between the local
environment and the ubiquitous global digital media.
Uli Winters, Germany, artist: http://www.u-winters.de
Shaman-O-Matik, Automat- art
Usman Haque, England/ architect/ artist: http://www.haque.co.uk
"[…] technologies alter our understanding of space and change the
way we relate to each other. We no longer think of architecture as
static and immutable; instead we see it as dynamic, responsive and
conversant."
Martin Rieser, England, artist, curator, writer: http://
www.martinrieser.com
Art of interactivity, from gallery to street.
Saturday night is concert night, with a blend of bands and solo-
artists, put up in cooperation with Lars Myrvoll at http://
enlightenment.no. Program and site to be announced!
This year’s exhibition will be opened during the festival weekend at
Trøndelag Centre of Contemporary Arts http://samtidskunst.no (More
information to come).
Keep watching our website for updates and a full program: http://
www.teks.no
Festival tickets to be bought for 50 NOK at the entrance (theatre and
saturday’s concert has own tickets).
Pleae feel free to ask about times, places, accomodation etc:
teks at teks.no
WELCOME!
best regards,
the TEKSans!

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