SOFT FREEDOM, Trondheim Matchmaking 2005!

[Espen Gangvik]

where are you between the 17th and 23rd of october?
here’s a preliminary taste of  this autumn’s greatest event!-)
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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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