[syndicate] OPEN CALL_HOSPI-TABLE WORKSHOP

[panos kouros]

OPEN CALL

HOSPI-TABLE: The Architecture of Human Meetings Today

We seek video-talk contributions on the Architecture of meetings and 
meeting-places today or maybe tomorrow.

All video-talk contributions will form a "table" in a YouTube 
Channel, around which this year's Summer Workshop "hospi - table 
:  the Architecture of meetings and meeting places" will be evolved.

We invite artists, architects, philosophers to deliver a 30 seconds 
to 6 minutes small talk. The emphasis will be put on the diverse 
conditions of meeting in real space or in the internet and on changes 
taking place, or anticipated in the post network meeting tables. The 
KAM hospi-table workshop will examine possibilities of the same 
questioning in Chania, Crete, during the period of August 8-14, 2007.

We will need your contribution uploaded until August 8. The oral 
character is the most important factor so please note that we would 
like to grasp a quick, spontaneous reaction of yours about the topic. 
If your statement is given in english or in french our work will be 
easier. Your name will be tagged and linked to your short film.

We are asking for a white background small video film showing you 
delivering an improvised or read talk or statement. The video has to 
be uploaded in youtube. The quality of the video is not important if 
the sound is clear.

To upload your video use the 
address<http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chanelKAM>
<http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hospitablechannel>hospitablechannel 
in <http://www.youtube.com/>youtube
user name: hospitablechannel
password: 0hospitable1

A next round of Hospi-table talks will take place after the end of 
the Workshop. Next deadline is August 30th.

The KAM hospi-table working group



HOSPI-TABLE: The Architecture of Human Meetings Today

The Hospi-Table Workshop explores the structure of today's concept of 
meeting in architectural terms. This choice seeks to question the 
conventional empirical area and the internet digital area at the same 
time. The assumption of an in situ workshop is altered in reference 
to the Internet. Thus, the workshop will be hosted in a meeting area 
organized between real and internet space. To be more precise, 
dwelling between the real and internet meeting area is achieved 
through the mediation of a table. The theme is the concept of Meeting 
in general and the object, the "table", organizes the reference to 
the hosting of a meeting. The headquarters of the workshop are in the 
Chania Grand Arsenal.  The reference areas are a number of "topoi" in 
Chania with conventional meeting tables, and also various internet 
meeting areas (mailing lists, collaboration platforms, collective 
content pools, Second Life, etc.).

The objective is to create projects (constructions and speeches) 
dealing with the concept of meeting under current 
conditions.  Teaching is not the main objective of the workshop; it 
is collaboration for the production of small works. These works will 
be organized and situated at various internet locations.

The Hospi-Table Workshop is initiated by Aristide Antonas, Panos 
Kouros and Filippos Oreopoulos and hosted by the Center for 
Mediterranean Architecture (KAM) in Chania, Crete, Greece. The 
Hospi-Table Workshop is based on a concept by Gregorios Pharmakis 
plural person. [ http://hospi-table.blogspot.com/ ]


KAM Summer Workshops


The KAM Theory and Practice Summer Workshops have been organizing 
approaches to architecture and art since the summer 2000. These 
approaches are based on contemporary imaging technology and theory. 
The summer workshops are an interdisciplinary architecture and art 
program with an emphasis on practical application. Each year's 
project consists of creating themes for a specific area (that has 
particular narrative characteristics) and an effort to produce models 
of that area. This approach organizes a somewhat nomadic reflection 
thereby creating an area identity characterized by continuous 
suspense. In this year's approach, we will be exploring the 
relationship between locality and its internet versions. The "topos" 
is assembled as a disparate sum of unforeseen installations with an 
imponderable and unstable point of reference: it constitutes a fixed 
reference for collecting data that organize versions.

Participants include professors and students from Greek and foreign 
Schools of Architecture and Fine Arts and honoured guests, who are 
selected on the basis of the annual project. The KAM workshops aim at 
creating a structure with a minimum of hierarchy, where knowledge is 
not the outcome of direct and homeotropic teaching but a result of 
the particular and autonomous participation of students in the 
construction of each collectively implemented project. Within the 
framework of the summer workshops, lectures and discussions accompany 
project implementation, as parallel experiences of all 
participants.  Thus, involvement in each participative project 
defines the tasks, discussions and theoretical approaches. The 
project will be exhibited and published. The Chania Municipality KAM 
(Centre for Mediterranean Architecture) forms part of the Ministry of 
Culture's Architecture Network and Dimitris Antonakakis is its art director.

http://www.kamworkshops.com/

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