[syndicate] EXTENDED DEADLINE: Data forensics [in the landscape]. Workshop call. 6/7/8 November. Oslo

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Apologies and correction: the deadline is extended to Thursday 30th
October!

M

m <m at 1010.co.uk> writes:

> EXTENDED DEADLINE: Data forensics [in the landscape]. Workshop call. 6/7/8 November. Oslo
>
> A practical workshop with Martin Howse and Julian Oliver.
>
> Thursday 6th November - Saturday 8th November 2008
>
> Atelier Nord, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo ( Kunstnernes Hus) 
>
> Participation fee is 500 NOK
> Application deadline Friday 24th October 
> Send applications with brief statement of interest to office at anart.no
> Further information: http://anart.no/projects/data_forensics
>
> //
>
> With an emphasis on the active construction of hardware and software
> apparatus, the Data forensics workshop will apply practical tools,
> techniques and theory to analyse [un]intentional data emissions within
> the city of Oslo.
>
> The workshop extends a succession of practical and theoretical
> investigations concerned with electromagnetic [EM] phenomena into the
> world of data space. Spanning signal and noise, digits and decay, Data
> Forensics explores the often unintuitive reality that digital data has
> its own electromagnetic (physical) presence, a physicality that can be
> read and perhaps even modulated through the carrier medium itself. 
>
> Data Forensics presents a window between the domain of the digital and
> the physical; the digital both informs and reveals the physical and
> vice versa. It is through this relationship that we can find a
> fortuitous exchange of practices. We can - for example - borrow
> techniques from real-world forensics to examine and attempt to make
> sense of leaked data emissions. Alternatively, we can expose and
> elaborate upon the notion of data sedimentation; taking an
> archaeological approach to examining everyday digital activity.
>
> Topics for active research and discussion within an artistic context
> include but are not limited to:
>
> making sense of landscape from a forensics perspective, photo and
> audio reconnaissance, data sedimentation, data visualisation,
> TEMPEST, cryptography, mapping of event intensity using GPS,
> signals, noise and strategies for interpretation of the
> intentionality of transmissions
>
> Participants do not need to have practical or theoretical experience
> within these multiple fields; a keen interest in this novel artistic
> terrain is essential. 
>
> Participation is 500 NOK
>
> Application deadline Friday 24th October 
>
> Send applications with brief statement of interest to office at anart.no
>
> Further information: http://anart.no/projects/data_forensics
>
> Questions to: office at anart.no
>
>
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