Wiretap 2.11 - Media Workshops - Art Incorporated

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Wiretap 2.11 - Sunday afternoon November 24 1996

Media Workshops - Art Incorporated
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V2_Organisatie:...Wiretap 2.11
date:.............Sunday November 24 1996
time:.............Admission from: 13.00hrs
start programme:..14.00hrs
location:.........Eendrachtsstraat 10 - 3012 XL - Rotterdam
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The proliferation of new media technology throughout contemporary culture
has fostered the position of media art as an important branch of artistic
activity. In many places, workshops and laboratories for the development of
media art projects have been set up or are in the process of being set-up.
Although in each individual case the situation differs due to the political
context, the given organisational structures, and the personality of the
individuals involved, many of these new centres face the same range of
questions: how to define the aim and programme of such a laboratory; how to
decide on certain formats, technical platforms, and possible partners; how
to get and how to finance the hardware; how to create productive yet
sufficiently independent partnerships with scientific research centres and
with industry; how to develop research and development projects with
artists?
Many of the projects proposed by media artists today cannot be realised by
one organisation alone, but need the cooperation with partners for
planning, production, financing and presentation, - cooperations which are
often not only practical, but which also make sense conceptually. At the
same time, it is vital to be able to share resources, technical hardware,
technical and organisational knowhow, and specialists, in order to be able
to make the larger projects at all possible.
This Wiretap programme will bring together representatives of four
important European media art centres. They will present their workshops and
will show projects which have recently been presented there. Special
attention will be given to existing international networks like EMARE and
EAR.NET. The programme offers an overview over international developments
in the field of media art and will make it possible to foster relationships
between artists and the different centers. Dutch artists get an opportunity
to find out about the possibilities of developing their projects in other
parts of Europe.
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Sunday, 24 November 1996
13.00hrs - doors open
14.00hrs - presentations by:
- Michael Klein, Institut fuer Neue Medien (Frankfurt/M./Germany)
- Tapio Maekela, MUU Media Center (Helsinki/Finland)
- Mike Stubbs, Hull Time Based Arts (Hull/Great Britain)
- Alex Adriaansens, V2_Organisatie (Rotterdam/Netherlands)
16.00hrs - break
16.30hrs - discussion:
about existing cooperation and exchange structures, about therelation
between artistic and corporate interests, and about media art in an
international perspective.
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Institut fuer Neue Medien (Frankfurt/M./Germany)
Founded in 1989 by Peter Weibel, the INM has been directed by Michael Klein
since 1994. The INM does theoretical as well as practical research in the
field of new media. Artists like Michael Saup, Akke Wagenaar or Knowbotic
Research +cF, as well as art students develop their projects in studios for
video, audio, multimedia and 3D-computer graphics. The INM has also set up
a company 'inm-numerical magic gmbh', which takes on commercial commissions
and thus helps to financially support the artistic projects.
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MUU Media Center (Helsinki/Finland)
MUU is an artists organisation, set up in 1987, which is directed by Tapio
Maekela and which has around 250 memebers working in the fields of media
art, peformance, installation, concept art, critical theory, etc.. MUU has
its own gallery space, it produces the annual MUU Media Festival and other
large-scale public events, and it has recently established the
MuuMediaBase, a media workshop which can be used freely by members of MUU.
MUU is a founding member of the EAR.NET network.
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Hull Time Based Arts (Hull/Great Britain)
HTBA, founded in 1984 and led by Mike Stubbs, is an organisation of around
70 artists which is dedicated to the production and presentation of
multi-disciplinary art projects that make use of film, video, sound and
music, performance, installations or new media. HTBA organises an annual
festival, ROOT, it has facilities for non-linear video production (Avid)
and has training and artist-in-residence schemes. HTBA is a member of the
network EMARE (European Media Artists Residency Exchange).
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V2_Organisatie (Rotterdam/Netherlands)
V2_Organisatie is an artists organisation and a center for art and media
technology. For more than ten years, V2 is critically investigating the
relationships between art, technology and society. During its annual Dutch
Electronic Art Festival and other public activities, new art projects are
being presented, while V2's symposia, workshops and publications contribute
to the international theoretical discussion about art and media. V2 has its
own Internet server and is in the process of setting up a permanent media
workshop.
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HYPERLINKS...............................................WIRETAP 2.11
Institut fuer Neue Medien (Frankfurt/Germany)..... http://www.inm.de/
MUU (Helsinki/Finland)......................... http://muu.lib.hel.fi
Art+Com (Berlin/Germany)........................ http://www.artcom.de
Artec (London/England)....................... http://www.artec.org.uk
Banff Center (Canada)................... http://www.banffcenter.ab.ca
C3 (Budapest/Hungary)............................... http://www.c3.hu
Desk.NL (Amsterdam/Netherlands)................... http://www.desk.nl
E-L@b (Riga/Latvia).................... http://www.park.lv/home/e-L@b
ICC (Tokyo/Japan)............................ http://www.ntticc.or.jp
SCAN (Groningen/Netherlands).................. http://www.media-gn.nl
ZKM (Karlsruhe/Germany)............................ http://www.zkm.de
EAR.NET............................................ http://earnet.org
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