Syndicate: screens seminar

[Jeremy Welsh <Jeremy.Welsh@trdkunst.no>]

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seminar 10 - 11 october, Trondheim

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Arranged in collaboration with Trondheim Cinematek


A two day seminar in which many different aspects of the culture of the
screen will be discussed, from considerations of the digitalisation of
cinema  to the condition of liquid architecture in cyberspace. An 
international group of speakers from the fields of art, architecture,
dance, theatre, music, film studies, philosophy and media theory will
discuss a range of  issues which complement and supplement the ideas
and visions represented by the screens exhibition.


Registration:

The seminar begins with registration at 09.00 on Friday 11th. October
at Trondheim Cinematek, Filmhuset Rosendal, Innherredsv. 73. A final
schedule for the seminar will be published on the day. 


<bold>Pre-registration Trondheim Cinematek: 

Erik Larsen 73 52 23 55   fax  73 53 57 40


Tickets:

Ticket prices: standard Kr 250, students/unwaged  Kr 120 					


</bold>Screens seminar has been supported by Norsk Kinofond and 

NTNU Nettverk for Kunst og Estetikk


<bold>Marcos Novak  

transArchitecture

Building The Edge Of Thought


</bold>Marcos Novak is an architect and theorist whose  work is at the
forefront of debates around architecture, cyberspace, virtual reality
and digital media. Novak is an associate visiting professor in the S
chool of Digital Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.


transArchitecture, architecture beyond architecture, is an architecture
of

heretofore invisible scaffolds. It has a twofold character: within
cyberspace

is exists as liquid architecture that is transmitted across the global

information networks; within physical space it exists as an invisible

electronic double superimposed on our material world. Marcos Novac,

architect and artist, explains the philosophical background of the
liquid

architecture and shows the two faces of digital architecture. 


<bold>Lev Manovich

What is Digital Cinema ?


</bold>Lev Manovich is an artist, theorist and lecturer in media arts
at the University of California San Diego. He has written extensively
on the emergence of new Media Art in Russia and is currently 
researching the field  of digital cinema.


Erkki Huhtamo

<bold>Future Ghosts in an Ancient Mirror

Media archaeogical approaches to the pre-history of the electronic
screen



</bold>Picture screens are cultural artifacts that have their own
histories,

conditioned by cultural, social, technological and ideological
factors.

Considering the centrality of the electronic screen in the culture of
our

century, it is surprising that no comprehensive history of the screen

exists. The electronic screen had concrete predecessors, but, perhaps
even

more importantly, there were discursive manifestations that had
already

elaborated on the idea. It could be claimed that discursive screens,
the

ones that were switched on only in imagination or on paper, influenced
the

development as much as the materialized ones.In this lecture I will

excavate the formative development of the electronic screen from a

media-archaeological point of view. I will investigate some of the
material

and discursive factors that anticipated it and influenced its form and

idea, travelling backwards in time as far as the 16th century.



CV Erkki Huhtamo


Erkki Huhtamo is an unaffiliated media researcher, writer and curator. 
His

specialities include media archeology and media art. Mr Huhtamo has

published numerous studies and scholarly articles. He has lectured
widely

and presented papers at symposia and festivals in Europe, Japan, the
United

States, Canada and Australia. His most recent book is "The Archaeology
of

the Moving Image" (in Finnish, 1996). His credits also include three

television series (as director and script-writer) and radio programs.
He

has curated several international exhibitions of interactive art in
Finland

and elsewhere, most recently Unexpected Obstacles. The Work of Perry

Hoberman (Otso Gallery, Espoo, Finland, 1997). Mr Huhtamo was a member
of

the international selection committee of the MILIA multimedia festival

(Cannes, 1995-96) and is member of the Young Talent Pavillion Jury
(MILIA

1997). He is one of the nominators for the ICC Biennale (Tokyo 1997).
He

also served as a jury member for Interactive Media Festival (Los
Angeles

1995), "Portraits in Cyberspace" (MIT Media Lab, 1995) and Digital
Salon

(New York 1997).


<bold>Arild Fetveit

Digital image manipulation and fictive photographical portraits


</bold>The digitalisation of photographical images has opened new
arenas for

artists. Among these, the portrait seems like one of the most
promising

places for intervening. The fictive photographical portrait, which so
far

has had a rather marginal life, is brought on through the digital

technique. The new possibilities will be discussed drawing on the works
of

Cindy Sherman, Ole John Aandal, Vibeke Tandberg, and Keith Cottingham.


Arild Fetveit is researcher at Department for Media and Communication,

University of Oslo. He has done work on documentary, on interpretation
and

reception theory, and on digitalisation of photographical images. He
is

currently working on a dissertation about the boundaries of
documentary

film.


<bold>Julia Knight

"Where am I ?" on the position of the viewer in interactive media.


</bold>Discussions about new media art, and digital technologies
generally, usually claim that 

the 'user' now takes a more active role than has been the case for a
'consumer' of older 

art forms and cultural products.  In conjunction with such claims is
the assertion that 

the role of the artist is also changing, that the artist is
increasingly relinquishing 

control over the work they produce as the 'user' plays a crucial role
in shaping the end 

product, that the artist can be viewed as more of a facilitator or
collaborator.  

However, the traditional notion of 'artist', as an individual creative
genius, is still 

firmly embedded in both our culture generally and art institutions in
particular.  This 

paper wants to suggest that this is skewing the way 'audiences' for new
media art are 

considered - and thereby challenge some of the ways the 'user' of
digital technologies 

has been conceptualised - with the result that the actual experiences
of 'users' are 

often largely neglected.  


It will go on to consider a range of issues relating to 'user'
experiences of both 

artworks and other cultural products, such as the exhibition of work
designed for a 

single user, accommodating the individual user in a multi-user
environment, (perceptual) 

immersion vs (technological) interactivity, different forms of
interaction and 'reading' 

practices, user desire vs ability to engage/interact, and user
motivation.  The paper 

will use these issues both to highlight the range of experiences - all
too often  

homogenised by the all-encompassing but virtually meaningless term
'interactivity' - 

offered by digital media and to consider what the 'user' might want.


Julia Knight worked in the independent film and video sector in Britian


for a number of years before moving into Higher Education.  She has 

published on a number of aspects of film and video culture, recently 

edited *Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art* and


is co-editor of *Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media 

Technologies*.




<bold>Vigdis Holen


</bold>Vigdis Holen is an artist and is currently writing a Phd thesis 
connected to Oslo College of Architecture, department of Information
Technology. She is the founder and director of  a media lab in Gloppen,
Nordfjord, where she is currently developing a facility for digital
sound and video editing. She works collaboratively on the nnet with
colleagues   in Japan and the USA and exhibits internationally.


Vigdis snakker om det totale innhold, om etisk og estetisk ansvar i

interaktiv teknologi, om felleskap og barrierer mellom mennesker med

ulik kulturbakgrunn.

Med videoprojeksjoner i bevegelse, video-overf¿ringer via elektroniske

telenett,  konstruksjoner i tre og i plexiglass med skjelvende og

urolige reflekser, med lydbilder og vindtuneller lar Vigdis

naturprosesser fra ulike geografiske steder rundt om pÅ? kloden m¿tes i

real-time. I sine heltekniske installasjoner skaper hun meditative

verdner av fossefallets suggererende bevegelser, vulkanens kraft eller

den kalde brisen fra en isbre.



<bold>Anita Leirfall


</bold>Anita Leirfall is  a researcher in the Department of Philosophy,
University of Oslo. For several years she has been an active
participant in discussions surrounding Virtual Reality and Cyberspace
and was a founding member in the group "Forum for Virtuell Virkelighet"
at the University of Trondheim. 



<bold>Jeff Taylor


</bold>Jeff Taylor is Professor of Media Arts at the University of
Lappland, Roaniemi, Finalnd. He taught previously at the University of
Brighton, England, and has a long involvement with new media. He
recently established a virtual reality laboratory at UROVA and was
co-organiser of the project "Polar Circuit" in the summer of 1997, in
which participants from many different countries collaborated on
net-based and multi media projects   in Northern Finland.


<bold>Kristin Bergaust


</bold>Kristin Bergaust is director of Atelier Nord, Oslo's workshop
for  electronic art. She is a practising artist and was formerly
project leader for a scheme to provide further education and training
for visual artists. She co-produced the first Norwegian artists' cdRom
with Kenneth LangÅ?s and curated the video programme "Love  Tech" for
screens. She has recently been active in the project
Conspiro/conspiratio, a travelling seminar which addresses the
emetgence of a new art scene in Norway in the nineties.



<bold>Per Platou and Amanda Steggel

Motherboard & Maggie's Lovebytes


</bold>Amanda Steggell  Studied dance at London College of Dance and
Drama, and choreography at the Norwegian Ballet Academy (Oslo). Dance
and drama instructor since 1986, but  working primarily as
choreographer since 1994.

Full length performances include "ARENA2" (1995), "M@ggie's Love
Bytes"

(1996) and "Motherboard/LawHat al-umm" (1997).  Member of Res Rocket
Surfer.


Per Platou  Studied media theory, criminology, history of ideas, and
film/drama in Oslo and London.  Editor of Radio Nova 1987-89. Freelance
journalist (F.eks., Film&Kino, Gateavisa, Kritikkjournalen,
Klassekampen). Founded DBUT in 1990, an

alternative distribution network, management, record company and
production

company for sound, film, art and media.  Innovator of "Urbanitet,
bevegelse, kaos"

(Project in Gamlebyen), 1994. Events-coordinator for Electra '96.

Technical producer and sound director in "M@ggie's Love Bytes".
Founding member of NOOD and member of Res Rocket Surfer.



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Jeremy Welsh

Trondheim Academy of Fine Art

tel +47 73 59 79 00

fax +47 73 59 79 20

http://kit.trdkunst.no/

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http://kit.trdkunst.no/screens/

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