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Media Architecture

The 6th International New Media Cultural "Art+Communication" Festival

May 15 - 18, 2003, Riga Latvia

rixc


The 6th International ART+COMMUNICATION festival will comprise a series of
events from May 15-18, 2003 conceptually located at the intersection of
information networks and post-modern architectonics; while physically
located in Latvia in Riga, as well as in Karosta, Liepaja and at the VIRAC
Radiotelecope in Irbene.

conference: media architecture

The Media Architecture international conference will take place in Riga,
from May 16-17. Discussions will include: how lessons from the social
dynamic of 'virtual 'networks, can be applied to the creation of open,
public physical spaces; designs for process-based architecture, and hybrid
spaces; and how mapping/positioning and wireless networking impact on
notions of space time and social organization. design concept and performances in media space: light affair

Taking place in a central, but derelict section of Old Riga the theme of
'transformation of place' through networking (both physical and virtual)
will be manifest in the conferences various facilities through
installations, include evening programmes of media synesthesia (visible
sound/audible light), as well as by the official initiation of an ambitious
engineering project for the creation of Media Space -- a new headquarters
for RIXC.

closing programme: acoustic space lab

Finally, for the closing section of the festival, participants will be
brought to the Irbene Radio Telescope, a former Soviet military satellite
dish (d=32m) where participants from the 2001 Acoustic Space Lab symposium
will present the DVD "RT-32: Acoustic Space Lab" and audio CD of their
interpretations of data they gathered from scanning the planets,
communication satellites and surrounding environment with this powerful
telescope.

Programme

THURSDAY, MAY 15

19.00 - FESTIVAL OPENING PROGRAMME

RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35, Riga

Opening of festival exposition:

[1] MATRIX - interactive installation by Luke Jerram (UK), using patented
retinal after-image technology to create virtual light sculpture within the
mind of a viewer


[2] REAL TIME RIGA - project by Waag Society (NL) and Esther Polak (NL),
co-produced with RIXC (LV). Every inhabitant has an invisible map of the
city in his head. The way he moves about the city and the choices made in
this process are determined by this mental map. For first time RealTime
project was set up in Amsterdam, in fall 2002; now the project is restaged
in Riga. RealTime project attempts to visualize these mental maps through
examining the mobile behaviour of the city's users.


[3] PSYCHOTRONIC GOVERNMENT - maps by Bureau d'Etudes (FR)


[4] SOFT CINEMA - a dynamic computer-driven media installation by Lev
Manovich (US). The viewers are presented with an infinite series of
narrative films constructed on the fly by the custom software. Using the
systems of rules defined by the author, the software decides what appears
on the screen, where, and in which sequence; it also chooses music tracks.

Presentation of the "Acoustic.Space (4): Media Architecture" reader.
Performance and live jam session by Planktons & Aquarell (LV), OP! (LV),
Ugis Vitins (LV), others.

FRIDAY, MAY 16

10.00 - 18.00 MEDIA ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE

[day 1] [in intersection of information networks and post-modern
architectonics]
location: Artists' Union Gallery, 11. Novembra Krastmala 35

[1-01] [urban geographies and networked media / process-based architecture]:

Frans Vogelaar / invOFFICE (NL) / KHM (DE), Lev Manovich (US), Tuomas
Toivonen / AULA (FI), Francesca Ferguson / Urban Drift (DE), Herve Trioreau
(FR), Carl Biorsmark, Kristine Briede / K@2 (LV), Alex Adriaansens / V2 (NL)



[1-02] [hybrid space / interrelations of media art in public spaces, in
virtual networks and architecture]

Eric Kluitenberg (NL), Tania Gorucheva / Media Art Lab (RU), Edwin van der
Heide (NL), Luke Jerram (UK), Atau Tanaka (JP-FR), Tamas Szakal (DE),
Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Christoph Theiler / machfeld (AT), Tim
Boykett, Andreas Mayrhof / Times Up (AT)

20.00 PERFORMANCE AND FILM PROGRAMME

location: RIXC Media Space, 11 Novembra krastmala 35

3D visual and sound interface demonstrations and performances by
NAVIGABLE SOUND / lab[au] (BE) | PINGSONIK / Rigasound.org (LV) |
SEMEMA-INDUSTRIAL.NET (LV) | CELLULAE.NET / Jaanis Garancs (LV)
Films by Mike Stubbs (UK) HOMING, GIFT & CULTURAL QUARTIER | video by
Wolf Kahlen (DE) KYOTO - RAW MATERIAL ON SUBLIME BEAUTY

SATURDAY, MAY 17

11.00 - 18.00 MEDIA ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE

[day 2] [exploring potential of mobile media for social geography and
locative art]

location: Artists' Union Gallery

[2-01] [cellspace / wireless networks, GPS and mapping-positioning]

Marc Tuters / GPSter (CA), Ewen Chardronnet / Ellipse (FR), Marko Peljhan /
Projekt Atol (SI), Wayne Piekarski (AU), Jaanis Garancs (DE-LV), Adam Hyde
/ r a d i o q u a l i a (UK-NZ)

[2-02] [locative media / maps and psychogeography]

Konrad Becker / Public Netbase (AT), Brian Holmes (US-FR), Aske Hopman,
Esther Polak, Tom Demeyer, Marleen Sticker / Waag Society (NL), Leonore
Bonaccini, Xavier Fourt / Bureau d'etudes (FR), 0100101110101101.ORG /
VOPOS (IT)

20.00 - 20.00 PERFORMANCES [VISIBLE SOUNDAUDIBLE LIGHT]

location: RIXC Media Space

LSP #2, Edwin van der Heide (NL) - a solo performance in which sound is
used to control the movements of a laser. The result is a complex shape
transforming space. (Realisation: Edwin van der Heide & Vladimir Gravof).
SENSOR DUO - Atau Tanaka (JP/FR) un Cecile Babiole (FR). A performance
with two artists onstage: one producing sound and the other manipulating
image, both articulated by movements of the arms and body. They interpret a
unified compositional concept - one in light and the other in sound.
COMMA DATA SPACE (LIVE) Adam Hyde / r a d i o q u a l i a (UK-NZ)
SPECTROSPHERE by Clausthome (LV) - music and MR/F5 (LV) - video.

SUNDAY, MAY 18

13.00 - FESTIVAL CLOSING PROGRAMME

location: VIRAC radiotelescope RT-32 in Irbene (near Ventspils).

Opening of the permanent installation [RT-32] and presentation of the DVD

[RT-32 - ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB]. The DVD, produced by RIXC in Riga, 2003, is a
multi-media exploration of the VIRAC radio telescope -- a 32 m dish antenna
in Irbene, Latvia. It covers the history of this top-secret Soviet era
military object, including precise technical data and its conversion to
scientific and civilian use, and introduces the international ACOUSTIC
SPACE LAB symposium on sound art using radio and satellite technology that
took place in summer 2001 at the site of the dish.



-----info and support-------

Organiser:

The Center for New Media Culture RIXC (http://rixc.lv)



Information and accreditation:

tel. +371-7228478 (rixc), 6546776 (mob.), e-mail: rixc

Support:

Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga City
Council, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology,
French Cultural Center, AFAA, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Nordic Council for Ministers Information Center in Riga, British Council
Latvia, Latvian Embassy in UK, Apollo Interneta Pakalpojumi, Casablanka,
"Studija", radio NABA and others.

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