[spectre] Acoustic.Space.Lab ::: new site for the new year

[Derek Holzer]

Acoustic.Space.Lab ::: new site on-line 01.01.2002
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab

>From August 4-12, 2001, twenty five media artists and activists from three 
different continents gathered together at Irbene, in the forests of western 
Latvia, at the site of a Soviet-era 32meter dish antenna. Formerly used to 
spy on satellite transmissions between Europe and North America by the KGB, 
the antenna was abandoned and nearly destroyed when the Russians departed in 
1994. The dish is currently under repair for civilan use as one of the top 5 
most precise radiotelescopes in the world.

The intent of this workshop was two-fold. The first was to explore the 
possibilities for creative interaction with a formerly military, and now a 
civilian-scientific, device which artists can seldom access.

The second is to create a communications network of our own out of the raw 
material gathered at the dish. This "open-source sampling" process has its 
origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where 
research is shared within a network for the common advancement of the field.

Artists who were present at the orginal workshop, as well as others who 
joined in our network afterwards, have contributed various projects to our 
on-going collaboration. On January 1, 2002, the Acoustic.Space.Lab site will 
host the first presentation of many to come, featuring audio, video, web 
installations and images utilizing or inspired by the materials from the 
dish.

Featured artists include:

***Mukul (Ambient TV)
***Kim Cascone
***Kevin P
***Francis Hunger
***Locomotive
***Sara Kolster
***minuszero + dlf + m//
***Clausthome

For more information, visit:
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab

Or write:
derek@x-i.net

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