[spectre] [Waag Society] Newsletter September 2002

[Mylène van Noort]

WAAG SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2002

-       Vacancy Internet Programmer
-       Betatest NINE
-       World-Information.Exhibition
-       Voices without Borders
-       Amsterdam Real Time
-       Killerclub Robotics
-       Stroman: interactive theater
-       Website Centre of Expertise
-       ICT Knowledge conference
-       Museum8
-       Open Day Historic Monuments

VACANCY INTERNET PROGRAMMER
The lab of Waag Society currently has a job opening for an Internet 
programmer (32-40 hours). Applicants need to have a good command of Dutch. 
For the full job description, see above.

Public Research

BETA TEST NINE IN TACTICAL MEDIA LAB
NINE is a public program for digital storytelling developed by Graham 
Harwood. The beta test of NINE starts in the temporary media lab for 
tactical media at Imagine IC in Southeast Amsterdam. Users compose stories 
in pictures, text, sound and video with NINE. These personal storybooks are 
linked to each other, thus creating an image of for instance the experience 
of the inhabitants of Southeast Amsterdam.

Imagine IC
Bijlmerplein 1006-1008
Amsterdam Southeast
Walk-in studio
16 September: 12-4pm
19 September: 7-9pm
21 September: 12-2pm

Presentations:
19 September: 3-5pm, case studies of the Virtual Shelter Projects, 
including NINE.

NINE is developed by Graham Harwood at the media lab of Waag Society and in 
cooperation with Imagine IC.
http://www.imagineic.nl

 From 3 March 2003 onwards NINE will be available online
http://www.9.waag.org


WORLD-INFORMATION.EXHIBITION
 From November 15 to December 15, 2002, World-Information.Org stages its 
extensive exhibition and conference program in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. 
The objective of the exhibition is to show the influence of the progression 
of worldwide communication- and information networks on everyday life. In 
the exhibition space Waag Society will set up a Hybrid Workspace. Various 
groups of artists, activists and technologists will work here in sessions 
of five to six days. At the Hybrid Work Space discussions and presentations 
will be organized, next to 'hands on' workshops f.i. on how to install 
private wireless networks.
http://www.world-information.org

VOICES WITHOUT BORDERS
During the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg thirty 
broadcasters of independent radio stations in Africa, North and South 
America and Europe will producing live radio. The broadcasts will be 
distributed on a globally by satellite and internet. Waag Society makes its 
streaming facilities available for this community radio project.
http://wssd.waag.org

Interfacing Access

AMSTERDAM REAL TIME
At the 'Maps of Amsterdam 1866-2000' exhibition a special live map of 
Amsterdam comes into being with the project 'Amsterdam Real Time, diary in 
tracks' of artists Esther Polak and Jeroen Kee together with Waag Society. 
Visitors of the exhibition at the Amsterdam Municipal Archives will be able 
to watch the traces inhabitants of the capital leave on their daily routes. 
The participants in the project are given a GPS (Global Positioning System) 
tracer. Instead of buildings, roads and water, the trails of the 
participants are made up from their movements. Subscription is open to 
everyone, and those who are selected to participate receive a print out of 
their own route.
Waag Society was co-developer of the concept and realizes all necessary 
supporting technology: the handheld tracers, the integration with GPS and 
the communication over the GPRS network. The visualization of the position 
data is based on the KeyStroke technology.
http://www.waag.org/realtime

Do you live or work in Amsterdam and would you like to be a candidate to 
show your traces a week long in October or November? Send an e-mail to 
realtime@waag.org

Sensing Presence

KILLERCLUB ROBOTICS
At the Killerclub of 4 September artist in residence Michelle Teran 
presents the project she initiated together with Jeff Mann: a dinner with 
robotics. Next to the food, robotics gadgets like a talking fish were 
introduced at the dinner table, plus an automatic glass clinker to announce 
the speeches and an automatic wine pourer. Furthermore, these gadgets were 
used simultaneously in Toronto and Amsterdam. Teran and Mann will show 
documentation of the project, and discuss their experiences in staging live 
situations in which performers play together. They'll also talk about their 
experiments with networked media and kinetic art.

4 September
Waag, Theatrum Anatomicum
8 pm
Free admission
Booking: floor@waag.org (Floor van Spaendonck)

STROMAN INTERACTIVE THEATER
At the close of his puberty, theater maker Marcel van Brakel burned the 
notebook in which he had been scribbling his fanatic teenage wisdoms. In 
his interactive play Stroman he researches which magic formulas and rituals 
schoolchildren use now to survive their turbulent puberty years.Next to 
webcams, a virtual webtheater and three different performances, a series of 
interactive art installations are part of the project. Software designer 
Lodewijk Loos supersvises the use of KeyStroke technology in the project.
http://www.stroman.nl

Creative Learning /Centre of Expertise for Cultural Subjects and ICT

WEBSITE CENTRE OF EXPERTISE ONLINE
The Waag Society Centre of Expertise for Cultural Subjects and ICT now has 
a website of its own. Here you will find the mission statement and views of 
the centre, as well as more in depth information on its projects. The key 
questions are: how can new media become an asset of education? How can new 
media support the innovation of education?
http://www.waag.org/expertisecentrum

Waag Miscellaneous

ICT KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
Waag Society and V2 present themselves at the Knowledge Fair during the ICT 
Knowledge conference for Dutch innovative ICT which takes place at 5 and 6 
September in The Hague. The conference is an initiative of the ministries 
of Economic Affairs and Education, Culture and Science. Visitors will come 
from both research and industry.
http://www.ict-kenniscongres.nl

MUSEUM8
Scratch with paintings
De Waag, Theatrum Anatomicum
2 November from 7pm to 2am
http://www.n8.nl

OPEN DAY HISTORIC MONUMENTS
The Waag is one of the theme buildings on the sixteenth Open Day of 
Historic Monuments. This year's theme is: Merchant spirit, monuments of 
trade. In the Waag the chirurgeons' guild room (Theatrum Anatomicum) and 
the masons' room will be open to the public.
14-15 September
10am-5pm
Free Admission
http://www.bma.amsterdam.nl/adam/nl/aktueel/omd02a1.html