[spectre] HUMO workshop

[Rafael Lozano-Hemmer]

Call for Participation

HUMO: A mobile platform for the rapid deployment of huge images.
Master Class with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, February 3-7, 2003

HUGE AND MOBILE (HUMO):

This intensive experimental workshop will invite participants to develop an=
d
present urban interventions using a mobile platform for the projection of
huge images. Basically, we will place the world's most powerful projector
(which produces 60 x 60 metre images with over 100,000 ANSI lumen intensity=
)
on the back of a pick-up truck together with a diesel generator, a GPS
tracker, a pan/tilt platform and an assortment of lenses. The project will
consist of rapid deployment of strategic images to transform urban
landscapes. Logos, emblematic buildings, quotidian spaces, suburban malls,
advertising billboards, etc., will be the targets of unannounced,
unregulated ephemeral interventions. Documentation of these projects will b=
e
an integral part of the workshop, as the conditions of possibility of
legal/political/aesthetic viability are fast, short interventions below the
radar of potential regulators.

The workshop will have the following sections, which will be interspersed
throughout the week:

1. Theory and precedents.
Brief conceptual framework and review of precedents, including shadow
theatre, phantasmagorias, Wilfred, situationism, Svoboda, Wodiczko,
guerrilla projections and spectacular advertising. Will include an
introduction to radical empiricism. Imparted by Lozano-Hemmer and theorist
Brian Massumi.=20

2. City scouting.=20
Surgical strikes through the city of Linz. The routes will be prepared by a
group of local eccentrics and experts (which may include urbanists,
activists, artists, architects, tourist guides, students, etc.).

3. Conception and development.
With the help of the Ars Electronica FutureLab participants will prepare
their images using digital cameras, visual synths, 3D software, scanning
and/or traditional techniques.

4. HUMO Appointments.
Participants will book appointments to use the HUMO platform. Each night
will be split into six time-slots of 2 hours each. Participants will be abl=
e
to book the platform multiple times, depending on usage.

5. Documentation and publication.
The workshop will be very focused on generating a body of documentation:
each participant will be responsible for providing the descriptive texts,
sketches and images for their project. This material will be published in
the full-colour book that V2 will prepare for the =B3Interfacing Realities=B2
Master Classes. For this publication Brian Massumi will also write an essay
on the results of the HUMO workshop as a whole.


The HUMO workshop is limited to 10 participants. We seek to attract a
diverse group of professional artists who may have already worked with
public space and who are comfortable working with digital imaging. The
participants will be selected by evaluating a statement of interest (Max 50=
0
words) and a curriculum, which should emphasize previous works that might
illustrate technical or conceptual resonance with the HUMO workshop.

Application details and further information: http://residence.aec.at/humo
Contact: eva.kuehn@aec.at
Deadline for application: January 17, 2003.
Notification of successful candidates: January 21st, 2003.

The HUMO master class is an ENCART project supported by the European Cultur=
e
2000 programme. ENCART (European Network for Cyber Arts; partners: Ars
Electronica Center, C3, V2_, ZKM).
More information about the project:
http://www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities/