[spectre] [RAM5]: OPEN SOURCE MEDIA ARCHITECTURE
Rasa Smite
rasa at re-lab.net
Wed Apr 28 12:00:34 CEST 2004
[RAM5]: OPEN SOURCE MEDIA ARCHITECTURE
The 5th RAM workshop entitled "Open Source Media Architecture" will take
place from May 5th to 9th, 2004 in Riga, Latvia, organised by the RIXC.
Open Source ideas -- that has its origins in the scientific and computer
programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the
common advancement of the field -- will be used to set up the context for
the RAM5 workshop in Riga.
The aim of the workshop is to investigate into how the Open Source concept,
applied in contemporary practice of architecture, locative art and
streaming media, can turn closed systems into open-ended narratives. It
also aims to explore how the Open Source concept changes the notion about
copyright and intellectual property, facilitates free access to the media
content, and promotes enhancement of the public domain - leading a step
closer towards an interactive, shared and collaborative practice of
copyright-free culture.
In this context, the workshop will focus on exploring the potential of open
source architecture in city saturated with mobile communications; the
impact of ad-hoc wireless networking on architecture, art and social
organisation; and the implication of streaming sound in acoustic cell-space
of mobile media.
Accordingly three "media architecture" working groups will be set up:
[01] Open Source Architecture
[02] Locative Media Architecture
[03] Acoustic Cell-Space Architecture.
Additional activities will be devoted to introduce with Open Source
software architecture - initiatives, tools and tactics; and to develop
strategies to protect open source (streaming and locative) media content.
The workshop addresses architects and designers, sound artists, open source
activists and programmers, however open for everyone interested.
Applications primarily from Eastern and Northern Europe were selected.
The 5-day workshop programme will include working sessions of 3 thematic
groups, participants presentations, public lectures in the evenings and
night performances. To close the workshop, a special event - "Open Source
Day" will be organised for the wider public introducing the conceptual
background of the activity, including the workshop results.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 - [INTRO DAY]
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<15.30-16.00 - Registration and coffee>
[Location: Gallery at the Artists Union House, 11. Novembra Krastmala 35,
ground floor]
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16.00-18.00 - INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOP AGENDA
[Location: Gallery]
-> 5-minutes-presentations by workshop leaders introducing participants
with workshop agendas and time schedule (moderator Marc Tuters):
[w001] Dennis Kaspori – Urban Information market / Open Source Urbanism
[w002] Wilfried Hou Je Bek - PML (Psychogeographical Markup Langauge) Walk
& Workshop
[w003] Jo Walsh - Semantic Database Cartography
[w004] Katherine Moriwaki - Multi-hop Dynamic Routing Ad-hoc Network
[w005] Marc Tuters – TCM / Locative Tactical Aggregator Systems
[w006] Derek Holzer – Open source audio tools--free software for free sound
[w007] Thor Magnusson – ixi-software for musical interfaces
[w008] Adam Hyde – Build your own radio station
[w009] Jaromil - Realtime video manipulation with FreeJ / dyne:bolic - tool
for multimedia production
[w010] Open Archives and Publishing: Aleksandar Erkalovic - tam-tam -
targeting locative and free media issues / Thomax Kaulmann – Open Archives
Initiative
[w011] Peteris Krishjanis – Open source environment: language and
translation
-> participants split in groups: forming workshop groups for next morning
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<18.00-20.00 - dinner>
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20.00-22.00 - MEDIA LOUNGE-01 -> HIPHOPA ZAPTE / HIPHOP JAM:
DJs AG & Raitis, DJ Monsta, DJ Krii/Riga Scratch Posse, VJ MR/F5/video,
Roberts Gobzins, MC's BIG NAME & BLACK BULLET/Daba/Ventspils, Nils
Ile/percussions, RITMINJSH/repotaaji
[Location: Media Space at the Artists Union House, 11. Novembra Krastmala
35, ground floor, entrance via 2nd floor]
{entrance fee: with flayer 1 Ls, without - 2 Ls}
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THURSDAY, MAY 6 [WORKSHOP DAY 1]
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<09.00-10.15 - breakfast>
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<10.15-10.30 – coffee/registration>
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10.30-12.15 – PARTICIPANTS PRESENTATIONS-I: PRACTICE OF OPEN SOURCE
ARCHITECTURE (moderator: Marc Tuters)
= Keynote address: Dennis Kaspori – Open source architecture
= Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Rune Huvendick Jensen & Nicolas Cederstrum – Digital
Unitary Urbanism
= Djordjije Kalezic & Nenad Radoja – self-generated urban processes
= Peter Hudini – Aether Architecture
= Pablo Miranda Carranza - Army of Clerks
= Jonas Runberger & Daniel Norell – Krets
= Nis Romer – OS and communal city space
= John Hopkins - The Human Need for Open Source Space
= Followed by hyper-short introduction to topics of the day’s workshops by
their respective facilitators: Dennis Kaspori, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Jo
Walsh, Derek Holzer
{open for public} {free entrance}
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<12.15-12.30 - coffee>
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12.30-18.00 = WORKSHOPS /in 3 locations in parallel/
<14.30-15.30 = lunch> /Location: Gallery/
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[Location-1: MediaSpace > architecture+locative]
12.30-14.30 - [w001] Urban Information Market: Open source urbanism -
workshop-discussion - by Ben Russell, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Karlis Kalnins,
Jo Walsh, and participants (facilitated by Dennis Kaspori, Marc Tuters):
15.30-18.00 - [w001] Urban Information Market (facilitated by Dennis
Kaspori)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-2: Studio > locative]
12.30-14.30 - [w002] PML: Psychogeographical Markup Langauge Walk #1 &
Workshop (faciliated by Wilfried Hou Je Bek)
15.30-17.30 - [w003] Semantic Database Cartography" (facilitated by Jo
Walsh)
17.30-18.00 discussion/summarizing of the day
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-3: Gallery > acoustic+opensource]
12.30-14.30 - [w004] Open source audio tools--free software for free sound
(facilitated by Derek Holzer)
15.30-18.00 - [w004-continue] Open source audio tools--free software for
free sound
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<18.00-20.00 - dinner>
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20.00-22.00 - MEDIA LOUNGE-02 -> SPACE’N RADIO NOIZE:
r a d i o q u a l i a/NZ - listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves”, Gintas
K/LT - Set Early, Clausthome/LV, DidouPH aka Pierre-Henri Ramboz/FR, Derek
Holzer/NL, Voldemars Johansons/LV
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
{entrance fee: with flayer 1 Ls, without - 2 Ls}
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FRIDAY, MAY 7 [WORKSHOP DAY 2]
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10.30-12.15 – PARTICIPANTS PRESENTATIONS-II: LOCATIVE MEDIA/ACOUSTIC
CELL-SPACE (moderator: Honor Harger)
= Keynote: Jonah Brucker-Cohen - Collective Use and Playful Interventions
in Wireless Space
= Sophea Lerner, Andrew Paterson - Signal Process and Locative Media
Workshops at Pixelache
= Usman Haque/PK-UK – Hardspace.Softspace
= Simona /Pure Culture/LV - psychogeography of Riga This Week
= Jason Harlan/US - Blogmapper
= Vladan Joler/Serbia – Eastwood - Real Time Strategy Group
= Marius Watz /NO-DE – artists’ software
= Niclas Nilsson, Marcus Ohrn/SE - mechatronics
= Jurij Dobriakov/miglos_lab/Klaipeda/LT – surfaces netlabel:
unpredictable netaudio surfaces
= Vygandas Simbelis/LT - Intro
= Pierre-Henri Ramboz/FR
= Sara Kolster/NL
= Voldemars Johansons, Davis Bojars/LV
= Followed by hyper-short introduction to topics of the day’s workshops by
their respective facilitators: Katherine Moriwaki, Adam Hyde, Thor
Magnusson
{open for public} {free entrance}
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<12.15-12.30 - coffee>
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12.30-18.00 = WORKSHOPS /in 3 locations in parallel/
<14.30-15.30 = lunch>
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[Location-1: MediaSpace > locative+acoustic]
12.30-14.30 - [w004] Multi-hop Dynamic Routing Ad-hoc Network (facilitated
by Katherine Moriwaki)
15.30-18.00 - [w008] Build your own radio station (facilitated by Adam
Hyde)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-2: Studio > locative]
12.30-14.30 - [w005] TCM / Locative Tactical Aggregator Systems (strategic
meeting of locative media lab)
15.30-18.00 - [w005-continue] TCM / Locative Tactical Aggregator Systems
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-3: Gallery > acoustic+opensource]
12.30-14.30 - [w007] ixi-software for musical interfaces (facilitated by
Thor Magnusson)
15.30-18.00 - [w007-continue] ixi-software for musical interfaces
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20.00-22.00 - MEDIA LOUNGE-03
ELECTRONIQUE CHILL-OUT: Gonzo, Geneva un Macrome/LV, DABA/Ventspils, LV,
RutRut/LT, Kolka Music/LV
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
{entrance fee: with flayer 1 Ls, without - 2 Ls}
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SATURDAY, MAY 8 [OPEN SOURCE DAY]
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{public day} {free entrance}
12.00-12.40 - NETWORK COMMONS - lecture by Armin Medosch, based on his
research on wireless free networks
12.40-14.40 - [discussion-1]: OPEN SOURCE POLITICS AND LANGUAGE
(moderator Derek Holzer)
>part1: free software and open source concepts: Michael Connor /
FACT/Liverpool, UK – Free Software movement/DIVE-publication, Karlis
Kalnins, Ben Russell/UK, Peteris Krishjanis/LAKA (Latvian Open Source
Association), Riga - Open Source initiatives, politics and projects in
Latvia // >part2: free software and open source practice: <2.1.>open-source
acoustic space: Thor Magnusson, Adam Hyde, Marius Watz <2.2.> open-source
urban space: Dennis Kaspori, Jo Walsh, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine
Moriwaki
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<14.00-15.00 - lunch>
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15.00-16.45 = WORKSHOPS /in 5 locations in parallel/
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[Location-1: Conference space/Gallery > free networks]
15.00-16.45 - [w012] Free Wireless Networks (facilitated by Armin Medosch
and Gio D’Angelo) {workshop for local audience – in English}
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-2: Gallery > open-source lv]
15.00-16.45 - [w011] Language and Translation: Open Source Environment
(facilitated by Peteris Krishjaanis/LAKA {workshop for local audience – in
Latvian}
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-3: in the city > locative]
15.00-16.45 - [w002] PML: Psychogeographical Markup Langauge Walk #2 &
Workshop (faciliated by Wilfried Hou Je Bek)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-4: MediaSpace > open-source/acoustic-space]
15.00-16.45 - [w009] Realtime video manipulation with FreeJ / dyne:bolic -
tool for multimedia production (facilitated by Jaromil)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[Location-5: Studio]
15.00-16.45 - [w010] Open Archives and Publishing: Aleksandar Erkalovic -
tam-tam - targeting locative and free media issues // Thomax Kaulmann –
Open Archives Initiative
{open for public} {free entrance}
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<16.45-17.00 - coffee>
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17.00-18.30 - [discussion-2]: THE LICENCE TO FREEDOM
towards copyleft culture -- moral rights versus copyrights -- licences to
protect free/public access to media/art content -- (virtual) borders with
(intellectual) property regimes in the upcoming digital/political rights
management scenarios --
(moderator: Armin Medosch)
= Thomax Kaulmann / Bootlab, Berlin -- Media content licences
= Zeljko Blace / MAMA, Zagreb -- Creative Commons in Croatia
= Adam Hyde / r a d i o q u a l i a, NZ -- Open codec for streaming media
= Florian Schneider / -- Border04
= Joanne Richardson
= Atis Gailis -- Freedom.LV
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21.00 CLOSING PARTY
[Location: club AURA, Kalnciema iela 36/38]
= 21.30 - AULJI - drum'n (bag)pipes - live performance // DJ'i : Fee.nix-z
[Bio.codes | drum & bass] // Nikotins [Silverscreen | Elektro] // Draza
[*AURA* | Minimal Techno / Elektro] // VJ'i : -Render [Intro | LT] //
-x00x [Alfabetins] //
= ChillOut: Border04 video // Open Source workshop participants // -ER2T //
= bar: [Dub, Ragga, HipHop]: Masazha [Daba | Ventspils] // Dr.UPS + Yuri
[Varka Krew] // + MC's BigName & BlackBullet
{entrance fee: with flayer 3 Ls, without - 4 Ls}
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REFERENCES AND LINKS
http://rixc.lv/03 - "media architecture" festival in Riga 2003
http://locative.x-i.net - "locative media" workshop in Liepaja Karosta 2003
http://www.locative.org - locative media lab
http://www.suite75.net/blog/maze/ - weblog for Open Source Architecture
PARTICIPATION
The workshop addresses architects and designers, sound artists, open source
activists and programmers, however open for everyone interested.
Applications primarily from Eastern and Northern Europe were selected
(deadline was March 8, 2004).
Participation fee for non-selected participants - 35 Ls (55 EUR). It
includes free lunch and dinner during the workshop days, and free entrance
to Media Lounge programmes and closing party.
LOCATION AND CONTACTS
The workshop events will take place in various locations of the Artists’
Union House, address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, Riga LV 1050, Latvia.
Tel. +371-7228478 (RIXC office), 371-8200289 (Mara), +371-76546776 (Rasa,
Raitis) / Fax: +371-7228477
E-mail: rixc at rixc.lv, mara at re-lab.net (Mara Traumane)
RAM: RE-APPROACHING NEW MEDIA
RAM5: "Open Source Media Architecture" is a part of the "Re-Approaching New
Media" series of workshops and events being held across 6 Nordic and Baltic
countries. The project is a collaboration between CRAC (SE), Olento (FI),
RIXC (LV), Atelier Nord (NO), E-Media Center (EE), Vilma/Jutempus (LT).
http://www.ram-net.net
SUPPORT
RAM workshop series is supported by Culture 2000 Programme of European
Union.
RAM5 is supported by Latvian Ministry of Culture, Latvian Cultural Capital
Foundation AND Nordic Council of Ministers Information Office in Riga.
The Open Source Day is a part of “Innovation in Integration” project, implemented by the K at 2 in Liepaja and RIXC in Riga with the financial
support of the European Union.
http://rixc.lv/ram5
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