[spectre] Call for participation: Trans Cultural Mapping, locative media workshop in Lofoten

[Espen Gangvik]

“Mobile outskirts: cultural mapping of northern geographical outposts”
15th-26th of June 2004

The workshop will start with a bus-travel of about 800 km to map part 
of the distance between south and north of Norway before we get to the 
Lofoten islands . The ten-day workshop is open to 10-12 Norwegian and 
international artists and researchers. The workshop will focus on the 
conditions of a rural area with special resources and conditions.

Lofoten is an island society situated on several islands, economically 
important to the whole coast, as the cod fisheries in the winter and 
spring attracts participants from the entire coast. Economy is 
dependent of the sea and its resources Living close to the resources 
has been a major concern
and communication has been dependent on the sea. The area has an 
interesting history of tele-communication as well , as the second 
wireless telegraph in the world was opened in these islands in 1906. 
Topography and climate are extreme, and can still not be overlooked as 
deciding factors, winter storms still tear down people's houses.
Tourism is now of major economic importance. Other well known Lofoten 
features are whaling and oil resources...

During the workshop we will stay in a fishing village (see 
http://www.mathisvika12.no) We will set up a program of  talks by local 
people about different aspects of life in this area, and we will have 
the possibility of different excursions by bus or boat.

http://www.lofoten.com
http://www.lofoten-tourist.no/

TCM- Trans Cultural Mapping
The  workshop held in Lofoten, Norway, is an event in the series of 6 
"Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshops initiated by RIXC Centre for New 
Media in Riga, Latvia. Each workshop has a specific focus on outskirts 
and interregional networking, in the context of an enlarged Europe. An 
additional goal is to discover specific, deep and relevant layers of 
the local cultures, involving specific local communities in the 
process.
Locative media may be understood to mean media in which context is 
crucial, in that the media pertains to specific location and time, the 
point of spatio-temporal 'capture', dissemination or some point in 
between. The term locative media has also over the last year been 
associated with mobility, collaborative mapping, and emergent forms of 
social networking.

http://locative.org - http://locative.x-i.net

The results of the workshop series will be presented in an
exposition - 'Cultural Mapping Fair' - consisting of public interactive
installations and other documentation. This exposition will take place
during the 'Art+Communication' festival in Autumn 2004 in Riga, Latvia 
in september.
Additionally, the Lofoten workshop will be presented during Trondheim 
Matchmaking in Trondheim, Norway 15th-17th of October.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP:
Send an e-mail with lofoten in the subject line, stating your interest, 
with a short bio or CV before the 5th of May to <kristin at anart.no>. 
Selection will be finished and participants notified on the 10th of 
May. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for all selected
participants, as well as per diems and some production costs.

Organisers:
TRONDHEIM ELECTRONIC ARTS CENTRE, http://www.teks.no/ (Kristin Bergaust)

The "Trans-Cultural Mapping" workshop series is coordinated by RIXC 
Centre
for New Media, and is realised with the support of the Culture 2000
Programme of the European Union.

Other partner organisations are  LORNA/Reykjavik,
ELLIPSE/Paris, PIKNIK  FREQUENCY  RY/Helsinki
and Projekt Atol/Ljubljana.


Kristin Bergaust
Professor and head of Intermedia
The Academy of Fine Art
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NO-7491 Trondheim
Norway
Phones:
Office +4773597918
Cellular: +4799693513

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