[spectre] workshops new media -call for participation (brussels)

[geert]

From: Tim Martens <martenstim at planetinternet.be>
Subject: workshops new media -call for participation-
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:59:26 +0200

Four workshops new media 
September, Oostende, Belgium

Call for participation - Deadline 15th of June 2004
 
Initiative and organisation : vzw CARGO asbl 
Support : VAF Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds 
Location : Oostende, Belgium 
Period : September 2004 (4 workshops, 5 days each) 
Participation fee : 150 EUR 
 
General

The workshops introduce methods of creating media in networked
environments (web, tools, interactive installation modules,
game-structures and weblog/cam community platforms). They investigate
the kind of places these methods and forms of creation might occupy
within computing and wireless communication. 

The workshops welcome all those who can't stop making media and creating
works that involve or incorporate new media, emerging technologies,
and/or electronic art, design and tools. They draw on a combined
background of art, (wireless) technology, architecture, game,
interaction design and web. 

Four workshops: Four practices

Workshop 1 : Open content
What we hope to find with www.becoming.be, is not just new prototypes
for making media online, but essentially a tool, with which we can
contribute better and more actively and creatively to already existing
systems, around which fellowships are being formed. Open content is
essentially about creation and close communication, in environments of
communal computing. 
Your mentor : Nicolas Malève. 
Please try this context : www.becoming.be (a new tool by Dominique
Callewaert, developed as a research project for the Jan Van Eyck
Academy, Maastricht). 

Workshop 2 : Mediacreation in network context
We think that the strength of having an audiovisual work on the Web does
not come out of a well designed and accessible presentation of the final
(eventually streamed) result, but out of online prototypes, that offer
entries for visitors to get into the ways and procedures that finally
resulted in the final work. 
More mentors : Stefaan Decostere, Bart Goossens and Jeroen Peys. 
Invest this context : mEYEtime, as site and as surveillance (game)
platform.

Workshop 3 : Narrative structures in rich interactive environments
The latest technological tools (sms/gsm, wireless
computing/communication) point to the development of new types of
interactions in an enhanced media and network environment. This is the
context for the development of innovative playgrounds which explore new
patterns for sharing content, for exchanging experiences and practices,
and for interacting together. What type of scenarios, how to create
dynamic interactions triggering "interesting" behaviors and exchanges,
how to design system of rules for these specific worlds embedded in the
physical realities? 
Your mentor : Yves Bernard. 
Develop this context : mEYEtime, extended with interactive modules. 

Workshop 4 : Enhanced TV
Imagine a world where there are two kinds of media power : one comes
through media concentration, where any message gets authority simply by
being broadcast on network television; the other comes through
grass-roots intermediaries, where a message gains visibility only if it
is deemed relevant to loose network of diverse publics. Broadcasting
will place issues on the national agenda; bloggers will reframe those
issues for different publics. 
Your mentor : Jensen Dehaes. 
Challenge the context : local tv, radio, docside CANVAS (with some
reserve).
 
mEYEtime
 
During the workshops a special environment will be set up in an empty
house in the port of Oostende. The framework of this environment is
mEYEtime, a shared platform for creative work exploring the playful,
emotional and appropriate incorporation of technology into everyday
creative practice. 

mEYEtime is a surveillance game-platform. It will be proposed to the
participants as an unfinished installation, to be completed and defined
by them during the workshops in September. It is a toolkit with
surveillance cameras, gsm's and a specially designed webplatform.

Participants are invited to appropriate the space and to fill its many
rooms with objects of their own. They can install surveillance camera's.
Build a world. They can investigate a room and suggest a story. Who is
the owner of that room? They can propose a map; suggest some entries;
invent some rules. They can design an intervention or system. They can
prototype an experience and take it public. 
 
 
 For all further descriptions about the workshops, updates and mentors
                  please check www.cargoweb.org/forum
        On this forum you access the form to REGISTER, or go to
                    www.becoming.be/workshopform.php
                                    
 After registration you will be invited on the info day, 5th of June in
                                Brussels