[spectre] DEAF04 opens on Thursday 9 November

[richard de boer]

DEAF04 PROGRAM UPDATE

* DEAF04 opens on Thursday 9 November
* Creative culinary exchange of ideas at Open_Brunch
* Seminars on Art and Technology on 10 and 11 November
* DEAF04 Symposium: Feelings Are Always Local
* DEAF04 Daily Happy Hour: System Heroes Cocktails

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DEAF04 – Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems
Seventh edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival

Tuesday 9 – Sunday 21 November 2004
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
http://www.deaf04.nl

Information & reservations hotline:
+ 31 (0)10 750 28 90 / tickets at v2.nl

Shuttle busses are departing from Kruisplein (near Rotterdam CS)
to Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek and v.v.
Check the schedule at http://www.deaf04.nl
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DEAF04 opens on Thursday 9 November

On Tuesday 9 November, 19:00 hrs, the seventh edition of the Dutch
Electronic Art Festival will be officially opened at the Van Nelle
Ontwerpfabriek. After the opening speech by V2_ director Alex Adriaansens
and brief presentations of the festival program, the unique act ECHOHCE
with Jamie Lidell and FM Einheit (amongst others) will be performed.

ECHOHCE is a project by David Link, Jamie Lidell and FM Einheit, with
interactions between man and machine. Jamie Lidell sings lyrics written
only a few seconds before by David Link's Poetry Machine, a computer which
generates a stream of word associations.

Tuesday 9 November, 19:00-01.00 hrs @ Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam

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Creative culinary exchange of ideas at Open_Brunch

Kick off your day at DEAF04 with a creative culinary exchange of ideas and
initiatives! Part hang out, part culinary experiment, the Open_Brunch
intends to caress the palate, open the mind, and festively wake up the
mood. Four days long, from 10 to 13 November, between 12:30 and 15:00 hrs.

The Open_Brunch To Go (10 Nov) focuses on interventionist practices in the
public domain; Sensing Location (11 Nov) explores the activist side of
wireless technologies and location-sensing abilities; Sonic Pulse (12 Nov)
will be tracing the electronic data released by natural environment and
human made technology; Post Digital (13 Nov) focuses on post-digital
expressions, such as evil as the new interface between politics and
religion.

Open_Brunches:
To Go: Wednesday 10 November, 12:30-15:00 hrs
Sensing Location: Thursday 11 November, 12:30-15:00 hrs
Sonic Pulse: Friday 12 November, 12:30-15:00 hrs
Post Digital: Saturday 13 November, 12:30-15:00 hrs

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Seminars on Art and Technology on 10 and 11 November

How do we experience mixed virtual and physical environments? Is wearable
computing empowering us, or are we becoming more vulnerable and
disembodied? How can machines be designed to express emotion by
themselves? On Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November, various seminars are
focusing on thought-provoking issues in art and media technology. The
seminar Wearable Turbulence focuses on context-aware, human-centred
computing; The Art of Immersive Spaces questions the role of
human-computer interaction principles in the design of immersive spaces.
The seminar Affective Systems presents research in the area of emotional
computing. The conference Open Alliances will focus on transfer of
knowledge in art, media technology and education, with speakers from art
academies, universities, business and research centres in art and
technology.

Open Alliances: Wednesday 10 November, 10:00-14:30 hrs
Wearable Turbulence: Wednesday 10 November, 15:00-18:00 hrs
The Art of Immersive Spaces: Thursday 11 November, 10:00-12:30 hrs
Affective Systems: Thursday 11 November, 15:00-18:00 hrs

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DEAF04 Symposium: Feelings Are Always Local

On Friday 12 and Saturday 13 November, DEAF04 presents the
interdisciplinary symposium Feelings Are Always Local. Central question of
the symposium is: How do local systems arise and maintain themselves in
large, globalizing networks? Speakers are biologist Tijs Goldschmidt,
economist Loretta Napoleoni, artist and computer programmer Alex Galloway
(US), neurologist Karim Nader, artist Christa Sommerer, anthropologist
Christopher Kelty, and media theorist Arjen Mulder. The symposium is
moderated by Manuel DeLanda.

Due to the cancellations of the lectures by Arjun Appadurai and Mike
Davis, the program of the DEAF04 symposium Feelings Are Always Local
(Friday 12 & Saturday 13 November) has changed. Instead, the Dutch
biologist and media theorist Arjen Mulder will deliver a lecture on
systems, networks, interaction and communication and their importance for
the arts.

For all information concerning the program see http://www.deaf04.nl/symposium
To be sure of a ticket please make reservations via tickets at v2.nl or tel.
+ 31 (0)10 750 28 90.

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DEAF04 Daily Happy Hour: System Heroes Cocktails

A festive toast to the heroes keeping the system up, alive and perpetually
within the zone of creative turbulence required to guarantee its future
unhindered and open existence.

Wednesday November 10, 18:00 hrs:
The MS Desktop Agitation Cocktail
by Alexei Shulgin (Moscow)

Thursday November 11, 18:00 hrs:
The Cocktail of Happy Viruses
by Nathan Hactivist (New York)

Friday November 12, 18:00 hrs:
The Cocktail of Affective Systems
by Omi Scheiderbauer - calc (Seville)

Saturday November 13, 18:00 hrs:
The War-Riders Cocktail
by Luka Frelih (Ljubljana)

The DEAF daily Happy Hour at 18.00 ...


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DEAF04 – Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems

Tuesday 9 – Sunday 21 November 2004
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
http://www.deaf04.nl

Information & reservations hotline:
+ 31 (0)10 750 28 90 / tickets at v2.nl
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