[spectre] ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING

[mara at camp.lv]

ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING -- THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR 
NEW MEDIA CULTURE
RIGA, LATVIA, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3 2004.
http://rixc.lv/04

The detailed programme of the event below and on the web. 
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ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING
THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR NEW MEDIA CULTURE
RIGA, LATVIA, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3 2004.
http://rixc.lv/04
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The 7th International Art+Communication festival will take place in Riga, 
Latvia, from September 30 - October 3, 2004. The festival will offer a space of 
exchange for new media practitioners and grassroots activists and who are 
critically exploring ideas of locality, in response to the continental European 
(and global) "normalization processes". The main themes of the festival will 
include the following:

- LOCAL CULTURE AND EUROPEAN NORMALIZATION - For the new media arts, the 
internet has been an invaluable tool for mobilization beyond borders, and 
while, as "net-workers", we may celebrate certain aspects of the integration 
project, it also potentially poses a threat to local diversities. 
This event is intended to shelter debates amongst grassroots activists, new 
media theorists and practitioners critically engaging with ideas of locality, 
in the broader context of the continental European (and global) process of 
cultural and economic integration and "normalization". How does "the local" 
assert itself while at the same time avoiding becoming reactionary and 
fundamentalist?

- SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY AND TACTICAL MOBILITY - The very power to "officially" map 
a space equates to its domination, yet new forms of networking have raised the 
possibility of a practice of collaborative cartography whereby maps are 
generated and maintained from below.  This session is interested in creatively 
envisioning space through using mapping as a metaphor to explore a whole range 
of actor centred conversations

- LOCATIVE MEDIA - The term locative media in its most literal interpretation 
marks a move from William Gibson's dislocated cyberspace to Steve Mann's 
interdimensional cyborgspace; in which, a combination of wireless networking 
and location-awareness, would allow for the annotation of architectonic space 
with 
digital media. Yet, perhaps the device is less interesting than the metaphors 
it conjurs. As this session explores, locative media is, in fact, open to 
multiple interpretations: as the site for old discussions about the 
relationship of consciousness to place and other people; as the framework 
within which to actively 
engage with, critique, and shape a rapid set of technological developments; as 
the context within which to explore alternative models of social, political and 
economic relations; or, indeed, as a name for the ambiguous shape of a rapidly 
deploying surveillance and control infrastructure.

- SPECTRUM ECOLOGY - Electromagnetic radiation is the most ubiquitous form of 
intelligable noise in communication history. There have been several key 
technological advances that have contributed to this flooding of the natural 
spectrum including the invention of technologies for generating electricity and 
radio waves. As something of a consequence of employing (these often 
disregarded) portions of the spectrum to 
construct "pirate" distributio networks, artists and activists have 
increasingly turned a critical eye on emmisions from "official" social, 
cultural, military, and physical sources politicizing the issue of spectrum 
allocation. This panel looks at this radio activity and the intentions, 
consequences, and technologies used to examine and manipulate radio waves.

- TCM PRESENTATIONS - Bringing together organizations from Finland, Iceland, 
Slovenia, Latvia, Norway and France, the Trans-Culture Mapping network staged a 
series of workshops, over the spring and summer of 2004 that sought to explore 
the concept of locative media; in which a combination of site-specific 
engagement, digital media, wireless networking, and location-awareness would 
allow for the exploration of specific locations and cultures on the fringes of 
Europe. Artists and researchers employed ideas of contextualised mapping 
(cultural, temporal, acoustical, historical and spatial) to develop open source 
tools for envisioning a collaborative map of Europe. These investigations into 
locative media sought to raise new sets of questions, critical perspectives and 
cultural practice.

ART+COMMUNICATION 7 WILL FEATURE: AN EXPOSITION OF DOCUMENTATION, INSTALLATIONS 
AND ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS FROM THE TCM WORKSHOPS; "MAPPING THE SPECTRUM" 
PERFORMANCES; AND A 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON "COLLABORATIVE CARTOGRAPHY".
Contact: rixc ( at ) rixc.lv

The Trans-European Cultural Mapping programme is coordinated by The Centre for 
New Media Culture RIXC/Riga in collaboration with K at 2/Liepaja, TEKS/Trondheim, 
LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Tours, Projekt Atol/Ljubljana, Locative Media Network.
The project is supported by the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union. 
The festival also is supported by Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga 
City Council, French Cultural Center, AFFA, British Council in Riga, radio 
NABA, daily newspaper “Diena” and magazine “Rîgas laiks”. 

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FESTIVAL “ART+COMMUNICATION: TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING” PROGRAMME
SEPT 30 – OCT 3, 2004

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THURSDAY, September 30, 2004

19.00 – FESTIVAL OPENING PROGRAMME
[Location: Artists’ Union Gallery]
Presentation of “Acoustic.Space #5 – Trans-Cultural Mapping” publication |
Opening of the TRANS CULTURAL MAPPING exhibition: TCM documentation exposition 
and artists’ installations: Jaanis Garancs/LV – Parallel[land]scapes; Annie On 
Ni Wan/HK-SE – Geo Leds; Even Westvang/NO & Timo Arnall/NO -– Time that land 
forgot; Jaume Nualart (Catalonia) and others -– Think Tools for Revolution : 
Mapping Events | 
Mark Bain –- SelfSensor // 24h performance -> call (371)8242323 | 
Javier Garcia -- TCM

20.00 - LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCES 
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Oskars Poikâns/LV (15 min),
Borut Savski/SI (25 min),
Edwin van der Heide/NL (30 min), 
Sound Mechano & Choops/LV (20 min), 
dj/ip at bip-hop.com/FR (60 min)

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FRIDAY, October 1, 2004

10.00 – coffee and registration
10.30 – 11.45 [conference panel 1]: ENDOCOLONIZATION / TRANS-LOCAL MAPPINGS
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Moderator: Florian Schneider/DE. 
Speakers: 
Branka Curcic/YU -- ..on TransEuropean Piknik (15 min + 7 min video) |  
Normunds Kozlovs/LV -- ..'branding' of European culture (20 min) | 
Kristine Briede/LV -- ..Euro-Watching (10 min)
Heath Bunting/UK -- ..borderXing (15 min)
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11.45 – 12.10 [conference panel 2]: TACTICAL MOBILITIES
Moderator: Marc Tuters/CA-LV 
Christian Nold/UK (15 min)
Florian Schneider/DE (15 min)
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12.10 – 12.30 Round table discussion (20 min)
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13.30 – 15.30 [conference panel 3]: SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY
Moderator: Marc Tuters/CA. 
Keynote speakers: 
Richard Rogers/NL-US (35 min)
Valdis Krebs/US-LV -- ..Social Network Analyses (35 min)

Mapping presentations:
Schyler Erle/US -- ..Mapping Hacks (10 min)
Pablo de Soto/SP -- .. Fadait(10 min)
Pierre Henri Ramboz/FR -- .. Matrix Traceroutes(10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
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16.00-18.00 [artists presentations] TCM WORKSHOPS and COLLABORATIVE MAPPING 
PROJECTS
Intro (vision) on TCM workshops by Rasa Smite/LV (5 min). Cheryl 
L'Hirondelle/CA (tbc.) - ..Karosta workshop (10 min).
LOCATIVE MEDIA WORKSHOP / pixelACHE festival (Helsinki workshop) -- Andrew 
Paterson (10 min), Teemu Kivikangas (10 min), Sara Kolster (10 min),  Margot 
Jacobs (10 min), Inari Virmakoski (10 min) 
Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel/UK - MYRIORAMA (15 min) |
OPEN SOURCE CITY (workshop in Strasbourg/France) -- Pierre-Henri Ramboz (10 
min), F2F (10 min), EXZYT (10 min), Alejo Duque (10 min) |
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SOUND PERFORMANCES ‘MAPPING SPECTRUM’ 
[Location: RIXC Media Space]
Adam Hyde/NZ (20 min), 
Andrey Kiritchenko/UKR (20 min), 
Sara Kolster/NL & Derek Holzer/US-NL (20 min), 
G-Lab (Bumstein & Garbstein)/LT (20 min), 
Vox Populi/FR (30 min), 
I/DEX (BY) (20 min), 

>From 22.00 – Varka Crew DJs/LV presents: spyceed jah:ngle in Club Depo.
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SATURDAY, October 2, 2004
10.30 – coffee
11.00 - 12:30 [conference panel 4] 
Moderator: Adam Hyde/NZ
Speakers: 
James Stevens/UK -- ..freenetworks (15 min) | 
Ugo Vallauri/IT (15 min) | 
Sophea Lerner/FI – ..signal process (15 min)
Borut Savski/SI - ..Looking from below--Seeing from above (15 min)| 
Mark Bain/US-NL - ..micro-radio (15 min) |
Discussion (15 min) 
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13.30 – 14.20 Keynote Public Presentation: 
Richard Barbrook/UK – New York Prophecies (40 min) |
Ilze Strazdina/LV-UK – RICHAIR2003 (10 min) |
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14.30 – 16.15 [conference] LOCATIVE MEDIA.
Moderator: Tapio Makela 
Keynote: Eric Kluitenberg (30 min) 
What is locative media?
Speakers: Ben Russell - ..as phenomenology (15 min) |
Peter Dubois & Edward Mac Gillavry/NL (15 min) - ..as geography | 
Debate: Tapio Makela/FI, Saul Albert/UK, Jo Walsh/UK - ..as archivism (30 min)
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16.30 - 18.30 [artists presentations] TCM WORKSHOPS AND COLLABORATIVE MAPPING 
PROJECTS:
ICELAND INSIDE AND OUT -- Pall Thayer (10 min), Annie On Ni Wan (10 min), Even 
Westvang & Timo Arnall (10 min), Matias Arje (10 min)
Derek Holzer/US-NL & Sara Kolster/NL -- soundscape.fm (15 min)
MOBILE OUTSKIRTS (workhops in Lofoten/Norway) -- Kristin Bergaust (10 min), 
Laura Beloff (10 min) | 
SEMAPHORE (residency in Dunkerque/France) - Adam Hyde (10 min) 
TCM PROGRESS - SOURCING THE INPUTS/ MAPPING THE OUTPUTS (Slovenia/Finland 
workshop) -- Jo Walsh, Schuyler Erle (15 min)
[final discussion] Moderators: Ben Russell and Andrew Paterson.
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20.30 - LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCES ‘SCANNING SPECTRUM’ [Location: RIXC Media Space]
Android/RU-LV (30 min), 
Tuner Orchestra/FR (30 min), 
si-cut.db/UK (30 min), 
Man Eater Orcherstra/FR (30 min), 
Clausthome (30 min)/LV 
23.00 - SIGNAL-SEVER! TRANSIGNAL 5 – an 8 hour live signals interception and 
processing sound and visual performance by the Projekt Atol/Pact 
Systems/Rx:Tx/DelRay/Droomof/Sound Meccano team and guests. Live from Paris via 
the W1 Satellite all over Europe, with the main beam pointed to Latvia.

24.00 – Festival closing party in club DEPO, featuring: The Mole/CA, EGG/CA, 
dj/ip at bip-hop.com/FR, dj Stupid Dog/FR, Skan4/ LV and Nikotins/ LV.

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