[spectre] MobLab: Japanese-German media camp 2005

[yukiko shikata]

[MobLab: Japanese-German media camp 2005]

A live art & communication project with young artists from Japan and Germany
(MobNauts), who develop creative ideas with mobile technology while
traveling Japan in a bus. Welcome to the mobile laboratory!

15 October$B!!(B(Saturday) - 6 November$B!!(B(Sunday), 2005
www.moblab.org$B!!(B


*the latest action and contents will be updated  at www.moblab.org,
(also each artist has a blot), additionally the bus collect some
data(temparature, humidity, GPS date, and other captured images)
(bus as an interface) and these data will be provided on the web
as an "open data", which will be used by any artists or creators
for their furture creations, projects!

Feel free to contact us at:
info at moblab.org
for questions or information.
(This art project is part of Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006)


*Beside of the followings, the spontaneous staging of events will be
announced on the MobLab Website.

Early October		Information system development and implementation,
conversion of the bus in IAMAS, Ogaki
10/15 (Sat) 		MobNauts gathering at IAMAS
10/15 (Sat) - 10/18 (Tue)	MobNauts camp
10/18 (Tue)		eve party at IAMAS
10/19 (Wed)		Seeing-off ceremony, travel from Ogaki to Tokyo
10/20 (Thu)		Setting at NTT ICC
10/21 (Fri)		NTT ICC(Bus parks at Tokyo Opera City)
10/22 (Sat)  	Fujino workshop for art (Kanagawa Pref.)
10/23 (Sun)		Yokohama Triennale
10/24 (Mon) - 10/26 (Wed) Travel from Yokohama to Sendai
10/27 (Thu)$B!!(B	Setting at Sendai Mediatheque, putting bus inside the
building.
10/28 (Fri) - 10/30 (Sun)	Sendai Mediatheque,
                                       The bus is displayed at ground floor
10/31 (Mon) - 11/2 (Wed)	Travel from Sendai to Kansai
11/3 (Thu) 		Saito IMI Graduate School in Expo Park, Osaka
11/4 (Fri) 		Travel from Osaka to YCAM, Yamaguchi
11/5 (Sat) - 11/6 (Sun)	YCAM, The bus is parked in front of the venue.



$B!v(BWhat is MobLab?
MobLab ("Mobile" + "Laboratory", also "mob" = crowd, community, etc.) is the
sum of projects proposed and developed by Japanese and German artists from
various fields (=MobNauts) in a bus that, equipped with an array of digital
mobile devices, functions as an information base. The time the MobNauts
spend on the road will naturally lead to various creative collaborations.
The bus travels to a number of host institutions throughout Japan, each of
which hosts events that incorporate the bus and its passengers. At the same
time, the MobNauts have the opportunity to exchange with local artists and
other people. The flexibly set route allows for the spontaneous staging of
events, which will be announced on the MobLab Website.
The bus is at once an intimate space in which the MobNauts spend time
together, and a public space for transmitting global information. While
traveling, the MobNauts will create occasions for individuals to meet, on
both real and virtual levels, and connect to different local realities each
time they stop and get out of the bus. MobLab aims to be a platform for
practical experimentation in public born out of a revolutionarily
"on-the-spot" form of meeting of individuals and media, and investigation
into the possibilities implied by this public nature. The concept of dynamic
information that interactively transforms by exchange between a variety of
people has just begun to surface as a new layer of reality.


$B!v(BWhat are the MobNauts?
The MobNauts are artists from Japan and Germany who travel on a bus across
Japan. These protagonists form the centerpiece of MobLab, as their
respective projects developed with information networks and incorporating
direct experiences with different realities and individuals unique to each
station of the journey, will create a new sensibility to possible future
directions for both society and urban spaces. A blog at Moblab website,
written by the MobNauts, will give you insight to each MobNaut$B!G(Bs
experience. The MobNauts are also expected to engage in unique
collaborations with each other.


$B!v(BBus crew
MobNauts(artists on the bus):  exonemo(Yae Akaiwa + Kensuke Sembo), AGF,
Sven Gareis, Daisuke Ishida + Ken Furudate, Stefan Riekeles
Driver: Yosuke Kawamura (Artist and director of MOBIUM, www.mobium.org)
Production assistant: Tomonaga Yamaguchi (MobLab)

$B!v(BThe spontaneous staging of events
MobNauts will spontaneously stage events at many places apart from their
individual project. We welcome anybody to attend this plan. Why not come
along with your friends? Artists, painters and musicians are also welcome to
help us for live performances and the painting of the bus itself!!

$B!v(BHost Institutions
The bus travels to a number of host institutions throughout Japan, each of
which hosts events that incorporate the bus and its passengers. At the same
time, the MobNauts have the opportunity to exchange with local artists and
other people.
-Ogaki: IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences + International
Academy of Media Arts and Sciences) www.iamas.ac.jp
-Tokyo: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] www.ntticc.or.jp
-Sendai: Mediatheque /smt www.smt.jp
-Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media /YCAM www.ycam.jp

            *               *               *
Organizer:	         MobLab Committee, Goethe-Institut
Support: 		The Japan Foundation
Patronage: 	Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan
Special cooperation:  IAMAS, ICC, Sendai Mediatheque, YCAM, Transmediale
(Berlin)
Technical support:    IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences +
International     Academy of Media Arts and Sciences)
Support:		  Mobium, Yokohama Triennale, Fujino workshop for art, Saito IMI
Graduate School
Sponsor:            CAMPINGWORKS CO., LTD

MobLab Base
Project director: Yukiko Shikata
Project manager: Miki Fukuda
Production assistant: Tomonaga Yamaguchi
Berlin Coordinator: Stefan Riekeles

Enquiries:
info at moblab.org