[spectre] ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose

[Chris Byrne]

13th International Symposium on Electronic Arts: ISEA2006 and ZeroOne 
San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge

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The 13th International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA2006) will be 
held in San Jose, California August 7-13th, 2006 in conjunction with 
the premiere of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, 
an innovative biennial festival for San Jose and the Greater Bay Area. 
Four interrelated themes define ISEA2006: Transvergence, Interactive 
City, Community Domain and Pacific Rim. Up to 2000 attendees are 
expected to participate in the ISEA2006 and 70,000 members of the 
general public to attend a public lecture, exhibition, performance, 
concert or otherwise participate in the festival.

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ISEA2006 emphasizes conversation and discourse. There will be NO 
reading of papers! There will be ample opportunity for interaction with 
keynotes and paper authors during the extended sessions. Presentations 
of projects by artists will run continuously. A re:mote symposium will 
take place concurrently featuring presentations of those who physically 
cannot attend. All of the Symposium events are integrated into the 
ZeroOne Festival via streaming. Most importantly, the Symposium 
proceedings and environment are structured to encourage audience 
interaction. Over 70 papers, artists presentations and posters are will 
be showcased. Scheduled Keynotes include Lawrence Lessig , Saskia 
Sassen  and Raqs Media Collective .

Register by June 30th and receive a 33% discount:
http://01sj.org/content/view/221/130/

Those that take advantage of Early Bird Registration will receive a 
print copy of Intelligent Agent, the official ISEA2006 Papers 
Publication and a free copy of the special edition issue of the 
Leonardo Journal, published in conjunction with the Pacific Rim New 
Media Summit.

Come early and experience 3 international pre-symposium Summits 
exploring focused topics through peer to peer knowledge sharing: 
Interactive City - Berkeley Intel Labs, The Global Leadership Forum - 
City of San Jose, and the Pacific Rim New Media Summit - openSJSU CADRE 
Laboratory.

Some Highlights

PAPERS

Allison Sant
Redefining the Basemap

Current collaborative mapping projects using locative media 
technologies have often overlooked the conventions of the basemap as a 
site for reinvention. Although these projects imagine alternative 
organizations of urban space through the way it is digitally mapped, 
they remain bounded by datasets that reinforce a Cartesian and static 
notion of urban space. This paper questions the methodology of the 
basemap, as it is utilized in these projects, and proposes alternative 
tactics for mapping the city.

Other Papers: Trebor Scholz, Kevin Hamilton, Sharon Daniel, Joline 
Blais, Mara Traumane, Mirjam Struppek, Tapio Makela, Franck Ancel, 
Timothy Murray, Machiko Kusahara, Ned Rossiter, Steve Anderson, Jon 
Ippolito, Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Josephine Bosma, Gheorghe Dan, Alisa 
Andrasek, Valentina Nisi, Dr. Mads Haahr and Dr. Ian Oakley

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS

Bioteknica: Laboratory Re:Mix –- Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey

BIOTEKNICA is a fictitious corporation, generating designer organisms 
on demand. Irrational and grotesque, our specimens are modeled on the 
Teratoma, a cancerous multi-tissue growth. Initially virtual, our 
organisms are now under laboratory development using living tissue. 
BIOTEKNICA both embraces and critiques biotechnology, considering the 
contradictions and complexities that these technologies offer the 
future of humanity.

Other Artists:  Ben Rubin, Norene Leddy, Andrew Milmoe, Thom Kubli, 
Markus Schneider, Christian Riekoff, Paula Levine, Atteqa Malik, Tamiko 
Thiel, Mara Tralla, Angelo Vermeulen, Luc De Meester, Elio Caccavale, 
Matt Gorbet Design Inc., GORBET + BANERJEE, Christian Hubler, Felix 
Stalder, Jill Scott, Bill Dolson, Randall Packer, Julie Andreyev, 
Andrea Polli, David Drake, Frederic Madre, Ursula Damm, Matthias Weber, 
Peter Serocka, Nigel Helyer a.k.a. Dr. Sonique, Peter Agostino, Silavn 
Zurbruegg a.k.a. etoy.SILVAN, Robert Neiderfer, Olga Kessila, Steve 
Wilson, Jody Zellen, Burak Arikan, Vincent Leclerc , Vincent Kraeutler 
a.k.a Etoy.VINCENT, Gisselle Beiguelman, Tiffany Holmes, Jennifer 
Willet, Pia Tikka, Mauri Kaipainen George Legrady, Rama Hoetzlein, 
Mathias Fuchs, Shona Kitchen, Ben Hooker

POSTERS

A Metro of Meaning: Understanding the Semantic Meaning of a City. - 
Matthew Hockenberry and Rob Gens

Can computers understand what a space means to us? We think so, and 
demonstrate a system that seems to feel the same way. By making use of 
common-sense knowledge what an average person takes a way from a place 
we can build visualizations that aren't dependent on what we put in a 
database - just what we can describe with language.

Other Posters: Steve Anderson, Tara McPherson , Stanislav Roudavski, 
Giorgos Artopoulos, Diego Diaz, Wei Liu, Clara Boj, Chris Byrne, Atau 
Tanaka, Petra Gemeinboeck, Kuljit Chuhan, Dennis Kaspori, Kenneth 
Fields, Ajaykumar, Julie Freeman, David Muth, Maria Mencia, Peter 
Hasdell, Vladimir Todorovic, Goran Andrejin, Keng Soon Teh, Adrian 
Cheok, Roger Tan, Shang Ping Lee, Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Francis Li, Inga 
Zimprich, Elliot Anderson, Stefan Riekeles, Andy Bilchbaum, Nathalie 
Magnan, Gissle Geiguelman, Burak Arikan

PANELS

SoundCulture Panel - Shawn Decker, Ed Osborn, Nigel Helyer a.k.a. Dr. 
Sonique

SoundCulture is an international collective doing sound-related work 
that explores artistic and cultural contexts for this work outside of 
the traditional modes of presentation of music. SoundCulture artists 
will discuss this aspect of their current practices in particular, and 
how working from a background in sound informs these other activities.

Other Panels: WETWARE Hackers Discussed - Paul Vanouse, Natalie 
Jeremijenko, Beatriz da Costa, Oron Catts