[spectre] UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM: [TAG & TRACK] - 21 March

[nat muller]

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UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM: [TAG & TRACK]

When: Wednesday  March 21st 2007 ||  20.30 hours
Where: Melkweg, Theater, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam
| free entrance |

URL: www.melkweg.nl/upgrade
LIVE webcast: www.fabchannel.com

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 'Locative media' are hot: from cell phones to GPS, to other means of  
satellite communications. A world without the latter seems unthinkable,  
or perhaps even non-navigationable. Experiments with locative media  
within the arts have mostly focused on and taken place within an urban  
context.
Upgrade! Amsterdam [tag & track] offers a counterbalance and highlights  
projects where the technology itself is not the main feature, but  
rather how their usage functions within specific contexts, and  
generates a multitude of meanings and experiences: from Fulani nomads  
in Nigeria to the migratory routes of the Montagu’s Harrier between  
Groningen and Mauritania.

| Introduction by Assia Kraan |
Assia Kraan wrote an article on locative media for ‘Open – magazine for  
art and the public domain’, titled ‘Public action through  
geo-annotation – social encounters by ways of locative media arts’.
http://www.assia.nl

| Nomadic Milk – Esther Polak – Michiel de Lange |
NomadicMILK aims to raise awareness about migratory patterns of the  
Fulani nomads in Nigeria through an artistic visualization of dairy  
routes, achieved by combining new media such as global positioning  
systems, mobile telephones and a GPS.
 
| Capturing the migration of Montagu’s Harrier – Ben Koks c.s. |
Not only are the migratory routes of the harriers (equipped with tiny  
7gr satellite backpacks) between the Netherlands  Mauritania, Senegal  
and Nigeria of interest here, but also the narratives connections they  
forge between Dutch ornithologists and farmers in Western Africa.
http://www.grauwekiekendief.nl

| Just van den Broeke |
Since 2005 involved in projects based on GeoTracing, an Open Source  
platform initiated by Just for tracking and tracing.
http://www.justobjects.nl

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UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM is a series of gatherings for and by new media  
aficionados, artists, geeks, media makers and breakers, and the  
generally curious. Point of departure is the premise: “No upgrade  
without a downgrade.” UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM is organised by Nat Muller &  
Lucas Evers, is actively hosted by de Melkweg, and kindly supported by  
VSB Fonds and Mondriaan Foundation.

UPGRADE! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes  
united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural  
divides. Since April 1999, a group of new media artists and curators  
have gathered in New York City. The first meeting took place at a bar  
in the east village with Tim Whidden & Mark River [MTAA], Mark Napier  
and UPGRADE! founder Yael Kanarek.
http://www.theupgrade.net/