[spectre] LAST CALL for participation in SPECTROPIA WSHP: TEMPEST (with Martin Howse)

[Rasa Smite]

Dear Spectre,

I am sending you the short-notice call for our upcoming workshop led 
by Martin Howse (UK) that will take place in October 17-18 in the 
framework of Art+Communication 2008 festival and exhibtion SPECTROPIA 
(October 16-25, 2008) programme
More info at: http://rixc.lv/08

best,
Rasa


>  > > LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION:

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** TEMPEST: DECODING THAT WHICH IS

Workshop with Martin Howse (UK)


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October 17 (Friday) -18 (Saturday) , 2008
Max. 12 participants, in English
Registration until Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at rixc at rixc.lv or 
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (mob.)

In the framework of 10th international festival for new media culture 
ART+COMMUNICATION: "SPECTROPIA - illuminating investigations in 
electromagnetic spectrum"
Riga, October 16 - 25, 2008
http://rixc.lv/08

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Two day practical and theoretical workshop exploring contemporary 
paranoia/ontology as a tale of so-called compromising emanations (CE).

Any time a machine is used to process classified information 
electrically, the various switches, contacts, relays, and other 
components in that machine may emit radio frequency or acoustic 
energy.

... This problem of compromising radiation we have given the covername TEMPEST.

[TEMPEST: A Signal Problem. NSA 1972]

Following a lucid line of development from Maxwell City (with Erich 
Berger), through Demons in the Aether and later scrying, the TEMPEST 
workshop arrives clearly with a signal concern; making sense of a 
physical data landscape, ecology and economy within the constructed 
environment.

TEMPEST... presents a practical introduction to the modulation and 
demodulation of any signal, allowing a fresh perspective on the 
digital as primary material; the transition into a digital realm
which humbles its carrier, submitting the aether to the status of a 
lowly medium; that which is modulated.

TEMPEST... underscores a rich adventure, making sense of fortuitous 
emanations of sound, light and, primarily, electromagnetic phenomena 
using simple apparatus and theory. Research topics for artistic 
examination include, but are not limited to: signals and noise, van 
Eck phreaking, decoding, encryption and hiding, surveillance, 
information and carrier/support, intentionality of CE.

Finally, TEMPEST, as covername; the word itself as revealing a 
certain relation to both hiding (information) and the state 
(subject). TEMPEST, as term, supposedly means nothing, quite simply
denying the possibility of being decoded as itself an acronym. A 
codeword for the exposure of the world as (being) encoded.


**Schedule:

October 17, 14.00 - 18.00

- Practical demonstrations of TEMPEST-related phenomena and 
eavesdropping practices
- TEMPEST as theory: short overview
- Practical collective investigations exploring emanations of EM 
presence, sound and light from constructive perspectives

October 18, 12.00 - 14.00
- Final discussion of research and future projects


**Regulations:

- free admission
- registration until Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at rixc at rixc.lv (or 
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (mob.))
- there are still available budget for travel and accomodation for 
2-3 persons (primarly from Baltic/Nordic countries and Eastern 
Europe, as well as rest of Europe) - please send your email with 
short biography to rixc at rixc.lv with subject "participating in 
TEMPEST workshop" until Monday, October 13, 2008.
- other participants will pay themselves the costs for travel, food 
and accomodation


**Venue:

The TEMPEST workshop and SPECTROPIA exhibition will take place in 
Riga Art Space, Old Town in Riga, Address: Ratslaukums 1.


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For any furher information please contact:
RIXC,
11. Novembra krastmala 35 - 201,
Riga, LV 1050, Latvia
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (mob., Rasa Smite)
E-mail: rixc at rixc.lv

http://rixc.lv/08