[spectre] TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION - Workshops by Linda Hilfling

[Marieke Istha]

TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION
Workshops by Linda Hilfling
March 21

Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, http://www.nimk.nl

TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION

territorial
adj 1: of or relating to a territory; 'the territorial government of the 
Virgin Islands'; 'territorial claims made by a country'
2: displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders; 
'territorial behavior'; 'strongly territorial birds' [ant: nonterritorial]
3: of or relating to the local vicinity;'territorial waters'[ant: 
extraterritorial] n 1: nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial 
military unit 2: a territorial military unit [syn: territorial reserve]

in
The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to 
surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs 
signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within 
circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, 
confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different 
applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is 
interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.

in-
An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, 
incapable, inapt.

formation
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. The 
manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; 
conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

information
The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. Any 
fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated 
by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum 
that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; 
intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

This workshop examines the performative gaps in between laws and their 
structure of participation in offline as well as online territories. A 
number of casestudies and artistic projects will serve as the starting 
point for a discussion of the different, yet interacting materialities 
of territorial information.
Physical spaces as well as information architectures are being explored: 
>From the art of misspelling as an intervention into the corrective info 
regimes of search engines, to a house on wheels as a circumvention of 
building regulations or the extra-territorial paradox of virtual 
embassies. Following these examples, the participants are encouraged to 
work individually or in groups developing their own interventions or 
strategies for mapping out territorial in/-/formation.

Workshop programme:
11.00-13.00: Introduction
Casestudies and projects:
As a point of departure for the discussion, Linda will present different 
cases and projects that explore the greyzone of informational 
territoriality. In different ways each of the cases points out 
occurencies where the territorial structures breaks or where their 
incompleteness are being revealed.
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-14.30: A discussion of the mornings presentation. Subjects of 
interest are being defined and participants are selecting working areas.
14.30-16.00: The participants work individual or in groups
16.00-17.00: Roundtable presentations and final discussion.

A small reader will be provided online one week before the actual 
workshop. This reader is voluntary reading, but might be a source of 
inspiration before or after the workshop. Participants are welcome to 
bring projects which they are already working on.
Feel free to email any questions to info [at] gatepeepin [dot] org .

Linda Hilfling (Odense, Denmark, 1975) has a background in studies of 
filmmaking, architecture, urban planning and media design. Her interest 
in those fields is founded in an attention to the structures they are 
part of and how practice is inscribed in but also re-forming these 
structures. This has lead her to interventions within existing 
media-structures.
Works range from concepts for using ATM-machines or surveillance cameras 
as local-media platforms to the Misspelling Generator - a firefox 
extension that circumvents Google's selfcensorship and rigid information 
structure. She is also the co-curator and initiator of the Art of the 
Overhead – a media archaeological festival celebrating the overhead 
projector ( http://www.overheads.org/ ).
Linda graduated at the Danish Royal Academy of Art, School of 
Architecture, Copenhagen (BA Architecture) in 2003 and graduated at Piet 
Zwart Institute (MA Media Design) in 2008. Linda stayed as an 
artist-in-residence at NIMk in 2008. http://www.nimk.nl

Date: Saturday March 21, 10.30-17.00h

Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam

Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail + your cv and a brief 
description of your motivation for attending the workshop to anouk at nimk.nl
To ensure a place, please register before March 15. Places are limited 
to 15.

Cost: euro 15,- / 10,- students (incl coffee, tea and lunch)