[spectre] Art.on.Wires Media Festival 2011 - 25-29 May 2011 - Oslo, Norway

[Christian Jacquemin]

Announcing the Art.on.Wires Media Festival 2011

Festival for Media Arts and Digital Culture
25-29 May 2011

The Art.on.Wires Festival creates an interdisciplinary forum to explore
the future of electronic arts and modern lifestyle. Art.on.Wires is
best described as an open laboratory, hacker space, and meeting point
for artists, designers, creative media professionals, multimedia
researchers, engineers, and Do-it-Yourself enthusiasts. As an annual
event Art.on.Wires will this year take place at Chateu Neuf in Oslo from
25th - 29th May 2011. Under the title make : create : invent :
recycle : explore we promote education, collaboration, sharing and
making of interactive and electronic art, and the direct dissemination
of latest developments from Multimedia IT research to the public. Over
five days we arrange tutorials from leading artists and researchers
(http://art-on-wires.org/f11/tutorials), interactive installations
(http://art-on-wires.org/f11/installations) and live performances
(http://art-on-wires.org/f11/performances). Visitors await

* 4 central themes: interaction, sound, visuals, and hardware hacking
* 13 high-class tutorials
* 3 evenings with live performances and DJ's
* more than 30 world-class artists and researchers
* keynotes and presentations
* interactive arts installations
* a media and hardware hacker lab

We invite professional artists, designers, architects, musicians,
researchers, students and open-minded visitors to join a vivid and
diverse group of experimentors to share, create, learn, play and be
inspired by arts, science and technology. Presenters at the festival are
internationally renowned researchers and artists, including Christian
Jaquemin, Nick Collins, Brock Craft, Lisa Wymore, 5uper.net, and DKIA.
Audio-visual live performances will be presented by Lars Graugaard,
Jacob Korn, Jason Geistweidt, Nick Collins and many others.

Festival tickets are available for 750/1250 NOK (100/160 Euro), day
tickets and evening tickets cost 350 NOK (45 Euro) and 100/150 NOK
(12/20 Euro). As special bonus to all 5-day tickets sold before May 15
you can bring one friend to the festival for free.

== Festival Highlights ==
Swarm Cubes Tutorial
DKIA, Austria
Thu, 26 May 10-17h
http://art-on-wires.org/archives/640

Shaders for Advanced Graphical Rendering in OpenFrameworks Tutorial
Christian Jaquemin, France
Fri, 27 May 10-13
http://art-on-wires.org/archives/646

Networked Dance: Collage Study #1 – Where Here Meets There
Lisa Wymore, UC Berkeley and Liv Hanne Haugen, Norway
Fri, 27 May 14-17
http://art-on-wires.org/archives/1046

Interactive Network Music Performance Tutorial Tutorial
Alain Renaud, UK and Alexander Carot, Germany
Sat, 28 May 14-17
http://art-on-wires.org/archives/644

Kinect Tutorial
Lars Graugaard, Dan Overholt and Aalborg University Art+Technology Students
Sun, 29 May 10-13
http://art-on-wires.org/archives/720

== Duration and Opening hours ==
Wednesday 25 - Sunday 29 May 2011
daily 10am - 17pm and on most evenings

== Venue ==
Betong Club, Chateu Neuf
Slemdalsveien 15
0369 Oslo