[spectre] Blowup: We Are All Crew - celebrating 100 years Marshall McLuhan

[V2_]

V2_presents:
*Blowup: /We Are All Crew/*
*3,4,5, November 2011: three days of McLuhan activities in Rotterdam*
*
To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birth, 
V2_Institute
for the Unstable Media presents three days of McLuhan activities in 
Rotterdam.
Join us for a weekend of telepresent artworks, film, lectures and 
parties! "There
are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan.*

Together with InterAccess (Toronto) V2_ presents a three-day exhibition 
/Strategic
Arts Initiative 2.0/, a re-installation of the seminal 1986 telepresence 
exhibition
Strategic Arts Initiative (SAI). McLuhan's writings informed and 
influenced much of
the work in the original exhibition.

On Friday November 4 we host a festive premiere of /Them F*ckin' 
Robots/, Ine
Poppe and Sam Nemeth's documentary on the legendary Canadian artist Norman
White. The makers spent five years making the film. They visited White
in his studio, a huge industrial water mill in Ontario. Footage of the 
artist at work
and conversations with him, art historians, and his ex-students 
alternate with rare
historic images.

On Saturday November 5 Dutch media theorist Arjen Mulder will give a lecture
entitled /Things We Love and Love to Hate About Marshall McLuhan/. McLuhan's
most widely quoted statement "the medium is the message" is a pun on the
information theory of cybernitician Claude E. Shannon of the 1940's. 
Shannon was
the first to come up with the classical scheme of communication, 
according to
which a message is sent through a medium to a receiver, losing and gaining
information in the process of transmission.

http://www.v2.nl/events/blowup-we-are-all-crew
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Program information*

Admission EUR 5,- pass for events on all three days. Free entrance for 
students (college
card). All events take place at V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam.

Blowup: We Are All Crew is part of McLuhan in Europe 2011, a year-long 
celebration
of Marshall McLuhan's impact and legacy on European art and media 
culture during
the centenary of his birth. http://mcluhan2011.eu. The exhibition in 
Toronto is part
of the Dew Line Festival. The Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0 exhibition 
is supported by
the Canada Council for the Arts.

*Thursday November 3*
20:00 - 23:00: Opening of Strategic Arts Initiative (SAI) 2.0 
exhibition, five telematic
artworks connected live with InterAccess in Toronto, Canada. Featuring 
artworks
by Doug Back, Laura Kikauka and Carl, David Rokeby, Graham Smith and Norman
White. Welcoming remarks and short talks by the artists at 20:30.

*Friday November 4*
20:00: World premiere screening of Them F*ckin' Robots, a documentary on 
the life
and work of electronic art legend, and participant in the Strategic Arts 
Initiative
2.0 exhibition, Norman White. Directed by Ine Poppe and Sam Nemeth.
14:00 - 23:00: SAI 2.0 exhibition open and connected live to 
InterAccess, Toronto.

*Saturday November 5*
14:00 - 20:00: SAI 2.0 exhibition open and connected live to 
InterAccess, Toronto.
20:00 - Keynote lecture by Arjen Mulder: Things We Love and Love To Hate 
About
Marshall McLuhan (and cybernetics) .
21:00: Response to the lecture and commentary on the SAI 2.0 exhibition
by Derrick de Kerckhove .
21:30 - 00:00: SAI 2.0 exhibition open and connected live to 
InterAccess, Toronto.
Closing party with custom cocktail begins at 22:00.

*Contact: *
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Joris van Ballegooijen
+31(0)10 2067272
joris at v2.nl

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