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PARTICIPANTS
Adam Hyde, r a d i o q u a l i a/NZ
adam ( at ) xs4all.nlAdam Hyde was born in New Zealand and presently resides in Riga, Latvia.
He is a musician, developer and format artist working at the convergence of broadcasting and Internet technologies. He is one of the co-founders of r a d i o q u a l i a (http://www.radioqualia.net), an artistic collaboration with Honor Harger.
Adam has a background in television and radio in New Zealand, where he founded the b.net radio network and Static Television, New Zealand's first community television station. He relocated in Europe in 1999, and worked as a producer and manager at the internet service provider, XS4ALL in Amsterdam between 1999 - 2003. Whilst in Amsterdam, he co-founded HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He was also the initiator of Net Congestion: the International Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam in October 2000, and a co-founder of the Open Source Streaming Alliance, an initiative that has established several internationally distributed, streaming media servers for arts and cultural use. He has taught new media at the University of Amsterdam, and other institutes, including the American Film Institute and the Walker Art Center in the USA.
Under the name 'eset', Adam works as a software artist and musician. He has designed and built several applications including the Theory Machine and the Frequency Clock. His performances as an electronic musician have incorporated live software development as an integral and demonstrative part of the performance.
Andrew Paterson/FI
apaterso ( at ) uiah.fiAndrew Paterson (born Scotland 1974) has a creative practice that evolved from the processes of printmaking, through a blend of poetic text, mixed media, virtual audio-augmented environments to emerging mobile interfaces.
This brew has been influenced over by engagement with methodologies and theory from archaeology, performance, and more recently, ethnographic fieldwork practice. Collaborative projects in the last year have aimed to contribute to the 'locative media' activity and discourse - aspects of the situated, the embodied and the temporal.
He is currently a Doctorate of Arts candidate at Media Lab UIAH in Helsinki, Finland. The practice-led research aims to explore and develop the creative potential of locative/situated media for application within socially-engaged contexts.
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~apaterso
Aleksandar Erkalovic/HR
aerkalov ( at ) mi2.hrAleksandar Erkalovic - member of Multimedia Institute lab (mi2 media lab) - is responsible for programing and maintaining source of TamTam and for seting up TamTam servers. TamTam is online collaboration tool based on original Ward Cunningham's wiki web concept.
Erkalovic is well experienced C, Python programmer and advanced Linux user.http://www.mi2.hr
Annika Kaljurand,
annika ( at ) artun.eeI am a person who has been trained in the following areas: dance, drama directing, electronic media, public relations, layout design and new media. I am a strong believer that all art forms are related and feel that integrating differing philosophies and techniques can lead only to positive innovations.
I have worked for Estonian daily newspaper Postimees layout department foR three years. And for broadcasting firm Filmimees OÜ as a producer assistant for 6 piloT TV shows. Currently I am the first year MA student of Interactive Art at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Armin Medosch/DE-UK
armin ( at ) easynet.co.ukArmin Medosch is a London based writer, artist and curator. In 2003 he has written the book "Freie Netze - Free Networks", a non-fiction book about the politics, history and culture of (wireless) community networks; published in German language by Heise Verlag, Oct. 2003.In 2003 he also edited "DIVE - - collaborative tools for online communities" a printed catalogue and cd rom with texts, art projects and software. DIVE is a project by "Kingdom of Piracy" <KOP>, co-produced by FACT, Liverpool. <KOP> is jointly curated by Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata and Shu Lea Cheang.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences on digital culture and frequently involved in organising and curating conferences. He presented a paper at the conference Open Cultures, Vienna (June 03), at Transmediale 04, at 'Crosstalks', Brussels, among many other places.
He has contributed articles and essays to many books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers. He is currently working on a new book on the relationships between science, technology and societal
change. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor of telepolis, the award winning 'magazine of net-culture'.Since 1997 based in London, he is co-initiator of the monthly Cybersalon events, co-organiser of conference Art Servers Unlimited @ backspace and ICA 1998; member of University of Openness, a self-learning institution, and associate senior lecturer at Ravensbourne College.
http://kop.fact.co.uk/
Ben Russell/UK
jben ( at ) headmap.orgFounder of locative media site headmap www.headmap.org and former head of strategy and communications at Mathengine [real time game physics] an informal guerilla (distributed) think tank Headmap examines the social implications and applications of location aware devices, augmented social networks, wearable computers, thinking tools and semantic network interfaces.
“We see wearable computing, retinal displays, distributed wireless mesh networks and semantic web standards as the foundation of an outside internet. The space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. The boundaries between what is interior and what is exterior intersecting tangibly in front of your eyes.
One short term pragmatic theme then is that we want to make it easy for people to publish and share information about the location of things and the spatial associations connected with thoughts.”
http://headmap.org
http://locative.net
Daniel Norell, KRETS/SE
mail ( at ) danielnorell.netDaniel Norell is a practicing architect based in Stockholm. He studied architecture at the TU Delft and at the KTH in Stockholm, where he graduated in 2003 with the thesis Share-Ware Hotel: Mediating the Capsule and the Office Landscape. Active as teacher, lecturer and critic at the KTH School of Architecture and founding member of the research group Krets. Further teaching experience includes workshops at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and at the School of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has previously practiced architecture in Rotterdam and is since 2000 a regular collaborator of Servo in a series of projects exhibited in Europe and the US. Member of CRAC.
http://www.danielnorell.net
Krets is an architecture and design research group that focuses on the material and technological as well as the social and the cultural aspects of design, production and performance. The group uses a collaborative platform to explore the ambiguities of production and performance where the nature of design as well as practice itself becomes reconfigured. Important themes include the notion of the prototype, its performative qualities, collaborative environments and generative processes. The use of the term 'prototype' refers to its capacity to continuously register and index the artistic input of several authors during a design process. The connotation of 'performance' is multiple: it indicates the establishment of new relations between a performer, in this case the designer, and an audience or consumer, as well as the performative / responsive qualities of a specific artifact or environment. The project team of Krets has its base at the School of Architecture at KTH, Stockholm with founding members Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Pablo Miranda, Daniel Norell and Jonas Runberger.
Dennis Kaspori/NL
kaspori ( at ) themaze.org
Dennis Kaspori is an architect and a founding member of The Maze Corporation, an office for research and design on issues related to the urban condition, public space and housing. He is focused on the development of an engaged architectural practice that seeks new spatial solutions these issues in close collaboration with other fields of expertise (philosophy, art, graphic design, economy and software-development). He also belongs to the Office for Tele(Communication), Historicity & Mobility. The Maze Corporation is currently working with Suite 75 on the project ‘do-it-yourself city, open source urbanism’.
http://www.themaze.org/ - The Maze Corporation
http://sam.suite75.net/ - SAM - a Virtual Urban Stock Exchange
http://www.suite75.net/blog/maze/ - Open Source Architecture discussion site: TOWARDS AN EGOLESS, COOPERATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. This weblog has been created as a result of the article A communism of ideas, towards an architectural open source practice. It proposes a reorganization of architectural practice in order to deal with the diminishing role of the architect in spatial planning issues. Instead of continuing the battle of egos this weblog sets out to explore new models of cooperation that can reinvent architectural practice and develop innovative spatial models at the same time.
Derek Holzer/US-NL
derek ( at ) x-i.netsound and audio artist Derek Holzer [usa 1972] is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. he was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in hungary (pararadio) and czech republic (radio jeleni). he has also worked with re-lab, a net.radio group in latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. in august 2001, derek participated in the acoustic space lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations [karosta project, w/ sara kolster], and on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment [ozone project, w/ bas van koolwijk], as well as the use of free software such as pure-data.
http://www.umatic.nl
Djordjije Kalezic/Serbia
koksik ( at ) EUnet.yuDjordjije Kalezic, born in 1978. in Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro, former Yugoslavia. Elementary and secondary education completed in Podgorica. Entered the Faculty of Architecture of Belgrade University in 1997. and graduated in 2003. During the 2002. and 2003. worked as a teaching assistant at the same faculty, the Theory of Architecture department, and conducted a regional-scale research concerning spontaneous processes of spatial/functional transformations of objects of culture in Montenegro, during the period of economic transition in 90’s . At the present working at Department of Architecture with University of Montenegro, as associate in teaching and research. Fluent in English, and have basic communication level in Portuguese and Russian. Semi-professional and professional level skills at various computer-aided-design and database software.
Motivation (for RAM5): My interests in this area (and in participation at this particular event) emerges from specific approach in research, as well as in architectural design: every task was specific enough to call for more or less modified software, enough flexible to follow researcher’s methodology, his way of thinking. Of course, in architectural researches dealing with changes through time, the use of conventional software for database building, data management and graphic presentation of processes researched can often give a really hard time to a researcher, and make the man twist and wrap around the software, which, I believe, should be otherwise. This is particularly obvious when research includes, for instance, evolving problems, parametric analisys in changeable conditions, genetics of self-generated urban processes etc., which are subjects of my researches. Having that in mind, participation on 5th RAM workshops would help me to better understand the Open Source concept, and to meet actual people who work in that field, exchange problems, approaches and solution methods. At the other hand, it would be most usefull to discuss the influence of design software on the actual design methods, and how it could be changed with more adaptive and specific software.
Florian Schneider/Border04
fls ( at ) kein.orgFlorian Schneider is a writer, filmmaker and net activist. He concentrates on how new communication and migration regimes are being attacked and undermined by critics of borders and networks. Schneider is one of the initiators of the No One is Illegal campaign and one of the founders of the noborder network and the Europe-wide internet platform,. In 2001 he designed and directed the make world festival in Munich, and organised metabolics, a series of lectures on net art and net culture. He has also worked on several documentaries for the German-French television station, Arte, including What's to be done? which looks at contemporary activism. He also writes for major German newspapers, magazines, journals and handbooks.
http://www.antimedia.net/nooneisillegal/
http://www.noborder.org
BORDER04
Every one knows, if he or she knows nothing else, that Europe will change its shape from one day to the other, when ten new member-states access the EU on 1st of May 2004. There is much fear as well as much hope, but only one simple reason: Some borders seem to dissapear. At least, this is the official version or better to say: half of the truth.
But what will really happen? Where have the borders been moved to and how do these actual developments effect people who have been living and working from borders, alongside borders, against borders or across borders?In the next few months an independent, international and interdisciplinary commission is going to start to investigate the realities around Europes new borders: New media and noborder activists, filmmakers, video- and fotografers, DJ's and VJ's, fine art and performance artists, scientists and investigators will set a series of events in motion that surround, circumvent and perforate the borders of Europe.
On one hand BORDER04 is a virtual travel along both sides of the new borders of an enlarged European Union, from the balcan to the baltic states. On the other hand BORDER04 will connect and shortcircuit projects, activities and debates about migration and the expansion of the borders of the EU, about mobility, mobile technologies and freedom of movement with those about freedom of communications, the future dimensions of networking and the impact this will have for people living within the borders of the EU and those previously, temporarily or permanently outside of it.
Gintas K, sound artist/Vilnius, LT
gintaskr ( at ) takas.ltGintas K ( Krapatvicius, b.1969) has been active on Lithuanian experimental music scene since 1994.From 1999 on Gintas K has worked as sound artist, exploring digital minimal sounds , sine waves , noise glitches , microwaves and acoustic vibration, and designing sound actions and installations .His works were introduced in exhibitions and festivals in Lithuania , Brazil ,Taiwan, Slovenia,Russia and Finland, and CD's of his music were released in Germany, Slovakia and Lithuania, with selected works included in international compilations.The style of Gintas K can be described as mixture of minimal techno , industrial sounds and experimentation with various frequencies -from totally 'purified' minimal sound tracks to expressive and overloaded sound structures .
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthernoise/gintask/gintask.html
http://www.retinascan.de/compactdiscs/fcd24.htm
http://www.sinewaves.it/gintask.htm
the last one festival where i participated was
http://www.mic.lt/fest_jaunamuzika04.htm (festival Jauna Muzika 2004)
Gio D'Angelo
Gio ( at ) spc.orgfrom proposal:
The time spent in Riga will be part of my lab research project I'm calling "Lab Hopper". Once back in London, I'll be making a presentation of documentation to local network media architects of my "research" and work towards plans for an exhibition of work in London.
Of the top of my head, I would like to find out/discuss Network Management software, Multicast Video, VOIP and Communication media networks over wireless. Also I am interesting exploring possibilites of MicroPC/Embeded hardware devices. Investigate what would be a suite of hardware and open source software leading towards defining and building a useful network media device as part of the architecture.http://www.spc.org
Honor Harger, r a d i o q u a l i a/NZ
honor ( at ) va.com.auHonor Harger is a writer, designer and format artist, interested in the integration of different types of media within creative, communication, technological and art contexts. She has participated in exhibitions and performances, both in real and networked space, has designed and produced artwork for several creative print projects, and has created artwork. Key recent artistic achievements include co-founding (with Adam Hyde) the online broadcast project r a d i o q u al i a, and producing the typographical art publication, SPeC. Key curatorial and organisational accomplishments have been realised through her work at Relay, Radio One and Artspace in New Zealand, and the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Australia.
http://www.radioqualia.net
Jaanis Garancs/LV
jg ( at ) x-i.netJaanis Garancs, an interactive media and Virtual Reality artist, was recently artist-in-residience for 3 months at the SAT (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) co-organised with the Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art (NIFCA). Upcoming participations:
- Banff New media Institute (Canada): "Simulation and Other Re-enactments: Modeling the Unseen" summit happening April 29- May 2, 2004
- V2_Lab, Rotterdam (the Netherlands) P.E.R. / exStream artist-in-residence
- RAM5 workshop and "Cultural Mapping. Media Architecture" at the RIXC, Riga, Latvia
"...while many new media artists artists are so conceptionally convoluted that few get the hyper-irony, Garancs' work is viceral and tangible: a 3D datascape of moving lines, colours and information that can be set up to interact with moving bodies. Viva networked acid for the wired generation!
Garancs creates crazy stereoscopic projections - like what you'd hallucinate the Net to look like in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Call it the new phychedelia for the SMS kiddies, or the reprogramming of our cyberpunk fantasies with surround-sound bleeps..."http://jg.x-i.net
Jaromil/IT
jaromil ( at ) dyne.orgFree software programmer and streaming media pioneer, media artist and activist, performer and emigrant.
Jaromil (RASTASOFT.org) is an italian GNU/Linux programmer, author and mantainer of three free softwares and a operating system: MuSE (for running a web radio), FreeJ (for veejay and realtime video manipulation), HasciiCam (ascii video streaming) and dyne:bolic the bootable CD running directly without requiring installation, a popular swiss army knife in the fields of production and broadcasting of information.
All his creations are freely available online under the GNU General Public License (Free Software Foundation).
He is a featured artist in CODeDOC II (Whitney Museum's artport NY), Read_Me 2.3 (software art @ runme.org), negotiations 2003 (Toronto CA), I LOVE YOU (MAK Frankfurt).
Artworks include the software running Sophisticated Soiree (ZKM/intermedium02 award), the net-art piece FARAH, the theater performance TUBOCATODICO.
Jaromil is a component of the theatre company Giardini Pensili since 1998, having partecipated to the realization of Animalie, Metamorfosi, Affreschi, Il Cartografo; artist in residence at the makrolab (Venice Biennale) and currently in the Montevideo Time Based Arts institute.
Collaborations include: Ars Electronica Center / Futurelab, PUBLIC VOICE Lab, Giardini Pensili, digitalcraft.org, 01001.org, August Black, [epidemiC], Florian Cramer, 92v2.0, LOA hacklab, Freaknet Medialab, CandidaTV, the Mitocondri, the HackMeeting community.
http://rastasoft.org
Jason Harlan/US
harlan ( at ) generaleyes.comfrom proposal:
I live in San Francisco. I'm most interested in finding ways to create within the locative media design space - in compelling ways. By design space I mean the set of available options a locative media creator has available. It's a toolbox filled with complexly interconnected tools that need to adapt to various "closed" technologies and strange mobile situations.
Specifically, I would like to collaborate with others in the workshop to build up a discourse around the pros and cons of differing locative media approaches. Perhaps a language to mold our explorations into something others can use and learn from. Then hack together some prototypes and see what makes sense.
I'm particularly intrigued by the mobile interaction design directions of Daniel Fallman: http://daniel.fallman.org. He suggests ways in which the mobile design space can be delineated.
Relevant experience:
-Spoke at VSMM 03 and Transmediale 04 about a core set of principles that I consider when building locative media. These will be presented at workshop.
-Integrated mobile mapping into the activities of a global expedition - http://news.drivearoundtheworld.com. This is built on an open RDF architecture that leverages simple blogging tools for the located annotations.
-Co-design and dev of http://www.blogmapper.com. Technology covered in The Economist, New York Times, and UK Guardian.
-Co-design and dev for Geograffiti project. Partial funding by Banff New Media Institute - http://www.gpster.net/geograffiti.html
-Co-design and dev for Songlines project at Impakt in Utrecht 2003.
-Founding member of Locative Media Lab.
http://www.generaleyes.com
Jo Walsh/UK
jo ( at ) abduction.orgprogrammer, media artist and activist
Walsh has build web services for The Guardian Newspaper, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts and state51. She plays with bots, the semantic web and wireless networks, and is currently prototyping the mutemap, a GGPL-licensed organizational network mapper and RDF server, with Mute magazine.
SpaceNameSpace: This is a kind of collaborative mapping project. it consists of geographical models which are represented as RDF graphs. you can wander round them, like a MUD or MOO, with a bot interface which you can use to create and connect new places.http://space.frot.org/
Joanne Richardson
subsol ( at ) mi2.hrJoanne Richardson is an ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer. Co-founder of D Media in Romania (http://www.d-media.tk), an association of different groups: researchers working on a publication about copyleft and IT policy, Radio Fara Frecventa - journalists and musicians coordinating a net.radio program, and Realitatea SF - a video group working on several experimental documentaries (on nationalism in Romania, the relationship of capitalism to the informal economy, and media culture in Eastern Europe). Member of editorial collective of Indymedia Romania, editor of Subsol webzine (http://subsol.c3.hu), and author of publications on recent social movements, the crisis of tactical media, and the myths animating net activism.
http://subsol.c3.hu
http://www.d-media.tk
John Evans/FI
jevans ( at ) uiah.fi
programmer, designer
I have been one of the people working on Aware (http://aware.uiah.fi). I have been recently rewriting much of the code base for the underlying system -- i will begin work on some new web pages to reflect and display this soon when time permits. The new code base is an attempt to take much of our reflection on work done in the past 14 months and make the system more useful as a tool. The focus is on modularity and the inter-connectivity of systems, as well as a huge effort on the syndication of media to devices.
My previous work has been design orientated; specifically addressing areas of interaction and systems design.http://aware.uiah.fi
browsed here http://3eyes.co.uk
http://3eyes.co.uk/ragdoll/index.php
http://www.3eyes.co.uk/icelights/index.php
http://www.3eyes.co.uk/urdd/index.php
http://mlab.uiah.fi/%7Ejevans/3eyesqt/chair.mov (qt 5 req.)
John Hopkins/FI
jhopkins ( at ) uiah.fiAs an active networker-builder with a background in engineering, hard science, and the arts, Hopkins practices a nomadic form of teaching that spans many countries and situations. Formal teaching engagements, usually set in bold typeface as "networking and creativity" have taken place in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, England, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Russia, and the USA. Through an extensive personal network of dialectic human connections and sheer spontaneous presence, he is never far away from some kind of dialogue. Informal collaborative teaching/learning takes place anywhere and anytime.
During the past year, he streamed live network-based media performances to Berlin and Kiel, Germany; Winnipeg, Canada; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Strasbourg, France; New York City, and Riga, Latvia among other places. Current activities focus more on facilitation of distributed network congregations rather that the production of cultural spectacle and artifact. With a web-presence that dates back to a few months after the establishment of the W3 and a network practice going back almost two decades, the neoscenes webspace re-presents many previous creative activities like so much dead meat. Take a tour of the slaughterhouse. http://neoscenes.net.
A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Hopkins has experienced over 14 minutes of Totality under the darkened skies of Solar Eclipse. Presently as artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy's Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland, he is developing a comprehensive model under the title: "The Importance of Human Connection, Energy Exchange, and Interaction in Networks: A Model of Energized Presence."
http://neoscenes.net
http://neoscenes.net/network/ethernity/
http://neoscenes.net/projects/difusion1
http://neoscenes.net/projects/difusion2
Jonah Brucker-Cohen/IE
jonah ( at ) coin-operated.com
Jonah Brucker-Cohen works as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity College Dublin. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and spent two years there as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive digital / networked projects. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including Wired Magazine and Rhizome.org, and he was chosen as a net.art judge for the 2003 Webby Awards. He is the co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and won the 2001 International Browserday with his project "Crank the Web."
His research focus is on subverting existing relationships to human/networked interfaces by building real-world inputs to networks, redefining how information is used and disseminated, and shifting virtual processes into physical forms through networked devices and experiences. His process embraces a playful approach to changing people's notions of how networks are used and function. This is expressed through hacking and changing their fundamental properties, questioning their everyday use, and re-appropriating the language of networks in popular culture.
Jonah will discuss projects are examples of hacking conventional uses of public wireless networks to obtain both tactical and sociable results:Wifi-Hog
http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/wifihog
WiFi-Hog is a tactical media tool for subverting the claim of ownership and regulation over free wireless spectrum in public spaces by corporate or community groups, by allowing a means of control to come from a third-party using this tool.SimpleTEXT
http://www.simpletext.info
SimpleTEXT is a mobile phone enabled interactive performance that challenges isolated usage of mobile devices to encourage their collective and collaborative potential to create audio/visual output.
UMBRELLA.net
http://www.undertheumbrella.net
This project explores public interaction where ad-hoc network connections are made between people based on "coincidence of need": ie. when the need exists or certain conditions are met. This hacks the traditional idea of networks existing as always-on, always accessible utilitarian entities.
Phonetic Faces
http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/phoneticfaces
Phonetic Faces is an interactive mobile visual installation in public space that allows people to both contribute their image to a shared display and collaborate with others to create a collage of images using their mobile phones. The project transforms public space into a transitory image capture system that is controlled by active participants in the space. This encourages people to use their mobile devices collaboratively and is a time-based record and playful interactive experience for visitors in the space.
Jonas Runberger, KRETS/SE
jonas ( at ) runberger.netJonas Runberger is a practicing architect and designer currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is active in architectural practice, the experimental scene and academia. A founding member of Krets, main interests include research and development of architectural techniques, both as method and technology. Particular concerns within this field are collaborative processes, the state of the architectural proposal and the notion of the prototype. This is explored in the commercial and academic setting in parallel, through practice, teaching and research. Runberger is the director of the ssark medialab, a research component within commercial firm Scheiwiller Svensson Architects, a board member of crac and runs his own practice.. He is a frequent teacher, lecturer and critic at the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and has organised and taught a number of workshops and courses, often in collaboration. Other teaching experience includes a guest position at the ETHZ in Zürich, Switzerland and a visiting fellowship at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at the RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. A frequent collaborator with the Servo, he has worked in the design team of a number of Servo projects exhibited in Europe and the US.
http://www.runberger.net
Krets is an architecture and design research group that focuses on the material and technological as well as the social and the cultural aspects of design, production and performance. The group uses a collaborative platform to explore the ambiguities of production and performance where the nature of design as well as practice itself becomes reconfigured. Important themes include the notion of the prototype, its performative qualities, collaborative environments and generative processes. The use of the term 'prototype' refers to its capacity to continuously register and index the artistic input of several authors during a design process. The connotation of 'performance' is multiple: it indicates the establishment of new relations between a performer, in this case the designer, and an audience or consumer, as well as the performative / responsive qualities of a specific artifact or environment. The project team of Krets has its base at the School of Architecture at KTH, Stockholm with founding members Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Pablo Miranda, Daniel Norell and Jonas Runberger.
http://www.krets.org
Jurij Dobriakov, miglos_lab/Klaipeda, LT
surfaceslabel ( at ) hotmail.comBorn in 1983 in Kaliningrad, Russia, then moved to Klaipeda, Lithuania. Education includes studies of organizational administration at LCC (Lithuania Christian College) and a completed Summer Programme at ECLA (European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin) in European Intellectual History.
I am currently involved in 2 projects. First, I am a member of miglos_lab, a multidisciplinary creative group in Klaipeda. One of the main objectives of our group is developing a virtual user-managed system of cultural/art information exchange that would allow users to freely enter and modify bits of information they view as worth sharing with others. Second, I curate a virtual music publishing project, surfaces netlabel. It is created for releasing free quality experimental music by international independent sound artists. Surfaces is a non-commercial project, all mp3 releases can be downloaded freely and distributed without restriction, as long as they are not used for commercial purposes and work is not modified (unless it is a part of collaborative audio modification projects).
miglos_lab: http://miglos.ten.lt
surfaces netlabel: http://surfaces.tinkle.lt
Karlis Kalnins/CA
karlis ( at ) gpster.netKarlis Otto Kalnins serves as the technical director for several web-based art and activist projects that have been featured on CBC, CNN and in Time Magazine, he has been involved with geo-location with the GPSter site since 2001.
http://www.gpster.net
Katherine Moriwaki/IE
kaki ( at ) kakirine.comKatherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating wearables, fashion, emerging communication infrastructures, and the experiential resonance of technologically mediated public space. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Katherine's dissertation is focused on creative and artistic applications of networked communications and emergent behavior. In addition to her research Katherine teaches in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College. Formerly a Design Fellow at Parsons School of Design, Katherine developed and taught "Fashionable Technology", an interdisciplinary collaboration studio exploring the interstices of wearable technology, art, and fashion. Katherine received her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. Her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and has exhibited at numerous festivals and conferences.
http://www.kakirine.com
Kira Carpelan/Sweden
kira.carpelan ( at ) konstfack.seI have a background in film, animation and theoretical studies on moving images, drama and narration. At present a student at the Fine Art Department in Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm.
Interested in the fragmented narrative and virtual space as a room for art and storytelling. Currently working on a web project dealing with memory, narration and subjectivity (not yet on line). Also taking part in the project "Galileo Studio - Fact or Faith" a cooperation between Konstfack and Staedelshule in Frankfurt, dealing with questions of knowledge and belief using/investigating experince design and open source solutions.http://www.royandersson.com
http://www.konstfack.se
http://www.drd-a.com/z/
Krisjanis Rijnieks (kr15h)/ LV
kr15h ( at ) way.lvStudent of Janis Rozentals Art College in Riga is interested in video, 3d animation, moving images, electronics, net.art and VJing. Currently working with flash ActionScript and wants to learn some lower level programming language (C, C++, Assembler), to extend the limitations of current OS and programs.
http://www.promotion.lv
http://www.yanakay.com
http://www.fnserviss.lv
http://www.jrrmk.lv/darbi/individ_projekti_thumbs/krisha_darbi/caca/index.htm
http://www.jrrmk.lv/darbi/individ_projekti_thumbs/krisha_darbi/krish1/index.htm
http://www.jrrmk.lv/darbi/individ_projekti_thumbs/krisha_darbi/teleskops/index.htm
MHRDJAH /LV
mhrdjah ( at ) neirothe.netMultimedia artist from Riga.
Marc Tuters/CA
nodus ( at ) sympatico.caMarc Tuters is a researcher in new media with degrees in Film and in Media Studies, who has, for the past few years, been involved in curating events and producing projects on the particularly on the subjects of collaborative cartography and ad-hoc networking. In association with the Banff Centre, he recently co-founded the Locative Media Lab, an applied research lab that produces art-led technology development for emerging wireless platforms.
http://gpster.net
http://locative.net
Marius Watz, Amoeba/NO-DE
amoeba ( at ) evolutionzone.comMarius Watz is an artist and designer working with computational form in various media - print, animation, real-time. His background is in graphic design, with an emphasis on using programming to achieve aesthetic or functional goals. Under the nom-de-guerre Amoeba he has run the experimental web site Evolutionzone since 1996. His current projects focus on creating autonomous software for drawing (virtual “drawing machines”), as well as performative software for visual performances for music.
He is actively involved in the community around the free artist’s software Processing, which he uses to teach workshops for artists starting out with programming. He is based in Berlin, where he teaches Computational Design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. In relation to this he is interested in software developed by artists for artists, whether open source, free software, community-driven softwaare etc. His current tools of choice are Java, Processing, VVVV and Flash.
http://www.unlekker.net/
http://www.evolutionzone.com/
Markus Öhrn/SE
markus.ohrn ( at ) konstfack.seA student at the Institution of Art at Konstfack in Stockholm, working on a project called ” A Siamese Interpretation of Presence”: ”Siop” is an interdisciplinary art project that examins questions such as climate changes, the use of genetechnology, the development of information technology and its influence on our sense of reality.
Michael Connor / UK
connor ( at ) fact.co.ukMichael Connor is a writer, curator, and media educator born in Massachusetts and currently residing in Liverpool, England.
He began working as Curator [New Media] at the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology in Fall 2002, where he has produced a wide range of exhibitions, events and projects with a special focus on the free software movement and the eternal problem of human and machine.
In 2003, he commissioned the DIVE publication (http://kop.fact.co.uk/DIVE), edited by Armin Medosch. In 2004, he is curating exhibitions by artists JODI and Cory Arcangel, and working on content development for Art Park, a hosting facility that is intended to enable UK artists to make work for the web.
http://kop.fact.co.uk/DIVE
Nenad Radoja/Serbia
radojanenad ( at ) yahoo.comI am 25 y o student of Architecture from Serbia and Montenegro, University of Novi Sad.
Participient in PSU (Academic Training Association), course Design of Cultural Spaces in Pristina 2003. and School of Civil Sociaty "Politeia" in 2003 in Kikinda.
Last few months our group prepare project Column Network, studying network for contemporary architecture of SE Europe in Serbo-Croat language. Our idea is to connect students of Architecture in Balkanian countries and through research process develop new e-medium.
Till now, we have 20 members. Our organisation is in beginning and our on-line campaign will start for a few days. In promotion our project we will use all technique of e-marketing. Momentary our group use yahoo service "yahoo.groups" for their group work but we would like to build work area in our site.
http://www.columnnetwork.org
Nicklas Nilsson/ SE
nicklas.nilsson ( at ) malmo.com> Education:
Ethnology/Migration/cultural studies, Lund & Malmö universities.
Degree in "Interaction Design", K3 - School of art & communication, Malmo university> Technical Artworks :
Conceptual, technical, graphical work and software design/programming for
"Ktree". A computing mechatronic sculpture. Artist: Jan Cardell
Exhibitions: Electrohype in Malmo 2000 + see link
http://www.k3.mah.se/ktreeTechnical, mechatronic work and programming for "Sällskap K3".
Artist: Karl Dunér & Peder Freij.Exhibitions: Electrohype in Malmo 2000, Nordic embassy in Berlin 2001.Triennale of cont art Yokohama 2001. http://www.jpf.go.jp/yt2001/cyber/artist/026_Dune/Software design and programming for "To Be Located". Tangible computing &
human computer interaction. Artist/researcher: Maria Hellström/Ane Skak
Exhibitions: Expo 2000 in Hannover.
http://space.interactiveinstitute.se/projects/tobeloca/Technical and software design/programming for "A Siamese Interpretation of
Presence". Clone spruces growing in different places; environments connected by
tcp/ip-communication and controlled by microprocessors.Artist: Markus Öhrn
Exhibitions: Work in progress
http://www.siop.nu (sorry, swedish only)My interests at the moment (beside SIOP) is mainly about composing and recording music. i also make short movies and are right now producing an exhibition with mechatronic artist jan cardell in malmo. i recently participated in producing a theater performace where i made movies that was intertwined with the acting on stage.
Nicolas Cederstrum/DK
nice (_at_) itu.dk
Nicolas Cederstrųm (b. 1974) holds a bachelor degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen.Together with Rune Huvendick Jensen and Tau Ulv Lenskjold - attend the IT-University of Copenhagen - graduate-program in Design, Media and Communication, where they have each been involved in a number of projects relating to the social and cultural effects of new media and technology. Together they have submitted their master thesis on Digital Unitary Urbanism in January 2004.
Their interest is primarily expressed in two ways:
At a theoretical level through the (ongoing) research into the socio-cultural framework, Digital Unitary Urbanism, through which we can begin to understand the social, cultural and spatial implications of the current technological changes.
And at the same time through the development of a vision (at some time in the future to become a prototype) of a system – CityNova – which investigates the same area from a creative and experimental design point of view.
Nis Romer/DK
nisroemer ( at ) hotmail.comShort resume:
I work with public art most often outside the galleries and in collaboration with others. I have a special interest in the social and political organization of space and in how processes of globalization affects the city. Much of my recent work deals with open source and how technology can be used in communities.
some project descriptions
www.glentevejplads.dk We (three artists) made a communal urban green area in a densly populated area in Copenhagen, in cooperation with local residents and homeless persons. We used open source software for netbased feedback, and mobilephone sms-lists for announcing events and working days (Yes in Denmark homeless people have mobiles). The structure of the whole project was based on open source principles.
www.org-urb.dk Research and open air gathering place for discussions on inclusive/queer architecture and more, allmost no material/physical structure, easily recyclable.
www.open-source-city.net Site under development (UK version comming up) on serverbased community software, and examples on sustainable urban development.
Pablo Miranda Carranza, Army of Clerks/SE
pablom ( at ) tii.sePablo Miranda Carranza did his diploma and MSc at the University of East London in the year 2000, where he became increasingly interested in the relations between computation and architecture. Since then he has been being teaching at the architecture school of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and working at the Interactive Institute also in Sweden. He has collaborated with Smart Studio and the architecture group Servo in Lattice Archipelogics, a responsive environment which learns its own interaction behaviour (exhibited at Latent Utopias in Graz, 2002, the Perloff Galery in L.A. 2003, Centre Pompidou in Paris 2004, and awarded an Honorary mention at Vida 5.0), and has recently started together with Jonas Runberger, Daniel Norell, Ulrika Karlsson and Marcelyn Gow the architecture group Krets, a hybrid research/practice on new forms and technologies of architectural production. Pablo Miranda has presented his work in diverse conferences such as Generative Art in Milan (2000 and 2001) or recently at Material Matters at UEL Architecture in London. Through his platform Army of Clerks he investigates aspects of design and authorship in architecture in relation to forms of algorithmically implemented machine creativity.
http://www.armyofclerks.net
Work Description, Projects (in relation to Open Source architecture):
According to Friedrich Kittler computational inscriptions, in contrast to all historical writing tools, are able for the first time to read and write by themselves. This fundamental autonomy of computing media is the main preoccupation of the work at Army of Clerks. From processes which employ genetic algorithms and self organisation for evolving architecture as the simple ArchiKluge and the more complex Self-designed Structures, to architecture capable of evolving through the interaction with its inhabitants as is the case in Lattice Archipelogics or the yet unfinished Dendrite, the different works explore the dissolving authorial demarcations of architectural production, result of the transition from a centuries old tradition of drawing based on mimetic representation to the operational scripts and ciphers of digital media.
Krets is an architecture and design research group that focuses on the material and technological as well as the social and the cultural aspects of design, production and performance. The group uses a collaborative platform to explore the ambiguities of production and performance where the nature of design as well as practice itself becomes reconfigured. Important themes include the notion of the prototype, its performative qualities, collaborative environments and generative processes. The use of the term 'prototype' refers to its capacity to continuously register and index the artistic input of several authors during a design process. The connotation of 'performance' is multiple: it indicates the establishment of new relations between a performer, in this case the designer, and an audience or consumer, as well as the performative / responsive qualities of a specific artifact or environment. The project team of Krets has its base at the School of Architecture at KTH, Stockholm with founding members Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Pablo Miranda, Daniel Norell and Jonas Runberger.
http://www.krets.org
Peter Hudini
peter ( at ) aether.huMember of the Aether Architecture. Born in Pincehely, Tolna county (1976) studied architecture in Budapest and Barcelona, currently working at Papabubble Architects in Barcelona.
http://www.aether.hu
Peteris Krishjaanis LAKA/LVAuthor of many articles focusing on the Open Code issues. Chairman in the Open Code Association Latvia (LAKA). LAKA promotes the implementation of the Open Code software in Latvia and organizes informational and educational campaigns introducing Open Code in Latvia.
http://www.laka.lv
Pierre-Henri Ramboz/FR
didouph.ph ( at ) laposte.netMedia artist and programmer.
The core of my work is on music composing and web navigation. My actual interests are following my professional experience as responsible of Bourges's E.C.M.* (France) and are oriented towards multimedia broadcasting using internet as both a source and a target for it. Using my personal background, I work on both artistic an technical side of each project.
in 2004, I’m a selected artist for the Culture 2000 program “Trans-Cultural Mapping” and will work with Ellipse non-profit organisation (co-organiser) and Ewen Chardronnet who is the French program manager of the initiative and Ex-Stream selected artist too. The lead organisation is the RIXC in Riga, Latvia. Ellipse is also supporting the dyne:bolic (fr) project.
Project dyne:bolic (fr)
I've been working in the last three years in a French institutional network called E.C.M. Its aims and missions are to support culture and multimedia throughout workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions mixing contemporary art and new technologies, including internet. As a member of that network, I’ve been working on a specific project called "Emission Mpeg4". The topic of that project was to experiment, exploit and develop tools to broadcast live TV shows over the internet. The current stage of that project is the usage of Open-Source components to enable free and portable I.S.M.A. compatible broadcast. The dyne:bolic distribution is the most interesting tool that the group has ever used but is still not I.S.M.A compatible.Videon (french):
http://www.videontv.org/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=PagePrincipale
E.C.M. (french) :
http://www.culture.fr/Groups/culture_et_multimedia/rubrique_6_fr
Emmetrop : http://www.emmetrop.fr.fm
Bandits-Mages : http://www.bandits-mages.com/
DidouPh (flash): http://wwws.matoilnet.com
Piibe Piirma, E-media center/ EE
piibe ( at ) artun.eeSecond year MA student of E-Media Centre of Estonian Art Academy. I have been working as a graphic designer and as a video artist. Currently I'm writing my MA thesis (the practical part of MA research going to be an artwork in the Internet). At the same time I have my internship in M-Cult in Helsinki. Also I am a member of the team of "Virbits" (virtual ABC-Book) CD-ROM project, which is a project of our E-Media Centre.
Last year I worked as an assistant of the main producer of RAM3 in Tallinn.
Rune Huvendick Jensen/DK
huvendick ( at ) itu.dk
Rune Huvendick Jensen (b. 1974) is an educated journalist and has previously worked at the national Danish Radio and major newspapers.Together with Nicolas Cederstrųm and Tau Ulv Lenskjold - attend the IT-University of Copenhagen - graduate-program in Design, Media and Communication, where they have each been involved in a number of projects relating to the social and cultural effects of new media and technology. Together they have submitted their master thesis on Digital Unitary Urbanism in January 2004.
Their interest is primarily expressed in two ways:
At a theoretical level through the (ongoing) research into the socio-cultural framework, Digital Unitary Urbanism, through which we can begin to understand the social, cultural and spatial implications of the current technological changes.
And at the same time through the development of a vision (at some time in the future to become a prototype) of a system – CityNova – which investigates the same area from a creative and experimental design point of view.
Sara Kolster/NL
sara ( at ) x-i.netSara Kolster is a video and new-media artist with a background in web / graphical design and webbased-projects. During her study @ the Design Academy, she was involved in several locative [media] projects as the Acoustic Space Lab in August 2001, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, communityradio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Other projects she participated in were Design Solidario [BR, 2001] and the Karosta project [LV, 2003] together with Derek Holzer.
Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. Many streams and strategies populate her art practice from time-based media (video, sound, etc.) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary, archaeology, etc.) to first-person accounts of the research process.
"I choose my images carefully, with a main focus on details and close-ups. The camera observes, looking for stories behind objects and locations. In my work, i emphasize the uninhabitated environment in which human appearance seems to be even more accentuated. This environment, obviously designed by humans, shows inevitably their traces. Questions as, who lived there or what has happened, i leave to be answered by the viewer."
http://www.sarako.net
http://karosta.edworks.net
http://www.umatic.nl/info_sara.html
Schuyler Erle
Simona Veilande, Pure Culture/LV
simona ( at ) camp.lvSimona Veilande is artists and designer based in Riga. Up to 2002 in collaboration with Una Meiberga she was running the independent fashion boutique MAIZE. Over the last years “PureCulture”- art label that Simona founded together with Emils Rode has developed art and design project for the people over 70 “Riga Fashion” and in 2003 created an alternative psychogeographic guide “Riga this Week”.
Sophea Lerner/FI
sophea ( at ) phonebox.orgSophea Lerner is an Australian radio and new media artist currently based in Helsinki. Her work brings together experience in physical performance, experimental radio and new media art into a collaborative practice which invites audience participation through gestural interaction and sound. She currently teaches Media & Sonic Arts at the Centre for Music & Technology, Helsinki and is studying in the D.A. programme at mlab, UIAH.
About current projects:
where_are_we_eating? is a translocal sonic feast, colliding diverse locales in responsive and networked sound spaces to engage audiences in eating as a particpatory performance and cooking as a collaborative creation... a project which aims to nourish. phonebox.org/eating
aura:la a new open studio project at Centre for Music & Technology, Helsinki where local artists and students experiment with combinations of networked sound performance, gestural audio interaction site specific/translocal sonic intervention. Group activities are based in co-learning, collaborative experimentation and development of shared information resources.http://aura.siba.fi/signalprocess
http://phonebox.org/eating
http://aura.siba.fi
http://cmt.siba.fi/sophea
Susanna Lang/Border04/B04 is the common framework for a wide range of local and remote, mobile and stationary activities taking place in summer 2004. It is a modular, temporary, and tactical association of various new media-and network-initiatives from east and west europe, from outside as well as within the new europe. An international and interdisciplinary coalition of fine art and performance artists, human rights-, noborder- and new media-activists, filmmakers, video- and fotografers, researchers, scientists and investigators will set a series of events in motion that surround, circumvent and perforate the borders of Europe. B04 is a two month, virtual travel along both sides of the new borders of an enlarged European Union, starting in the baltic states and moving around Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia to Croatia, touching also Belarus, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia.
B04 will connect and shortcircuit debates around migration with debates about the expansion of the borders of the EU, around mobility, mobile technologies and freedom of movement, about the future dimensions of networking and the impact this will have for those already within Europe and those previously outside it.
TA3/ LV
Tas ( at ) latgola.lvMedia artist from Daugavpils, Latvia.
Tau Ulv Lenskjold/DK
ulvozu ( at ) itu.dkTau Ulv Lenskjold (b. 1973) has previously studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture.
Together with Rune Huvendick Jensen and Nicolas Cederstrųm - attend the IT-University of Copenhagen - graduate-program in Design, Media and Communication, where they have each been involved in a number of projects relating to the social and cultural effects of new media and technology. Together they have submitted their master thesis on Digital Unitary Urbanism in January 2004.
Their interest is primarily expressed in two ways:
At a theoretical level through the (ongoing) research into the socio-cultural framework, Digital Unitary Urbanism, through which we can begin to understand the social, cultural and spatial implications of the current technological changes.
And at the same time through the development of a vision (at some time in the future to become a prototype) of a system – CityNova – which investigates the same area from a creative and experimental design point of view.
Thomax Kaulmann, OAI/DE
thomax ( at ) icf.de
Thomax Kaulmann comes from Berlin where he is a permanent member of the bootlab. He initiated and has been involved in several media culture and art protjects. Recently he is part of the reboot.fm, a open source radio project (supported by kulturstiftung des bundes) in berlin with a three month FM On-Air time. As a software developer he works on the archiving aspects of the radio. During this project he improved and enhanced the open meta archive. He likes to introduce the principle concepts of the Open Archive Initiative with the open meta archive as a harvesting
repository. In the workshop he will explain the reboot.fm enhancements of the Dublin Core and the implementation of this enhanced DC in an OAI-PMH2.0.
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http://ova.zkm.de
http://meta.orang.org/OMA/
Thorhallur Magnusson/IS
thor ( at ) ixi-software.netAn Icelandic writer, musician and artist/programmer who writes his own musical software. After having studied music, philosophy and cultural studies in various places in Europe, he graduated in Electronic Arts from the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts in London. Since then he has been working in sound-related programming in various projects, one of them being the ixi software project where he, Enrike Hurtado and few others are experimenting with creating alternative interfaces for musical composition.
Contribution:
Thor will discuss the idea behind ixi software and why they are concentrating on the interface and interaction part of musical software. ixi software started as an experiment and has since then developed various applications that are downloadable from their website for free. ixi has participated in various festivals and conferences over the last year and is currently developing interfaces for Pure Data, Max/MSP and Supercollider in a residency at the DRU.
Uldis Bojars/LV
uldis.bojars ( at ) gmx.netUldis Bojars – programmer is interested in Semantic web. Mostly interested in the subjects of locative media and semantic net.
In a workshop he intends to use his skills for solving technical questions relating to semantic web.
He plans to read the lectures in the semantic web in the University o Latvia, where he could use as examples the creative approaches to semantic web.
Usman Haque/UK
usman ( at ) haque.co.ukUsman Haque designs interactive architecture systems and researches how people relate to each other and their spaces. He has created responsive projection environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and choreographed performances. His work explores architecture as an "operating system", incorporating elements of "hardware" (floors, walls, roofs) and "software" (sounds, smells, electromagnetic space). One model of operating system that is particularly relevant (since the design of space is always collaborative) is an open source system.
He is founder of Haque Design and Research and teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the Interactive Architecture Workshop. He has been artist-in-residence at the
International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan, a researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, and has worked in USA, Malaysia and UK. His work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Ars Electronica (Austria), the Hillside Gallery (Tokyo), the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Fabrica gallery, Brighton and Plymouth Arts Centre.http://www.haque.co.uk/
Victor/ Dr. UPS /LV
victor (at) re-lab.net:P Dr_Ups [ Varka Crew www.varka.org ] multimedia artist, working with concept manipulation, sound and graphical design in new media and underground club environment.
from Varka Crew:
The main idea of Värka is to build community of free enjoying life people based on roots culture – love and respect of any living Jah creature. We’ll be strong in Inity, Jah bless ourbass.
http://www.varka.org
Vladan Joler/Serbia
vladan ( at ) joler.orgBorn on 24.9.1977. in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
-Member of Eastwood, Real Time Strategy Group
-member of KUDA.org
web: www.eastwood-group.net and www.joler.org
Eastwood is a group dedicated to the strategic research of relations between information technology and cultural practice. Eastwood establishes platform for understanding of basic principles of information society and wider implications that new social and class system is bringing.
Vygandas Simbelis/LT
intro ( at ) intro.lt
media artist from Vilnius, INTRO
INTRO: is a newly established cultural centre at Vilnius Old City (Maironio 3, near St. Anna's Church) unique by its structure (a mucic club, café, internetfacilities and art gallery at one place). The mission of INTRO: is to enrich Vilnius capital by providing modern quality music, visual arts and, video and multimedia for young Lithuania audience.
http://www.intro.lt
Wilfried Hou Je Bek/ NL
wilfriedhoujebek ( at ) yahoo.comfounder of Socialfiction.org
Wilfred Hou Je Bek (1975) started serious exploration of the obscurities of Dutch urban life & the explorations of the outskirts of underground culture, art, history and intellectual life in general in 1991. From 1992 he participates in various cultural activities: performances, DJ-gigs, organizes readings, concerts, conferences, demonstrations, publishing (and writing for) of all sorts of underground magazines. He made his first website in 1996, and initiated the Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts project (1999). In 2000 he launched the Socialfiction.org.
In 2001 he begins with The Generative Psychogeography project. For this project over 15 walks have been organised.
The Hot Summer of Generative Psychogeography was organized in 2002.http://socialfiction.org
Zeljko Blace/ HR
zb ( at ) kein.orgŽeljko Blaće (1976, Čapljina - Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina) - since 1995 lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Active in new media culture scene since 1996 (in Croatia) as web designer, artist and journalist -- since 1998 (internationaly) moved into the roles of organizer, researcher and curatoror, if any of these titles makes any sense in this field today. Works(/ed) in the media-culture organisations: LABinary (co-editor of print newsletter), radioActive (event organiser and web developer) and Multimedia Institute (full time employed as programs and projects co-ordinator, executive board member).
Contributor for cultural programs of the national radio and TV ("Transfer" and "Triptih"). Occasionally writing for ICT magazines, and more regulary in the cultural magazine Zarez and on radioActive and linux.hr webportals. Actively promotes non-profit net projects and is working on strengthening the impact of NGO sector on Croatian netspace (both in terms of infrastructure and legislation).
Exhibited as visual artist and performed as VJ with Croatian electro-acoustic-glitch duo Jeanne Fremaux. Participated as speaker/presenter at several international events (including Ars Electronica Festival, Net Congestion, Next 5 Minutes, Transmediale, NERO, Ping In Progress, Money Nations II, ncc48 ...). Artslink fellow and theTHING resident in 2002.
Since 2000 works actively as a networker for international associations and has been (co-organizing international events in Croatia: Art Servers Unlimited 2 (Labin, Sept2001), new.media.culture.week "Critical Upgrade!" (Zagreb, May2002) and Next 5 Minutes - tactical media events (Dubrovnik, May2003 and Vis, August2003). Initiated Croatian "media-art-hr" and regional "nettime-see" mailing lists. Was part of the international editorial board on Next 5 Minutes 4, festival of tactical media.
Initiated "a.network", a co-ordination platform of regional media labs/centers, groups and individuals with mission to present new media culture and engage into collaborative production in the South-East Europe. Currently co-developing project Split_Connect with travellab and researching net platforms for hybrid media.
Currently:
* producing long term program for net.culture club MaMa in Zagreb of public lectures, presentations, workshops and performances called "Out In Open" - that deals with participatory practices and public domain in new media arts and creative practices. http://tamtam.mi2.hr/out-in-open/
* developing research and deployment website FreeMediaTools, together with local educational programs for prosumers interested in media authoring using free tools, open standards and non-propertary media formats. http://www.kein.org:20000/FreeMediaTools/
* co-developing a website for Open Source Streaming Alliance
http://www.kein.org:20000/OSSA/
Organisers: The Center for New Media Culture RIXC
Rasa Šmite - coordinator or programme
Raitis Šmits - coordinator of workshop set ups and media lounge
Ieva Auziņa - coordinator
Signe Pucena - coordinator
Dāvis Bojārs - network administrator
Agrita Ozoliņa - accountant
Māra Traumane - coordinator
Daina Siliņa - coordinator
Miķelis Putrāms - arhictect
Mārtiņš Ratniks - design and layout for NICEPAPER and other ram5 publications
Arvīds Alksnis - website