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Author of
information space. New media are non-linear, they
have, potentially, an infinite number of dimensions. Therefore an author is not confronted with natural confinements within which he has to work. The building of a space within which his/her work exists is a necessary part of the work itself. An interactive information structure has a plasticity generated by the information itself rather than being defined by some other material. An author is no longer confined to physical limits like dimensions, size and complexity, so that s/he also has to design the limits of her/his work. There are nearly no clear genres in this area while the existing conventions have mostly been developed with regard to the information rather than considering the user. This makes the playing and interfering with conventions possible in order to find a medium-specific approach to generate meaningful statements within this freedom. These possibilities will be investigated during the workshop in order to develop powerful, recognizable forms. september 5 - october 25  '98

 

 

Data.

Symposium
september 5 and 6

Workshop sessions
thursday evenings 19:00-23:00 hrs
september 10, 17, 24
october 1, 8, 22 october 15 : ConcertOrbit 1, Algiers tot Warschau
(muziek en soundscapes)

Final presentation   october 25

 

Programme.

Saturday september 5

12:00
Reception with lunch
12:30
Welcome by Dirk van Weelden
12:45
Introduction of participants
13:30
Presentation from the workshop Authors in Context
NOORTJE MARRES: Outer Space: Crossings between Science and Entertainment
Space Travel and computer games have developed at the same pace.There has been a continued exchange of themes and technology during the past forty years. Now that games are moving towards realism and space travel orientates its public presentation for a good part towards PCs, this connection becomes clearly visible. A chronology of the crossings between both industries can provide this trend with a context.
14:00
JOACHIM SAUTER: The virtual Mercedes and Terravision.
The project Terravision attempts a virtual representation of the whole earth as an interface for organizing , accessing and visualizing all kinds of information. The project The Virtual Mercedes aims at developing a form of VR-presentation that is specifically appropiate for the car as a product.
15:00
SASKIA KERSENBOOM: CD-ROM  Devadasi Murai
Saskia Kersenboom alleges that interactive multimedia is the first Western form of communication to effectively represent oral traditions. The CD-ROM Devadasi Murai gives insights into the multimedia aspects of the Brhadisvara temple. Music, dance and rituals are closely connected to the architecture of this temple. Dance and sculptures occcupy both a physical and a psychological space. Saskia Kersenboom shows how new media can be used to capture and transfer this Indian multimedia tradition.
16:00
Discussion
Dinner

 

Sunday september 6

12:00
PIA KOLWE: Mnemotechnics and Mnemotechnology
Ancient memory techniques were based on visualizing, ordering and localizing of data. To remember a speech,imagined spaces were used, not necessarily existing ones. Combinatory and architectural models are examples for the organization of information in virtual space. In the age of interactive media these old models might get a new meaning.
13.00
JURRIENNE OSSEWOLD: Interactive Narrativity

Arrangements for the following session
Continuation in club  BABY
from
CHRIET TITULAER: The first landing on the Moon
16:00
JOACHIM SAUTER: The Invisible Shape of Things Past
Sauter's recent project The Invisible Shape of Things Past is a research into the representation of time in virtual space and the navigation through time in VR. The concept allows for virtual architecture to be generated out of film-sequences and to organize those in correspondency with the original space and time in a virtual city. In this way, a virtual architecture of information can be developed.

 

Noortje Marresstudies philosophy of science and technology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She writes essays and reviews for Mediamatic Magazine, with a special attention on space travel, philosophy and their relation.

Pia Kolwestudies Cultural Studies at the Humboldt-UniversitŠt in Berlin with main interest in cultural history and media studies. Currently, she does an internship with Mediamatic to gain more practical experience with digital media.

Dr. Saskia Kersenboom is associate professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and international advisor for the Indira Gandhi National Centre of the Arts. Furthermore she is a trained dancer in the tradition of Indian dance. She researches how texts survive through the performing arts of music, dance and image in the now not so popular tradition of Devadasis in temples in South-India.

Joachim Sauter is founder and head of ART+COM and professor for digital media at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. ART+COM is an interdisciplinary group that is directed towards the integration of computer-technology, communication and design. Joachim Sauter is trained as a designer and studied further at the German Academy for Film and Television. Already at the start of working as a designer Sauter used computers as a means of communication. From these combined interests he founded ART+COM 1988 together with other designers, scientists and technicians.

 

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