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**********Apologies for cross posting.********** HOT WIRED LIVE ART 2 - AIRWAVES A live worklab project used to devise networked environments through the process of collective experimentation. August 18 - September 2, 2001 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada HWLA (Hot Wired Live Art) is an artist worklab model that uses the live environment of the lab to create social network and performance prototypes from a diverse mix of technical and non-technical materials and activities. The HWLA network is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, technologists and researchers with a combined range of skills and technical expertise in electronics, streaming media, sensors, physical (social) space design, wireless technology, live video and audio processing, software programming, telepresence, dance, theatre, film and video art. The aim of the worklab is to connect or network these materials and artists together to create live collaborative performance scenarios that use technology, but are not about the technology itself. For two weeks 11 artists from Canada and different parts of Europe will set up the second HWLA international worklab (HWLA2 - Airwaves) at The Banff Centre for the Arts. The first HWLA worklab, initiated by Amanda Steggell and Per Platou of Motherboard and in collaboration with the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art (BEK) took place from Jan 4 - 16, 2000 in Bergen, Norway. HWLA 2 - Airwaves will tap into a diverse pool of knowledge provided by the artists involved with a focus on non-screen based interfaces and/or situations, being cable free, the lab as a social space, networked and live systems, how we define networks and explore meeting spaces including the physical and the virtual. By setting up the HWLA creative worklab and through the process of collective play, we research the social and artistic applications of these technologies while generating a discourse around these issues. Platforms like KeyStroke, Nato 0+55, Max, QuickTime and RealVideo streaming, iListen, BigEye, Image/ine and vns will be used with physical materials and props, pdas, wireless video transmitters, sensors, a wireless LAN, servo motors, syncronized swimming and tai chi. The HWLA2 website (http://beagle.waag.org/~hwla2) will function during the worklab as a live lab space with real-time schedule updates, comments by the participants, and documentation by Scott delaHunta. We will be periodically streaming out and posting live video and audio packets during the lab. The group will also be presenting at The Human Generosity conference, August 26-28 at The Banff Centre. Please watch for upcoming announcements of these events. ******************************************** http://beagle.waag.org/~hwla2 Produced in co-production with The Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Alberta, Canada for Banff: Executive Producer, Television and New Media, Sara Diamond. Line Producer, Television and New Media, Sara Kushner. Manager, Creative Computing, Heike Cantrup. HWLA 2 - Airwaves is a project initiated by Michelle Teran, and co-coordinated with Jeff Mann and Amanda Ramos in collaboration with The Waag Society for Old and New Media through Sensing Presence and The Banff Centre for the Arts. Funding and sponsorship generously provided by The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts - Le conseil des arts du Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada/avec l'appui du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international du Canada, STEIM, The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs, The Norwegian Arts Council, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, The Mondriaan Foundation, The Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Allison Bruce (Ph.D student, Robotics Institute, CMU) and Sonya Allin (Ph.D. student, Human Computer Interaction, CMU) of the TnA Collective. Participating artists: Ellen Røed, Gisle Frøysland, Niels Bogaards, Per Platou, Sher Doruff, Michelle Teran, Hans Christian Gilje, Amanda Steggell, Scott delaHunta, Jeff Mann and Amanda Ramos. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold