[Nettime-bold] HWLA2-Airwaves

[michelle teran <mteran@interlog.com>]

**********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.



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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.


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