Derek Holzer on Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:11:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Acoustic.Space.Lab ::: new site for the new year |
Acoustic.Space.Lab ::: new site on-line 01.01.2002 http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab >From August 4-12, 2001, twenty five media artists and activists from three different continents gathered together at Irbene, in the forests of western Latvia, at the site of a Soviet-era 32meter dish antenna. Formerly used to spy on satellite transmissions between Europe and North America by the KGB, the antenna was abandoned and nearly destroyed when the Russians departed in 1994. The dish is currently under repair for civilan use as one of the top 5 most precise radiotelescopes in the world. The intent of this workshop was two-fold. The first was to explore the possibilities for creative interaction with a formerly military, and now a civilian-scientific, device which artists can seldom access. The second is to create a communications network of our own out of the raw material gathered at the dish. This "open-source sampling" process has its origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the common advancement of the field. Artists who were present at the orginal workshop, as well as others who joined in our network afterwards, have contributed various projects to our on-going collaboration. On January 1, 2002, the Acoustic.Space.Lab site will host the first presentation of many to come, featuring audio, video, web installations and images utilizing or inspired by the materials from the dish. Featured artists include: ***Mukul (Ambient TV) ***Kim Cascone ***Kevin P ***Francis Hunger ***Locomotive ***Sara Kolster ***minuszero + dlf + m// ***Clausthome For more information, visit: http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab Or write: derek@x-i.net _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold