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Please feel free to forward and circulate to lists and those interested. Bookings officially begin Monday 22nd of May when our printed publicity arrives, but we'll start taking email bookings immediately: tech_nicks@noaltgirls.org If you would like to receive printed information please email us your postal address and how many leaflets you would like sent to you. Lina and Lisa ::::::::::::::::::::: TECH_NICKS ::::::::::::::::::::: Tech_nicks is a long hot summer programme of workshops, presentations and collaborative projects led by artists working with communication technologies. Come in to learn, discuss, research, contribute your knowledge and resources, find collaborators and develop your own projects. Be prepared! your participation is expected! Tech_nicks are open working sessions. You are welcome to visit at any time, and the mobile lounge will always be available for reading and research, but workshops or production may be in progress. If you seriously want to meet an artist, participate in a project, develop a new skill or know more about one of the themes, please book a place on one of the scheduled sessions. ___________________ BOOKING INFO: All presentations: £3 / £2 concessions unless otherwise specified All workshops: £7 / £5 concessions unless otherwise specified Workshop and presentation bookings: call: 07946 378905 email: tech_nicks@noaltgirls.org Booking in advance is essential for all activities with limited places. Pay on the day, cash or cheques, no cards. Please arrive half an hour in advance of workshops, as there may be a waiting list. http://www.noaltgirls.org/tech_nicks join the mailing list: tech_nicks@noaltgirls.org ____________________ @ The Lux Gallery, London Saturday 10 June to Sunday 25 June Opening Times from 12noon daily 1. Saturday 10th June to Monday 12 June Everything for Nothing! Blank and Jeron and Redundant Technology Initiative. Redundant Technology Initiative (RTI) specialise in collecting, rebuilding and re-purposing thrown-out computers for artistic, social and strategic purposes. Blank and Jeron's work recycles hardware, software, content and human effort using home-grown programming and freely available applications. RTI will be preparing an installation to be presented in the Netherland later in June. Blank and Jeron will be building our very own Borg: a data-gathering intelligence machine made from the collective processing power of a multitude of 386 computers. Workshops each day, Saturday to Monday 14.00 - 17.00 OSAS: Operating System Apprentice Scheme 2 hour sessions shadowing our artists while they ready 36 486 computers with the Linux operating system. Reservations essential (£3/£2) 14.00 - 18.00 Linux Lab. If you think you can get started on your own, bring in your old machine and give it a new lease of life. We offer some spare monitors, online and print resources for small and large Linux distributions, plus the know-how of our super-geek special guest trouble-shooter team. Reservations essential (£3/£2) Presentations: Saturday 10 June 12.00 - 13.00 Introduction by RTI and Blank and Jeron to the Linux operating system, and the two art-works in progress 18.-00 - 19.00 RTI talk about Access Space and their installation projects. 19.30 - 21.00 I N F L I G H T Talk: Fly SKYJACK, play CYBERJACK Tech-nicks welcomes Johan Grimonprez for an INFLIGHT discussion in the Mobile Lounge. In colaboration with Anthony D'Offay Gallery INFLIGHT has all the right ingredients for a a regular airline magazine: motion discomfort bag, safety instructions, inflight entertainment, shopping specials, passenger information, plus a series of feature articles, as well as some uncommercials & subvertisements. But inside, INFLIGHT tells quite a different story: the visual and written account of airplane hijacking, seen through the history of its indeterminate relationship with news media. INFLIGHT is conceived by Johan Grimonprez and designed by Pandiscio inc and will be available throughout Tech-Nicks from the mobile lounge Sunday 11 June 12.00 - 13.00 Blank and Jeron present their work, direct you towards free software applications and ask what we can learn from the Borg. Monday 12 June 18.00 - 19.00 Final demonstration/presentation of work done over the weekend (free) 2. Tuesday 13 June to Thursday 15 June Software Summer School We wondered what might happen if we tried to create a new discipline - "software studies". We might not finish, but this is a start. Explore with us the social, economic, psychological and aesthetic values and assumptions embedded in our familiar software tools. Ask how software determines our thoughts, creative and working practices. Go deep into the promises of the Open Source movement, and ask if artist produced tools and the idea of "social software" produces an opportunity for different kinds of involvement in technicality, and can open up the processes of 'innovation'. Tuesday 13 June 14.00 - 19.00 Retrograde Renegades Try out our reconfigured systems: the multiple-mouse collaboration competition, the rust-bucket storage device and participate in our Classic vs. G4 death match speed trial. 19.00 - 21.00 Futureproof obsolesence Our panel propose their most influential moment of paradigm-shift in computing development. Line-up includes: Graham Harwood (artist) , Simon Pope and Colin Green (I/0/D), Blank and Jeron (artists) Stephen Emmott (programmer) , David Mandl (programmer and writer). Wednesday 14 June 16.00 - 19.00 Linker Rally In 1999, the artist group Mongrel made Linker - a software tool that aimed to provide an easy way to combine text, sound, images and video. Since the v.1 release, Linker has been used by people in many places... artists in Belgrade, students in France, young mothers group in Bristol... to name a few. The Rally collects them together, many presented by their makers. 19.00 - 21.00 Social Software Presentations and discussions with: Graham Harwood (artist), Roos Eisma (programmer at the Society of Old and New Media working on applications for educational tools and people with learning disabilities), special guest open source software developers. Thursday 15 June 17.00 - 19.00 Interface and Interaction Presentationa and discussions with: Richard Wright (artist, writer) , Matthew Fuller (artist, writer), Tom Betts (artist and programmer), Jon Pollard, technical collaborator on Tomoko Takahshi's "Word Perfect2 project, plus software criticism open-mic slot. 19.00 - 21.00 Life machine simulation Shut down the Summer School with the unmissable chance to be a binary switch for an evening. With your help, we will be setting up a human simulation of Life: the cellular automata, not the headache. One hundred people needed. Bring your friends. Its free. Post-simulation, open source refreshments provided by Mark Greco and Simon Pope. 3. Friday 16 June The Richmedia Revolution 12.30 - 17.00 Flash For All A workshop with Marie Persson (OVEN Digital) A unique opportunity to get your hands on the infinite possibilities of this revolutionary tool for creating animation on th web: Macromedia Flash. Beginners welcome. Booking essential. 18.30 The Character in Your Browser Window: New Animation Genres Macromedia Flash and streaming technologies are providing a platform for an entirely new genre of animation. Bringing together previously remote fields of web design, animation and the delivery of dynamic content, Flash developers are redefining approaches to motion, character development, interactivity, composition, rhythm and the narrative. Our panelists examine today¼s richmedia landscape and its¼ implications. Panel includes Nik Roope and Tom Calthrop (OVEN Digital), chaired by Lina D. Russell 21.00 - late Flash Windows: A programe of the best of richmedia sites on the web today, on the Lux Gallery windows after dark, in the gallery before. 4. Saturday 17 June to Monday 19 June Tuning the Net - Streaming Media with r a d i o q u a l i a and friends Real-time delivery of audio and video content direct from producers to target audience has become a reality with streaming media. Tuning the Net provides a multi-tasking workspace environment for audio, video and streaming text production and distribution, skilling-up and swapping information. Get familiar with the quirky characteristics of the net and the essential questions of access to bandwidth, server facilities and production tools. r a d i o q u a l i a is an on-line art collaboration experimenting with concepts of broadcasting and the net. Activities each day, Saturday to Monday 14.00 - 21.30 rad.spc.org Displaced London streaming group - Radiospace - guest at the Lux. Bring your own audio to add to the mix... we'll be going out live (free). 18.00 - 21.30 Open Production Studio In October 2000, Amsterdam will be hosting the inaugural festival of streaming media: net.congestion. Your streaming media works will be needed! Use the Open Production Studio to tell us what you are doing and fill in gaps in your knowledge (free). 21.30 - midnight rqtv A 3 hour TV station for going out globally on the web and micro-locally on the Lux Gallery windows. Bring your lo-fi, lo/no-budget contributions. In collaboration with Vacuum video streaming collective (free). Workshops and presentations Saturday 17 June 12.00 - 14.00 Presentation: Contructionmechanisms Introduction to streaming media form, content and tools. We look at the technical requirements and review artists' intiatives. 14.30 - 18.00 Workshop: Producing sound and video for streaming media (6 participants) Sunday 18 June 12.00 - 14.00 Presentation: Seeing more, seeing less, seeing better video on the net: possibilites & compression technologies. How can net.video or net.tv differ from existing digital moving image work? 14:30 - 15:30 Discussion: word bending an introduction to text streaming, and discussion about how it can be used to critique the role of writing and narrative forms within streaming media. With Katie Cooke. 16.00 - 18.00 Text streaming workshop (6 participants) (£3/£2) 5. Tuesday 20 - Thursday 22 June WFTP - Wireless For The People! WFTP - Wireless for the People looks at the needs and methods for truly independent communcation systems. Thinking critically about how infrastructure dependent we are, we've set the scope as renewable energy sources, all kinds of wireless communication technologies, and the social and political aspects of building and introducing home-grown technologies. These three days will be a forum for dialogue, exchange of experience plus knowledge and resource building on technical, social and legal methods for many ways of being wireless. Each Day, Tuesday to Thursday 12.00 - 18.30 The Lux Gallery becomes a base for research and working meetings. If you have an interest, or some relevant experience to offer please contact the organisers. Demonstrations of the Insular Technologies system, mobile Fuel Cell power sources and solar energy systems will be available (times to be arranged). Presentations Tuesday 20 19.00 - 21.00 Introductory presentations from: Wam Kat (Balkan Sunflowers) Howard Jones (iHAC - International Humanitarian Aid Communications), Marko Peljhan (Makrolab, Projekt Atol, Insular Technologies), Rupert Gammon (renewable energy expert), Sam de Silva (artist and environmental campaigner). Wednesday 21June 19.00 - 21.00 Problem-solving session. Our panel will respond to scenarios, real or imagined, in which wireless, mobile and self-sustainable communications systems would be required. Please bring examples of situations with need. Thursday 22 June 19.00 - 20.30 Summing up three days research results of working meetings.. 21.00 onwards Get in training with the AAA (Association of Autonomous Astronauts). A celebration of the end of the AAA Five Year Plan promoting community space travel. Demonstrations, role-playing exercises, alien radio transmissions and other very special activities. (£5/£3) 6. Friday 23 June, Saturday 24 June, Sunday 25 June Living Mute - with special guests RTmark, JODI and Alexei Shulgin and the 386DX Cyberpunk Rock Band Since 1995 Mute Magazine has supplied the international media arts community with news, views, interviews and commentary on the intersection of art, culture, communication tehnologies, digital media and all its attendant social and political issues. To close Tech_nicks at the Lux, we hand over to a Living Mute for which the editorial team and regular writers will mimic on-page formats and present off-page, on-stage activities in inimitable Mute style. Fri 23rd June 18:30-20.30 Xobjects seminar. Network theorists Jamie King, Jan Abrams, Ted Byfield and others discuss the immanent ideologies of network technologies. 21.00 We hand over to Alexei Shulgin and the 386DX Cyberpunk Rock Band for a special performance of our favourite 386 hits. A launch event for the upcoming CD published by Staalplaat. Saturday 24th June 13.00 - 17.00 Mapping Globalisation. Open floor debate including invite speakers on the nature of globalisation. A map will be drawn during the discussion (free). 17:30-19.00 Artists Jodi in conversation with Mute. 20:00 onwards: Mute Muzak. Hari Kunzru spins cutting edge electronic tracks in a lounge-y environment while videos of nuclear weapons tests are projected onto the gallery windows in film gathered by the Land Use Interpretation Centre. (£5 / £3) Sunday 25th June 14.00 - 16.00 Presentation by rtMark and discussion. Meet the quintessential media interventionists and anti-corporate activists. Their target sectors are getting wider, from the retail industry hit by the "The Barbie Liberation Front", to computer games in their homo-erotic hack of sim-copter, and most recently the legal structure of the internet itself in the etoy/etoys domain name dispute. For this afternoon, Mute writers probe and question their tactics, rhetorics and underlying motivations. 17.00-19.00 Annual General Meeting of the Necronautical Society. Founded to foster poetic approaches to death via technology, the Necronautical Society will hear depositions from its Committee Members. After the presentations, a debate will follow (free) 20:00 onwards Fallout Radio session devised by sound engineer Kate Rich. Throughout the three days, display systems repurposed by Simon Worthington will be on display on monitors in the gallery, Jodi's work will be accessible via computer and Kate Rich will be generating constant fallout. @ Site Gallery and Redundant Technology Initiative, Sheffield Opening times from 12.00 Tuesday 27 June to Sunday 2 July Shuttle between our two Sheffield venus for the full broad-band to narrow-band perspective! 7. Irational Videos At Site Gallery, a programme of workshops, presentations and production activity will be open to all while the Irational.org group produce three video projects. You are invited to become a part of the Irational video team during this intensive week by lending your skills to the production of anti-promotional videos for Irational.org, and two related groups: Technologies To The People and Mejor Vida Corporation. 8. Vuk Cosic Meanwhile at Access Space Vuk Cosic, retired member of the world famous ASCII art ensemble will be in residence. The ASCII pensioner will be delving into the RTI warehouse to re-build the mythical ASCII videowall and other low-power systems. Drop in daily. Tuesday 27 June, 12.00 - 17.30 Introductory workshop (at Site Gallery) Digital Video in a Day with NoAltGirls: demystifying video production and post production by producing a digital video in an afternoon. (6 places) 19.00 -21.00 Introductions by irational.org , Vuk Cosic and our host venues. (at Site Gallery) Each day Wednesday 28 June to Sunday 1 July 12.00 - 18.00 Irational Studio: Irational.Org invites participation in the making of the irational.org anti-promo video (at Site Gallery) 17.00 - 18.00 Drop-in at Access Space (free) Wednesday 28 June 18.00 - 19.30 Rachel Baker - introduction to streaming media for would-be webcasters and radio afficionados (at Site Gallery) Thursday 29 June 18.00 - 19.30 Net Art goes on holiday: discussion on the state of independent artservers. Participants include irationalists, Vuk Cosic, tech-nicks team, RTI, and special guest Armin Medosch (at Site Gallery) Friday 30 June 18.00 - 19.30 Heath Bunting - Cellular Pirate Radio integrating online audio with onair FM broadcast (at Access Space) Saturday 1 July 12.00 - 18.00 Irational toolkit tour: a look at the conceptualisation and realisation of an online groupware resource (Access Space) 18.00 - 19.30 Irational.Org and friends websurf Irationalists , Vuk Cosic and friends present favourite links and resources on the web (Access Space) Sunday 2 July 13.00 - 14.30 Vuk Cosic presents... (at Access Space) 15.00 - 17.00 Irational.org's guide to outdoor eating 18.00 - 20.00 Final presentation of Irational .org videos (at Site Gallery) @ Hull Time Based Arts, Time Base, Hull Saturday 8th July to Sunday 16 July Tech_nicks in Hull assembles two working groups over two weekends. Our residency at Time Base will occupy the production, exhibition and administrative areas in a seamless whole for discussion, organisation and production. 9. Saturday 8 July, Sunday 9 July, Monday 10 July Live and Direct - Media Pranksters Workshop As artists' interventions move increasingly from traditional forms of public space to media space, Hull Time Based Arts' ROOT 2000 festival, 20 - 22 October 2000 will be devoted to pranks, scams and interventions aimed at new and old media. Live and Direct is a precursor think-tank and training ground, looking at methods, tools, strategies and, inevitably, ethics. Guest tutors include: rtmark, Association of Autonomous Astronauts, Richard Pierre Davies (Mongrel), Biotech Hobbyists, plus others from art, media, culture and politics. Saturday 8th July 10.00 - 12.00 Introductory presentations by all participating groups 13.00 - 18.00 Association of Autonomous Astronauts Media Invasions workshop. With examples from the AAA First Five Year Plan: media liason skills, role playing exercises, self-publicity and more. (places limited) Sunday 9 July 12.00 - 15.00 rtmark corporate sabotage workshop. 2 members from rtmark speak from experience about intervening in retail, mass media and new media. 16.00 - 18.00 Ethics, Alliances, Representation and Security. Discussion session on the hard political questions. Monday 10 July 12.00 - 19.00 Pranksters at work A working day in which workshop participants can hone up their skills with one-to-one contact from our guests. Plus follow-up discussions, working meetings and planning for Root 2000. 10. Wednesday 12 July to Sunday 16 July Timebase TV Hull Time Based Arts has an extensive video production facility that supports and promotes artists working with film and video. Now, with media streaming technology could the idea of an independent artists' TV station become a reality? These training sessions and pilot programmes are a good chance to find out. Plus we'll be evaluating other strategies for distributing video among local communities or interest groups. Come and brush up your skills and join the team generating content on the fly. Guests and collaborators include: elab (Latvia), David Garcia (NL), James Stevens (bak.spc.org and Vacuum, London), Cafe Society (Hull), Mike Stubbs (Scotland), Hull Community Radio (Hull), NoAltGirls. Wednesday 12 July 10.00 - 17.00 Digital Video in a Day with NoAltGirls (6 participants) Thursday 13 July 10.00 - 12.00 Introduction to Streaming technologies (6 participants) Friday 14 July - Sunday 16 July 10.00 - 17.00 Open Production Studio (free) 18.00 - 20.00 Time Base TV goes live on the web 11. @ PVA Bridport, Dorset Biotech Beach To finish off, Tech_nicks goes to the seaside as guests of the PVA; an artist run media lab in an old library building, in a medium-sized market town in rural Dorset. Responding to the presence of both our natural surroundings and this wired-up resource, we will be collecting a group of biotech hobbyists; people concerned about the new industries of genetic mapping, patenting, modification and the implementation of new varieties of life. Plus we'll be exploring ways in which if we have something to say, we may be able to say it. Monday July 24 12.00 - 14.00 Artists introductory presentations 15.00 - 16.30 How to make a radio station An introduction by Heath Bunting on how to make a webcasting radio station with broadcast capability. Tuesday July 25 10.00 - 18.00 Digital video in a Day NoAltGirls with Carol Wright (6 participants) Wednesday July 26 10.00 - 13.00 Media streaming workshop Micz Flor helps Bridport get familiar and skill-up on self-generated media distribution. Thursday July 27 19.30 - 21.30 Talking Digital Special on Biotechnology PVA's series of public talks presents a special edition on Biotechnology. With: Heath Bunting: Biotech Hobbyist magazine, Olga Samborska (Ukraine/Czech Republic), and guests from the local area and national media. Saturday July 29 09.00 - 17.00 Visit the information stall at Dorchester farmers market Sunday July 30 12.30 - 17.30 Eat well with us at the biotech cafe! Wash down your Sunday lunch or teatime treat with video documentation, propaganda production and further discussion on the weeks events. Webcast live, too. Mobile Lounge The De Geuzen Foundation, an Amsterdam-based collective of artists who work on collaborative projects, have designed our "mobile lounge" - a reading, research and relaxation area which will accommodate the constantly accumlating archive of knowledge and materials generated by Tech_nicks. The Lounge will be constructed and available at all of our venues. Can't Make It? Get our bandwidth-light, content-heavy documentation downloads! Updated Daily! Surf to: http://www.NoAltGirls.org/tech_nicks/catreader to download the special browser that will bring you multimedia packages that reviews, summarises, collects key information and provides a flavour of each day's activity. [safetycat/catreader logo] Tech_nicks is a Media Art Projects production, programmed by Lina Dzuverovic-Russell (with support from OVEN Digital) and Lisa Haskel. Support team: Vera Midic and Milica Rankovic. Venue Addresses The Lux 2 - 4 Hoxton Square London N1 020 7684 0201 www.lux.org.uk Site Gallery 1 Brown Street Sheffield S1 2BS 0114 281 2077 www.site-map.u-net.com Redundant Technology Initiative Access Space 1 Sidney Street Sheffield S1 4RG 0114 249 5588 www.lowtech.org Hull Time Based Arts Time Base 42 High Street Hull HU1 1PS 01482 216446 www.timebase.org PVA The Old Library 51 east street Bridport Dorset DT6 3JX t/f: 01308 459071 www.pva-org.demon.co.uk Catch the stream on: http://rad.spc.org/tech_nicks.ram Tech_nicks has been supported by the Arts Council of England National Touring Programme. Hosting by bak.spc.org. With thanks to all our venues, contributors and other collaborators, especially irational.org whose project in July 1999 - Luxsquat - provided groundwork for this series. 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