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Syndicate: ICA: Parallel Space July 5, 1997 |
Parallel Space: The Geography of Virtual Worlds A one day conference, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. 5th July 1997 Part of the ICA/ACE series: "Towards the Aesthetics of the Future" Walls are going up in cyberspace. The use of architectural models and the increasing privatisation of information are creating boundaries within the communication space of the internet. But as in the "real" world, artists and activists are colonising the fluid terrain in between. This one-day conference brings together demonstrations of the latest technologies for building virtual worlds with critical perspectives and projects from artists, geographers and cultural commentators. Parallel Space is an attempt to map the real and virtual territories of the information age. 09.30 Registration 10.00 - 12.00 Construction Speakers: McKenzie Wark, author of the book "Virtual Geographies: Living with Global Media Events" and lecturer at McQuarie University, Australia, Simon Bore, Managing director of interactive 3D design company OKUPI, and Chair of the London Virtual Reality Group, Doreen Massey, Professor of Geography at the Open University and author of the book: "Space, Place and Gender". 12.00 - 13.30 Lunch: demonstrations 13.30 - 15.30 Exploration Speakers: Constance Penley, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Santa Barbara and author of the new book: "Nasa/Trek", Inke Arns writer and curator based in Berlin, involved in artists' strategies in the Central European region, Steve Benford, Department of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham and Iain Borden, architectural historian and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture. 16.00 - 18.00 Excavation Derek Richards and Janice Cheddie of Displaced Data, collective of artists' and writers of Colour, and curators of the recent "Translocations " exhibition at London's Photographers Gallery, Matthew Cornford and David Cross, artists interested in public, private, and architectural space and Scott Lasch, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster and co-author of "Economies of Signs and Space. 10.00 - 19.00 Nash/Brandon Room Demonstrations of some of the latest hardware and software for 3-dimensional modelling, the latest versions of on-line, multi- user virtual worlds. Includes work by Avon Huxor and Tracey Mattieson, Tom Corby adn Peter Maloney from the Virtual Reality as a Fine Art Medium research project at Chelsea School of Art and Design, work students from the MA in Virtual Environments at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and projects produced as part of the Digital Cities commissions programme of Channel. Open to all with day membership. Tickets: þ20/þ15 ICA members and concessions þ10 ICA minimalist members Members booking opens on 20th June. Non-Members booking opens on 25th June. ICA Box Office: 0171 930 3647 The Mall London SW1 URL: http://www.illumin.co.uk/ica/ Parallel Space has been programmed by Lisa Haskel with Will Bell and ICA talks. With thanks to: Simon Bore, Steve Burr, Tom Corby, Avon Huxor, Peter Maloney, Tracey Matthieson, Sheep, Neil Spillar, Sean Varney, Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekmann. Equipment kindly loaned by Integraph and the Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL. Towards the Aesthetics of the Future is an ICA/Arts Council of England collaboration. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inke Arns * Pestalozzistr. 5 * D-10625 Berlin * Germany Tel / Fax + 49 - 30 - 313 66 78 * inke@is.in-berlin.de http://berlin.icf.de/~inke/ NEW this week: http://rewired.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------