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> www.isea2004.net 02 EDITORIALS

WELCOME TO ISEA2004

New technologies surround ence speakers from a truly Tralla the 12th ISEA. ISEA2004 exchange ideas – while being rience! With the amazing effort and shape our lives, but how international cross-sec- is also the first major interna- grounded in critical debate made by the m-cult produc- can we make creative use of tion of creative new media tional cultural event organized through a thematic approach. tion team directed by Amanda them? practices. The story of ISEA in collaboration between Esto- ISEA2004 offers the possibil- McDonald Crowley, and by our dates back to the late 1980s nia and Finland since the Euro- ity to explore emerging areas partners in both Helsinki and There is an increasing need when the first International pean Union borders expanded. such as wireless and wearable Tallinn, ISEA2004 is now ready to understand cultural and Symposium on Electronic Our event takes place in Tal- creative practices as well as to to embark upon the journey social contexts of use within Arts was organized in the linn and Helsinki, and on the debate issues such as geopoli- that in many ways is an once- new technologies. ISEA2004 Netherlands. Since then, cruiser ferry Silja Opera, which tics of media and histories of in-a-lifetime event. We are positions you in front of the from to , pays a visit to Stockholm and the new (media). thankful for the generous sup- emerging technologies and to Nagoya, ISEA has Mariehamn. We will take you port given by our many funders their creative uses, through been a key event where art for a journey through the most ISEA2004 CRUISE is a sonic and other organizations. I offering fresh routes for and new technologies meet, exciting contemporary new two-day experience of elec- would in particular thank for navigation between new collide, spark, and ignite media landscape and around tronic music, and the patronage of the Presi- technologies, art, music and both audiences and profes- the Baltic Sea. media art installations, talks, dent of the Republic of Finland, beyond. sionals within the electronic food and sun on the Silja Opera Tarja Halonen. arts, music, new media re- When I first imagined this event ferry. Followed by conferences, ISEA2004 presents a pro- search and design. almost five years ago, I wanted concerts, clubs, and major ex- gramme of nearly 600 local to create a “floating platform” hibitions in Tallinn and Helsinki and international artists, I am very pleased to be that would enable people to we have created a unique event TAPIO MÄKELÄ, m-cult musicians and confer- able to co-chair with Mare come together, talk, party, and – hopefully a memorable expe- Programme chair, ISEA2004

ELEKTROONILISE MEEDIA ISEA2004 JA M-CULT - VERKOSTOJA ISEA2004 is a truly international and multicultural event INVANSIOON TALLINNAS uniting people from all continents. United Nations Educa- VERKOTTAMASSA tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the ISEA2004 – rahvusvaheline elektroonilise international patron of the symposium. This year, UNESCO ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, kunsti sümpoosion - liikuv suurüritus to- will also grant the annual Digital Arts Award to ISEA2004 järjestettiin Helsingissä ensi kertaa 1994. Tuolloin imub seekord Tallinnas, Helsingis ja kruii- artist/s. elettiin vielä verkostojen rakentamisen aikaa: tapahtu- sil Balti merel. man ohjelmajohtajana sain työskennellä kotimaisten We have had terrific support from local funding agencies ja kansainvälisten kumppanien kanssa ja tämä työ ISEA on oluline pika traditsiooniga rahvusvahe- such as the Nordic Cultural Fund, the Finnish Cultural synnytti pitkäaikaisia, hedelmällisiä yhteyksiä. Uuden line elektroonilise kultuuri sündmus, mis rändab Foundation, the Finnish Ministry of Education, the Arts median koulutus otti ensi askeleitaan: ISEA’94 juhlisti riigist riiki ja on seetõttu alati eriilmeline. Council of Finland, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic Taideteollisen korkeakoulun Medialaboratorion pe- of Estonia and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. rustamista. Eesti on väike riik oma väikese kultuuriga, mille sisse õnneks mahub erinevaid vorme, näi- Along with UNESCO, the HIVOS Foundation and the Asia Vuosikymmen on ollut nopeiden käänteiden ja muu- teks elektroonilise meedia kultuur. Viimane on Europe Foundation also contribute by providing support to tosten aikaa. Koulutusohjelmissa on kasvanut uuden suhteliselt uus ning eemaltvaatajate arvates bring artists from Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern median monialaisia taiteilija-, suunnittelija- ja tutki- arusaamatu ja eksklusiivne. Samas kasutame Europe to the event. National arts funding agencies from jasukupolvia. Kun 1994 vielä elettiin World Wide Webin me kõik oma igapäeva elus kõrgtehnoloogiat, across the world have provided incredible support to art- ensi vaiheita, on verkkoteknologia synnyttänyt useita olgu selleks siis televiisor, arvuti voi mobiiltele- ists from their countries to attend, present and participate. teollisuudenaloja, samalla kun mobiilimediasta on tul- fon. Nii oleme me kõik seotud elektroonilise Presentations and meetings are being organised for artist, lut arkea, joka tuottaa uutta kieltä, uusia tapoja: uutta kultuuriga, kas siis passivselt tähendusi tarbides researchers and cultural workers from all corners of the kulttuuria. või aktiivselt neid luues. Uue meedia kultuurist globe on the ferry - a unique networking experience. hakati Eestis kriitiliselt rääkima tänu baltikumi Verkostojen rakentamisesta on siirrytty monialaiseen esimesele uue meedia festivalile Interstanding, All of this support contributes to an event that is not only a verkostojen verkostoimiseen sekä käyttäjien ja tuot- mis toimus 1995 aastal, aasta peale Helsin- gathering of some of the most extraordinary talent in the tajien tihentyvään vuorovaikutukseen. Langattomat gis aset leidnud ISEA’94. Nii kriitilise analüüsi new media arts and cultural field, but also ensures that mediasovellukset rakentavat yhteisöjä ja yhteyksiä kui uue meedia festivali korraldamise kogemus ISEA2004 will be about sustainability. To this end work- paikkojen välille; open source-kehitys, klubiskene ja Eestis said määravaks, miks Tapio Mäkela kut- shops with children as well as with local artists provide pelituotanto ovat synnyttäneet innovatiivisia, osallis- sus just Eesti Kunstiakadeemia ja Kaasaegse platforms for developing relationships and collaborations tuvia käytäntöjä. Kulttuurinen näkökulma on entistä Kunsti Eesti Keskuse ISEA2004 eesti poolseteks that will lead to ongoing exchange, as is attested to by the keskeisempi tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämisessä. partneriteks. long list of organisations from across the Nordic and Baltic regions who are participating in the workshops, touring Muuttuneesta mediamaisemasta kertovat myös uudet ISEA ühendab erinevate distsipliinide esindajaid: and associated programmes for ISEA2004. organisaatiot. Uuden mediakulttuurin keskus m-cult kultuuriuurijaid, teadlasi, kunstnikke, aktiv- rakentaa yhteyksiä käyttäjien, tuottajien ja päättäjien iste, meediategelasi, muusikuid, insenere jne. The wonder and the challenge of travelling on the ferry be- välille kartoittaen mediataiteen, populaarikulttuurin Tegemist on tõeliselt interdistsiplinaarse sünd- tween Nordic and Baltic countries is tied fundamentally to ja teknologiakehityksen välistä maastoa. ISEA2004: musega. Tallinnas käsitletakse “tarku mater- the central role that the sea plays in this part of the world, n tuotannossa m-cultin kotimaisina pääkumppaneina jale”, moe ja tehnoloogia sümbioosi, meedia geo- where migration, invasion, cultural exchange and indeed ovat uuden median profiililtaan kansallisesti ja kansa- poliitikast tulenevaid küsimusi ja arutletakse eri identity are tied so closely to the sea that surrounds these invälisesti merkittävät Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma ja distsipliinide koostöö üle. Loodan, et ISEA2004 locations. For ISEA2004 we aim to build bridges, bylanes Mediakeskus Lume. inspireerib ka Eestis erinevate distsipliinide, and shipping routes for ongoing exchange within the region praktikute ja teoreetikute omavahelist dialoogi and internationally. ISEA2004:n myötä m-cult haluaa korostaa monialais- ning koostööd. en, luovan ja kriittisen työn merkitystä mielekkäiden We have amazing teams in Tallinn and Helsinki and across mediakokemusten ja kulttuurisen tietoyhteiskunnan Mul on hea meel, et ISEA2004 toimub just Tallin- the region who have been developing the event and an kehittämisessä. Olen iloinen ja ylpeä nähdessäni IS- nas, Helsingis ja Balti merel, sest see loob võim- equally awe-inspiring line up of artists, writers and re- EAn taas Helsingissä, ja kiitollinen ihmisille ja verkos- aluse ilma kaugele sõitmata osaleda kõrgtase- searchers who we know will make your attendance at toille, jotka sen tekivät mahdolliseksi! melisel foorumil. ISEA2004 a fun and rewarding adventure!

MARE TRALLA AMANDA MCDONALD CROWLEY MINNA TARKKA ISEA2004 Tallinna programmi juht executive producer, ISEA2004 toiminnanjohtaja, m-cult 03

ISEA2004 PRESENTS NEARLY 600 ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS ISEA2004 SEA: August 15th-16th The ISEA2004 CRUISE: a two part programme spanning a three SONIC, WEAREABLE, WIRELESS stage journey on board the Slija Opera. Guests will encounter ferry TV, elevators, open decks, a pool, meals and much more: EXPERIENCE the opportunity for an electrifying experience. On the Interfac- ing Sound Cruise (HEL-STO) meets sound art. ISEA2004 SEA+TAL+HEL: Nearly 600 artists and speakers from all continents will On the Networked Experience Cruise (STO-MARIEHAMN-TAL) present in two capital cities and a Baltic Cruise. Together, they form a rich and vi- the sonic experience continues with talks, meetings, network- brant programme making ISEA2004 perhaps one of most ambitious events in its ing, debates (e.g., geopolitics; open source; artist; activism) and field ever organized. We have worked diligently to make each concert, installation, a unique opportunity to mingle with people who are re-shaping club and conference session a unique experience. Now it’s your turn to come on new technologies and their creative uses. board, enjoy, and contribute. ISEA2004 TAL: August 16thh-17th Whilst one event will have ters is not only to talk about Dancing on the ISEA2004 Conferences, exhibitions, clubs, concerts, and performances electronic music, re- access to information, but Cruise while Felix Kubin (DE) at a variety of venues across Tallinn. Local traditions of textile searchers will be revealing how we can develop new is playing, talking at the bar and fashion design will meet the international scene of wear- their views on where the tools for creation, and how the next moment about the able technology and its development through talks and a fashion field of new media is going outcomes, whether free or implications of WiFi on the show on Wearable Experience. Geopolitics of Media are debated in another. ISEA stands for fee, can be made available use of public space, and going in one of the European Union’s newest capital cities. How do the International Sympo- and re-developed. to the keynote by Shuddhab- different ends of the new media, art and technology field meet? sium on Electronic Arts. rata Sengupta (IN) to under- Critical Interdisciplines seeks answers on collaboration and The word symposium used Old structures should un- stand new media history in working in diverse teams. to stand for a dinner where derstand the culture of re- South Asia, or to attend Jo- participants would talk, mixing, sharing, and social- anna Berzowska’s (PL/CAN) ISEA2004 HEL: August 19th-22nd drink, eat, and enjoy life izing rather than restrict it. talk about wearable technolo- Conference at the Media Centre Lume/UIAH, main exhibition at while talking and debating. How can this be done with- gies and embodiment – this is Kiasma, concerts at , installations and urban ISEA’s menu invites you to out violating the rights of a symposium with its frictions projects in various locations and the city space. It is ten years choose your courses ac- the very creative minds that and electrified antipodes to since ISEA94 took place in Helsinki; then the Internet was new cording to your taste. need to sustain them? Each spark sensations and new media and many were in awe at the live web streams of the location has its particular ideas. event. Our recipes are open conditions. ISEA2004 un- source. Things becom- derlines contemporary new New media has its multiple regional, technological, social, and ing classified information media practice, where we cultural histories, where ‘new’ becomes old and part of the ev- restricted by companies talk about Networked Ex- eryday life experience. There is a lot to learn from the ‘past’ of or by states is an increas- perience. Yet, it is important the ‘new’ in technological culture. Helsinki, coined ‘the wireless ing problem in the areas of to bring people together, city’, offers a living context for understanding wireless urban technological development. physically. culture today. Wireless Experience does not only deal with the Citizens, consumers, us- creative uses of mobile devices and WiFi networks, it also talks ers, creators, producers, ISEA2004 stands for the about practices of radio and transmission. Critical Interaction researchers: our interests need to talk about the role Design looks at the ways in which interaction is not a point-and- are at stake! of technologies analyti- click design but a complex culturally encoded exchange. Open cally, critically, and to say Source and Software as Culture debates software as a social New technologies rang- that new technologies are and cultural practice and area of artistic expression. ing from computing to bio about culture and our social tech, from mobile com- life. ISEA2004 also holds Two Months; Many Possibilities to Participate munications to wearables, that enjoyment and vivid The rich one-week programme is extended through our syn- from nano-technology to experiences through new ergetic collaboration with Koneisto on the weekend when information mining are not technologies are equally ISEA2004 starts, and partnership with FLOW04 on the last futuristic but existing prac- important. How can we feel weekend of ISEA2004, the multiple workshops, residencies, and tices that influence lives: new technologies, not only TAPIO MÄKELÄ the 2-month Kiasma exhibition aim at making ISEA2004 an event yours and mine. What mat- understand them? MARE TRALLA for a wide range of local audiences.

ISEA2004 MAGAZINE Editorial team: Suvi Alanko, Niina Bell, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Tuomas Finne, Leena Gävert, Hanna Harris, Andres Kurg, Andres Lõo, Monica Narula, Mart Normet, Netta Norro, Piibe Piirma, Lars Relander, Publisher: M-Cult, Perämiehenkatu 11, 00151 Helsinki. Robin Simpson, Sarah Steeves, Minna Tarkka, Tanel Veenre, Linda Wallace. > [email protected] Image editor: Mika Minetti. Proof reading: Mark Roberts. Editor in-chief: Tapio Mäkelä. Cover design, ISEA2004 AD: Tuomo Tammenpää. Assistant editors: Mare Tralla, Maria Candia. Lay-out: Juuso Koponen. 04 SEA

“The Wire magazine describes Kubin as ‘re- freshingly per- verse’.”

FELIX KUBIN THE MISCHIEVOUS GENIUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Artist Felix Kubin’s motto could be “Die Wirrnis ist das Ziel - the aim is to confuse” (Dr. Kurt Euler). The Ger- man-born Dadaist organist and former wonder child has stirred the music world over the last three decades. On the ISEA2004 cruise, Kubin will give a turn the fer- ry’s pool into a musical universe in its own right.

It seems that Felix Kubin lives his career as a musician. Since It is no wonder that Kubin, the and works against gravity and the the early 80’s, the former king of counter-noise since CHARLES KRIEL world. The 35-year-old rebel’s drawing and animation student the late 90’s, has been dubbed BRINGS DIRTY HOUSE AND VJ activities alongside sci-fi pop and has become acknowledged as “the Devil in God’s clothes” PIONEERING TO THE ISEA2004 CRUISE noise culture comprise of anima- the father of Dada-electronics, (Aavikko). tions, radio plays, experimental and his one-man shows, which broadcasts and running his own combine his love for experi- However, music has remained alternative record label. Kubin mental electronic music with the focal point of Kubin’s life has played music since he was his childhood hobby of organ regardless of his numerous eight but, according to the artist, playing, have been described activities in the fields of politics UK VJ Charles Kriel has been cited by The Times as his love for “strange and twisted as the best form of entertain- and arts. This “refreshingly “club culture’s first superstar VJ.” He regularly per- music” dates back to his teenage ment “Hamburg can offer be- perverse” artist (The Wire) forms in Ibiza, Ayia Napa, across Europe and South- days. sides Reeperbahn” (Aavikko). continues to be inspired by Eastern Asia while being a resident VJ for BBC Radio Today Kubin’s rebellious streak electronic instruments which, 1. For ISEA2004, Kriel will perform a cutting-edge, The rise of electronic music in is still as strong as ever; ac- according to Kubin, provide dirty house mix and lead a workshop on new VJ tech- Germany, lead by pioneers such cording to the artist, his aim is a “total freedom of creating nology from Pioneer as Kraftwerk, inspired Kubin to to “look serious and act sub- sounds,” and he keeps mes- form a band of his own, the noto- versive”. merising his audience wherev- “On stage, I’ll don my DVJ (DJ/VJ) hat and drop late rious Die Egozentrischen Zwei, er he goes. night, dance floor bombs with a three hour audiovi- in the early 80’s. Kubin’s early Kubin’s actions reflect his sual dirty house mix”, Kriel says about his up-coming experiments with his band in both somewhat mischievous be- Felix Kubin’s performance at gig onboard. “The new DVJ-X1 allows me to scratch, electro-acoustic music and elec- lieves; between ’92 and ´’94 ISEA2004 is supported by the pitch and beat-match DVDs by layering both audio and tronic pop have greatly influenced he was involved in the fake Goethe-Institut Helsinki. video in order to create a dynamic, on-the-fly mix.” his current style and made him German political party, Kom- an icon of . munistische Einheitspartei In addition to his DVJ performance, Charles Kriel will Deutschlands, which attracted also lead a daytime workshop on club-based audiovi- The father of a lot of media attention, and in sual technology, exploring theoretical perspectives as Dada-electronics 1998 Kubin became “the mes- well as new techniques and technologies. Die Egozentrichen Zwei brought senger of exploding lungs” by Felix Kubin to the public’s atten- starting his own vinyl record tion and marked the beginning of label, Gagarin Records. NIINA BELL

ISEA2004 CRUISE offers a unique combination of electronic music building bridging SEA club scene and media/sound art related experimentation. It also features an incred- ible array of installations that use for example the GPS position or sea landscape to generate sound. Interfacing Sound Cruise. The Second stretch via DMZ (demilitarized INTERFACING SOUND & PEOPLE zone) Mariehamn to Tallinn is an ideal setup for socializing, developing new ideas. SEA 05

IF Communications was fight- doesn’t have barriers apart things synthetic, distant, dark, ing for French electronic music from the ones I put there. cold and gloomy that opened before and after anyone got Sometimes this open-minded his ears. The chord changes into the hype of French Touch. approach causes problems and bassline of West End Girls While the rest of the planet was with people but I don’t care. At by Pet Shop Boys was the final busy with the mid-90’s boom of the end of the day we’re put- push for Jori to start making filtered house, the label broad- ting out quality stuff, develop- music. ened its musical exploration ing our artists – which is very from techno to ambient and rare for dance labels – and Now, Fabrice Lig has all the from house to jazz. staying true to what we believe major techno labels at his in, says Garnier in French Con- hands (latest release on Ber- Later on FCOM’s dance floor nections – From Discothèque lin-based Kanzleramt). Jori killers were accompanied by to Discovery. Hulkkonen has stormed the eclectic investigations into the dancefloors from Selkäsaari to boundaries of FCOM sounds. On the ISEA ferry, the French Singapore ever since his 1996 In this spirit, the label will be label “with no limits” be- debut album Selkäsaari tracks joining the Interfacing Sound lieves in the Melodic techno on FCOM. Join the FCOM for its Cruise that itself is exploring of Fabrice Lig and the special 10th anniversary fight for your those fine-tuned connections combination of house, techno rights to nothing but quality between the experimental and and bedroom of sound. popular edges of electronic Jori Hulkkonen. music and sound art. > www.fcom.fr It was Kevin Saunderson In- Founded in 1994 by legendary ner City project’s classic tune Fabrice Lig Sun 15th Aug, Laurent Garnier and Morand, Big Fun that gave Belgian-born Riviera pool 02:00–04:00 the FCOM duo have tirelessly Fabrice Lig a sonic emotional promoted both thoughts and shock, a shock that later on Jori Hulkkonen Mon 16th Aug, FCOM tracks of the techno under- pushed him to excel in a funky Riviera pool 02:00–04:00 ground to a greater public. use of Roland’s SH-101 analog FIGHTING FOR SOUND WITH NO LIMITS! synth and especially emotional French Rendez-Vous, net- F Communications is intended and personal melodies and working session, Mon 16th The notorious French label FCOM presents on sets by art- to be a label for quality music. harmonies. Aug, Conf 9 Room Carmen ists Fabrice Lig and Jori Hulkkonen alongside an insight [..] Not just house or techno, 16:00–17:00 presented by label co-founder and passionate pioneer of but quality dance-related For Jori Hulkkonen - born in the French scene Eric Morand stuff. I’m the same. My music the North of Finland - it was all HANNA HARRIS

SEA ARTISTS

Stefan Agamanolis (IE), Mon- geau Alain (CA), Ian Andrews (AU), Arianna Bassoli (IE), Cloed Baumgartner (AY), SWIM AMONG Konrad Becker (AT), Frauke Behrendt (DE), Mario Biagioli (US), Manuel Bonik (DE), Steve UNDERWATER Bradley (US), Tim Bray (AU), Axel Bruns (AU), Phunso- matlert Bundith (TH), Oron SOUNDS DJ MUKUL Catts (AU), Chris Chroma (DE), leon cmielewski (AU), TOINEN LINJA SONIFIES THE POOL SENDS THE LOVE BOAT ON SOUND Rebecca Cummins (US), Nina Czegledy (CA/HU), Alex Davies WAVES OF HIS OWN (AU), Gemma Deza (ES), Kelly Dobson (US), Sher Doruff (NL), Petko Dourmana (FI), nobody else (BV), Charlotte Frost (UK), Not only is there programme by the pool. Toinen Linja (FI) ISEA2004 has the honor of getting it’s Love Boat remixed James Gibson (UK), Christo- aka Tuomas Toivonen (Giant Robot, Acid Kings, Keys of by Mukul, the in-house sound artist & composer of ambi- pher Hales (UK), R E Hartanto Life / Sähkö, HkiBassMachine) will create a whole special entTV.NET. His version of the loved Loveboat theme is the (ID), Daniel Heckenberg (AU), Dr Nigel Helyer (AU), adam to be heard in the pool itself – underwater. If theme of the event and grooves the listener to new waters. hinshaw (AU), Perry Hober- you get fed up with what ever is going on under the sun, man (US), Stuart Hodgetts (AU), Brian Holmes (AU), dive in, listen and mix the sounds. For the second cruise I’m planning a “murder mys- rates across media including martin howse (UK), Kathy night, Toinen Linja will make a live show using the sound tery comedy thriller” set. First, film, theatre and the internet. Rae Huffman (GB/US), Bronia already in the pool by tapping it into a hydraphonic micro- Death on the Nile and Mur- Iwanczak (AU), Matt Jacobson (US), Timothy Jaeger (US), phone. der on the Orient Express. Mukul does not only get a club doris jauk-hinz (AT), Troels Suspense and scary beats to audience to dance; his com- Degn Johansson (DK), jona- than kemp (UK), Maija Ketola Toinen Linja underwater sound in Riviera pool, ISEA2004 conjure up the spirit of Hercule positions are sought after by (FI), Youngmi Kim (KR), Teemu cruise Aug 15-16 Poirot. Then warm comedic Britain’s most cutting-edge Kivikangas (Fi), Miha Klemen- funky kung fu, Pink Panther choreographers, such as Akh- cic (SI), Henrik Kloninger (SG), Stoyan Kostadinov (US), Felix Toinen Linja live, ISEA2oo4 CRUISE Mon 16t Aug 00:00- style, a tribute to inspector ram Khan, Shobana Jeyasingh, Kubin (DE), valentin lacambre 00:45 Clouseau. and lots of pool she- or Russel Maliphant. (FR), sophea lerner (AU/FI), Stef Lewandowski (UK), Petri nanigans from Peter Sellers in Lievonen (FI), robert lisek “the party”. Of course the love His latest highlights include a (PL), nathalie magnan (FR), José Carlos Mariategui (PE), boat will be featured! collaboration with Southeast- Luca Martinattsoli (IT), Wade Asian Akha musician Aju Ju- Marynowsky (AU), Michael In his work Mukul is concerned poh for a film soundtrack and Mateas (IT), Dark Matter (US), Eric Mattson (CA), Rachel as much with the transmis- the release of the CD & vinyl Mayeri (US), Daniel Michelis sion of sound as its creation. SUVARA (Afghani remix proj- (DE), Michael Mikina (DE), ma- ria miranda (AU), Arash Moori Informed by his background ect). In ISEA2004 ambientTV. (UK), Juergen Moritz (DE), Pat in science and Indian music, NET presents Myriorama, a Naldi (UK), norie neumark he plays along the borders performance that functions as (AU), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), valentina nisi (IT/IE), Rainer between music and noise, a polemical exploration of the Noack (DE), Timothy Nohe rule-bound forms and chance, pathos and comedy in our am- (AU), Pauli Ojala (FI), Lotta Partanen (FI), Matteo Pas- and technology and tradition. bivalent romance with commu- quinelli (IT), Sarah Jane Pell Inside the widely appreciated nication technology. ambientTV.NET he collabo- 06 SEA

On the ISEA2004 cruise (August 15th-17th) on the Silja Opera ferry Akufen, Deadbeat, Dr P®axil, DJ Neurom per- form sounds that have not sailed the Baltic waters before. The MUTEK/ISEA2004 collaboration begins at the Kone- isto festival on August 14th, with live performances by MUTEK artists Crackhaus and Akufen. On August 19th the in the TALLINN ISEA2004 CLUB MUTEK presents Flüux, an audiovisual diptyche by Skoltz_Kolgen

MUTEK is a -based During the ISEA2004 Interfac- released by Force Inc.. Akufen will definitely do the same organisation and festival dedi- ing sound cruise, Akufen will has worked closely with nu- for ISEA2004, where full ex- cated to digital culture and au- play Music for Pregnancy- a merous important artists, perience is guaranteed de- dio/visual creation. This august work inspired by several of his including Herbert and Crack- spite the appearance of only MUTEK does a unique collabo- female friends becoming preg- haus. one house cracking Crack- ration with ISEA2004 and the nant roughly the same time! It haus artist, Scott Monteith. Koneisto electronic music fes- is originally a nine-piece com- Monteith: Interfacing Scott Monteith has been tival. The frantic and fantastic position that will be released Sound releasing his own special line-up presented by MUTEK this summer on the Canadian Crackhaus, the musical kin- blend of dub laden minimal during ISEA2004 is the focal label Oral. dred spirit of Akufen, are Scott electronica since 1998 un- CANADIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC MUSIC ELECTRONIC CANADIAN SEA BALTIC THE AT MUTEK IN COLLABORATION WITH ISEA2004 COLLABORATION IN MUTEK point of the ISEA2004 Interfac- Monteith (also known as Dead- der the name of Deadbeat ing Sound theme; a remix of In addition to his fascinating beat) and Steven Beaupré. The for labels such as Cynosure, media art and research, of ex- ideas, Akufen is known by his duo has released their uncon- Force Inc, Intr_version, Re- perimental and popular music characteristic, neo-environ- ventional and playful rhythm volver, and Scape. Having “Akufen genres and audiences. mentalistic “microsampling” compositions on labels such worked with creating sound recycles sound. He recycles samples as Risque, Musique Risquée, technologies, he is now Akufen, also being the phoneti- from anything on the ra- Mutek_Rec Records, Force making his music with a samples cally spelled French word for dio; fragments of talk shows, Inc., Music Works and Onitor. passion for the development from anything tinnitus, is becoming even bet- advertisements, static and Crackhaus strikes a perfect of new creative interfaces, ter known to electronic music music blend into an intrigu- balance between mind and and a strong grasp of some on the radio; lovers rather as the Canadian ing minimalist 4/4 house beat body, as the chopped and sliced the most cutting edge tech- fragments of sound artist Marc Leclair than that turns out maximalisti- funk-house beats and perpetu- nology in the industry, not the literal meaning of the word. cally funky. Including Oral, ally cycling bass lines capture forgetting his own unique talk shows, ad- Worldwide, he is found on DJ his 12” releases can be found the audience to the cracking voice between the ones and vertisements, top ten charts, bewildering and on Germany’s leading dance dance floor. They have dazzled zeros. inspiring the techno and house labels Perlon, Trapez, Back- audiences all over the world static...” community. ground, and Traum. His praised with their unrelenting, slap- full length debut My Way is stick live performances and MARIA CANDIA

COLLABORATION WITH KONEISTO: MUTEK This year, Koneisto celebrates its fifth anniversary by coinciding with ISEA2004, an opportunity to connect this most signifi- cant electronic music festival in the Nordic region to a major electronic arts and media culture event.

Koneisto takes place in Kaapeli in Helsinki on August 13 and 14. Pre-event free public performances, in association with ISEA2004, will also take place on the Kiasma outdoor stage on the afternoons and evenings of August 11 and 12.

As Koneisto finishes participants of both events board the ISEA2004 Interfacing Sound cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm on Sunday August 15. The cruise merges constant streams of DJ, VJ and live acts, performances, sound installations, interac- tive games and sonic experiments on 3 stages and in unexpected places from lifts to swimming pools.

This collaboration exemplifies the fantastic opportunities for experimentation and collaboration presented by the cross over between popular culture, music, sound, new media culture and electronic arts practices in a way that neither event could offer audiences alone. Sonar, eat your heart out! ;) SEA 07

machines and the empathic side for sound analysis and motor of (both) of them. control.

After earning a Master of Sci- When Kelly invites you to a ence degree from MIT Visual therapy session, you induce the Studies Program in Cambridge, intelligent and sensitive Blend- Massachusetts she is now as a ie, to spin as you like by making PhD candidate at the MIT Media a blender-style sounds. If you Lab developing a new method of start growling low pitch blend- personal, societal, and psycho- er-like sounds to get it to spin analytical engagement termed slowly, Blendie will begin to CONFUSED ABOUT YOUR EMOTIONS FOR YOUR BLENDER? Machine Therapy. pitch-track and power-match your and Blendies voice with its MACHINE THERAPY --By accessing and vitalizing the own motor body. interplay of people and machines through critical art practice and To speed up Blendie you must psychotherapeutic techniques, growl higher pitches and a social awareness is brought Blendie will follow. The experi- out and individuals are invited to ence is to speak the language reinvent their own existence and of the machine and therefore their relationships with the ma- more deeply understand it chines sharing their space. while connecting with it when resonating with the piece. Machine Therapy On Board When making sounds with the What is your relationship like with the machines you use in your everyday life? Maybe you As we hop on board the gigan- Blendie you are more likely to have a more personal relationship with them than what the gear was ever designed for! tic machine Silja Opera ferry so perform gestures and sound These questions have motivated Kelly Dobson from the MIT Medialab to become the Ma- does Miss Machine Therapist expressions not accessed be- chine Therapist. You can have your own machine therapy during ISEA2004 CRUISE in the Dobson and brings her thera- fore, which may open up un- Silja Opera Gym. py machines along. In her own found emotions while liberat- dedicated space, the ferrys gym, ing the fun of human sound. - It is evident that machines we did not consciously directly ken early in the morning by the surrounded with workout ma- are not neutral parties – we design into them, such as the sounds of combustion engine. chines, she will give individual In ISEA2004 TALLINN de luxe communicate through ma- sounds they make, the vibra- therapy sessions while exhibit- event Flux in Tallinn @ club chines, we are frustrated by tions, the movements and ges- - I was encouraged to raise my ing the therapy machines devel- BonBon on 18th of August Kelly machines, we assign power tures, says Kelly Dobson. own machines and when deal- oped for this psychoanalytical Dobson presents ScreamBody, to machines, we lay blame ing with a stuck piston inside engagement. a bag that silences the user’s on machines, we cuddle up Growing up in a junkyard in a rusted engine block the only screams and records it for with machines, we wage war Detroit, Michigan, Kelly Dobson advice you can follow is to ‘lis- One of the motor bodies in ac- later release. through machines, we let our made friends with motorized ten.’ tion, the Blendie, is an interac- lives depend on machines, we machines holding car funerals tive, voice controlled blender invest hope in machines, we and hauling machine parts to After abandoning the instability with a mind of its own. The are frightened by machines her own secret burrow on the of the junkyard period she took machine is a 1950’s Osterizer – and incredibly influential are far side of the yard. Her fondest on an exploration to find con- blender altered with custom the LIFEBOATelements of machines that memories involve being awo- nections between people and made hardware and software NETTA NORRO

CULTIVATING LIVING CELLS AND CRITICAL BIOLOGICAL ART

LifeBoat is an Australian art and science collaboration dealing with sustainability, sur- > http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au vival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation and degradation. > http://myprofile.cos.com/spellart The “floating” laboratory, a life-sized lifeboat, will be lifted onto the Silja Opera deck, > http://www.sonicobjects.com

The LifeBoat crew Nigel Helyer, Sarah Jane LifeBoat has been funded by the Australia Pell, Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts and Stuart Council’s arts funding and advisory body and Hodgetts have transformed the lifeboat into a has been assisted by Riks Utstillinger. home for a multiple purpose biological labora- tory designed to process biological and psycho- Acknowlwdgements: SymbioticA isthe art and logical samples in various life states. ISEA2004 science collaborative research laboratory cruise participants can visit the lab over two (School of Anatomy & Human Biology) in the days. University of Western Australia. Sarah Jane Pell is a member of ARTi research team. Nigel The team is comprised of members with di- Helyer works are presented by Sonic Objects: verse backgrounds: a tissue culture guru, a Sonic Architecture. biological artist, a researcher, a commercial diver and the artistic director of SymbioticA. You can visit LifeBoat on the Silja Opera 9th deck on August 15th-16th during the ISEA2004 The project group was put together by Nigel Cruise. Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique), who is a Sydney- based sculptor and sound artist with an inter- In addition to exploring life on the Baltic, the national reputation for his large-scale sonic LifeBoat crew will carry out preparatory lab installations, environmental sculpture works work at Heureka’s Open Lab during Aug 13-14. and new media projects. Helyer’s recent work combines creative practice with scientific and applied research and development. NETTA NORRO 08 SEA SEA ARTISTS DANCING FROM (CONTINUED) NINE2FIVE (AU), Melinda Rackham (AU), enrique radigales (ES), Kate SOUNDS FROM THE HELSINKI Richards (AU), Robin Rimbaud (UK), Prof Chris Rizos (AU), HEADQUARTERS Arturo Rodríguez (ES), natxo ro- driguez (ES), Hendrik Send (DE), Leslie Sharpe (US/CA), Gregory Whether it is in the realms of cool nu-jazz, dark Sholette (US), josephine starrs and aggressive drum’n’bass or dirty electro, Hel- (AU), Andrew Stern (US), Ger- ald Straub (UK), Tamas Szakal sinki has in the past few years established itself (HU), Tuomo Tammenpää (FI), as an important hub in the planetary sonic nexus Andreas Tilliander (SE), Robbie producing interesting sound, and thereby attract- Tingey (UK), Suzanne Treister (UK), greg turner (AU/GB), ing the attention of the globe - from dedicated Christina Ulke (DE/US), eva DJs and musicians to the mainstream press. The ursprung (AT), Ugo Vallauri (IT), guy van belle (NL), Rosanne van ISEA2004 CRUISE will showcase some of the Klaveren (NL), Kirsi Väkiparta capital’s worthy soundsmiths in collaboration with (FI), Sarah Waterson (AU), Marie Wennersten (SE), Dr Daniel Woo nine2five recordings and Carhartt. (AU), Gregor Zemljic (SI), Ionat Zurr (AU) RX:TX Since its conception in November 2000, nine2five recordings has established itself among the growing number of acknowledged independent CLICK, CUT, LOCK AND LOAD labels (such as Sähkö, Keys of Life, Lifesaver and Mango Funk) for fresh talent emerging from Fin- land and other parts of the Nordic region. Artists Now a two-year old institution, founded in the Republic of Korea by Slo- on nine2five have also notched up releases and venian sound artists, computer engineers and architects working closely remixes on renowned labels such as Compost, with space-related institutions in the framework of Projekt Atol, rx:tx Hospital, Stereo Deluxe, Passenger and Moving might not sound like anything related with electronic music, but deep be- Shadow, and the label’s releases have received low there’s a definite aim of providing state-of-the-art soundscapes. eager big ups from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Mr. Scruff, Rainer Truby, Roni Size, London Elek- Boasting with widely known artists such as Scanner, Random Logic and Octex, the tricity, Aquasky, Jockey Slut Magazine, Knowl- rx:tx label is set to fill the ISEA2004 festival with high-quality electronic music that edge Magazine and many more. knows no bounds, ranging from eerie deeper-than-thou harmonies to full range four-on-the-floor techno. For ISEA2004, nine2five recordings in co-opera- tion with carhartt showcase some of the most While others strive to release music on a strictly commercial basis, rx:tx are focus- interesting new talent coming from the Finnish ing on releasing material from artists all around the world, specifically from post- capital, including LBJ live (Botchit & Scarper, FI), communist countries with high production resources and qualities, but who com- Infekto (Passenger, nine2five, FI), HetiKohta (FI) monly are unknown and underground, their Progress series and festival being the and the nine2five Executives. live proof of it.

This special Finnish showcase will be accompa- Yet, exerting from the unknown to world fame is a defining characteristic of the nied by top Finnish VJ group Amfibio, who will cre- world of electronic music, which is why aforementioned artist Robin Rimbaud, bet- ate a ferry-specific sea of images. ter known as Scanner, is no stranger to those who follow the electronic tip of music. Famous - and controversial - for his experiments and works with radio frequency Interfacing Sound cruise Aug 15th 9 pm – 5 am. scanners (hence, then name), is also a very good and fascinating example of har- mony between music and art, since he not only is a musician, but also an artist and HANNA HARRIS lecturer.

Perhaps narrow in musical borders, yet pushing the envelope a lot further than others would be what Random Logic and Octex, both Slovenian projects, are about. ART ONBOARD! Random Logic have released brilliant records on renown techno labels such as INSTALLATIONS + MORE Kial, Thee Blak Label (run by Felix the Housecat), Absense and Tehnika, and have set a solid foothold on the European techno circuit.

Floating Territories (Installation) Following close by is the younger Octex, familiar to those in the know as the web- Leon Cmielewski, Josephine Starrs (AU) master of the Sound of Ljubljana site covering Slovenian techno from top to bottom. The project uses a series of screen based games to explore issues of migra- His project, an abbreviation of Organic Crackle & Tone Experiments, fuses musical tion, border protection and asylum and is designed specifically to take place influences of Detroit, Berlin, dub, ambient and the prodigious sound of Ljubljana. within ISEA2004 Cruise Exhibition. A swipe card issued to every cruise partici- From still deeper vaults come two newcomers in the international circuit, Evgeny pant activates the game and acts as a portal for participants to map their own Droomoff and Sound Meccano, both Russian sound constructors working in Latvia personal family migration history which then leads to an engaging visualisation due to release their first album on rx:tx in the fall and the new rx:tx flagship move of previous players’ accumulated data. or die! project Puna Syndicate.

Float (Installation) These surface scratches are definitely acts to look forward to, but remember that Tuomo Tammenpää, Tamas Szakal (FI/HU) for ISEA2004, rx:tx are a lot more diverse and offer nothing but fine-crafted quality In Float, the ship is the play-head, the route is the track, and the surrounding in it’s highest form. islands build the score of the sound installation. The rx:tx presentation is made possible by the generous support of the Slovenian Syren (Installation) Ministry of Culture and Projekt Atol. Nigel Helyer, Daniel Woo, Chris Rizos (AU) Syren is a shipboard open speaker augmented audio environment that uses LARS RELANDER geo-spatial information and GPS for rendering 3D sound corresponding to proximate physical features. The work places a strong emphasis on a highly imaginative and creative approach to sound composition and sound design in order to highlight the potential of this emergent field of geo-spatially located virtual audio.

Saling for Geeks (Performance) Nathalie Magnan, Valentin Lacambre (FR) WiFi performance in Mariehamn with the Open Source Sailors and their Stratospheric Balloon! SEA 09 MEDIA ART TALKING IT OVER NETWORKING MEETINGS DURING FERRY TV THE ISEA2004 CRUISE

Scheduling will be based Trevleaven’s punk film of spit, sex One of the key aims of ISEA2004 is to provide around AV-ARKKI’s programs, and cult recruitment and Tasman ways in which organizations and individuals with each segment fitting into Richardson’s rhythmic video series will be introduced to one another before and a key slot. Like regular televi- are where the image track becomes during the event. The event and in particular sion programming AV-ARKKI’s the sound track and vice versa, pure the programme on the Ferry will thus be used efforts will mark breakfast, concepts visualized through scav- as a key networking space with themed tables mid-day and late-nite. Break- enged material. at dinner, media access spaces and poster fast begins with TAX FREE, a sessions in meeting rooms where artists and playful program echoing the These works (and more to be added) organisations can present new works and festivities from the night be- close in on the television, a collaps- pitch ideas. fore. Following after lunch is ing spectacle and fantasy world pro- Love Boat, filling the afternoon grammed exclusively for individual Through workshops and talks around the with drama and heartbeats. viewing. theme Networked experience artists and re- Late-Nite is characterized searchers are able to network with interna- by the ELECTRONIC SOUND While the video programming sup- tional writers, curators and cultural workers program, broadcasting bro- ports the festival through videos re- to promote their work. The programme will ken signals and images to the lated directly to festival activities, it include presentations and pitching sessions ferry’s night hawks. is also an opportunity to extend this for projects for which artists, organisations WE ARE NOW minor note towards a fuller pres- and producers are seeking collaboration and Primetime and Lunch hour ence in each and every traveler’s partnerships. ENTERING THE will mark a full survey of what personal space. ISEA TV has to offer, present- The programme includes meetings like the DEMILITARIZED ing all works related to festival Through a combination of the three French Rendes-Vouz, European Media Art- ZONE activities. Works will include common values of television ? infor- ists in Residence Exchange, Media Art History : Japan Media Arts Festi- mation, dissertation and entertain- Conference Planning Workshop and an African GAMES AND GEOPOLITICS val’s reel, Northern Shipping ment, this facet of the ferry experi- networking session. Asia Europe foundation AT MARIEHAMN Broadcast Company’s short ence can easily develop into a total (ASEF) will host a networking session for art- political documentaries as well work unto itself. Representing not ists from ASEM countries. as Rekimbinant’s program of only ISEA’s programming concerns As we enter the demilitarized Italian activism. but also a wide spectrum of inter- In addition to a large variety of meetings in zone of the Åland archipela- national video art, it will uphold the the programme, ISEA2004 promotes the net- go and the town Marieham, Every program will be book- independent and uniquely inter-dis- working and social aspects also by offering firmly holding our techno- marked by a video inter-title, ciplinary spirit that constructs this all ferry participants the possibility to book zap guns, a moving trade these short video vignettes festival. venues, even a suite for their own networking of strategies, defenses and follow through with the low meetings. The ISEA2004 CRUISE lets you talk, arms will begin. The Strategy tech aesthetic of public broad- dance, eat, work and relax with future collabo- Defense and Arms Fair is a casting systems, laying out rators, enthusiasts – and damn good company. project of ICOLS, the Inter- the time schedules and video national Corporation of Lost information. AV-ARKKI will Networking meetings ISEA2004 CRUISE Mon Structures. Confront the var- be encouraged to produce a 16th Aug, afternoon ious ICOLS sub-departments graphic card or video advertis- ranging from Revolutionary ing the activities in their own HANNA HARRIS Nostalgia to Global Disen- cabin. chantment, not to forget the Local Unit of Missing Links. Along with ELECTRONIC Be aware. NOISE, Pavilion proposes a feverish late-nite program- > www.icols.org ming section. Proposed artists include, Assume Vivid Astro ISEA2004 CRUISE, DMZ at Focus (recently featured at ROBIN SIMPSON Mariehamn harbour, Mon the Whitney Biennale) , Scott SARAH STEEVES Aug 16th, 19:00-23:00. 10 TAL

The ISEA2004 Fashion Show takes place from 22.00 on 18th of August at club BonBon in Tallinn.

EXPLORING PERSONAL IDENTITY AND MEMORYHISTORY INRICH WEARABLE CLOTHING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND REACTIVE FASHION

Joanna Berzowska (Poland/) is an assistant professor of design and computational art in Montreal. At ISEA2004 in Tallinn she is keynote speaker for Wear- able Experience theme.

Joanna Berzowska, who has Berzowska analyzes how carry the evidence of wearers WEARABLE FASHION background in Pure Mathemat- electronic textile research is identity and history. She points ics and in Design Arts, works heavily influenced by funding out that digital technologies REVEALED THROUGH primarily with “soft computa- sources and specific interests. allow to shape and edit that tion”: electronic textiles, re- The consumer electronics in- evidence to reflect more subtle, PERFORMANCES sponsive clothing as wearable dustry is looking for next killer or more poetic, aspects of ones technology, reactive materials application, the development of identity and history. and squishy interfaces. In her health monitoring equipment The ISEA 2004 Fashion Show presents a mix of con- practice-based research she de- and military surveillance tech- Memory Rich Clothing focuses ceptual electronic art and distinctive clothing. Rather velops enabling technology for nologies reflect the military on the research and develop- than a traditional catwalk, this is an opportunity to electronic textiles based upon funding structure. They are ment of reactive garments that see a collection of individual performances in a club her theoretical evaluation of the far from delivering appealing display their history of use. She setting. historical and cultural modali- product ideas, which respond asks: “how can an object have ties of textiles as they relate to to personal, social and cultural ‘memory’?” How can an object The clothes on show will incorporate illumination, sound, future computational forms. needs. be altered through interac- wires, sensors, cameras, and more. Sala Wong and Peter tion? What kind of interactions Williams (CAN) demonstrate hats that utilise a camera and Berzowska is critical of current In Berzowskas opinion the are appropriate to give physical projection to reveal what the wearer is seeing. Similarly, research into electronic textiles, killer application for wearable memory to a wearable object? Diana Burgoyne (CAN) uses camera and monitor as a way which often forgets the intimacy computing is to convey person- What is the difference between of passing light through a performer’s body. Kelly Dobson of textiles, their close proximity al identity information. This is PASSIVE and ACTIVE inter- (USA) presents ScreamBody - a bag for recording and re- to the body, and their potential called fashion and it is mostly action (manipulation versus leasing personal frustrations. Karolin Kuusik (EST) gives for personal expression and visual. sensing)? Who do we want to clinical-looking techno clothing a touch of humanity. Kath- playful experimentation. Ber- communicate with or to?” erine Moriwaki (USA) presents magnetized suits that inter- zowska asks the questions about Based on her research project vene with the wearer’s movements. Seven miles boots - a why fabrics should be electronic Memory Rich Clothing: Gar- Joanna Berzowska speaks at pair of interactive boots by Laura Beloff (FI), Erich Berger and what kind of information ments that Display their Histo- ISEA2004 on 17th of August (AT), and Martin Pichlmair (AT) enable the wearer to walk processing one wants to carry ry of Use (or Second Skins that 12.00 at Cinema Cosmos in Tal- simultaneously in the physical world and in the Internet. out on ones bodies? She also fo- Communicate Physical Mem- linn. cuses on the issues of what kind ory) Berzowska emphasizes of functionality is desired inside the fact that physical objects, our clothes. which become worn over time MARE TRALLA

ISEA2004 TALLINN will bring together a creative mix of researchers, artists, activists, per- TAL formers and other practioners. Collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue provides a com- mon ground for most presenters, whether working with wearable technology, applying critical analysis to media geopolitical conditions, or from interdisciplinary backgrounds. There will be 3 WEARABLE EXPERIENCE, workshops, 39 projects, 4 exhibition-based performances, 20 live acts within the club and Fash- COLLABORATION & CRITICAL QUESTIONS ion Show, 6 works in public spaces, and more than 40 talks and presentations at the conference. TAL 11

TAL ARTISTS & SPEAKERS

Keynote speakers: Sarah Kem- ber (UK), Joanna Berzowska (PL/CA), Zoran Pantelic (YU), Lawrence Liang (IN), Jussi S. Jauhiainen (FI). Participants: Katherine Moriwaki (US), Susan Ryan (US), Gökhan Mura (TR), Petri Kuljuntausta (FI), Nigel He- lyer (AU), Daniel Woo (AU), Nick Mariette (AU), Marko Peljhan (SI), Catherine Richards (CA), Thomas Broomé (SE), Ian Cloth- ier (NZ), Barbara Santos (CO), Andres Burbano (CO), Clem- encia Echeverri (CO), Susan JUST DO IT (YOURSELF)! Kennard (CA), Sara Diamond (CA), Rejane Spitz (BR), Olivier Schulbaum (ES), Susana Garcia WEARABLE CHALLENGE Noguero (ES), Inacio Garcia (ES), Matteo Pasquinelli (IT), Ugo Val- lauri (IT), Tracey Benson (AU), Rebecca Ross (US), Peter Ride Conversation between Mare Tralla, Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen cal object development. It’s (UK), Barbara Layne (CA), Ingrid about wearable technology DIY practice. more costly to develop ob- Bachmann (CA), Jessica Findley jects than software but the (US), Ralph Borland ( ZA/US), Margot Jacobs (SE), Linda Melin MT: Do you think that artists ‘irritation’ that new technolo- KM: I see those projects (Nike, concern there is that like (SE), Lisa Parks(US), Miha Vipot- can bridge the gap between gies will cause with the general functional ‘bionic’ projects) certain identity constructs nik (US), Diane Ludin (US), Paul Vanouse (US), Ursula Frohne technology, fashion and ev- public. as falling into a trap of always which coalesced around the (DE), Sabine Flach (DE), Anne eryday life? thinking bigger better faster is web - we might have such Nigten (NL), Geert Lovink (US), JBC: The projects which incor- the only way to progress. constructs embedded into Trebor Scholz (US), Nina Czegle- dy (CA), Kate Rich (UK), Marlon KM: Definitely. The relation- porate technology into fashion wearables - with no way for Barrios (US), Kati Åberg (FI), ships and contradictions art- that have received the most MT: To work with wearable individuals to modify them. Leon Cmielewski (AU), Jose- phine Starrs (AU), Jonah Bruck- ists can expose has potential attention are the ones that aug- technologies one faces the er-Cohen (IE), María Fernández to be very powerful. But it is ment or highlight pre-existing problem of accessibility of both KM: Yes, but that is really (US), Ingeborg Reichle (DE), Ana also very difficult. conditions where some non- the technology and knowledge the only solution in some Viseu (CA), Astrid Vicas (US), Simon Penny (US), Pam Skelton technological solutions already of how to use it. Artists could ways - to encourage hack- (UK), Tina Clausmeyer (DE), JBC: Artists are important in exist for. For example a recent make websites in their bed- ing and DIY practices. Kim Stringfellow (US), Stahl Stenslie (DE), Jorge Luis Marzo starting this shift, but artists foray into embedded micro- rooms and it was easy to learn (ES), Artur Matuck (BR), Pascal alone will not change it. controller in Adidas sneakers the technology, but combining JBC: Exactly, DIY and hack- Maresch (AT), Jason Davidson (AU), Kelly Dobson (US), Ayhan that augment the shape of the fashion with technology doesn’t ing were born from the need Aytes (TR), Lucy Petrovich (US), KM: Even before the www- shoe for training. Basically a seem so easy. to augment things that did Sabrina Raaf (US), Ana Rewako- craze there was always a battery powered in-sole - func- not suit their purposes out wicz (CA), Sala Wong (CA), Peter Williams (CA), Monica Narula way of speaking about tech- tional and kind of purposeless. JBC: True, but the experience of the box. (IN), Art Jones (US), MIchael P. nology that tended to hype Artists with critical approaches is common and as we see the Galbincea (US), Christine Hart (US), Julian Weaver (UK), Laura its potential to solve all prob- have an opportunity to turn this developments done by those Katherine Moriwaki and Beloff (FI/NO), Martin Pilchmair lems. I say it’s difficult only type of design into something companies, everyone thinks Jonah Brucker-Cohen will (AT/NO), Erich Berger (AT/NO), because there are so many that plays off of behavioral that they need to follow that lead the DIY Wearable Chal- Diana Burgoyne (CA), Ian Cloth- competing interests and notions of fashion, not only kind of tech solution and that lenge workshop in Tallinn claims to the various fields. functional, and change this dy- feels very complicated. It’s like on 18th August 2004. McLuhan wrote that artist is namic. the argument between soft- able to anticipate the psychic ware development and physi- MARE TRALLA

JULIAN WEAVER ENCOURAGES US “Respirer co-opts TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH Ausculta-

For two weeks, everyone can participate in Julian Weaver’s project Respirer (Take a Deep tion and Breath) in Tallinn. The project highlights technological revitalisation of the stethoscope - an in- Morbid strument derided since the development of the x-ray and more complex technologies. Respir- er co-opts Auscultation (the practice of listening to sounds arising from within the organs) and Anatomy by in- Morbid Anatomy (the investigation of diseased organs) by interrupting the circuit of diagnosis and terrupting the clinical response. circuit of diag- Utilising advances in stethoscopic technology, Respirer creates a physical space in which partici- nosis and clini- pants receive a lung examination from a medical professional, a sonic space in which examina- tions are simultaneously broadcast to local and online environments, an ethical space in which cal response.” the intimate is simultaneously revealed and obscured and a theoretical space in which diagnosis and aesthetics compete.

Julian Weaver has worked on new media and creative arts projects since 1994. He has previously exhibited collaborative works at numerous significant festivals.

Participate and take a deep breath! At the Exhibition Hall in Rotermann Salt Storage between 17th of August and 31st of August. 12 TAL

FRONT Inflating suits by Millefiore Effect present ideas around conflict and violence: they suggest a ritualized, ceremonial form of combat that defuse aggression at the same time as they play on it.

The suits are made symbiotic to remind involuntary responses, and the conse- quence of aggression. Parts of the suit act back against the body of the wearer, restricting sight or movement. Playing in the suits is cathartic and releases ag- ISEA2004 EXHIBITION(S) gression. The suits of Front make the players behave in rarely expressive ways, and both allowing it to happen to oneself and watching it happen to other people INVADE TALLINN is part of the spectacle they offer.

A number of major art venues in Tallinn, two museums and At Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design from 17th August - 19th of Sep- four galleries, will host ISEA2004 exhibitions. tember, also part of the ISEA2004 Fashion Show on 18th of August.

Playful works of Wearable experience at Estonian Museum of Ap- plied Art and Design will provide an environment for active inter- action, where one can try on samples of reactive clothing and feel physically participating in the exhibition.

The Exhibition Hall in Rotermann Salt Storage will show immer- sive installations from VR environments (Lucy Petrovich) to rooms, where the surfaces of walls interact with the user by changing its shape (RS-3). The works at exhibitions at Tallinn Art Hall and City Gallery question personal and geographical identities, also reflect on the issues of surveillance and migration. In the Art Hall Gallery local exhibition will give a small introduction to the new media art in Estonia. HOME AND AWAY In Home and Away Samina Mishra explores visually and aurally children growing up as ISEA2004 also has an interface with unsuspecting audiences at cen- second and third generation in British Asians families, who travelled from India, Pakistan tral Tallinn shopping centre Viru, at The Elion Home in Tallinna Kaub- and Bangladesh. Home, for them, is a unique combination of London’s physical space and amaja and in various locations in the city space. the Subcontinent’s “culture”. They grow up between cross-cultural spaces and trans-con- tinental memories. The ISEA2004 exhibitions will take place from 17th of August until 31st of August, with the exception of the exhibition at the Estonian Exhibited at Art Hall, 17th - 31st of August. Museum of Applied Art and Design, where the exhibition concentrat- ing on wearable will stay open until 19th of September.

ISEA2004 exhibition(s) are coordinated by Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia > www.cca.ee COUNTER/ CARTOGRAPHIES RS-3. REACTIVE SPACE French artists Laetitia Delafontaine and Gregory Niel create spaces where skin- Group C.Cred explores local socio-po- like membrane interacts with the user. This membrane is connected and driven litical terrain in Tallinn and how it could by software interface, and controls the geometrical definition of the space. be mapped, also what kind of trajecto- Creating direct relationship and dialog with the visitor, the surface of the space ries could be found. C.Cred works col- is dynamic and it’s shape can be modified. It is a search of a space reactive to its laboratively with local artists, activists environment, an interface sensitive to vibrations of sound frequencies. and collectives and will during the event

be developing local platforms including At Exhibition Hall in Rotermann Salt Storage, 17th - 31st of August. an installation of the existing Coun- ter/ Cartographies archives linked to RUTA REMAKE BY GEDIMINAS URBONAS AND NOMEDA WEATHER REPORT a series of informal live events: walks, URBONIENE drives, journeys; dinner, drinks, discus- Provoked by the notion of “the lack of women’s voices”, Ruta Remake project Weather Report by Janek Schaefer can be heard as sions or interviews. Certain aspects of maps out relations concerning politics of identity in today’s Lithuania. Writers, a ‘Mobile’ voicemail message from a drifting weath- these events are documented as car- linguists, philosophers, music theorists and critics join the Ruta Remake to er balloon. It is a hybrid documentary, collected and tographies by themselves and added to investigate the contemporary state of women’s voice. Through the shared edited outdoors. His sound Installation uses several the expanded archive/cartographies and recollections of media they build a pathway to navigate through a collection of giant ‘floating’ weather balloons which act as ‘mobile’ installations. samples that reflect social construction and metaphysical qualities resulting as indoor speakers filled with abstract sounds from the a Voice Archive. original “weather” audio. Installation at Art Hall, 17th -31st of Au- gust and presentation on 18th of August Exhibited at Art Hall, 17th - 31st of August. Exhibited at Art Hall, 17th - 31st of August. 15.00 at Estonian Academy of Arts. TAL 13

“Kember pursued the origins of evo- lutionary meta- phors, which were neither ac- counted for nor problematised but concealed.”

TAL ARTISTS & SPEAKERS (CONTINUED)

ier (NZ), Laetitia Delafontaine (FR), Gregory Niel (FR), Barbara Santos (CO), Clemencia Ech- everri (CO), Andres Burbano (CO), Silvia Rigon (CA/US), Atau Tanaka (FR), Cécile Babiole (FR), Laurent Dailleau (FR), Janek Schaefer (UK), Nicholas Sted- man (CA), Tina Gonsalves (CA), Tom Donaldson (UK), Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (US), Merilyn IS THERE LIFE Fairskye (AU), Eric Paulos (US), Kristina Andersen (NL), Chris- tina Gadegaard Nilsen (NL), Cat Hope (AU), Anne Walton, (AU), Jillian McDonald (US), Shilpa Gupta (IN), Samina Mishra (IN), ON MARS? Gediminas Urbonas (LT), Nome- da Urboniene (LT), Ivika Kivi (EE), Dagmar Kase (EE), Urmas Puh- SARA KEMBER ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE kan (EE), Lauri Kilusk (EE), Kar- olin Kuusik (EE), Vassilissa (EE), Ars Intel Inc., Joel Tammik (EE), Taavi Tulev (EE), Ciutausk (LT), The Center of the Universe (NO), Skolz Kolgen (CA), Ola Stahl Her keynote paper for the Criti- looked at it more closely. Su- time, her experience has been that (SE/UK), Kajsa Thelin (SE), Carl cal Interdisciplines theme in perficially, yes. It’s kind of biol- following close dialog with Alife Lindh (SE), Simon O’Sullivan (UK), Patricia Adams, Jeff Sams Tallinn will use the question of ogies, it’s kind of evolutionism researchers, she found her own (AU), NeuroTransmitter (US), the existence of life on Mars as and those things need a cri- ground had shifted. Sabine Seymour (AT/US), Katrin Kivimaa (EE), Eric Kluitenberg a pretext for a discussion on tique because of the way they (NL), Tania Goryucheva (RU) the quest for artificial/alien life have been historically and con- Having begun with a straight femi- and the relation between evo- temporarily used, for example nist epistemological critique of lution and becoming. in evolutionary psychology. biologisation of culture and tech- nology, her research indicated In an interview for ISEA2004, - There is lot of re-naturali- that the meanings produced within Kember explains that her in- sation going on, because de- the fields of Alife were open, too terest in Alife developed when naturalisation and re-naturali- diverse and internally conflicting. she began to notice the use sation gets tied up together. I of evolutionary metaphors in think Alife is one of the fields in Such internal conflict can serve MEDIA, ART AND SCIENCES: relation to technology and cul- which that is happening. Strong strategic purposes: precisely A LIAISON DANGEREUSE ture, resulting in both becom- critique of that field seems for what Hayles has argued, and what ing naturalised. me to be absolutely necessary, Kember argues using the no- Ursula Frohne and Sabine Flach especially within interdisciplin- tion of dialog between feminism pose a question on the relationship Through her own research, ary humanities, where it was and Alife. Kember says she is not and discussion between media art Kember pursued the origins already deployed as a descrip- aiming for any kind of resolution and natural sciences. of these metaphors, which tion of technological and cul- or consent between science and were neither accounted for nor tural change but without suffi- feminism, but that this kind of Their approach will deal with the inter- problematised but concealed. cient visibility or critique. dialog is risky and too uneven. Yet sections of artistic and scientific activi- She cites the example of Sadie this is not a problem for Kember ties on the basis of media usage, outlin- Plant’s work, which describes Kember notes that research- who seeks critique with a view to ing a changed role and position of the the Internet as evolving, au- ers of Alife retreated when she making a difference. artist: the artist and the scientist work tonomous and feminized. In declared her feminists posi- in their own fields, but with comparable another, a chapter from Alison tions. Only the more secure, Sara Kember teaches in the Media procedures and methods. Adam’s Artificial Knowing ad- who already had some notion and Communications department dresses the dangers of Alife, of interdisciplinary discourse of Goldsmiths College. She is the They will focus on the status of images sociobiology and computation- or exchange, did not. Some author of Cyberfeminism and Ar- produced my media art, posing a ques- al clothing. questioned what Alife has to do tificial Life. tion on the possibility of a picture theory with feminism. that goes beyond its classical means and Kember points out that, for Sara Kember will present her is at the same time used by the arts as feminists at least, this ‘biologi- For Kember, there is a long keynote on 18th of August at 12.30 well as by the sciences. cal computer science’ sounds route to march between hu- in Cinema Kosmos in Tallinn. alarm bells: manities (cultural studies, Frohne and Flach will present their feminism, media studies) and views on 18th August at 9.30, Cinema - I think Adam was right to science as there are significant Kosmos. signal the danger, but it is epistemological differences not what I really found when I between them. At the same MARE TRALLA 14 TAL PATRICIA ADAMS TRIES OUT PAST SCIENTIFIC METHODS INTERVIEW BY LINDA WALLACE

LW: Trish, describe the work dot matrix printer in the Tal- master the internal reactivity” of you’ll show in Tallinn. linn installation which churns the body. out a sheet of printer paper PA: Wave Writer is the latest in as a tangible residue of their In Wave Writer I am exploring my series of interactive works virtual presence. the comparison between those that explore both contemporary “hands-on” processes and con- and obsolete technologies, and LW: How has your sculptur- temporary, post-industrial trans- scientific processes. Subtitled al background shaped your actions that involve the body over An experiment for vital force thinking in the work you are distance. My on-going investiga- #02, the work takes the form of doing now, in terms of the tions into corporeality and the a playful search for this force materiality of ‘things’ – from materiality of the human body - referencing and mimicking machines to stem cells - and probe both the unknown possibil- past scientific methodologies. the materiality of ‘processes’, ities of virtual presence and re- It makes use of a machine pre- as well as issues of spatiality? cent developments in biotechnol- viously used to record oscilla- ogy such as stem cell research. tions and other small temporal PA: About 3 years ago I began intervals. collecting obsolete scientific machines called kymographs On site in Tallinn the real-time that were being discarded in viewer interacts with the work the University skip. Initially by stepping on a foot pump and they appealed to me aestheti- Patricia Adams’s installa- thus recording their presence cally as sculptural objects tion Wave Writer will be shown as “wave writing” - displac- but when I explored their from 17th – 31st of August at the ing a pen which is making a history I became fascinated ISEA2004 exhibition - Roter- continuous line on a loop of by their analogue, mechanic mann’s Salt Storage, Tallinn - paper. Parts of the machinery functions from a bygone era and at > www.wavewriter.net are also activated by a move- of research. I started to con- ment sensor, which is triggered sider the ways in which they LINDA WALLACE is an Australian by the arrival of a viewer into had been used as “transla- artist, curator and director of the the space. Meanwhile, Internet tory devices in early scientific machine hunger company viewers/ users can trigger a attempts to locate, map and > www.machinehunger.com.au/

“Internet users can trigger a dot matrix printer in the installa- tion which churns out a tangible residue of their virtual presence.” PAUL VANOUSE RACES WITH DNA

In Paul Vanouse’s work the samples of DNA will literally race against each other in a genetic separation gel, the winner of each race changes depending upon the particular region of the DNA from which the samples were obtained. The result is not known prior to the live performance.

The concept of “race” is here twofold, as the project compares contemporary genomics with early 20th Century eugenic research:

- How might contemporary genomics change our conception of race (especially given the role of previous anthropomorphic studies at the turn of the last century in reifying social hi- erarchies)?

Paul Vanouse has been working in emerging technological media forms since 1990. He explores critically the intersections of “big science” and popular culture. Vanouse creates playful interactive situations for public participation that induce a sceptical ambivalence toward entrenched cultural constructs. Vanouse refers to these projects as “Operational Fictions”.

His performance will take place on 17th of August at 20.20 at the Tallinn City Gallery. Docu- > www.whiterabbit.fi mentation of the performance will be shown at the same gallery until 31st of August. TAL 15 FLUX IN TALLINN ELECTRONIC MUSIC + CLUB + WEARABLE FASHION

SKOLTZ_KOLGEN COMBINE SOUND AND MOVING IMAGES

The ISEA2004 club event Flux in Tallinn promises a night full of experimental SKOLTZ_KOLGEN are a Canadian duo that present an music,wearable fashion and performances. audiovisual experience with detail and precision, while still maintaining a rich aesthetic appreciation. Flux in Tallinn continues dubtechno driven by abstract bels his musical style as APM the themes of the ISEA2004 electronica. Both will pres- - abstract party music. When Dominique T. Slotz and Herman W. Kolgen no- CRUISE by presenting a show- ent their new album at Flux in ticed that their individual creative activities had a lot in case of international and local Tallinn. Live Robot Love (US) will weave common, they began to consider working together, and sound-art, live acts and per- a loose narrative from vari- eventually set up the duo Skoltz_Kolgen. For those who formances. The event features The group Ciutausk from Lithu- ous elements such as found are familiar with the harsh and physically demanding sound and performance art- ania explores minimal digi- sound/video, global mass me- world of noise-werk, Skoltz_Kolgen strike a refresh- ists from countries such as tal sounds, sine waves, noise, dia (television broadcasts, car- ingly different note with their combined use of sound Norway, Canada, Lithuania, glitch and microwaves. toons, newcasts etc.) and their and synchronized image. “While the immediate impact Estonia and France, and will own animations. The perfor- of much technologically driven new media art resides present a diverse array of mu- S.S.S (Sensors Sonics Sights) mance by Skolz_Kolgen (CA) in the novelty and transitory nature of new technology, sic, noise, rhythm, ambience (FR) creates a sound/image will portray a range of austere Skoltz_Kolgen’s aesthetic and conceptual investiga- and more. environment centered around to rigorous sounds, alongside tions not only explore the technological limits, but also gesture. In their performance synchronized imagery. what it is to be human and have human experiences.” The live acts of the night will light and sound are controlled – Lucinda Catchlove vary in style – from a more fa- and articulated through move- The club night also features miliar pop rhethoric to a total ments of the arms and body. the ISEA2004 Fashion Show. We are pleased to announce that Skolz_Kolgen (MUTEK merging of styles and experi- The group transform sen- rec) will be performing in Tallinn. It will be an interest- mental sound art. Flux in Tal- sor systems into instruments, Flux in Tallinn is a one-night- ing juxtaposition to see them perform alongside some linn also offers local artists turning gestures into expres- only interdisciplinary club of the more melodic and rhythmic sound acts. Skoltz_ an opportunity to demonstrate sive digital information. event incorporating sound, Kolgen will be performing in a set which also features their creativity, and creates an art, fashion, design, perfor- Ciutausk at yahoo . com (LIT), The Center of the Uni- environment for local audi- The Norwegian known as mance and multimedia. It will verse (NOR), Sensors Sonics Sights (FRA) and Ars Intel ences to mix with international The Center of the Universe be a manifesto for the fusion Inc. (EST), and also as a part of the wearable and wire- ISEA2004 crowd. veers musically between lo-fi, of ideas! less technology performers and Estonian fashion de- cheap electronics, breakbeats, signers at the ISEA2004 de luxe event, Flux in Tallinn @ Estonian artist Ars Intel Inc. nu-Arabian and nu-Balkan Flux in Tallinn takes place on club BonBon on 18th of August. has taken part in several ex- – though his heart belongs to 18th of August from 22.00 until perimental sound art projects pop music. On the other hand, 04.00 at club BonBon. and exhibitions. Joel Tammik’s Estonian artist Taavi Tulev la- (EE) music is best described as ANDRES LÕO 16 HEL

“Individu- alism has come to its end in postmod- ern societies.”

URBAN MOBILE CULTURES MICHEL MAFFESOLI AND THE WIRELESS TRIBES

French sociologist Michel Maffesoli presents us with a rich analysis of con- temporary societies that find ground in such notions as the tribe, orgy and tragedy. Maffesoli’s academic audiences and other enthusiasts depass scholarly divisions. In France he also has a status of the favourite sociologist of the new media minded and the underground music scenes. For ISEA2004, he will present a keynote speech on urban tribes and wireless technologies.

Maffesoli, Professor of Sociol- of reason but with the full express and confront a communi- JAPANESE MOBILE PHONE CULTURE ogy at the Sorbonne (Paris) scale of the five senses. tarian imagenary, and the emerg- AND URBAN LIFE and Director of CEAQ (Cen- ing social forms and archaic tre d’Etude sur l’Actuel et le In his work Le Temps des Tri- imagenaries combined to most How do wireless user practices evolve in different cultures? Quotidien, celebrating its 10th bus (1988, re-edition 2000), advanced technological develop- Keynote speaker Machiko Kusahara’s insights are intrigu- anniversary later in Autumn Michel Maffesoli proposed ment. ing, especially as her ISEA2004 presentation takes place in 2004), proposes an original his pehaps most famous no- another mobile obsessed country, Finland. and multi-discplinary approach tion, that of the tribe. Accord- Maffesoli’s key ideas all find their to the analysis of contemporary ing to his original interpreta- ground in the interaction of urban In Kusahara’s view, the instant connectivity and multi- social phenomena, especially tion of communitarian forms, tribes and the “re-enchantment” ple layers of communication (talking, exchanging media, to the themes of the everyday, individualism has come to its of urban territories through new browsing) provided by mobile phones matched the de- the “dionysiac” and the local. end in postmodern societ- technologies. What kind of social mands of Japanese urban life, where the needs of being ies. Maffesoli analyses how formations have different “new” both connected and private had to be sophisticatedly bal- Maffesoli also directs the human groupings are formed technologies influenced and why? anced. Supported by nation-wide urban trends, a variety European research network mainly by everyday communi- What are the social, or tribal, uses of applications are now migrating to mobile devices, and CRI (Centre de Recherche sur cative relationships, generat- of mobile techonologies? What is further accelerating societal change. l’Imaginaire) that re-positions ing a strong viscocity that is the Wireless Urban Experience the imagenary as a secret ar- based on sharing affectivity, about? Machiko Kusahara is a researcher and an international cu- chitecture behind contempo- something that is decsriptive of rator contributing to the interdisciplinary electronic culture rary social phenomena. today’s culture. > www.univ-paris5.fr /ceaq field. She was involved in founding the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the NTT/ICC, and Digital Image, Maffesoli’s sociological analy- Since 1993 Maffesoli has led Michel Maffesoli, Wireless Expe- Japan’s largest organization of digital media artists and sis takes into account the a research group on techo- rience keynote speech, Lume, Thu designers. She has a Ph.D in engineering from University common sense to which it nologies and the everyday Aug 19th, 12 :30. of Tokyo, and her recent research is on the correlation be- attributes an epistemologi- (GRETECH). The group focuses tween digital media and traditional culture. cal characteristic, and thus on the research of networked HANNA HARRIS observes the social world technologies, such as the ca- STÉPHANE HUGON Kusahara’s keynote at ISEA2004 Helsinki, August 19. through not only the via recta pacity of mobile phones to PHOTO: MICHAËL V. DANDRIEUX

MOBILE IMAGING AND Situations4x is a mobile imaging experiment, in which three families share their everyday life situations. The project SHARED PRESENCES makes visible the temporal and narrative aspects of mobile media. In the experiment, the families and the partici- pating audience experience variations of an imaginary summer day in August 2004. The small image resolution of Wireless media redefine our sense of the here mobile devices, which favors details and close ups and the instantaneity of image capture, are pushed to develop a and the now in radical ways while dissolving practice that enables a group of people to be virtually present in each other’s lives. Through projections at Kiasma, borders between the public and the private. Situations4x also makes moments of privacy public, thus expanding our concepts of what constitutes family life. These questions are addressed by media artist and researcher Heidi Tikka’s (FI) Situations4x. Situations 4x is part of the ISEA2004 Helsinki exhibition. Heidi Tikka presents the work in the conference on Aug 20.

ISEA2004 HELSINKI – ten years since ISEA94 took place in town. New media has its multiple HEL regional, technological, social, and cultural histories, where “new” becomes old and part of the everyday life experience. There is a lot to learn from the “past” of the “new” in techno- logical culture. Helsinki, coined “the wireless city”, offers a living context for understanding WIRELESS, URBAN, HISTORICAL “wireless” urban culture today. Understanding the past, being excited of the possibilities that NEW MEDIA new technologies offer in the cultural sphere: join the discussion. Experience it. HEL 17

SITUATING LOCATION-BASED MEDIA IN URBAN PUBLIC SPACE

The Cartographic Command Center (C3) will be the forward command post for the Canadian-based new media research initiative Locative Media Lab that will seek to creatively en- gage the public in active discourse related to locative me- dia, military conversion, collaborative cartography, and the tactical use of free and open source digital geography. Led by Marc Tuters (CA), Rasa Smite (LV) and Jaanis Garancs (LV) the objective of the project is to transfer some of the wealth of spatial digital knowledge from the databanks of state-subsidized digital geography into civic society via new media art.

A PREVIEW OF POCKETS OF As the public face of the Mobile Digital Commons Net- work, a new media research network led by the Concordia PLENTY: ARCHAEOLOGY OF University in Montreal, this project will offer a public space filled with interactive visualizations in order to provide the MOBILE MEDIA public with a means to understand the transformative po- tential of open digital cartographic systems on urban space. At the same time ISEA2004 participants are encouraged to Look for the words “mobile”, called The Victorian Inter- did mobile media come from? explore web-based and mobile cartography applications, “portable”, “wearable” or “no- net, pointing out that although How was it moulded within and the field of locative media in general. The atmosphere madic” from any standard me- amazing, it wasn’t so totally networks of evolving cultural at the centre will be demonstrative, playful, critical and dia history, for example, Brian different from what happened practices? We assume that it comfortable. Winston’s Media Technology during the heroic era of the must have led a “discursive” and Society, A History: From electric telegraph. life before it became an exist- Following this first iteration of the project at ISEA2004 the Telegraph to the Internet ing technology, a merchan- the C3 operation room will tour Canadian cities through- (374 pages, 1998) and you may Or is it simply our inadequate dise and a cultural form. The out 2004 and 2005, providing an opportunity to educate and be in for a surprise: they are historical eyesight that pre- challenge is to uncover enough build networks among students, artists, members of the not there. Or perhaps it wasn’t vents us from adjusting our traces to make those discours- public, geographical institutions and media art groups. a surprise: for more than a focus from near to far and back es readable. Media archaeol- decade we have been told that again? In the introduction to ogy does not believe in the idea The Cartographic Command Centre also hosts other loca- the everyday devices many of the pioneering The Social Im- of parthenogenesis. tion-based wireless projects during the ISEA2004. These us live with - mobile phones, pact of the Telephone (1977), include Julian Bleecker´s (US) WiFi.ArtCache, which is personal digital assistants, the editor Ithiel de Sola Pool Such an undertaking inevi- a mobile WiFi node that provides the audience an access pagers, Gameboys and iPods - was wondering about the lim- tably leads us to investigate point for curated, location-specific digital art. Meredith are something unprecedented, ited amount of research into phenomena that may at first Finkelstein´s (US) Invisible Fields pt. 1 is a WiFi Radio mak- harbingers for new wonders the the social impact of the appear to have little to do with ing perceptible the invisible fields of the wireless Internet. to come. Their appearance telephone, a technology that media. Let’s take just one ex- San Francisco based collective CLN SWP (US) brings the was like a forza del destino already had a history span- ample: the wristwatch. There audio installation Free Evenings & Weekends to examine - it just had to happen. So why ning one hundred years! One is a wonderful story according the role of mobile communications. The center will also be should it surprise anyone that reason, de Sola Pool proposed, to which this now ubiquitous an access point for other works located in public space. the story of their emergence is was that “we take the phone device was invented by Cartier largely missing from the pages for granted; we use it without in 1904 for the Brazilian avia- The Cartographic Command Centre will be located in the of the history books? Yes, even a thought.” Before it became tion pioneer Santos Dumont, Kiasma seminar room during ISEA2004 Helsinki, 19.8.– McLuhan – “the extensions a common household tool the who found it difficult to check 22.8. 2004. man” – had little to say about telephone received more at- the time from his pocket-watch them. tention, but since the 1930s its while steering his aircraft. The > http://locative.net/ presence had become more association between trans- So we are facing an interest- invisible (or rather, inaudi- portation and body-mounted ing dilemma, and certainly a ble), even among scholars. Of timekeeping is evocative, par- challenge for media archaeol- course, the massive 500-page ticularly because it seems to ogy. If these things are really volume had nothing to say anticipate one of the first envi- so new, does it mean that we about mobile communication. ronments where mobile media have finally encountered the To the extent that it existed at came into use: the automobile. mythological “rupture”, a phe- all, it had obviously had little, In reality, the wristwatch had nomenon so different and so or no social impact. been invented decades earlier, URBAN total in its impact that it will but its popularity grew slowly tear media history into two, “Using it without a thought” because it was considered throwing the first half into the certainly applies to the rela- feminine. It needed the mas- ANATOMIES dustbin of oblivion? Of course, tionship many of us have de- culine, technology-saturated other candidates for causing veloped with the mobile phone, profile of Santos Dumont - and such a rupture have emerged but fortunately not with (at a ittle later some serious ac- REVEALED before. Virtual reality was seen least all) research practice, tion on the fronts of the Great as the “medium of the 21st as the anthology Perpetual War - to break through the century”, until it was proven to Contact (ed. Katz and Aakhus, gender barrier and to become During their ISEA2004 residency, Bandung Media Centre be just one of the many virtual 2002) demonstrates. Yet, in the technological annex to the from Indonesia brings to Helsinki City Surgery, a public and realities (including the Victo- spite of giving us valuable clues body it has been ever since. participatory research project on the structures, anatomies rian “stereoscomania” obses- about the social practices re- Although strictly speaking not of the layered city space. The project will use public spaces, sion for the stereoscope) that lated with mobile phone use, a “media machine”, the wrist- web and radio in dialogue with Helsinki citizens. appear from time to time. And the book does not address the watch may not be totally unre- the Internet had not yet had wider phenomenon of “mobile lated to mobile media... time to come of age when Tom media”. Nor does it provide an- Standage published a book swers to our dilemma: where ERKKI HUHTAMO 18 HEL MOBILITY, IDENTITY AND ART AND SOFTWARE – COLLABORATIVE A STRANGE LIAISON? DESIGN

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in The design of wireless user experiences requires strong sen- the reinvention of software in political, social and sibilities towards identity construction and cultural differ- cultural terms. Software artist and theorist Matthew ence. Nina Wakeford brings critical social and cultural theory Fuller (I/O/D member and regular collaborator with to the design process, which evolves in a collaboration be- Mongrel) discusses the potential of hacking and mixing tween ethnographers, engineers, designers and users. approaches to software and technology. The social history of the mobile phone has often been told in According to Fuller, the anti-disciplinary work of art makes terms of the changing cultures of early adopters, and recent a strange coupling with the rule-bound world of software. research tends to focus on normative social behaviours such But because art is built upon the promise of destruction, as texting. In her keynote, Nina Wakeford questions the stan- irrelevance, sensual pleasure, proud stupidity as well as a dard mass media and industry portrayals of mobility and mo- certain kind of overcooked or brilliantly raw intelligence it bile culture by focusing on a collaborative project between the provides a perfect foil for the logical monotony of computation. INCITE research centre, a shelter for homeless mothers, and Software, and progress through technology is one of the a small design company. presiding myths of the day, of electronic art as much as of business, thus the practices of reinventing software provide Nina Wakeford (Dphil) is a leading Reader in Sociology and So- both a way to test and challenge normalised life and to insist cial Methodology and the Director of INCITE in the Department on the capacity to experiment and invent. of Sociology, University of Surrey. Her previous research proj- ects include studies of internet cafes, women’s discussions Matthew Fuller (UK) is Reader in Media Design at the Piet lists and the use of ethnography by new technology designers. Zwart Institute, . He is author of Behind the Blip, Amongst her publications are papers on virtual methodolo- essays in the culture of software (Autonomedia) and of the gies, queer identities, digital communities and public internet forthcoming Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and access provision. technoculture (MIT Press). Nina Wakeford’s Wireless Experience keynote in the Helsinki Matthew Fuller’s Open Source and Software as Culture key- conference on August 21. note in the Helsinki conference on August 21.

GRAINS OF VOICE KATHERINE LIBERFOVSKAYA AND PHILL NIBLOCK’S BABEL-ON Hearing one’s own voice almost always passes by unno- ticed, our most common public act experienced within the closest confines of one’s own body. Yet, once acknowl- edged it presents itself as a closed system remaining within the experience of the individual. BABEL-ON, pre- sented by MUU Gallery, explores the melodic and rhyth- mical dimensions of human spoken language. It stands as the result of the first collaboration between Canadian video artist Katherine Liberovskaya and New York sound INTERACTIVITY, CONTROL AND FREEDOM artist Phill Niblock. Are we in control of, or controlled by, the networks which As a large scale video and audio installation, BABEL-ON promise us empowerment and freedom? The complex rela- is a living and experiential work. Videos of individuals are tions of power and freedom in high-speed telecommunica- presented speaking their mother-tongues, absent are the tions are discussed by Wendy Chun. expected subtitles. With only the vocal segregates and vi- sual cues to be considered, the non-verbal possibilities of Electronic interactivity has been portrayed as both enabling greater vocal communication are evoked. The synchronous pro- user control (and hence freedom) and enabling the user to be more jections compose a polyphonic chorus, an assemblage of easily controlled. In her keynote, Wendy Chun (US) surveys various idioms in constant flux. types of online interactions and discusses the paradoxes of freedom and control, especially those opened up by fibre optic networks. In counterpoint to the synchronous audio of Liberfovs- kays’s video, Phill Niblock has constructed an acoustic Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is an assistant professor of Modern Culture environment of spoken voices and utterances as well as and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems De- complimenting natural and digital sources. The composi- sign Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and tion mingles with the multilingual videos, at times accom- mutates in her current work on digital media. She is currently com- panying it, at others overriding and replacing it. Moments pleting a manuscript (Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia of silence appear creating a sonic conversation. in the Age of Fiber Optics, forthcoming MIT 2005) and co-editing a collection on the archaeology of multimedia (New Media, Old Media, Opening the evening of August 5th, two weeks before the forthcoming Routledge 2005). launch of the full ISEA2004 program, BABEL-ON will re- veal some of the greater ideas that work behind the ISEA Wendy Chun’s Critical Interaction Design keynote in the Helsinki festival and provide a taste of the experiences to come. conference on August 21. HEL 19 HEL ARTISTS & SPEAKERS (CONTINUED)

Adriana de Souza e Silva (US/ BR), Shawn Decker (US), Paul DeMarinis (US), Alain Depocas (CA), Diego Diaz Garcia (ES), Steve Dietz (US), tomislav domes (HR), Jesper Dyrehauge (DK), Arthur Elsenaar (NL), Taco Stolk (NL), John Evans (FI/GB), Sabine Fabo (DE), María Fernandez (NI/ US), Meredith Finkelstein (US), Mary Flanagan (US), Monika Fleischmann (DE), Darko Fritz (HR/NL), Mathias Fuchs (AT/ UK), shiho fukuhara (JP), Sa- toshi Fukushima (JP), Jean Ga- gnon (CA), Jaanis Garancs (LV), Diaz Garcia (ES), Benj Gerdes (US), Kenny Goldsmith (US), Jennifer Gonzalez (US), Zvonko Gorecan (YU), Beryl Graham (UK), Genco GÜLAN (TR), Hanna Haaslahti (FI/FI), Penny Hagen (AU), Jessica Hammer (US), Honor Harger (NZ), R.E. Har- tanto (ID), Jennifer Hayashida (US), Carol Hobson (US), Tiffany Holmes (US), Olle Huge (SE), Bryan Hurley (US), Caroline Huybrechts (BE), Adam Hyde (NZ), Indrek Ibrus (EE), Gustaff H. Iskandar (ID), Jon Ippolito (US), Aristarkhova Irina (RU/SG), Katrien Jacobs (US), Susanne Jaschko (DE), Pamela Jen- nings (US), Natalie Jeremijenko (AU/US), Vladan Joler (CE), Art Jones (US), ben jones (UK), Cait- lin Jones (US), Swapnagandha Joshi (US), Lilian Juechtern (DE), Timo Kahlen (DE), Charles Kamangwana (ZW), Kemal Ka- plan (TR), Matthew Karau (US/ IE), Olle Karlsson (SE), Dennis Kaspori (NL), Michelle Kasprzak (CA), Nina Katchadourian Katchadourian (US), Martin Kim (DE), Aki Kivelä (FI), Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL), Anna Kohler TACTICAL DEPLOYMENT (DE), lina kovacevic (HR), Petri TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH MAKROLAB NESTLES ON ISLAND IN HELSINKI HARBOUR

Makrolab-UNTP establishes research environment on Tammakari island in the Helsinki harbour, bringing Baltic research live into to the Kiasma exhibition and to the ferry.

Makrolab is an autonomous com- ing a communications and information Makrolab-UNTP, Aug 1-30 Tammakari. Aug 15-16 munications, research and living node in the ISEA2004 CRUISE, Aug 19 – Oct 23 Kiasma. Spe- unit and space. The project started cial research and access visits August 19- 30 TBC. “Makrolab in 1994 and was first realised dur- Kiasma museum, presenting the spe- ing an art exhibition, documenta X in cifics of the project’s past and future MAKROLAB-UNTP is supported by a grant from will set up Kassel in 1997. Since it has been set plans, with emphasis on unmanned the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, a base of up in Slovenia, Australia, Scotland aerial vehicle operations and tacti- the City council for Culture of the City of Ljubljana and Italy, having last been operating cal communications. For this purpose, and Mobitel d.d. Ljubljana. operations on Isola di Campalto as part of the Makrolab will set up a base of opera- in the Hel- Venice Biennale 2003. At ISEA2004, tions on the Tammakari island in the MAKROLAB-UNTP is also part of the EU Culture Makrolab will be present with the Helsinki archipelago using the new 2000 - TCM (Trans Cultural Mapping) project. sinki archipel- MAKROLAB-UNTP (unmanned net- MAKROLAB-RDU (rapid deployment ago using the work tactical phase) setup. unit) developed specially for tactical media purposes. new MAKRO- Initiated by Marko Peljhan (SI), Mak- LAB-RDU (rap- rolab has evolved to include work A new radar unit for sea/air monitoring of many people from many different and locating will be used and locative id deployment disciplines. Makrolab is equipped to media research pertaining to satellite unit) developed accommodate artists, scientists, tac- navigation (GPS, GLONASS and GALI- tical media workers and creators and LEO) work will be done using the RDU specially for provides them with tools and means during August 19-30. Data streams tactical media for their research. The project is now and work reports will be sent directly in two different technological devel- to the communications and informa- purposes.” opment phases. tion node in the museum. They will also be available online. The specific ISEA2004 MAKROLAB- UNTP setup will consist of establish- > makrolab.ljudmila.org/ 20 HEL SARAI EXPLORES URBAN MEDIA CULTURE AT STREET AND CODE LEVEL

New media initiative Sarai (Delhi, India) engages with contemporary Indian urban media culture on both street and code levels. They have also become a central node in the net- worked field of new media theory and cultural practice.

At ISEA2004, Sarai hosts a South Asia network meeting on the ISEA2004 Cruise, pres- ents an installation in Tallinn, and addresses the relationship of intellectual property and Asian media histories in a panel discussion during the Helsinki conference, in which Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Sarai is an invited speaker.

Sarai is South Asia’s first pub- and becomes publicly avail- that facilitate creative dialogue lic initiative on urban culture, able knowledge that can be relating to subjects as diverse media and the manner in which accessed through the website as media, urban life, commu- technology has transformed > www.sarai.net. Regu- nity radio, information commu- daily life.The programme was lar seminars, workshops and nication technology, cinema- established in 2000 by the Cen- conferences are also part of tography and Indic language tre for the Study of Develop- Sarai’s ongoing contribution to computing. ing Societies, Delhiwith the the public domain. In addition, aim of creatively engaging and Sarai designs and produces Network with Sarai on intervening in the complex, print publications in different ISEA2004 CRUISE multifaceted and hybrid forms formats, including the theme- Sarai hosts a network meeting of new urban media culture in based annual Sarai Reader (in on the ISEA2004 Networked India. The scholars, research- English) and Deewan-e-Sarai Experience Cruise on August ers and practitioners at Sarai (in Hindi). The publications fo- 16th. are involved in specific commu- cus on contemporary debates, nity-based social interventions, ideas and intellectual engage- Participants should bring in as well as ongoing experimen- ments that link the discourses their experiences of protocols tal collaborative projects in the of media, urban culture and of exchange, communication areas of urban studies, digital digital practice. and recognition contributing to art, free/open source software, making collaborative frame- language, popular culture and Sarai is committed to research works between various initia- intellectual property law. and collaboration with institu- tives. The meeting is an oppor- tions, and to building sustain- tunity for groups and people to The core research focus is able research communities articulate and respond to vari- on cutting-edge new me- through short-term annual ous possibilities and tensions dia practices and technolo- independent research fellow- that reside in exchanges in the gies and their relationship to ships and student stipendships. networked environment. diverse communities. Sarai’s In addition, the Sarai website research is digitally archived, hosts over 20 discussion lists MONICA NARULA

THE REMAINS OF TOMORROWS PAST

SPECULATIONS ON THE ANTIQUITY OF NEW MEDIA PRACTICE IN SOUTH ASIA

Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Sarai-CSDS and the Raqs THE NETWORK OF Media Collective, Delhi, gives a keynote presentation in the ISEA2004 HELSINKI conference Histories of the NO-DES INSTALLATION New programme. “...Nodes, when written, perhaps erroneously, as ‘no-des’ gives rise to an intriguing hybrid Sengupta’s presentation offers enquiries and specula- English/Eastern-Hindi neologism, a companion to the old words - ‘des’, and ‘par-des’. ‘Des’ tions concerning about the possibility of constructing (in some eastern dialects of Hindi, spoken by many migrants to Delhi) is simply homeland or alternative, non-transatlantic histories of ‘new’ media native place; ‘par-des’ suggests exile, and an alien land. ‘No-des’ is that site or way of being, practice. He is attempting to situate ‘new media’ and in ‘des’ or in ‘par-des’, where territory and anxieties about belonging, don’t go hand in hand. information practices within the context of the nine- Nodes in a digital domain are No-des....” teenth century. Furthermore, his talk traces continu- RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, 2002 ities in ways of communicating on to the present reality of South Asia. The talk searches “for compasses that Sarai presents an interactive installation as part of the ISEA2004 Tallinn exhibition programme can enable a truly global map of different new media under the theme Geopolitics of Media. The installation draws upon contemporary new media practices and forms”. practices in South Asia, which are marked by improvisation, contestation and ‘street’ creativity, and are closely tied to the geopolitics of global information and cultural flows. These new media Shuddhabrata Sengupta is a media practitioner and practices are part of the contested and entangled matrices of transmissions that connect vari- writer based in Delhi, India. He is (with Jeebesh Bagchi ous nodes in the continuous construction of global circuits of images, sounds and information. & Monica Narula) a member of the Raqs Media Collec- tive > www.raqsmediacollective.net and one of the ini- The title of the work refers to the tension that emerges when the rules of the game are disrupt- tiators of Sarai > www.sarai.net. ed or altered by various nodes in this networked reality. HEL 21 PLAYING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

Throughout history inhabitants of the northern hemisphere have reported strange sounds heard during the most intense auroral displays - just think of the Norwe- gian sagas about the song of Valkyries. These sounds have posed a mystery for science; the crackling, sizzling, swishing, rustling, humming sounds which are dif- ficult to liken to any other sound in nature have until recently lacked any physical theory able to explain how they are created.

Petri Kuljuntausta’s Northern Lights concert presented in the Kiasma Theatre (20:00, Friday 20 August) is a vivid collaboration between art and science, recy- cling the original field recordings of the phenomena as well as processing aurora borealis sounds. A continuous dialogue between nature’s own soundscapes and their digitally altered, urban noise-art substitutes will be created on stage.

The collaboration between the composer Petri Kuljuntausta, a key figure in Finn- ish electronic music, and scientist Unto K. Laine began in 2001. Unto Laine (Hel- ARTISTS sinki University of Technology) was working on a research project which aimed to “Actually, HEL record aurora borealis sounds for the first time when the fascinated sound artist & SPEAKERS Kuljuntausta contacted him with an extraordinary idea about creating a composi- the Sun tion based on these sounds from space. Together they claim to have discovered is like a Keynote speakers: Wendy Hui perhaps the biggest instrument of our planet. Kyong Chun (US), Matthew Fuller (UK/NL), Erkki Huhtamo giant-size sound (FI/US), Machiko Kusahara (JP), Petri Kuljuntausta describes the sounds of aurora borealis as already being elec- Michel Maffesoli (FR), Shud- generator!” dhabrata Sengupta (IN). Partici- tronic music: “Electronic music is based on electrons, and the same electrons are pants: Stefan Agamanolis (US/ the reason for the Aurora sounds too. Actually, the Sun is like a giant-size sound IE), Masayuki Akamatsu (JP), Jan-Erik Andersson (FI), Ian generator!”, he says, preparing the ISEA2004 crowd for a hypnotic and breathtak- Andrews (AU), Ieva Auzina (LV), ing experience. Jeebesh Bagchi (IN), Richard Barbrook (UK), Natasha Barrett (UK/NO), Frauke Behrendt (DE), For live sound manipulation Kuljuntausta will use only real-time digital sound pro- ana betancour (SE), Matthew cessors.The video director Sami van Ingen will complete the experience by creat- Biedermann (US), Joëlle Bitton (FR/IE), Joline Blais (US), Julian ing a visual element, infusing disturbances on the aurora video clips recorded by Bleecker (US), Clara Boj Tovar Unto K. Laine using filters and analogue video feedback. (ES), Monika Bokiniec (PL), Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US/IE), Axel Bruns (AU), Andres Bur- MARIA CANDIA bano (CO), Chris Byrne (UK), Lin Yew Cheang (NZ), Marek Cholo- niewski (PL), Seth Cluett (US), Sarah Cook (UK), Christoph Cox (US), David Crane (US), Rebecca Cummins (US), Nina Czegledy RADIO ASTRONOMY (CA), Adrian David Cheok (SG), LISTEN TO THE STARS & PLANETS

Radio Astronomy is an installation broadcasting sounds from space live, on air and online, at the Observatory of URSA Astronomical Association in Kaivopuisto, Helsinki. The installation is a collaboration between the art/science project r a d i o q u a l i a and radio telescopes located throughout the world.

You can listen to Radio Astron- tive, prompting comparisons er in 1998. Since then they have omy either by visiting the in- with avant-garde music and been working with hybridiz- stallation or tuning into the on- electronic sound art. They are ing radio and the internet, and line or radio broadcasts. What sounds that truly broaden the exploring alternative ways to you will hear is the acoustic horizon, showing that space, use their carrier mediums for output of radio telescopes which many think of as silent, is broadcasting. – signals converted to sound in fact a rich acoustic environ- waves using software created ment full of beautiful sounds r a d i o q u a l i a are collabo- by New Zealanders Adam Hyde and ear-splitting noise, as well rating with the Windward Com- and Honor Harger of r a d i o q as information about the past munity College Radio Obser- u a l i a. and present, near and far. vatory in Hawaii, USA, NASA’s Radio Jove network, the Vent- On any given occasion, visitors The Radio Astronomy installa- spils International Radio As- can expect to hear the fluctu- tion is a literal interpretation tronomy Centre in Latvia and ating sounds of radiation from of the term “radio astronomy”. the cultural centre RIXC from the Sun, activity from far-off Thinking of telescopes as radio Riga, Latvia. The research pulsars or other astronomical receivers and planets as radio phase of Radio Astronomy is phenomena such as the planet stations constantly transmit- supported by the Daniel Lan- Jupiter and its interaction with ting information about them- glois Foundation. its moons - a most interest- selves, r a d i o q u a l i a are ing soundscape because of the expanding the concept of radio > www.radio-astronomy.net vast electro-magnetic storms and provoking thoughts about in the region. the incredible possibilities of the almost “magical” commu- Many of the sounds emitted by nication media, radio waves. the celestial bodies are fasci- nating from both an aesthet- r a d i o q u a l i a was founded ic and conceptual perspec- by Adam Hyde and Honor Harg- MARIA CANDIA 22 HEL

EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE SOMEBODY!

fluID is a multi-user computer explore the changing identi- you start as a perfect nobody. game about identities. You can ties of Tallinn, Helsinki and You have no face, no name, no discover your identity, change other cities through a virtual clothes, no sex, not a single your identity, steal or borrow cityscape. thing to differentiate you from another person’s identity, de- other players. stroy identities or create new What is an identity? It is the ones from scratch. idea that single parts belong So now’s your chance! Every- together. It is the idea that one’s created equal – try to be Do cities have identities as your past, your present and someone! well? Mathias Fuchs and Syl- your future all belong to one via Eckermann, developers of single owner, called: YOU. Of fluidID believe that cities have course this is an illusion. You fluid identities. They trans- are not the person you used to form Gilles Deleuze’s question be. You differ from what you LIGHT RAIN “what is the identity of a par- were yesterday. You with the ticular city, a person, a face?” passing of every second. into an artistic context, which fluID is part of the ISEA2004 ex- Light Rain is a fusion of two works, Rebecca Cummins’ The is a gaming context as well. As The fluID game puts you into hibition in the Museum of Con- Rainbow Machine (1998) and Paul DeMarinis’ RainDance users, participants are able to a terrain of identities where temporary Art Kiasma. (1998), that explore the acoustic and optical phenomenal properties of water droplets. Do you need a break from the daily mobile routine? Surround your- In Light Rain a stream of water falling from a faucet, though self with soothing space. Simply press your pocket-sized BuBL de- it looks continuous, is actually a series of distinct droplets vice to release a bubble of silence and evaporate all phone signals falling at regular intervals. Sound vibrations can influence up to three meters around. Inside your personal BuBL space, you’ll the structure of the stream, producing distinct visual pat- feel pleasantly isolated, even in a crowded place. terns. What is more amazing is that these patterns pre- serve aspects of the sound signal itself, such that when the Dutch artists Taco Stolk and Arthur Elsenaar are seriously irritat- drops fall on a resonating surface recognizable melodies ed by the use of mobile phones in public areas. They are really not are produced. interested in overhearing your argument with your boyfriend or lis- tening to your irritating ringing tone. In order to protect themselves Like its predecessor RainDance, Light Rain uses this phe- from this unwanted interference in their private domain, they invent- nomenon to play musical melodies on spectators’ umbrel- ed the BuBL Space. las. The BuBL Space project has raised interesting questions about the The rainbow has been the subject of potent legends on ev- fragile balance between our individual, private domain - including ery continent, and the inspiration for fundamental stud- the freedom to act the way want - and public interests: apparently ies in optics. The spectra of the rainbow are virtual images we cannot even decide what enters or does not enter our private caused by the refraction of light in water droplets at an space. angle between 40–42 degrees measured from the viewer’s eye; move and it moves with you. With early morning and late afternoon light, the rainbows appear high in the sky; at mid-day, circular spectra form on the ground. BuBL Space is part of the ISEA2004 exhibition in the Museum of Con- temporary Art Kiasma. RELEASE SILENCE THE In this literally “immersive” installation you can let the sunlight fall on your back and follow your shadow into the rainbow,or intercept the water streams with your umbrella to initiate surprising sound effects ZONA DE RECREO

Diego Dias’ interactive instal- lation Zona de Recreo is based on the classic children’s game known as “Balancing”. The installation consists of an in- teractive multi-user interface system that controls a 3D world in real-time.

Dias’ work speaks about the abandonment of urban play- ground areas as places for en- tertainment and social interplay for young people and children, Light Rain is part of the ISEA2004 exhibition in the Museum in favour of virtual spaces of Contemporary Art Kiasma. for social relations: network games and chat rooms. HEL 23 MOBILE CONTENT & URBAN SURGERY ISEA2004 HELSINKI WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES

A series of workshops and residencies have been developed to ensure sustainability and provide opportunities for longer term exchange and a deeper engagement with commu- nities in Helsinki, Tallinn and across the Nordic and Baltic regions.

Gustaff H. Iskandar, Pumpung penhagen will run workshops other mobile phone content. EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE SOMEBODY! Wratmoko, R.E. Hartanto and with children in the Kontupiste Examples of how new genera- ARTISTS “Examples HEL Wahyu Sulasmoro from the community centre in Helsinki, tions use technology to express & SPEAKERS Bandung Center for New Media using mobile and SMS tech- their creativity will be present- of how new Arts in Indonesia will develop nologies to explore the ideas of ed in and around Helsinki. (CONTINUED) Bandung - Helsinki: City Sur- young people who have grown generations gery whilst they are undertak- up with these technologies. The Nordic Cultural Fund has use technology Kuljuntausta (FI), Sami Laakso ing a six-week residency with provided support for touring (FI), Mari Laaniste (EE), Valen- to express their tin Lacambre (FR), Unto Laine HIAP (Helsinki International Marcus Neustetter from the workshops in Norway, Den- (FI), Nick Lambert (GB), karen Artists Programme). City Sur- Trinity Sessions in Johanes- mark and Sweden. Sabine creativity will be lancel (NL/NL), Leevi Lehto (FI), gery is a series of research burg, South Africa will also be Seymour, the Wearable Experi- sophea lerner (FI), Katherine presented in and Liberovskaya (CA), San Yen Liew studies about media and cit- working with young people at ence International Program- (NZ), Tilman Linden (DE), Mikko ies. The city is observed as a Kontupiste, combining low and ming Committee member, will around Helsinki.” Lindholm (FI), Tomas Linell (SE), Kristian Lukic (CE), Hermen series of complex structures. high tech, as well as old and be working with Artnode in Maat (NL), nathalie magnan City spaces, not merely build- new media in a workshop titled Copenhagen, for example, on a (FR), ranjit makkuni (IN), Tuters ing blocks but also crowded Playing Creative Games With workshop that is intended as Marc (CA), Marie Markman (DK), Nathan Martin (US), Nicole with noises and activities, have Technology. Youngmi Kim from a starting point for network- Martin (DE), Ahasiw Maskegon- forced us to apply strategic Korea will even run workshops ing artists interested in RFID Iskwew (CA), Catherine Mason (GB), Michael Mateas (US), Ar- improvisation as a method of on the ferry for children travel- and related technologies. The min Medosch (AT/ UK), Masanori survival. ling with their parents on the workshop will be conceptually MIZUNO (JP), Nick Montfort (US), Lisa Moren (US), Kiyofumi cruise. focussed on investigating what MOTOYAMA (JP), Gunalan Nada- Workshops will also be held technologies are available, rajan (SG), Peter Sandor Nagy with young people in Helsinki What does your mobile do for developing prototypes and pro- (HU/ES), Monica Narula (IN), Iliyana Nedkova (BG/UK), norie and Tallinn, providing access you? - a workshop by the- viding a platform for ongoing neumark (AU), Marcus Neustet- programmes and reaching out phone-book Limited - provides exchange. ter (ZA), Phill Niblock (US), Anne Nigten (NL), Henrik Niinimäki to the next generation of me- an opportunity to discover how (FI), Thomas Noesler (DE), Björn dia makers. The artists group simple it is to make your own AMANDA MCDONALD Norberg (SE), Karri Ojanen (FI), Fælles Grønt Byrum from Co- wireless internet sites and CROWLEY Pauline Oliveros (US), Marisa Olson (US), Markus Ort (CH/DE), Ed Osborn (DE/US), Maciej Ozog (PL/PL), Susanna Paasonen (FI), Scott Pagano (US), Mark Palmer (UK), Aris Papathéodorou (FR), Lotta Partanen (FI), Andrew Pa- terson (FI/GB), Christiane Paul (US), Ola Pehrson (SE), Marko GIGANTIC VJ INVASION Peljhan (SI), Teijo Pellinen (FI), Riikka Pelo (FI), Simon Penny SUSPENSION, ALGORITHMS AND CUT-UPS (AU/US), Ken Perlin (US), Paul ON THE FLOW SCREEN Phillips (UK), Bundith Phun- sombatlert (TH), Kathleen Pirrie Adams (CA), Fee Plumley (UK), Osetya Polat (TR), Anita Pozna (HU), Julian Priest (UK), Miller As part of the Helsinki club programme, ISEA2004 will Puckette (US), Mika Raento (FI), Amanda Ramos (US/CA), Mette team up with the NuSpirit Helsinki collective and their Ramstadt Thomsen (AT), Roger minifestival FLOW04. The 2-day dive into urban music Reynolds (US), Axel Roch (GB), Nis Rømer (DK), Soh Yeong Roh ranging from Jazzanova to Ty will also host a 40 m2 (KR), Stephanie Rothenberg jumbo screen, onto which ISEA2004 will beam its own (US), Teri Rueb (US), Nis Rømer flow of visuals. (DK), Warren Sack (US), Robert Sakrowski (DE), Mikael Scherdin (SE), Trebor Scholz (US), karla ISEA2004 will stir the FLOW screen with image shakers such Schuch Brunet (ES), Renn Scott (CA), Bill Seaman (US), Shud- as Matthew Biederman aka DelRay (US) and Olivier Sorrentino dhabrata Sengupta (IN), Leslie aka VJ Anyone (UK). Maneuvering from new media to cinema, Sharpe (US/CA), Jeffrey Shaw from live art to collaborations with top djs (Ken Ishii, Carl Craig, Jocelyn Brown, Darren Emerson), these artists will explore the (AU), Mehmet Sinan (TR/US), Debra Singer (US), Diana Slat- gigantic screen with solid state of the art techniques. tery (US), Joel Slayton (US), Rasa Smite (LV), Keir Smith (AU), Adam Somlai-Fischer (HU/ For ISEA 2004, VJ Anyone will deliver a special pre-launch version of The Suspension of Displeasure, a 60-minute video projec- SE), Lucia Sommer (US), Olivier tion concept focused on hedonism. The Suspension of Displeasure aims to provide an environment free of pain and alienation, Sorrentino (UK), Yvonne Spiel- mann (DE), Robert Steijn (NL), from calm and soothing visual patterns to beat shifting color fields and complex figurative layers. Sven Sterken (BE), Gary Stewart (UK), Taco Stolk (NL), Mirjam In addition, live cameras will provide additional video sources, filming specific areas of the room, where members of the audience Struppek (DE), Wahyu Sulas- moro (ID), Tomaz Sustar (HU), can step in a spotlight and be seen onscreen, this way engaging in a visual dialogue with the visuals, or simply indulging in narcis- Yoshihisa Suzuki (jp), Heidi Tikka sistic delight, looking at their larger than life image evolving amongst the video projections. (FI), Carey Toane (CA/FI), Georg Tremmel (UK), Mark Tribe (US), Carla van Beers (NL), Sami van Anyone himself has been part of many new media festivals, and is the promoter of VETO - a series of VJ battles based in Turn- Ingen (FI), Yael Eylat Van-Essen mills, London, curator of VJ CULTURE screenings for VJ productions at London’s ICA and columnist for DJ Magazine. (IL), Antoine Verhaverbeke (FI), Stephen Vitiello (US), Emina Vis- nic; (HR), Frans Vogelaar (NL), DelRay explores themes of “cut-up” electronic image delivery, media saturation and data systems. For FLOW, DelRay will cre- Jill Walker (AU/NO), Fannuel Wallah (ZW), Noah Wardrip- ate his algorithmic image processing in interaction with the stream of visual stimuli and street art taking place at the club venue. Fruin (US), Laetitia Wilson (US), DelRay will be coming to Helsinki with the Projekt Atol and the rx:tx crew. He is also a regular VJ guest at the Betalounge, Club Pumpung Wratmoko (ID), Guan Six and the Rx and Luggagestore galleries in San Francisco. Hong Yeoh (NZ), Pei Xiang (US)

FLOW04 Sat 21 Aug, 1-7 pm, VR Makasiinit. Free admission. For club programme, see > www.flowfestival.com. 24

PARTNERS M-CULT CENTRE FOR NEW

main organizer: MEDIA CULTURE

ISEA2004 main organiser m-cult is a Helsinki-based research, develop- ment and production centre for new media culture founded in 2000. Aiming at sustainable development of practices and policies of new media culture, m-cult works to create productive and critical, multidisciplinary encounters ISEA2004 TALLINN main organizer: between actors in culture, technology and society.

m-cult’s research-driven activities focus on social and cultural innovations in urban, wireless and community media, and on developing information infra- structures, participatory cross-media and open source tools.

m-cult has been active in policy and competence development in the Finnish, organizing partners: Nordic and international fields of new media culture. The centre maintains databases, disseminates information and organises international events re- lating to new media arts, culture and research. CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ESTONIA > www.m-cult.org > www.m-cult.net

acknowledgements:

under the patronage of UNESCO INTER-SOCIETY WELCOMES THE 12TH EDITION OF ISEA funders: The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) welcomes the 12th edition of the ISEA symposium and is proud to celebrate ISEA2004 on the tenth anniversary of the first Scandinavian ISEA event.

ISEA is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academ- ic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

Cultural Endowment of Estoni Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia The Inter-Society coordinates the continuing occurrence of the ISEA Symposia, con- sidered by many to be the most significant international ‘academic’ conference and showcase of electronic art in the world. Each issue is presented in a different loca- tion around the globe. ISEA also publishes a newsletter, hosts an online archive and exchange environment and co-sponsors events.

ISEA has previously taken place in Utrecht, Groningen, Sydney, Minneapolis, Hel- ISEA2004 is supported by: sinki, Montreal, Rotterdam, Chicago, -, Paris and Nagoya. The 13th edition, ISEA2006, will take place in San Jose, California, USA in August 2006. Steve Dietz, former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will act as ISEA2006 Symposium Director.

The ISEA Board and Angela Plohman, Coordinating Director, look forward to meet- ing you all at ISEA2004.

Additional venue partners Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum; Tallinn City Gallery; Sally Studio; NINA CZEGLEDY Viru Centre; Port of Tallinn. Helsinki: Centre for Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy; Chair, ISEA Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre; Ursa Astronomical Association; Artists’ Association MUU / MUU Gallery; Hungarian Academic and Cultural Centre Helsinki / Gallery U. ISEA board: Peter Anders, Wim van der Plas, Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Guna- lan Nadarajan, Anne Nigten, Julianne Pierce, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Mark Tribe Residency, touring and other associated programme Tallinn: looming.org, kunst.ee, Share Joy Helsinki: HIAP (Helsinki International Artists Programme); Finnish National > http://www.isea-web.org Board of Education; PixelACHE festival; Helsinki Festival; The Finnish Museum of Photog- raphy; Flow04, Nuspirit Helsinki; Academy of Fine Arts; Kontupiste; Viikki Teacher Train- ing School. Mariehamn: The Municipality of Mariehamn. Stockholm: Fylkingen; CRAC (Creative Room for Art and Computing). Riga: Centre for New Media Culture,RIXC. Bergen: BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. Copenhagen: Danish Artnode Foundation. Mon- tréal: MUTEK.

ISEA2004 is also supported by Arts Council of England, Centre Culturel Français. Tallinn: IM Arvutid; City of Tallinn; Forum Cinemas; Viru Centre; Club BonBon; Estonian Academy of Music; MESS; HULA. Helsinki: The Finnish Institute in London; Finnish Swedish Cul- tural Fund; Swedish Finnish Foundation; Goethe-Institut Helsinki; Austrian Embassy in Finland; Canadian Embassy in Finland; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City council for Culture of the City of Ljubljana, Mobitel d.d. Ljubljana Finland’s Embassy, 25

ISEA2004 Main office International Programming Committee: Tapio Mäkelä, programme chair, ISEA2004 Amanda McDonald Crowley, executive producer, Histories of the new Interfacing Sound ISEA2004 Chair: Tapio Mäkelä, programme chair of ISEA2004. Chair: Tapio Mäkelä Minna Tarkka (m-cult), advisor Researcher, m-cult, Centre for new media culture, Chris Csikszentmihályi, professor, Culture Computing, MIT Medi- Mirja Hallivuori (m-cult), finance officer Media Studies, University of Turku, Finland. alab, Cambridge, USA. María Fernández, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rasa Smite, co-director, RixC, Riga, Latvia Media, marketing, publishing Department of the History of Art, Cornell University, Michael Century, Chair, Arts Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Mika Minetti, marketing & communications manager, USA/Nicaragua. Institute, Troy, USA ISEA2004 Erkki Huhtamo, Professor, Dept. of Design and Media Norie Neumark, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Production, Paulina Ahakos, marketing consultant Arts, UCLA, USA University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Niina Bell, press officer Andres Burbano, Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Maija Handover, PR consultant, UK Bogota, Columbia. Naomi Matsunaga, Architect and Theorist, Tokyo, Ja- Geopolitics of Media Lars Relander, web developer Chair: Mare Tralla Tuomo Tammenpää, ISEA2004 AD pan. Ana Peraica, freelance curator and theorist, Zagreb, Eric Kluitenberg, Media Theorist, De Balie - Centre for Culture and Juuso Koponen, tabloid layout Politics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Sami Smith, catalogue design Croatia. PhD researcher, School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fatima Lasay, Assistant professor of new media art, University of the Philippines, Quezon Citay, Philippines. ISEA2004 Helsinki / Ferry Nancy Adajania, Cultural theorist, editor of Art India, Mumbay, In- Hanna Harris, main producer Wearable Experience dia. Maria Candia, production & pr assistant Chair: Mare Tralla, Associate Professor, e-media cen- Artur Matuck, Professor, School of Communications and Arts, Netta Norro, production assistant, ferry tre, Estonian Academy of Arts University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Tuomas Finne, production assistant, Helsinki Sabine Seymour, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Moon- dial Inc, Design Fellow, Parsons School of Design, Suvi Alanko, production assistant, workshops&touring Open Source and software as culture Leena Gävert, conference coordinator USA / Austria. Iliyana Nedkova, Associate Curator, Stills, Edinburgh, Chair: Graham Harwood, Independent Artist and researcher, Lon- Tea Stolt and Severi Glanville, technical managers don, UK. Pete Nordlund, technical consultant, ferry PhD Candidate in Digital Arts Curatorship, Liverpool School of Art & Design, John Moores University, UK Anne Nigten, Director, V2_labs, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Sarah Steeves, programme assistant Juha Huuskonen, Independent Artist, director of Pixelache Festi- Robin Simpson, programme assistant Lisa Moren, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Univer- sity of Maryland, Baltimore, USA val, Helsinki, Finland Edward James, production assistant intern Miller Puckette, Professor, CRCA, University of California, San Di- Mika Raunio, IT support ego, USA. Perttu Rastas (KIASMA), exhibition co-ordinator Wireless Experience Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Professor, Head of Electronic Media De- Kati Kivinen (KIASMA), curatorial assistant Chair: Tapio Mäkelä partment, Lodz University, Poland. Virve Sutinen, (KIASMA), Theatre manager Machiko Kusahara, Associate Professor of Media Art, Marja Salaspuro, (KIASMA) outdoor stage coordinator Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Elukka Eskelinen (LUME), conference manager Japan. Critical Interaction Design Samppa Murtomäki (LUME), conference production Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Chair: Minna Tarkka, Director, m-cult, centre for new media cul- manager LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore. ture, Helsinki, Finland. Matt Locke, Director, Creative R&D, BBC New Media, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Industrial designer MFA, PHD in mars .04, In- teractive Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. ISEA2004 Tallinn London, UK. Eunhye Chung, researcher, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Paul Dourish, Associate Professor, School of Information and Mare Tralla, local programme chair, ISEA2004 Tallinn Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA/Ireland. Ando Keskküla, advisor South Korea. Nalini Kotamraju, PHD candidate, Sociology, Univer- IGreg Garvey, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Interac- Liisa Pakosta, main producer tive Digital Design, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, USA. Marge Paas, communications manager sity of California at Berkeley, USA/Curacao. Anders Kurg, conference co-ordinator Sirje Helme, exhibition co-ordinator Networked Experience Piret Lindpere, exhibition production assistant Co-chairs: Tapio Mäkelä and Mare Tralla Reelika Rahu, production assistant Geert Lovink, Media theorist, Queensland, Australia Piibe Piirma, assistant Steve Dietz, Curator, USA Andres Lõo, club & live events co-ordinator Cecilia Andersson, curator, FACT, Liverpool, UK ISEA2004 merchandising in cooperation with Good- Tanel Veenre, Fashion Show co-ordinator Rejane Spitz, Associate Professor, Department of Art game catalogues, proceedings, t-shirts and a range Eilve Manglus, exhibition production assistant and Design, Rio de Janeiro Catholic University, Brazil. Annika Kaljurand, assistant Irina Aristarkhova, Asssistant Professor, Cyberculture of interesting memorabilia! Mart Normet and New Media Art, at the National University of Sin- Aino Saar gapore, Singapore / Russia. Janar Puuram Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at > http://www.isea2004.net/goodgame Herki Sulo, technical support the Whitney Museum of American Art, lecturer, School Lauri Korts-Pärn, IT support of Visual Arts, New York, USA. Külli Mariste Peter Hagdahl, Professor, Royal University College of Hanno Soans, city programme assitant Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. 26

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IN COLLABORATION WITH TALLINN VENUE MAP WELCOME TO ISEA2004 TALLINN Arrival by bus Practical information DOCK 14 Buses, trolley buses, trams operate SEA1 INTERFACING SOUND CRUISE, SUNDAY AUG 15 Arrival to Tallinn – Ülemiste Airport International bus lines arrive at and regularly from 6 to 24. The price is Live PA DJ VJ Meeting/discussion HARBOUR A,B,C leave from Tallinn’s Central Bus for news stands is 10 EEK or from the LEGEND Tallinn Airport Station, located in the city centre. driver for 15 EEK. You can buy a 10- HARBOUR D Lennujaama tee 2, 11101 Tallinn, Estonia Tallinn Central Bus Station, ticket booklet for 70 EEK. LIVE MUSIC & DJS Tel. +372 605 8888; Lastekodu 46; tel. +372 680 0900 www.tallinn-airport.ee Taxis From the bus station to the city Taxi ranks are located at major 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 From Airport toTallinn City Centre bus Take tram nr. 2 or 4, bus nr. 17, 17A intersections and in front of the larger line no 2 (travel time ca 15 min) or 23. hotels. The starting price is 12-15 EEK Casio Supermario Scanner Future DJ & Charles Kriel UK Metropolitan Taxi from the bus station to the city and the price per km is approx. 7 EEK. Nova AU and Other Golden 52 Spaces UK Fuchs-Eckerman UK/AT Rottermann´s Salt Storage, Ahtri street 2 Arrival to Tallinn – Port of Tallinn centre costs about 40 EEK. The minimal cost may vary from 35 Classics AT to 50 EEK. Always make sure that the Nightclub BonBon, Port of Tallinn meter is turned on. Contraband, Sankari Zarkus nine2five nine2five nine2five nine2five nine2five nine2five DJs Mere pst. 6E VISUALS BY Sadama 25, 15051 Tallinn; By Train Stowaway Lounge US Karaoke FI Poussa FI Executives FI HetiKohta FI Executives FI LBJ FI Infekto FI FI Club Stardust Sally Art Studio, Uus street 16 Tel. +372 631 8550; fax +372 631 8166 Medical Service AMFIBIO (FI) W/ CARHARTT The Museum of Applied E-mail: portoftallinn@portotallinn. The train between Tallinn and Moscow In case of accident or illness, call 112. Art and Design, Lai street 17 com; www.portoftallinn.com; www. goes every day. Trains to St. Petersburg Welcoming Mukul UK Nicky Rx:tx Puna Mutek Dr.Praxil Mutek Mutek SkoltZ_ Mutek Akufen Felix Kubin DE Jean-Louis FCOM Borgia Ginz AU Music for Riviera Pool Viru Centre, Viru Square 4/6 portoftallinn.com/passengers/index. go only on even days. The railway Tourist information session Sangiamo FI Syndicate SI & DJ Neurom CA Deadbeat CA Kolgen CA Huhta SE Fabrice Lig FR shtml station is situated near the Old Town Tallinn Tourist Information Centre Pregnancy CA Estonian Academy of Arts, and harbour. Niguliste 2 / Kullassepa 4 Tartu mnt. 1 Ferry terminals are located in the city Railway Station: Toompuiestee 37; Tel. +372 645 7777, fax +372 645 7778 centre, just a bit outside of the Old Town tel. +372 615 6851; www.evrekspress.ee; [email protected] Multikultuurimaja, Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi str 24 area. [email protected] www.tourism.tallinn.ee SEA2 NETWORKED EXPERIENCE CRUISE, MONDAY AUG 16 Tallinn City gallery, Harju street 13 From the port to the city Bus nr. 2 drives from 7:00 until midnight From the railway station to the city take ISEA 2004 TALLINN OFFICE Tallinn Art Hall & Art Hall Gallery, Vabaduse square 6 between the airport, the city centre and tram No 1 or 2 or walk just 10 minutes At Estonian Academy of Arts LIVE MUSIC & DJS the A-terminal every 20 minutes, price to the Old Town. www.artun.ee Cinema Kosmos, Pärnu mnt. 45 10-15 EEK. Tartu mnt 1 Taxi from the terminal to the city centre Room No 119B 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 Polymer Culture Factory, Ülase str 16 costs min 35 EEK. Tel. +372 626 7378 Kino Automat Apocalypse Pink Twins FI Monoton AT rx:tx rx:tx–Random rx:tx–Sound rx:tx Rediscovered FI/UK Later AU Scanner UK Logic SI Meccano RU Dromoff RU Metropolitan HELSINKI VENUE MAPS ISEA2004 HELSINKI ISEA2004 HELSINKI > ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE > EVENTS 19-22 AUG rx:tx Fylkingen: Johannes Bergmark & Sören Runolf, Daniel Muu Gallery FERRY IN MARIEHAMN HARBOUR 19–23 Octex SI Rozenhall, Lina Selander, Per Åhlund & Fredrik Olofsson SE Club Stardust Flow04 AIRPORT > CITY CENTRE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ADDITIONAL VENUES DMZ: Sailing for Geeks wi-fi performance, city Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Vilunki 3000 & Infini (Yoshio Aeiou UK tours and more. Check programme details at Sam & Gigi FI Toinen Borzin & FCOM Riviera Pool Bus lines 615 and 615T from platform Media Centre Lume Academy of Fine Arts Pl ayboy-Marse Machida) JP Info (deck 5). linja FI Mukul UK/FI Jori Hulkkonen FI Gallery U 1B to City Centre, Railway Station. Hämeentie 135 C, Arabia Kaikukatu 4 (FI/SE) 3,40 eur. Bus lines 71, 73B, 68 Sibelius Academy, Centre for Music & Finnair Bus to City Terminal (when Registration begins at 12:00. Tram line 6 < FOR THE EARLY BIRDS (AT RIVIERA POOL) 1200–1400 Abflug DJs FI 1400–1500 Joachim Montessuis LIVE FR going to Hotel Arthur). 4,90 eur. Technology Yellow Line Airport Taxi (1–2 persons) Bus lines 71, 73B, 68 Media Lab, University of Art and INSTALLATIONS FERRY TV ca . 20 eur. Tram line 6 Design (see Media Centre LUME) CONFERENCECONFERENCE, MONDAY AUG 16 Central railway station Taxi Call 0100-0700 Ca. 30 eur. Hämeentie 135 C > Anatomic’s triadic reciprocality > AV-Arkki presents VIEW (FI) lab (Guy van Belle, Sher Doruff, NL) > Media Activists from the Sub-empire Goethe-Institut Helsinki VENUES ON THE MAP NIFCA, Suomenlinna Fortress Island > Drift (Alex Davies, AU) (Ugo Vallauri, Matteo Pasquinelli, Luca 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 ISEA2004 CRUISE Suomenlinna B 28 > Façade (Michael Mateas, US) Martinazzoli, IT) Silja Line (Olympiaterminaali) DEPARTURE - HARBOUR Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Ferry from Kauppatori market square > Float (Tuomo Tammenpää, Tamas > Northern Shipping Company (Konrad Panel: The List Poster: Translocal Social Networks rx:tx Mannerheiminaukio 2 Szakal, FI/HU) Becker, AU) Metropolitan URSA observatiory, Kaivopuisto Silja Line Ursa Observatory The mailing list phenomena Networks of Resistance Dromoff RU Olympiaterminaali/Eteläranta (South MUU gallery Kaivopuisto Park > ICOLS Strategy Defence and Arms > Pavilion Projects: Assume Vivid Conference venue harbour) Nervanderinkatu 10 Tram lines 3T/3B Fair (INT) Astro Focus, Maryse Lavirière, Tasman Artist presentations TBC Media Centre Lume Tram lines 3T/3B/1A > Ideal Word (Enrique Radigales, Richardson, CA/US Flow04 / Makasiinit Koneisto, Kaapelitehdas Gemma Deza, ES) Club Stardust Check-in 12:00 - 15:00! Mannerheimintie 13 Bus lines 65A/66A/20/21V > Lifeboat (Nigel Helyer, Sarah Jane WORKSHOPS Tram line 8 Pell, Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts, Stuart > Childrens’ workshop Between the Artist presentations TBC Networking Meetings TBC Gallery U Metro Ruoholahti Frames(Yongmi Kim, KR) TALLINN > HELSINKI Kaisaniemenkatu 10 Hodgetts, AU) Conf Tosca deck 8 Fast ferries Aug 19: > Machine Therapy (Kelly Dobson, US) > Multi-User Publishing Environment Tallinn 7:30 - 9:10 Helsinki Sibelius Academy, Centre for Music & NOT SO FAR! > Narcissus (Robbie Tingey, James - StoryMupe workshop (Nokia Research Artist presentations TBC Interfacing Social Networking Networking Tallinn 10:15 – 11:55 Helsinki Technology > Venues outside the city centre Gibson, UK) Center/HIIT, FI) Networked Sound and Image Fictions session Asia session NZ Tallinn 14:00 – 15:40 Helsinki Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9 > Sailing for Geeks (Nathalie Magnan, > Pioneer DVDvj workshop with Charles Conf Salome deck 8 Helsinki University of Technology Kriel (UK) Valentin Lacambre, Inter-Society Central railway station, Kaivokatu 1 Otaniemi Frauke Behrendt, FR) Artist presentations TBC Networking Networking French Tourist information Bus lines 102 / 103 (Kamppi) ROAMING PROJECTS for Electronic > Sea.nce (Norie Neumark, Maria session Africa session ASEF Rendez-Vous Arts Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau (check times at Info deck 5) Conf Carmen deck 9 Miranda, Greg Turner, AU) Pohjoisesplanadi 19 Goethe-Institut Helsinki, Heureka, Finnish Science Centre > Floating Territories (Leon Cmielewski, Tel. +358 (0)9 169 3757 Tiedepuisto 1, Vantaa > Soundings (Tim Nohe, Steve Bradley, US) Mannerheimintie 20A, 6th floor Josephine Starrs, AU) tourist.info@hel.fi Train K / P / R > Sub_scape (Sarah Waterson, Kate CRUISE SCHEDULE ALL TIMES EET (GMT +2) > Haunt>pass (Leslie Sharpe, US) www.hel.fi/tourism Central Railway Station > Tikkurila Richards, AU) > Quadraphone (Perry Hoberman, CA) SUN 1100–1500 Check-in at Olympiaterminaali Hot! Tips! Silja Line (Olympiaterminaali), > Syren (Nigel Helyer, Daniel Woo, Chris > TunA (Arianna Bassoli, SUN 1600 Ferry leaves Helsinki Eteläsatama / South Harbour Rizos, AU) Abflug Departure Lounge (FI) at Olympia terminal Stefan Agamanolis, IE) > Toinen Linja Underwater Sound (FI) MON 1100–1300 Ferry in Stockholm harbour (1000–1200 local time) Aug 15, 1200-1600 > For all works in public space or > SR c (Marie Wennersten, SE) outside city centre, more info at: > Where are we eating? Radio Feast (INT) MON 1900–2300 Ferry in Mariehamn harbour Open Decks at the open decks deck 5 on both cruise > Martini Matchmaking and Collaboration MON 0930 Ferry arrives in Tallinn days. Bring your own music! Urban Media Hub, Kiasma seminar Makeover Party (Sara Diamond, Susan room (ground floor) Kennard, CA)

main organizer: funders: programme

Cultural Endowment of Estoni

ISEA2004 TALLINN main organizer:

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia

organizing partners:

CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ESTONIA ISEA2004 is supported by:

Additional venue partners Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum; Tallinn City Gallery; Tallinn Art Hall; The Applied Art and Design Museum; Sally Studio; Viru Centre; Port of Tallinn. Helsinki: Centre for Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy; Heureka, the Finnish Science acknowledgements: Centre; Ursa Astronomical Association; Artists’ Association MUU / MUU Gallery; Hungarian Academic and Cultural Centre Helsinki / Gallery U.

Residency, touring and other associated programme Tallinn: looming.org, kunst.ee, Share Joy Helsinki: HIAP (Helsinki International Artists Programme); AV-Arkki; NIFCA; Finnish National Board of Education; PixelACHE festival; Helsinki Festival; The Finnish Museum of Photography; Flow04, Nuspirit Helsinki; Academy of Fine Arts; Kontupiste; Viikki Teacher Training School. Mariehamn: The Municipal- under the patronage of UNESCO ity of Mariehamn. Stockholm: Fylkingen; CRAC (Creative Room for Art and Computing). Riga: Centre for New Media Culture,RIXC. Ber- gen: BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. Copenhagen: Danish Artnode Foundation. Montréal: MUTEK.

ISEA2004 is also supported by Arts Council of England, Centre Culturel Français. Tallinn: IM Arvutid; City of Tallinn; Forum Cinemas; Viru Centre; Club BonBon; Estonian Academy of Music; MASS; Max Factory; Apple; IBM Estonia; HULA. Helsinki: The Finnish Institute in London; Finnish Swedish Cultural Fund; Swedish Finnish Foundation; Goethe-Institut Helsinki; Austrian Embassy in Finland; Cana- dian Embassy in Finland; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City council for Culture of the City of Ljubljana, Mobitel d.d. Ljubljana Finland’s Embassy, London; Finland’s Embassy, Paris; The Finnish Institute in London; Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Carhartt; Siemens. TAL TALLINN CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, AUG 17–18 2004 HEL1 CONFERENCE: WIRELESS EXPERIENCE, THU AUG 19 HEL2 CONFERENCE: HISTORIES OF THE NEW, FRI AUG 20 TICKETS TUESDAY 17 AUG 1130 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 0930 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 Wel- WE1 Lunch WE2 CI3 Opening & Lunch W1 H3 Keynote session 2 Lunch H5 FOR Sampo come Keynote session Kosmos big auditorium Keynote session 1 Sampo notes ISEA2004 CI2 WE3 H4 H6 Kosmos small auditorium Film studio Film studio

G2 G4 T2T1 W2 W3 Academy big auditorium TV studio TV studio

Go to: www.isea2004.net > spe- G3 H1 C1 C2 Academy auditorium 201 Lecture room Lecture room cial offers G7 H2 T2T2 Marilyn Marilyn Gallery of the Academy You can book tickets for the full ISEA2004 experience (including C3 Buñuel the conferences and other events HEL3 CONFERENCE: CRITICAL INTERACTION & OPEN SOURCE, SAT AUG 21 WEDNESDAY 18 AUG in Tallinn and Helsinki, and two nights on the ISEA2004 cruise) 0930 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 0930 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 or separate components of the CI4 CI6 C1 Lunch CI9 G1 O1 Keynote session 3 Lunch C5 Keynote session 4 HEL3 MEETINGS, SUN AUG 22 Kosmos big auditorium Sampo Keynote session Keynote session programme. The full experience is the most affordable option to CI5 WE6 CI10 T2T3 T2T4 1200 1300 1400 1500 Kosmos small auditorium Film studio join ISEA2004, with prices start- Inter- ISEA2006 ISEA2004 Sampo Society closing ing from less than 200 euros for G5 CI7 WE7 C4 C7 Academy big auditorium TV studio General Meeting the cruise and 100 euros for all Film studio events. WE4 CI8 G6 Academy auditorium 201 O2 O3 Room 857

The cruise consists of two parts WE5 Academy auditorium 225 H7 H9 Marilyn over two nights: The Interfac- ing Sound (August 15th) and the H8 H10 Buñuel Networked Experience (August

16th). These can also be booked W4 C6 Medialab separately. For the cruise you WEARABLE EXPERIENCE GEOPOLITICS OF MEDIA CRITICAL INTERDISCIPLINES CI6 Scientific Imagery in New Media Art (paper session). María Fernández (US), don’t need to book an entire cab- Wearable Experience Keynote Session Geopolitics of Media Keynote Session1 (G ) Critical Interdisciplines Keynote Ingeborg Reichle (DE) (WE1) Lawrence Liang (IN), Alternative Law Forum Session (CI1) in, if travelling alone for instance. Joanna Berzowska (CA/PL), Assistant Professor Jussi S. Jauhiainen (FI/EST), Dr. Sarah Kember (UK), Goldsmiths College CI7 Human ‘control models’. Explorations WIRELESS EXPERIENCE H1 Working across boundaries: curating and preserving new (BR), Indrek Ibru (EE), Genco GÜLAN (TR): Carla van Beers OPEN SOURCE AND SOFTWARE AS CULTURE Professor, Concordia University, Montreal University of Oulu, University of Tartu Creative Evolution? The quest for life (on with biotechnology (artist presentations). media art. (NL), Charles Kamangwana (ZW), Mari Laaniste (EE) Instead, we offer the chance to Memory Rich Clothing: Wearable Geopolitics of Urban Landscape and Mars) Julian Weaver (UK), Jason Davidson (AU), Keynote Session 1 Beryl Graham (UK), Sarah Cook, (UK), Steve Dietz, (US), Keynote Session Technologies and Reactive Fashion Technologisation Zoran Pantelic (YU), kuda.org Catherine Richards (CA), Paul Vanouse (US) Professor Machiko Kusahara, Waseda University, Japan Caitlin Jones, (US) Matthew Fuller (UK), Reader in Media Design at the Piet book a berth in a shared cabin. Parallel Reality: Art and Activism Japanese Mobile Phone Culture and Urban Life CRITICAL INTERACTION DESIGN Zwart Institute, Rotterdam WE2 Fashion and wearable technologies G2 Axis of Evil. Surveillance and monitoring CI8 Processes of Creative Design, Display H2 The case of France: From Minitel to Gitoyen (secure Completely Common Notions: Shared Bits of Methodologies (panel session). Katherine Moriwaki (US/IE), the state, tactics for media artist (artist CI2 Artists and Scientist in collaboration and Perception (paper presentation). Ayhan Professor Michel Maffesoli, Paris V (Sorbonne), CEAQ, collaborative access to high bandwith.) Keynote Session and Software Susan Ryan (US), Gökhan Mura (TR) presentations). Thomas Broomé (SE), Eric (artist presentations). Petri Kuljuntausta (FI), Aytes (TR), Christopher Lindinger (AT), Artur France Nathalie Magnan (FR), Valentin Lacambre (FR), Aris Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University, US The cruise prices include Paulos (US), Merilyn Fairskye (AU) Nigel Helyer (AU), Sarah Pell (AU), Oron Catts Matuck (BR) Postmodern tribes and communication Papathéodorou (FR) Control and Freedom: On Interactivity as a Software Effect O1 Narratives and images of open source WE3 Interactive Textiles and Wearable (AU), Ionat Zurr (AU), Daniel Woo (AU), Nick Mark Tribe (US), Axel Bruns (AU) breakfasts, buffet dinners with Computers (panel session). Barbara Layne G3 Cartographies and identities (artist Mariette (AU), Marko Peljhan (SI) CI9 After Interdisciplinarity (paper session), Keynote Session 2 H3 Re:searching our Origins: Critical and Archival Histories C1 Narratives, subjectivity and interaction (CA), Joanna Berzowska (CA/PL), Ingrid presentations). C.Cred (UK/SE), Ian Clothier Simon Penny (US) Nina Wakeford, INCITE, Department of Sociology, University of the Electronic Arts Pamela Jennings (US), Axel Roch (UK), Ranjit Makkuni (IN) O2 Games and the art of hacking wine+beer, and the ferry pro- Bachmann (CA), Margot Jacobs (SE), Linda (NZ), Gediminas Urbonas (LT), Nomeda CI3 What are the Aesthetics of Collaboration? of Surrey, UK Catherine Mason (UK), Nick Lambert (UK), Human Connectedness/ Medialab Europe (IR/US), Heidi Laetitia Wilson (AU), Tiffany Holmes (US), John Klima (US), Melin (SE) Urboniene (LT) (panel session). Sara Diamond (CA), Susan CI10 Network dynamics (paper session). Nina The identity politics of mobility and design culture Annick Bureaud (FR), Alain Depocas (CA) Tikka (FI) Mathias Fuchs & Sylvia Eckermann (AT), Kristian Lukic () gramme. Kennard (CA), Czegledy (CA/HU), Trebor Scholz (US) WE 4 Connected Bodies: Wearable G4 Independent media strategies (artist Peter Ride (UK), Raitis Smits (LV) W1 Mapping space; the social potential of locative media H4 Uncovering Histories of Electronic Writing C2 The Aesthetics of Interaction and Behavior O3 Cultural Softwares: Artistic Tools & DIY Networks Technologies and Performance (artist presentations). Matteo Pasquinelli (IT), Ugo Marc Tuters (CA), Chris Heathcote (UK), Ben Russel (UK), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (US), Michael Mateas (US), Nick Simon Penny(AU/USA), Maciej Ozog (), Riikka Pelo (FI) Christiane Paul (US), Mary Flanagan (US), Ken Perlin (US), presentations). Marlon Barrios Solano Vallauri (IT), Kate Rich (UK), Diane Ludin (US) CI4 Media, Art and Sciences in Discussion Drew Hemment (UK), Eric Paulos (US) Montfort (US), Jill Walker (NO) Adam Hyde (NZ), Criticalartware (US) Both conference and ferry tickets (US), Kati Åberg (FI), Maja Kuzmanovic (BE), (paper session). Ursula Frohne (DE), Sabine C3 Amplexus Poetics: Language, Art and New Software Kristina Andersen (NL) G5 Border Crossings: media artists on Flach (DE), Anne Nigten (NL) W2 Tracing space; locative media as a means for artistic H5 The Network of No_des: Excavating the Histories of the Forms can be booked online through issues of minorities, migration and assylum expression ‘New’ in South Asia’s Media Lisa Moren (US), Kenny Goldsmith (US), 2) Nina TWO TALKS AND DEBATE (ACROSS THEMES) WE5 DIY Wearable Challenge (workshop). (round-table discussion), Tracey Benson CI5 Critical Art Ensemble: Science/ art Marc Tuters (CA), Michelle Kasprszak (CA), Drew Hemment Hosted by Sarai. Monica Narula (IN), Jeebesh Bagchi (IN), Katchadourian (US), Camille Utterback (US), Leevi Lehto our travel agency partner Event Katherine Moriwaki (US/IE), Jonah Brucker- (AU), Leon Cmielewski (AU), Josephine Starrs and their legal limitations (round-table (UK), Jaanis Garanchs (LV), Chris Byrne (UK) Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Gunalan Nadarajan (SG) (FI), Bill Seaman (US) T2T1 Free vs. Subversive Networks Cohen (US/IE) (AU), Olivier Schulbaum (ES), Susana Garcia discussion) Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US/IR), Armin Medosch(AT/UK), Travel. Conference and exhibition Noguero (ES), Ignacio Garcia (ES), Samina W3 GPS Art: Mapping New Territories H6 Documenting Art, Science and Technology C4 Open Source City Julian Priest (UK) WE6 Embedded Devices. Ubiquitous and Mishra (IN) Marisa Olson (US), Joel Slayton (US), Natalie Jeremijenko Alain Depocas (CA), Monika Fleischmann (DE, Tilman Linden Amanda Ramos (CA), Dennis Kaspori (NL), Mirjam Struppek tickets will be sold at the respec- Wearable Computing in Everyday Use (panel (AU/US), Marek Choloniewski (PL) (DE), Annet Decker (NL), Darko Fritz (HR) (DE), Clara Boj Tovar (SG), Michelle Kasprzak (CA) Fælles T2T2 Imagining cities and public spaces session). Kelly Dobson (US), Astrid Vicas G6 Art Detectives (artist presentations). Grønt Byrum (DK) Richard Barbrook (UK), Jennifer Gonzalez (US) tive venues too. (US), Tom Donaldson (UK) Pam Skelton (UK), Tina Clausmeyer (DE), W4 Mobile sound and art practices: the local contexts H7 Hybridity: Interfaces, Identities, and the Arts Kim Stringfellow (US) David Crane (US), Adriana de Souza de Silva (US/), Frauke Yvonne Spielmann (DE), Sabine Fabo (DE), Mette Ramsgard C5 Critical interaction design in the everyday T2T3 Who owns our (software) culture? WE7 User Experiences in Multisensory Behrendt (DE) Olle Karlsson (SE), Ola Pehrson (SE), Soh Thomsen (DE), Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL) Mark Palmer (UK), Trebor Scholz (US), Jessica Hammer (US) Miller Puckette (US), Casey Reas (US) Environments (artist presentations). Stahl G7 Quiasma (performance and artist Yeong Roh (KR) Stenslie (DE), Jorge Luis Marzo (ES), Cat presentation). Barbara Santos (CO), Andres H8 Histories of time-based art C6 Mediated urbanisms T2T4 System aesthetics and critique Hope (AU), Anne Walton (AU) Burbano (CO), Clemencia Echeverri (CO) Susanne Jaschko (DE), Catherine Mason (UK), Masanori Frans Vogelaar (NL), Elizabeth Sikiaridi (NL), Ana Betancour Aristarkhova Irina (RU/SG), 2nd speaker TBC HISTORIES OF THE NEW Mizuno (JP), Kiyofumi Motoyama (JP), Caroline Huybrechts (SE), Lilian Juechtern (DE), Oliver Langbein (DE), Adam (BE), Sven Sterken (BE) Somlai-Fischer (HU) Keynote Session Shuddhabrata Sengupta (IN), Sarai-CSDS/Raqs Media H9 Race, Representation and Digital Divides C7 Affect & Media(ted) Experiences Collective, Delhi, India Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew (CA), Gary Stewart Susanna Paasonen (FI), Maria Fernandéz (NI/USA), Norie The Remains of Tomorrows Past: Speculations on the (UK) Neumark (AU) Antiquity of New Media Practice in South Asia H10 Internet Based Practices: Translocal Erkki Huhtamo (FI), University of California Los Angeles, US Histories Pockets of Plenty: An Archaeology of Mobile Media Andres Burbano (CO), Karla Schuch Brunet

THE ART MUSEUM OF ESTONIA, EXHIBITION TALLINN CITY GALLERY THE ELION HOME CLUB BON BON KOODATTU KOKEMUS – ISEA2004 WIRELESS ISEA2004 WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE - HELSINKI OTHER EXHIBITIONS Flow04 - Nuspirit Helsinki Festival, Makasiinit HALL IN ROTERMANN SALT STORAGE >www.kunstihoone.ee >www.kaubamaja.ee 6 E Mere blvd., Tallinn EXPERIENCE >www.flowfestival.com >www.ekm.ee/english/rotermann/ 13 Harju St., Tallinn 2 Gonsiori St., Tallinn ISEA2004 main exhibition Urban Media Hub – Kiasma seminar room MUU Gallery 21st August, 13:00 – 19:00 2 Ahtri St., Tallinn Wen – Mon 12.00 – 18.00 Wen – Sun 9.00 – 21.00 18th of August 22.00 – 04.00 >www.kiasma.fi >www.muu.fi >VJ Anyone (UK): The Suspension of Displeasure Wen – Fri 12.00 – 20.00 “Flux in Tallinn” Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma 19th August – 22nd August, 10:00 – 20:30 6th August - 22nd August >DelRay (US) / rx:tx Sat – Sun 11.00 – 18.00 17th of August – 31st of August 17th of August – 31st of August >www.kiasma.fi >Marc Tuters (CA), Rasa Smite (LV), Jaanis Garancs (LV): Artist presentation 19th August, 17:00 Mon, Tue closed (except 30th – 31st of August) 17th of August 20.20 performance by Paul >Ars Intel Inc. (EE) 19th August – 24th October Cartographic Command Centre/Locative Media >Katherine Liberovskaya & Phill Niblock (CA): Babel-On Free admission Vanouse >Shilpa Gupta (IN) >[email protected] (LT) >Arthur Elsenaar & Taco Stolk (NL): BuBL Space >Meredith Finkelstein (US): Invisible Fields pt1 Open: Tue-Fri 12:00 – 17:00, Sat-Sun 12:00 – 16:00 17th of August – 31st of August >Jillian McDonald (US) – only on 17th >Live Robot Love (US) >Jan-Erik Andersson & Shawn Decker (FI/CA): >CLN SWP (US): Free Evenings and Weekends Flow04 Club opening 17th of August 19.00 >Ngulliyangi – Jason Davidson (AU) and 18th of August >Ropotator (EE) Bird´s Nest Cafe Gallery U 21st August, 20:00 – 04:00 >Kim Stringfellow (US) >The Experimental Interaction Unit >S.S.S. – Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole, >Heidi Tikka (FI): Lives 4X Tammakari / NIFCA, Suomenlinna Sea Fortress >www.magyarintezet.hu/cities/openpage.jsp >Ty Live (UK) >Patricia Adams with Jeff Sams (AU) >Paul Vanouse (US) (EIU) – Eric Paulos (US) Laurent Dailleau (FR) >Diego Diaz Garcia (ES): Zona de Recreo >www.nifca.org ?HomeID=6&lang=ENG >Jazzanova (DE) >DN – Laetitia Delafontaine, Gregory Niel (FR) >Savibraator – Lauri Kilusk, >Pamela Jennings (US): Constructed Narratives 13th August – 23rd August 13th August – 22nd August >Seiji (Bugz in the Attic) with MC MG (UK) >Fuchs-eckermann – Mathias Fuchs, Urmas Puhkan (EE) >Hanna Haaslahti (FI): Scramble Suit >Projekt Atol: Makrolab (SL) Artist presentation 20th August, 17:30 >Nuspirit Helsinki live featuring Teddy Rok and Guests (FI) Sylvia Eckermann (AT/UK) ESTONIAN MUSEUM OF APPLIED ART VIRU CENTRE >Skoltz_Kolgen (CA) >Ranjit Makkuni (IN): Body Friendly, Culture Friendly >Aether Architecture group: Adam Somlai-Fischer, >Jori Hulkkonen vs. Nuspirit Helsinki DJs (Lil´Tony & >I.D. – Dagmar Kase, Ivika Kivi (EE) AND DESIGN >www.virukeskus.com >Joel Tammik (EE) Mobile Interfaces Academy of Fine Arts Anita Pozna & Péter Hudini (HU): Induction House Ender): Made in Detroit (FI) >Lucy Petrovich (US) >www.ekm.ee/english/tarbekunst/ 4/6 Viru sq., Tallinn >Taavi Tulev (EE) >Ed Osborn (US): Harvester >www.kuva.fi Open: 10:00 – 18:00 >Ricky Tick Records presents: DJ Go-Go Antti with August >Silvia Rigon (US/IT) 17 Lai St., Tallinn Mon – Sun 9.00 – 21.00 >Timo Kahlen (DE): Media Dirt 19th August – 20th August, 10:00 – 16:00, open studio Ekström (Stockholm, Via Brazil), Dalindeo live and special >Julian Weaver (UK) Wen – Sun 11.00 – 18.00 ISEA2004 Fashion Show >Ian Andrews (AU): In a Few Seconds Across the Ocean >Bandung Centre for New Media Arts (ID), Goethe-Institut Helsinki guest Nicola Conte Visuals by Amfibio (FI/IT) Mon, Tue closed (except 30th – 31st of August) 17th of August – 18th of August >Kristina Andersen (NL) >Bundith Phunsombatlert (ID): Path of Illusion Bandung – Helsinki: City Surgery >www.goethe.de/ne/hel/fiindex.htm TALLINN ART HALL >Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, >Beeoff (SE): Tentacle 19th August – 20th August Ticket 20 eur with ISEA2004 pass, limited number; ask at >www.kunstihoone.ee 17th of August – 19th of September >Nicholas Stedman (CA) Martin Pichlmair (FI/AT/NO) >Mathias Fuchs & Sylvia Eckermann (AT): fluID Media Centre Lume – University of Art and Design >Access space conference info 6 Vabaduse sq., Tallinn opening 17th of August 19.40, performance by >Diana Burgoyne (CA) >Rebecca Cummins & Paul DeMarinis (US): Light Rain >www.lume.fi >Robert Sakrowski, Thomas Noesler, Anna Kohler & Wen – Mon 12.00 – 18.00 Clutch >Kelly Dobson (US) >Leslie Sharpe (US): Haunt>Pass 20th August, 14:30 & 17:30 Tilman Linden: netartdatenbank.org WORKSHOPS ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS >Karolin Kuusik (EE) >Karen Lancel (NL): StalkShow >Aware (FI): Rengo Open: Thu 10:00 – 18:00, Fri 10:00 - 16:00 17th of August – 31st of August >Kristina Andersen (DK/UK) >www.artun.ee >Millefiore Effect – Margot Jacobs, >Steve Heimbecker (CA): Pod, Wind Array Media Lab - University of Art and Design / opening 17th of August 21.00 >Laura Beloff, Martin Pilchmair, 1 Tartu rd., Tallinn Jessica Findley , Ralph Borland (SE) Cascade Machine ÄÄNIRADIO 103,1 FM Heureka, The Finnish Science Centre Media Centre Lume Erich Berger (FI/AT/NO) >Katherine Moriwaki (US/IE) >aura.siba.fi/aaniradio >www.heureka.fi 23rd August – 24th August >audiOh! Room – Janek Schaefer (UK) >Diana Burgoyne (CA) 17th of August – 18th of August >Jaanika Pajuste (EE) Kiasma theatre 21st August, 19:00 – 07:00 13th August – 14th August >Miller Puckette (US): Pure Data >C–CRED (Collective Creative Dissent) – Ola Stahl, >Clutch – Tina Gonsalves, Tom Donaldson, >Jaana Päeva (EE) 20th August >Where Are We Eating? (FI/INT): Radio Feast >Nigel Helyer, Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr & Guy Ben-Ary (AU): Registration TBC Kajsa Thelin, Carl Lindh, Simon O’Sullivan (SE/UK) Sara Diamond (CA/UK) >Cat Hope, Anne Walton (AU) >Ana Revakowicz (US) >16:00 Masayuki Akamatsu (JP): sein & zeit Also at restaurant Taidehallin klubi, Ainonkatu 3, LifeBoat at Heureka Open Lab >Ian Clothier (NZ) >Kelly Dobson (US) >Shawn Pinchbeck [CA] >Vanessa (EE) >20:00 Petri Kuljuntausta, Unto Laine & Sami van 19:00-02:00 20th August – 21st August >Merilyn Fairskye (AU) >Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (US) >Sala Wong, Peter Williams (CA) Ingen (FI): Northern Lights 21st August, starts 22:00 >Lin Yew Cheang, San Yen Liew & Guan Hong Yeoh (NZ): WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE >feral trade – Kate Rich (UK) >Cat Hope & Anne Walton (AU) 21st August >Grilli Radio SHIFTING NATURE >i-bpe – Diane Ludin with Hans Zaunere and >Margot Jacobs, Linda Melin (SE) GALLERY OF THE TALLINN ART >14:00 Manu Luksch (AT), Mukul Patel (UK), Meeting at restaurant Taidehallin klubi, Ainonkatu 3, Open: Mon-Wed, Fri 10:00 – 17:00, Thu 10:00 – 20:00 Kontupiste Ricardo Dominguez (US) >Millefiore Effect – Margot Jacobs, HALL Associated programme Martin Kusch (AT) & Marie-Claude Poulin (CA): Myrioma 21:30 for tour departure at 22:00 Sat-Sun 10:00 – 18:00 >www.kontupiste.net >Samina Mishra with Mrityunjay Chatterjee and Jessica Findley, Ralph Borland (SE/US) >www.kunstihoone.ee >17:00 Stephanie Rothenberg (US) & Art Jones (US): 18th August Renu SIyer (IN) >Katherine Moriwaki (US/IE) 6 Vabaduse sq., Tallinn Multikultuurimaja at 24 Kreutzwaldi Divining the Borders of Cyberspace >Call the SNAGARI HOTLINE and share your greasiest grilli Sibelius Academy, Centre for Music & Technology >Dodo – Living Nature for the Future (FI), Change you do. >Debra Petrovitch with Stephen Jones (AU) >Sabrina Raaf with John Kannenberg (US) Wen – Mon 12.00 – 18.00 St., Tallinn >20:00 Lina Kovacevic (HR), Emina Višnic (HR) & Tomislav experiences! >http://cmt.siba.fi Do – That´s Urban >Quiasma – Barbara Santos, Clemencia Echeverri, >Ana Rewakowicz (CA) Estonian and Baltic media and sound Domes (HR): EGOBOO.bits tel +358 9 756 30315 Concert 20th August, 20:00 – 22:45 18th August – 20th August Andres Burbano (CO) >Rebecca Ross (US) 17th of August – 31st of August artists >Pauline Oliveros & Diana Slattery (US): Listen Deeply in >Marcus Neustetter, (ZA) Playing Creative Games with >Sarai Media Lab – Jeebesh Bagchi, Mrityunjay >Sala Wong, Peter Williams (CA) exhibition/laboratory Tickets 5/10 eur from Kiasma info URSA Observatory A-Maze Technology Chatterjee, Iram Ghufran, Monica Narula, >Estonian Media Art Retrospective >www.ursa.fi >Carol Hobson (US): Beyond Noise 19th August - 20th August Shuddhabrata Sengupta (IN) 17th of August – 22nd of August Kiasma outdoor stage 13th August – 22nd August >Natasha Barrett (NO): Exploratio Invisibilis >Fælles Grønt Byrum, Marie Markman, Jesper Dyrehauge, >Nomeda Urboniene & Gediminas Urbonas (LT) 17th of August 22.00 experimental 19th August, 19:00 – 22:00 Also on ÄÄNIRADIO 103,1 FM, 22:00 – 08:00 Nis Rømer (DK), mobile phone and sms workshop sound performances ISEA2004 opening >Adam Hyde & Honor Harger (NZ): Radio Astronomy Exploratio Invisibilis presented as an installation at the >Ian Andrews (AU) Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi. From 16.30 on Viikin Normaalikoulu NB! The exhibitions are closed 20th of 21st August, 17:00 – 21:00 the 19th and 20th of August. 18th August - 20th August August (public holiday in Estonia) rx:tx presents Progress, live / dj (SI / LV) Information on all works in public space can be found at the >the-phone-book Limited (UK), What does your mobile do Urban Media Hub, located at Kiasma museum´s seminar for you? Free admission room (ground floor). Free admission. ALL TIMES IN EASTERN EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME (EEST/GMT+2). FOR LOCATION INFORMATION SEE EVENTS IN HELSINKI.