Pop~EVENTS - Autumn 1997
Recommended by pop~Tarts
Festivals, Conferences, Workshops, Exhibitions
Are you looking for a stimulating festival to visit this year? Pop~TARTS wants to help you with a few suggestions. After all, it is not so easy to choose which one, from the hundreds of posted events that are circulated online. As participants and guests of many different festivals over the past years, pop~TARTS can recommend a number of media arts festivals and Internet related events. We have personally visited most of these events, and plan to be at some this year, too! In addition, there are some events we would love to attend because of the promising schedule of featured speakers (but can't make it for various reasons).
See also the pop~Tarts schedule of spring and summer 97.
Festivals are a great way to connect IN REAL LIFE. It is always a great experience to meet those personalities who you have had electronic communication with, or whose texts you have read. It is an important reality check to be at the event that most meets your needs as an artist or programmer. This means connecting with people, and joining the family of conference communicators, where lots of projects get started, ideas are popping up like weeds, and gives you a great feedback possibility for your own ideas.
Pop~TARTS feels that personal contact and late night discussions at the bar are really helpful, it is how we started our own TARTS project (by the way!).
We can`t guarantee the weather conditions, or that you will get convenient accommodations. It is up to you, and your energy, to meet people. Most important is to bring plenty of business cards, vitamins, and be ready to connect. Most information about festival accommodations, as well as costs are usually given in the Website information, otherwise check with organizers before travelling.
If you can`t travel IRL, don`t be discouraged. Most of the festivals and conferences are adapting to online discussion forums, so you can be a virtual participant by posting your opinions to the discussion.
Our selections are not a rating system, only the events we can give you first hand information about, take a look at the website for your own decision:
Cyberfeminist Week, documenta X, Kassel
Continuing through 29 September, Kassel, Germany
*Link to tart~event report*
Try to visit Kassel if you are in Europe, as this event won`t happen again for 5 years. The last week of dX will have a Cyberfeminist meeting in the Hybrid Workspace, located at the Orangerie where a large contingent of international net grrls will be present, or will participate in the various online chats that will be scheduled during the week.
Information and Discussion
obn@icf.de
"Configurations between Art and Media"
4-7 September Kassel, Germany, Kulturbahnhof and Doc 4
A four day conference, organized by the University of Kassel to bring academics and theoreticians together to analyze and discuss the relation between old and new media art forms, especially in relation to dX. Talks inched "The Body in Question: gender and embodiment in the post modernist frame‚, by Abigail Solomon (Santa Barbara), and "Split reality in hybrid media space", by Vali Export; additionally, Marie Luis Angerer will speak on Feminist Media Theory and Vera Kuni will speak on Feminist Media Practice. In parallel, Interfiction 3 will focus primarily on Internet topics.
www.uni-kassel.de/wz2/con.media.art
config@hrz.uni-kassel.de
Ars Electronica Festival 97, "Flesh Factor"
8-12 September Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica has become known as an important meeting place for artists working in the digital framework. Some of the most important artworks have been premiered at Ars in the last decade, and the catalogues serve as a reference book to the history of computer art, and since 1994 has been a major focus on Internet art, and the Golden Nica awards are impressive recognition of achievement in the creative digital workplace.
Linz is a relative small industrial city, but it rolls out the red carpet during Ars. There is a fixed meeting point every night at the Stadwerkstadt, so you are guaranteed good music, dancing, or talking and making contacts. The Ars Electronica Center opened last year, and the attendance by local visitors has been beyond their predictions. The exhibition will feature Solve et Coagula by Stahl Stenslie and Knut Mork, and FACE SETTINGS will be part of the OpenX, providing a workspace and online chat area for women. You can meet Kathy and Eva in the OpenX area, daily.
The FLESH FACTOR symposium (online and in Linz) is being moderated by Tom Sherman, a veteran media activist from Syracuse University, NY. The IRL symposium will be Tuesday 9.9. and Wednesday 10.9., in the Design Center Linz, and will feature one of pop~TARTS favorite techno-science theoretician: Donna Harroway, who is the first speaker at 10.15 on Tuesday. We also recommend Victoria Vesna (Bodies, Inc.) and Stelarc, who will also premiere "Parasites‚, a new performance at Ars on Monday night..
www.aec.at/fleshfactor/projects_symposium.html
info@aec.at
15th World Wide Video Festival
12-17 September, Amsterdam, (exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum through October 5)
With the relocation to Amsterdam, the World Wide Video Festival has grown, both in scale and in ambition. The festival was one of the first major international video events, and has previously been located in Den Haag. A new partnership has been formed with the Stedelijk Museum and the Melkweg, with co-operations with local groups like the Bureau Amsterdam, MonteVideo, P.A.R.K. 4D TV, the Gate Foundation, the Society for Old and New Media, and Kunstkanaal.
Different exhibition rooms in the Stedelijk Museum will feature installation pieces by Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Brian Eno, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Sam Taylor-Wood, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lyndal Jones and Tony Oursler. Together with Gary Hill, Rem Koolhaas will present a large installation on the ground floor of the Stedelijk's new wing. This project will be the third in a series of priva-lite experiments, using the priva-lite glass both as a metaphor and as a see-through projection screen.
Dozens of new video productions from around the world will be featured in a scheduled program or available by request on the second floor of the Museum‚s new wing.
Internet projects will include the premiere of Shu Lea Cheang‚s, BRANDON, presented together with the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Society for Old and New Media. Anatomy of the Street‚ by Dick Tuinder (P.A.R.K. 4DTV) will be realized in the Eerste v.d. Helststreet. Forty people living in this street have been interviewed about streets where they lived before. A tourist guide of the street will be printed and will also be available on the Internet.
www.desk.nl/~wwvf
wwvf@wwvf.demon.nl
ISEA97
22-27 September, Chicago, Illinois
The 8th Symposium on International Electronic Arts is again an academic meeting, as the Rotterdam conference. They have stiff security checks, so get your press credentials in order before attempting to get accredited. Nevertheless, there are always interesting theoreticians and artists, even though they are hidden in long lists of names. Several prominent personalities will be present, who we are sorry to miss: Sherry Turkle, Professor, Sociology of Science, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will deliver the Keynote address on people who are able to inhabit multiple worlds. Laurie Anderson will give a performance.
To prepare yourself, you may enter the virtual roundtable in the website. Diana McCarty, our pop~AGENT from Budapest, will be presenting the media scene in Budapest, and she will send us a report, as we are not able to attend this year.
www.artic.edu/~isea97
isea97@artic.edu
Steirischer Herbst 97 "Social Bodies"
25 September - 31 October, Graz, Austria
An annual international festival of art, literature, theater and music, more than 32 exhibitions, symposia, performances are scheduled throughout Styria, mainly in Graz.
Highlights
27 Sept - 31 Oct Zones of Disturbance, international exhibition curated by Silvia Eiblmayr. Internet and CD ROMS selected by Kathy Rae Huffman. Zones of Disturbance will feature artists working in Internet and Installation, and performance. The Reading Room will host Internet and CD ROM selections, as well as books and a good cup of coffee.
27 September - 12 October Sex & Space II, a workshop on gender, space and representation, will bring women together from around Europe, with activists of the Graz Women's Project
4 October, in the Marieninstitut, MAMAX will present a KONSUM DJ lecture event, TransformØativ ,which connects Internet server communication and live audio production by Internet processes, in a theory performance.
10 & 24 October, at Reininghaus, Granular Synthesis will present Areal A, a new psychotisches live event. Their former work Modell 5 has been shown around the world to enthusiastic audiences.
28 - 31 October, Knowbotic Research re-presents their Net Installation project, in the Telekommunikationszentrum of the PTA. Anonymous Muttering: on dis/place/ment, is an impressive sound and light environment which was first shown in Rotterdam last year at D.E.A.F. 96.
www.ping.at/members/stherbst
stherbst@ping.at
"frauen://am.netz"
3 & 4 Oct. Vienna, Austria
IN.F.A.M. (Initiative Frauen ans Modem), will host a conference on women online. The keynote speaker is Sadie Plant, and Dale Spender, author, will speak about her new book Nattering on the Net‚ in a video conference. Rena Tangens will present information on ZaMir Net, which hosts (ex)Yugoslav communication conferences. IN.F.A.M. hopes to train women in Internet technique, and provide information on Feminist policies and Internet. Elisabeth Binder, creator of the Pheminist Cyberroadshow, is one of the organizers of the conference.
www2.iot.at/infam/
infam@fem-wien.cl.sub.de
3rd Festival of Computer Arts Maribor
4-11 October, Maribor, Slovenia
Held at the Multimedia center KiberSRCeLab, this year will feature a number of international performances, installations, and workshops, including Paul Sermon, Simon Biggs, Tim Schofield and Dejan Flasker. The exhibition 'Touch It' - Interactive Art in Slovenia" will feature 15 Slovenian artists. Computer music workshops and concerts will be held, featuring workshop, local participants and British visitors.
Women's Internet Conference
18 - 21 October Ottowa, Canada
For women & women's groups engaged in equality work USING THE INTERNET AS A POWERFUL TOOL FOR EQUALITY SHARING OUR EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
You are invited to contribute to the ongoing discussion and development of using the Internet for Women's Equality. This may be in the form of a paper, presentation, facilitating a workshop, giving a demonstration of your, or your group's, online work, computer note taking, training, or any form of creatively communicating with women at the conference.
The conference topics include:
getting online, access points for women, inclusive technology, transparency, mentoring, health risks, strategy building and breaking down barriers, policies to support women, gender sensitive training, developing women's resources, networking, co-operation, holding meetings online, support and care giving, education and training, economic development, research, community services, global perspectives, international women's rights, health, violence and safety issues, creativity and culture
Please reply to by September 6, to Women'space.
ROOTless '97
10 - 12 October Hull, UK, Hull Time Based Arts
The ROOT Festival is one of Europe's foremost programs of international performance, live art, film and video, and new media installations. Hull is a great industrial city with lots of water, big brick buildings and a evening pub scene. The 96 ROOTS (Running Out Of Time) Festival was energetic and informative. Mike Stubbs, director of TBA is a commissioner of performance for the 1998 ISEA, to be held in Liverpool.
ROOTless '97 says that it will be concerned with possession and disenfranchisement; location and dislocation; center and periphery; autonomy and marginalisation; nationalism and regionalism; the individual and the collective. Phew! We are excited that the Nomad Territories, and research conducted by Roddy Hunter, will be presented. Roddy is Co-Consul of The Nomad Territories for England, an international convention of performance art. The Nomad Territories identity card will be issued. And Atlas: a public symposium event, on the theme of 'trans-national' networks with invited representatives of global states, political and military alliances, arts organizations and individuals involved in pioneering artists' networks.
Other highlights for us would be:
A presentation of EMARE media artist's residency from Muu, Finland, Werkleitz Gesselschaft, Germany, and C3 Centre, Hungary will be presented.. Akke Wagennar will present the Digital City Project, Netherlands..
www.htba.demon.co.uk/
htba@htba.demon.co.uk
Grand Opening of the ZKM Multimedia Museum
18 October- 9 November, ZKM, Karlsruhe
The long awaited Museum opening will take place in Karlsruhe, and the collection of media installations, and commissioned works by artists in residence Jill Scott, Lynn Hershman, Jeffrey Shaw, will be premiered. The 4 Art*Int*Act CD ROM journal will be presented, but we will first have to see if its really going to be the media events of the decade as promised.
Multimediale 5
19 October - 7 November, Karlsruhe, Germany, ZKM
It takes a lot of energy to integrate the opening of the new museum with a festival, but true to their regular time frame, the Multimediale will take place in the new museum. We have not attended before, but feel it is a major event that should be taken into consideration.
International CD ROM exhibition
21 October, Skopje, Macedonia
Interactive Narration, CD ROMS from around the world will be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje during October, sponsored by the SCCA Skopje.
www.soros.org.mk/scca
scca@soros.org.mk
International Biennial Film + Arc
2-16 November Graz, Austria
Theoretical and artistic confrontation with visual media, with a reflection on the surface on architecture. At the center of Film + Arc is an international competition, this year it also includes CD ROM and Internet projects. A symposium, round table discussions, and workshops will carry out the theme.
In Search of Dialogue Spaces is an Internet project realized in collaboration with artimage, Graz and the European Media Art Festival.
OSTranenie 97
5-9 November, Dessau, Germany
International electronic media forum, at the Studio Electronic Media Interpretation, Walter Gropius Bauhaus
OSTranenie 97 is presented by the Studio Electronic Media Interpretation of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation together with the K.I.E.Z. e.V. and the Werkleitz Gesellschaft as a project of the Media Initiative Saxony-Anhalt. Principle supporters: Ministry of Culture, State of Saxony-Anhalt, European Union, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
The catalogue is always impressive, and visitors rave about the installation spaces, in the East German factory buildings, but we have never visited Bauhaus ourselves. We understand, however that this year, for the first time, in addition to the "traditional" presentation of video works, multi-media installations, and performances OST will present as many network based projects as possible, especially those which focus on the cultural/political context of (Eastern European) society in transition. Members of the V2_East/Syndicate will be meeting during the OSTranenie in Dessau.
www.misa.uni-magdeburg.de/events/ostranenie97/
emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de
CIBER@RT
8-16 November Valencia, Spain, at Institut Valencia de la Joventut
Taking place for the third year, CIBER@RT is an international competition and exhibition that has as its goal that of being an open forum for debate and the exchange of ideas, in addition to being a place where Technology and the Humanities join together with Science and Art in exhibitions and performances. Its objective includes that of fomenting research and renovation within the various artistic disciplines that explore a new conceptual aesthetics of audiovisuals, the media art and multimedia culture.
drac.medusa.es/ciber@rt97 or
www.gva.es/ciberart/index.htm
Ciberart@ivaj.gva.es
JETAI, "New Ways of Communicating"
12 - 16 November Glasgow, Scotland, University of Glasgow
Journees Europeennes des Techniques Avancees de l`Informatique, a pan European academic organization, will converge in Glasgow, to discuss New Ways of Communicating. Open to the public, and a citywide exhibition of Web Art projects will be presented.
www.jetai.mcg.gla.ac.uk/
jetai@mcg.gla.ac.uk
Interfiction 4
20 - 23 November Kassel, Germany
In the context of the Kasseler Documentary Film Festival, the 4th Interfiction program will feature Television and interactive TV, among other programs.
www.uni-kassel.de/wz2/mtg/
wissner@hrz.uni-kassel.de
Festival VideoMedeja
5-7 December Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
The second Video Festival "VideoMedeja", dedicated to presenting works done by women, will organized by artistic Association "Apostrof" in Novi Sad and the editor of the Festival is Vera Kopicl. Novi Sad is one hour from Belgrade, and offers a hospitable festival program. Hotels are expensive (only businessmen stay in them). Kathy and Diana attended the 1996 festival, in the midst of student demonstrations. You probably will need a visa , which requires an official invitation from the organizers.
RECYCLING THE FUTURE
4-7 December, Vienna, Austria ORF Kunstradio
The 10th anniversary of Kunstradio, ORF‚ is an experimental audio art program, directed by Heidi Grundmann. A program of lectures, performances and radio projects will be announced.