The following message was posted to: dance-tech hello all: Interaktionslabor Göttelborn is now in session: http://www.iks-saar.net Communications Technologies, Interactive Performance Media & Virtual Environments 1-14 July, 2003 Coal Mine Göttelborn, Saarland (Germany) A two-week International Interaction laboratory is taking place at the former Coal Mine Göttelborn, Germany, produced by the IKS Industrial Culture Saar and organized by director/choreographer Johannes Birringer. Göttelborn is projected to become a future high tech location of the Saarland, a state in southwest Germany bordering on France and Luxemburg. The Laboratory is designed to create a first experiment in the re-utilization and conversion of the abandoned site which now anticipates economic and architectural development. In this changing landscape of the industrial culture, an innovative platform is created for integrated research projects in performance, media arts, and technologies, with a special focus on new interactive media and telecommunications. In its initial work phase, the Laboratory seeks to establish Göttelborn as a "stage" for several networked performance, sound, dance and film projects, and as a "shop" for building interactive applications that will be presented to the public on the final weekend (12-13 July) when visitors ate invited to come to the Mine. The objective: The Laboratory plans to develop of three or four installations and interactive media projects on the basis of architectural sketches, design plans and programming carried out on site. Convergences between the various new media technologies will be examined, and their influence on art, economics, science and everyday life tested by means of several topics and applications, including data archives, narrative formations, telepresence, portable/wireless, interactive real-time processing systems involving sensors and motion tracking, visualization and communications systems, software design, electronic learning systems, cultural and cognitive processes, and architectural and environmental ecologies. In addition, the Laboratory will develop a digital archive on a website, as well as create network/webcam links to several other locations in the region, including the Stadtgalerie and the K4 Forum in Saarbrücken, a city which is located 25 kilometers further south and is the capital of the region. The Lab will also cooperate with Schichtwechsel Festival, a non-profit organization which plans to produce theatre, dance and music performances at the Coal Mine in the fall of 2003. The participants of the laboratory come from four different continents and are guests in the Saarland for two weeks. Participants: Julia Baur, visual artist/photographer, Rehlingen-Siersburg, Germany Paulo Chagas, composer/media artist,Cologne/Brazil Kelli Dipple, media and network artist, Australia Hartmut Dorschner, musician/media artist, Dresden , Germany Sher Doruff, media artist/programmer, Holland Orm Finnendahl, composer/programmer, Berlin Klaus Friedrich, graphic artist, St. Ingbert, Germany Hannes Gebhardt, communications technologist, Dresden, Germany Frank Leimbach, sculptor/filmmaker, Switzerland Bady Minck, filmmaker, Luxemburg/Austria Thomas Plöntzke, digital artist, Berlin, Germany Jim Ruxton, engineer/sensor technologist, Toronto, Canada Jo Siamon Salich, musician/filmmaker, Dresden , Germany Alan Smith, visual and media artist, England Paul Smith, interactive media artist, England Marija Stamenkovic, dancer/media artist, Barcelona, Spain Marion Traenkle, architect/choreographer, Holland Camille Turner, media artist/writer, Toronto, Canada Lynn Lukkas, interactive media artist, Minnesota, USA Mark Henrickson, programmer, Minneapolis, USA Koala Yip, choreographer/technologist, Hong Kong, China Marlon Barrios Solano, dancer/media artist, Columbus/Venezuela Renn Scott, industrial designer, Toronto, Canada Jeff Mann, network artist, Amsterdam/Toronto, Canada Project director: Johannes Birringer, choreographer/media artist, Houston(USA)/Nottingham(UK) Interested visitors are cordially invited to visit the artists and Laboratory at the Mine during the two weeks. In addition, there will be special Visitor's Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, 12-13. July, during which the results of workshop are presented. Guided tours by the participants take place on Saturday and Sunday at 11:00, 14:00 and 17: 00. Meeting place is the gate of the Coal Mine Göttelborn. On Saturday, 12 July, there will be an open air media performance at 22:oo in the evening, including music, dance and film projections. The exact location of this performance on the site will be posted. Press contact: Uschi Schmidt-Lenhard u.schmidt-fehringer@bildung.saarland.de ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. To unsubscribe, send email to lists@dancetechnology.org, with the words "unsubscribe dance-tech" in the message body. ----------------------------------------
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