- a seminar about how to move the world – and keep it moving.

February 6, 2008 | 10.00-19.00

INTERCULT “Annexet” Sandbacksgatan 8, Södermalm, Stockholm.

In February Rag-tag video and movie sites - a 4-day workshop for invited artists and developers will be arranged. The first day of the workshop will consist of informal presentations by the participants (in English), and is open to the public. Entrance is free, but registration in advance (contact tina.finnas@tii.se) is required for non-invited participants/speakers due to limited seating.

LAST DAY FOR REGISTRATION IS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2008!

Prof. CESARE A. MASSARENTI
 (Milan)

The main topic of Cesare’s presentation will be an overview of electronic and non-electronic displays, presently available or available in the near future, and how these access devices are changing the environment, how they are becoming part of the landscape, how the re-form the perception of information entertainment and advertising, and how they are beginning to lay parts of the foundations of what he calls a “Communication Continuum”. He will also touch upon questions of interoperability, of interface transportability across access devices and the necessity to redefine production processes and workflow. Cesare is professor of Communication at the Faculty of Sociology of the State University of Milano-Bicocca, and visiting Professor of Cross-Media at the Department of Cinema and Communication Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Torino and visiting professor at Stanford University, California.



NILS CLAESSON (Stockholm)

An art piece in public space has to deal with the overwhelming pressure of imagery, messages and traditions related to the specific spot where it will appear. Nils Claesson will lecture over the necessity to be site specific and avoid the notion of “franchising” if not wanted. He will use specific spots in Stockholm as example. Nils, who is an artist and filmmaker , works with video, media and public spaces. He is well known for his interactive installations “Tala med Ingmar” and “Say Voff”.

image: nils claesson

Dr. JOAKIM SÖDERBERG (Stockholm)

Joakim completed his MSc degree in computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and holds a PhD in multimedia indexing from ENST Paris. His published work includes conference articles on semantic feature extraction, video modeling and image understanding. Prior to the PhD he worked at a start-up innovation company that focused on games and process simulations Currently Dr Söderberg is working at Ericsson Research with automatic content indexing and solutions for mobile annotation and will present some highlights from Ericsson’s media research and development.

MICHELLE TERAN (Berlin)

As a media artist, Michelle explores the performative potential of objects and space.. She examines the intertwining of social networks and everyday social spaces with their technological counterparts and creates performances, installations and online works that are concerned with issues of communication, surveillance, psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social ritual, collaboration and public participation. Michelle will present some of her artistic works, including 'FM Buzz Sessions', where audio and video from (private) wireless CCTVstreams merge forming topologies of existing technological networks within urban neighborhoods.

image: michelle teran

MIA MÄKELÄ (Helsinki/Barcelona)

Mia Makela (a.k.a SOLU) is a Finnish media+live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and cultural activist residing in Barcelona. Her experimental music videos have been widely exhibited in festivals around the world: Xfest, Impact, Sonar, etc. Her style ranges from minimal abstractions and strongly processed material to multilayered ambiental landscapes. She processes her visual material with MAX/MSP/JITTER and other programmes like Isadora. In her artistic practise as well as in theory, Solu has reviewed the influences and explored the characteristics and elements of live cinema, – a recently coined term for realtime audiovisual performances. She will present some parameters to work with, it when comes to issues of Live Cinema – both in the state of analyzing or doing a live cinematic performance and exemplify with her own works.

THEUN KARELSE (Amsterdam/Brussels)

[Foam] is an intricate gossamer of people and places, extending through the interstices between artistic and scientific, physical and digital, professional and cultural boundaries. [Foam] is shaped by a group of designers, scientists, cooks, artists, engineers and gardeners, interested in advancing their own fields, as well as sharing and applying knowledge in new public contexts. Theun is an illustrator, artist, and builder of lightweight structures. He is a member of FoAM Brussels and FoamLab Amsterdam. He has studied art at St Joost, Breda and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Theun will shortly present FoAM’s activities and projects.

Luminous Green symposium: luminousgreen.org

Transient Reality Generator set-up at Kibla: kibla.org

TRG design sketch:

ARVID ENGSTRÖM (Stockholm)

Arvid is a researcher at the Mobile Life Center at Interactive Institute in Stockholm, and has a background in video and photography. Arvid will present the research project More video! which focuses on the creation of new and innovative services supporting the local and collaborative production, distribution and consumption of mobile media and video. Motivated by a number of contemporary trends of media production and media sharing on the Internet in the area of user content creation, such as blogging, podcasting, and wikis, and by similar attempts made by mobile phone manufacturers to incorporate mobile blogging and high quality video.

TIME’S UP | TINA AUER, TIM BOYKETT, ALEX DAVIES, ANDREAS MAYRHOFER (Linz)

Since 1996 Time`s Up is working on the construction of experimental situations and builds large scale long term interactive situations, real-world environments that include interactive technology to build a world that is physically compelling, responsive and interpersonal. We also call them social and narrative Mixed Realities. The worlds have enough depth to encourage exploration, physicality to bind the visitors and scope to allow for a significant time spent within them.

Members of the Time`s Up Crew will talk a little about Time`s Up, their personal background as well as roughly about ongoing interests and future productions.

BENGT SJÖLÉN (Stockholm)

Bengt is a self-educated software and hardware designer with roots in the Atari/Amiga demo scene in the late eighties and early nineties. Bengt's work range from low-level hardware reverse-engineering to video graphics and 3D projections via 3D multiplayer game engines, physics simulations, audio software, linguistics, mobile phone technology, interaction design, experimental display and visualization technologies, VJ software, image processing, interactive installations, network technologies, embedded systems, as well as digital, analog and wireless circuit design. He strongly advocates the use of, and contribution to, open-source software and other non-proprietary technologies.

MAGNUS TORSTENSSON (Malmö)

Magnus is an artist, designer, and educator exploring the narrative and psycho-social potential of interactive systems and media. Magnus will present some of his interactive works, such as the Digital Peacock Tails, Power Pilgrims, Dressed for Dependence, Four Ophones and Pophorn, and talk about issues addressed in his works, such as post-optimal personal technologies, user participation and co-creation, interaction and action spaces.

image: magnus torstensson

KIBLA | UROŠ ČUČKOVIĆ, PETER TOMAZ DOBRILA, DINO SHREILECHER (Maribor)

KIBLA is a multimedia Centre and an Association for Culture and Education in Maribor, Slovenia. KIBLA intensively encourage experimental and specific projects in the intermedia field, introduce creative and practical use of sophisticated technologies in the cultural field whose final (an at the same time utopian) goal is a functional support of working nets that digitalize, present and decentralize cultural Slovenia and Europé.

KIBLA will present their video works from workshops and performances (e-AGORA, Digitalna komuna, and other workshops…)

The parents of RAG-TAG VIDEO AND MOVIE SITES are Performing Pictures/Interactive Institute, supported by The Culture 2000 framework of the European Commission and Kulturkontakt Nord. The event is part of nodestockholm – a festival for art and new media arranged in the Stockholm area 15 January to 15 february 2008.

For more info visit: www.performingpictures.se eller www.nodestockholm.se

Contact: Tina Finnäs, Interactive Institute, project assistant | mobile +46 (0)736702992 | email: tinaf@tii.se or Geska Helena Andersson, Interactive Institute, project manager | mobile + 46 (0)709-903755

With support by: