In conjunction Events
Presentations |
Date & Time |
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24 - 26 Jul 8.30pm |
Esplanade Theatre Studios |
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22 - 29 Jul |
Various |
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25 -26 Jul 10pm to 12am |
Food #03 |
26 Jul 5.30-6pm & 7.30-8pm |
National University of Singapore Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Foyer |
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| IMI / ADM Demo-Graphics | 27 Jul | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media |
28 Jul 7.30pm to 9.30pm |
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30 Jul 7pm |
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30 Jul - 1 Aug |
6th Asia-Europe Art Camp Ludic Times: The Art of Gaming
22 - 29 July
Time to be confirmed
Venue: Various
Art Camp final presentation (Closing): Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 4pm @ The Salon, National Museum
For updated information please visit: www.artcampsingapore.wordpress.com
In conjunction with ISEA 2008, Asia-Europe Foundation supported by NUS Museum and School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic organises, from 22 until 29 July 2008, the 6th Asia-Europe Art Camp gathering 20 emerging artists from 16 countries. Conceptualised around the theme of gaming, the camp will focus on the nature of our contemporary ludic culture while taking into account the psychology of and theories about gaming. Electronic games and their roles in society will be discussed as well as the possibilities for Asia-Europe game development collaborations and industry-artist-researcher partnerships.
Through an intensive programme of lectures, workshops and project work, the participants will conclude the camp with a presentation of their creative collaborations with a special showcase on the last day of the camp. The project aims at developing a platform to promote dialogue among art students and for them to learn more about one another’s contexts and cultures.
ISEA2008 CLUB NITES
25 July - 26 July
10pm-12am
Food #03, 107-109 Rowell Road, tel: 65 6396 3598
(http://post-museum.org)
This artists-run gallery and museum was founded by the curating collective p10 in 2007, and it combines a cosy, organic vegetarian restaurant with a gallery space dedicated to showing exciting new work and hosting special events.
Pocket Gamelan - Mandala 7: microtonal sound installation for multiple mobile wireless networks
Created by Greg Schiemer
Performed with IDMI's New Music and the Networked Ensemble and Singaporean community artists
26 July
5.30-6pm, 7.30-8pm
National University of Singapore, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Foyer
Pocket Gamelan - Mandala 7 is a microtonal sound installation for mobile devices in which sound projection relies entirely on hand-held battery-operated amplifiers of sixteen Nokia mobile phones. The work does not depend on mains amplification, fixed speaker placement or tethered performance interfaces but explores the collaborative potential of mobile phones used as moving sound sources and as hand-held remote control units. Sound interaction includes both chorusing, a by-product of the moving sound source, and a command dialogue sent between handsets via a network of multiple wireless point-to-point connections.
Pocket Gamelan - Mandala 7 uses a network configuration that resembles a mandala. Its geometry defines a reflective listening space in which each of the players interact with one another as they explore a 35-note microtonal scale developed by contemporary tuning theorist Erv Wilson. This scale contains many harmonic intervals described by music theorists from antiquity and still found in musical traditions from various parts of the world.
n.e.w.s. @ ISEA 2008
Chaired by Lee Weng Choy
28 July
7.30pm to 9.30pm
The Substation, 45 Armenian Street, Tel: (65) 6337 7535 (http://substation.org)
The launch of n.e.w.s. (http://northeastwestsouth.net) during ISEA2008. n.e.w.s. is a horizontally-organised, knowledge-based website for contemporary art and new media. A geographically dispersed platform, it aims to facilitate the production of new content and visions of change outside the usual parameters of the established artworld operations. Featuring diverse curatorial contributions and collaborations, n.e.w.s. is a tool for networking and distributing immaterial resources and intellectual goods across the globe. For the launch, n.e.w.s. and The Substation will organise an evening forum. n.e.w.s. respresentatives and curators who have virtually taken part will now physically meet, to further discuss the development of the platform, the possibilities and challenges it faces. A live webstream on the n.e.w.s. website will enable those not in Singapore to participate in the launch event.
How to Track Global Digital Culture
A presentation by Lev Manovich
30 July
7pm
LASALLE College of the Arts, Block F, Room F202, Lecture Theatre
The exponential growth of a number of both non-professional and professional media producers over the last decade has created a fundamentally new cultural situation. Hundreds of millions of people are routinely created and sharing cultural content (blogs, photos, videos, online comments and discussions, etc.). As the number of mobile phones is projected to grow during 2008 from 2.2 bil to 3 bil during 2008, this number is only going to increase.
The rapid growth of professional educational and cultural institutions in many newly globalized countries along with the instant availability of cultural news over the web has also dramatically increased the number of "culture professionals" who participate in global cultural production and discussions. Hundreds of thousands of students, artists, designers have now access to the same ideas, information and tools. It is no longer possible to talk about centers and provinces. In fact, the students, culture professionals, and governments in newly globalized countries are often more ready to embrace latest ideas than their equivalents in "old centers" of world culture.
If you want to see this in action, visit the following web sites and note the range of countries from which the authors come from:
student projects on archinect.com/gallery;
design portfolios at coroflot.com;
motion graphics at xplsv.tv;
Before, cultural theorists and historians could generate theories and histories based on small data sets (for instance, "classical Hollywood cinema," "Italian Renaissance," etc.) But how can we track "global digital culture" (or cultures), with its billions of cultural objects, and hundreds of millions of contributors? Before you could write about culture by following what was going on in a small number of world capitals and schools. But how can we follow the developments in tens of thousands of cities and educational institutions?
Impossible as this may sound, this actually can be done…
Biography
Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001). Manovich is a Professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2), and a Visiting Researcher at Godsmith College (London) and College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney). Manovich written 90+ articles which have been reprinted over 300 times in many countries. Currently is completing three new books about digital culture and media, and is also developing projects within Software Studies Initiative (www.softwarestudies.com)
4-ICOM From Print to Interactive Media: Technology, multi-modal representation and knowledge
30 July to 1 August
Singapore Management University, Administration Building Conference Hall
4-ICOM brings together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the ways in which technology enables and constrains the ways knowledge, social relations and culture are constructed and enacted, with a special focus on interactive digital media. Speakers include Anthony Baldry, University of Messina, Italy; John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany; Greg Clancey, National University of Singapore; Carey Jewitt, University of London, United Kingdom; Kevin Judd, University of Western Australia, Australia; Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego, USA; Radan Martinec, IKONA Research & Consulting, USA; Michael O’Toole, Murdoch University, Australia; Jeffrey Shaw, University of New South Wales, Australia Paul Thibault, University of Agder, Norway; Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Eija Ventola, University of Helskinki, Finland Lonce Wyse, National University of Singapore
Hosted by the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), National University of Singapore.
For more information on registration, please visit http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/conf
