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| [Nettime-bold] Wiretap 6.07: Time-based Space |
Wiretap 6.07: Time-based Space Date: Sunday July 9th, 2000, 14.00 - 17.00 (Doors open 13.00hrs) Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam Entrance Fee: Fl. 7.50 Presentations by: Maja Kuzmanovic (HR/B), Lars Spuybroek/NOX (NL), Sabine Sch�fer (D) Moderation: Andreas Broeckmann, V2_ (D/NL) WT 6.07 deals with the relation of space in time: architecture as movement, interactions between virtual and real spaces, the transformation of space through sound. Modern physics has forged a wide-spread understanding of the interdependency of time and space. Space is not a given but is created in time by the movement of bodies and sound waves. Space is an unstable, time-based concept that has to be established by our perceptual and cognitive apparatus through continuous looking, listening and moving. Thus we construct our spatial environment through perception (especially seeing and listening) and proprioception (the intuitive spatial 'knowledge' of our body, for instance in eye-hand-coordination). Digital technologies are particularly relevant in this context, because they are themselves time-based and allow for a transformation and representation of virtual objects and virtual structures in real-time. The manipulation of space in time can be simulated and projected by digital media, offering images and experiences of unexpected space-time configurations. Presentations The insight into the interrelation between space and time has interesting ramifications in the arts. Digital artists and designers are developing interfaces which serve to extend the human body into its virtual environment, allowing the body to manipulate the surrounding space and its perception. Maja Kuzmanovic presents an artistic research project in progress, T-Garden, which she is developing together with the Californian art and research collective Sponge. T-Garden is a responsive environment where visitors can put on sound, dance with images and play with media together in a tangible way. As visitors enter the performance, they can put on special clothing which is embedded with wearable sensing devices as well as small audio speakers. The actions and interactions between visitors then trigger polymorphous and liquid sound and video textures which seem to turn the space into a responsive organism. Similarly, architects have come to rethink the relationship between human behaviour and built space by conceiving an architecture that is not static and fixed, but fluid and temporal. Lars Spuybroek of NOX Architects insists that space must be conceived from the perspective of the moving body: 'Bodies try to transgress themselves in time, that is: connected to other bodies, other rhythms, other actions. In this sense, you can really only talk about 'space' as a result of an experiential body timing its actions. Space is never a given.' Music and sound art are fundamentally time-based and are therefore particularly effective in spatial representation and manipulation. In the project series TopoPhonien, the composer and sound artist Sabine Sch�fer researches the possibilities of a spatial sound art. Her installations and performances deal with the construction of spaces through sound, building on the inner 'architecture' of sound. In different collaborations with the composer Joachim Krebs and the software developer Sukandar Kartadinata she has created programmes for composing 'area-sound-movements' which define virtual sound spaces within and against the built architecture. Sabine Sch�fer will be presenting her projects and will demonstrate the principles of TopoPhonien in a live performance. Participants Maja Kuzmanovic (HR/B) Nominated by MIT as one of the 100 'Young Innovators' of the past year, Maja Kuzmanovic holds a Master of Arts in Interactive Multimedia and her specialisation is Interactive Film and Storytelling. She is currently director of the newly formed Foundation of Affordable Mysticism (FOAM, at Starlab in Brussels), where she works with various art and technology collectives and is exploring novel modes and resources of cultural expression. She was involved in the development of the Design Technology course at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where she taught the modules 'Wearable Computing' and 'Hybrid Architecture'. She previously worked as Artist in Residence at CWI (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science) in Amsterdam, and GMD (National Center for Information Technology) in Sankt Augustin (Germany). She was specifically involved in projects concerning Internet innovation and Virtual Reality technologies. She has participated in high-level discussions about SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language),XML and WAP and has researched the possibilities of storytelling in immersive Virtual Reality (CAVE). Lars Spuybroek/NOX (NL) Holds a degree in architecture from the Technical University Delft and is co-founder of NOX: a design office that has produced videos, installations, a magazine, texts and architecture. Lars Spuybroek has been editor of the quarterly magazine Forum (1994-'97) and has lectured extensively in Holland and abroad. In 1998 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York. By means of a genetic engineering, NOX tries to generate a flexible architecture that nestles itself in the transitional area of two worlds often thought of as parallel: the world of biological organisms on the one hand, and that of the metallic and electronic fauna of modern technologies on the other. NOX operates in the expanding twilight zone of blurring and fluidity. Over the past few years, NOX realised a.o. 'Soft City', a television production for VPRO TV which was presented at several international festivals such as Ars Electronica 94; H2O eXPO, a waterpavilion for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management; 'SoftSite', an installation for DEAF 1996, presented on the Internet and projected at the NAi, (Netherlands Architecture Institute), Wet Grid for the exhibition Vision Machine (Mus�e des Beaux Arts, Nantes). In 1998 NOX designed the V2_ MediaLab. Spuybroek's work is currently represented at the architecture biennial of Venice (2000). Sabine Sch�fer (D) Is free-lance sonic art composer and media artist. She studied composition with Mathias Spahlinger and Wolfgang Rihm, and piano at the Hochschule f�r Musik (Karlsruhe). She has developed numerous interdisciplinary art projects with visual artists, writers, dancers and other musicians. She has researched the artistic application of system-exclusive data at the Center of Art and Media (ZKM, Karlsruhe), and computer-controlled pianos at the Institute of Sonology (The Hague). Since 1992 she has been creating computer controlled spatial sound installations and has staged multimedia performances; she has also been producing radio plays on sonic art since 1994. In her walk-in sound environments, Sabine Sch�fer often refers to the architectural environment in which the works are staged. For ZKM (Karlsruhe) she developed together with Sukandar Kartadinata "TopoPhonien" (1994): an art project quering the spatialisation of sound. Sabine Sch�fer has been awarded the Acustica International award, and the Siemens Media Art Prize. Her most recent project is 'Sonic Rooms' in collaboration with the composer Joachim Krebs. Bookmarks Maja Kuzmanovic http://www.cwi.nl/~maja http://www.deepfoam.org http:// www.deepfoam.org/sponge/tgarden.html http://www.starlab.org Lars Spuybroek http://synworld.t0.or.at/level3/text_archive/testing_ground.htm http://synworld.t0.or.at/level3/text_archive/strategy.htm http://www.v2.nl/deaf/96 Sabine Sch�fer http://www.sabineschaefer.de http://www.topophonien.de http://www.swo.de/SabineJoachim The Wiretap series is supported by: Cultural Affairs of the City of Rotterdam; Rotterdam Art Foundation; Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Foundation Bevordering van Volkskracht; and Luna Internet. Wiretap 6.07 is organised in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam. 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