[Nettime-nl] [OKNO] january program

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OKNO - artist run organisation for art and mediatechnology - brussels
http://okno.be

january program overview

:: Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time :: opening  
performance 13-01 16h installation from 13-01 to 16-01, 14h to 18h
:: Art's Anniversary 2008 :: 17-01 20h
:: Mesh Networks Workshop preliminary info :: 21-1 to 25-1
:: Installation by Ãkos MarÃy and Maxigas :: 26-01 opening

:: Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time :: opening  
performance 13-01 16h installation from 13-01 to 16-01, 14h to 18h

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In this case the idea of "installation" is modified to mean a  
collection of instruments that can be utilized by a visitor in a way  
that resembles the use, as catalysts in divination, of things like  
cards, tea leaves, bones, sticks, coins, and so forth (and their are  
many versions throughout the world).
Each enactment of this piece creates a personal mini-concert.

The devices look, and in some ways behave, something like organic  
life. The oscillators are fragile, but they succeed in filling the  
space with a complex noise. The idea behind the work is that the  
piece offers a type of noise that might be conducive to "auditory  
hallucinations", a recurring theme in Sam Ashley's work, and one of  
the ways he seeks to bring the mystical experience into the realm of  
sound art.

Sam Ashley has been a kind of modern-day witch-doctor for most of his  
life, researching trance over more than 40 years. Life is Short and
Getting Shorter All the Time is part of The Oracle Project, in which  
Sam seeks to create sound or visual art works that can genuinely  
support the
flow of useful information from the soul of us to our minds.


http://okno.be/index.php?id=1203

:: Art's Anniversary 2008 :: 17-01 20h

OKNO celebrates Art's 1000.045th Anniversary!

What is a birthday without a birthday song? Based on an original idea  
by the French artist Robert Filliou, we contribute to this year's  
Art's Birthday with a radio opera, connecting Bratislava, Brussels  
and Tokyo in a worldwide celebration.

And of course there is the installation by Sam Ashley, Life is Short  
and Getting Shorter all the time.

As always, birthday cake and drinks for all...

http://okno.be/index.php?id=1205

:: Mesh Networks Workshop preliminary info :: 21-1 to 25-1

Code31 organizes a wireless mesh networks workshop with Ãkos MarÃy  
and Maxigas.
The technical and artistic possibilities of wireless networks are  
explored, be it standalone, as a sensor network or as part of the  
free city-wide network reseau citoyen.
This workshop is part of the xmedk series http://xmedk.be
More info soon, also keep an eye on http://code31.lahaag.org

:: Installation by Ãkos MarÃy and Maxigas :: 26-01 opening

Linked to the wireless network workshop, Ãkos MarÃy and Maxigas  
present an installation with this technology.

more info soon on http://okno.be

Where ::   OKNO  (2nd floor)   Koolmijnenkaai 30/34 â Quai aux  
Charbonnages   Brussels 1080
How to reach ::  tram 18 and metro Graaf van Vlaanderen / Comte de  
Flandres
Entrance ::  free
Supported by :: the Flemish Authorities (Vlaamse Gemeenschap) and the  
Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC).

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