| Andreas Broeckmann on Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:10:33 +0100 |
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| Syndicate: Virtual Revolutions workshop Rotterdam |
V2_Organisation / V2_Lab: VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS 2 In June/July 1998, V2_Organisation Rotterdam is organising a week-long workshop with 11 artists from seven East and West European countries. The workshop will be held in the new V2_Lab, International Laboratory for the Unstable Media. During one week, the artists will work together under the theme of 'Virtual Revolutions: The Doppelgaenger Revolution', exploring the aesthetics and the politics of online identities. VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS Virtual Revolutions is a series of four media art workshops which take place at venues across Europe in Sofia/Bulgaria (SCA), Rotterdam/The Netherlands (V2_), Tornio/Finland (Polar Circuit 2) and Manchester/UK (Revolting) in spring and summer 1998. Virtual Revolutions builds diverse and international teams of artists to work together and enjoy each other's experiences. Different artists will be participating in each of the workshops, yet, they will be able to communicate and build on each others work through a collaborative working environment on the Internet. The workshops are another step in getting beyond the former east/west divide of Europe and test the creative potential of translocality and virtuality. The Virtual Revolutions series leads to the production of a CD-ROM and a WWW-site that will document the participants projects in a shared environment. This documentation will be presented during the ISEA98 conference in Liverpool and Manchester in September 1998. VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS 2: VR @ V2_ Time: June 29 - July 5, 1998 Place: V2_Lab, International Laboratory for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam/NL Workshop theme The title of the workshop series, Virtual Revolutions, is derived from the theme of ISEA98, Revolution/Terror. Virtual Revolutions deals with the real and the virtual transformations that the so-called 'digital revolution' has effected in the fields of art, society and politics. With its emphasis on an exchange between artists for East and West Europe, Virtual Revolutions will pay special attention to the transformation of cultures and identities in Europe that are taking place between the 'technological', the 'virtual' and the 'real social revolutions' of the 1990s. The theme of the Rotterdam workshop, the Doppelgaenger Revolution, raises the question of personal identities in virtual environments. In a week of brainstorming and hands-on workshop sessions, the participants will be able to explore and share their ideas about selves, others, avatars and agents in virtual environments. Treading the line between high & low tech, we will be experimenting with networked environments as sites of agency and of artistic collaboration. (The workshop is being prepared with the participants by means of a special mailing list.) VR @ V2_ is organised by V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, NL and coordinated by Andreas Broeckmann <[email protected]> with special support from Anne Nigten <[email protected]>, manager of the V2_Lab. PARTICIPANTS VR@V2_ Daniel Garcia Andujar, Valencia/Spain, <[email protected]> http://www.irational.org/daniel Vesna Manojlovic, Belgrade/Yugoslavia <[email protected]> http://www.classroom.opennet.org/~BECHA/ Katja Martin, Berlin/Germany <[email protected]> Nikolay Milev, Sofia/Bulgaria <[email protected]> Branko Milosavljevic, Novi Sad/Yugoslavia <[email protected]> http://solair.eunet.yu/~mbranko Taylor Nuttal, Kendal, Cumbria/UK <[email protected]> http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/taylor.nuttall Terhi Penttilä, Helsinki/Finland <[email protected]> http://muu.autono.net/artists/terhi/ Anneke Pettican, Manchester/UK <c/o [[email protected]]> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/reaction.html http://www.36mc-idea.org.uk Stefan Saskov, Skopje/Macedonia <[email protected]> http://www.soros.org.mk/scca/index.html Dimitrina Sevova, Sofia/Bulgaria <[email protected]> Graziella Tomasi, Rotterdam/Netherlands <[email protected]> http://home.luna.nl/~graziella/stockh1.html Jukka Ylitalo, Helsinki/Finland <[email protected]> http://interface.xs2.net GENERAL INFORMATION VR is coordinated by Iliyana Nedkova [[email protected]] at FACT, Liverpool/UK; Tapio Makela [[email protected]] at Polar Circuit, Tornio/Finland; Javor Raitchev [[email protected]] at SCA, Sofia/Bulgaria; and Andreas Broeckmann [[email protected]] at V2_, Rotterdam/The Netherlands. VR WEBSITES: http://www.yourserver.co.uk/vr http://www.v2.nl/vr VR IS SUPPORTED BY - the Internet Program of the Open Society Institute, New York - the European Culturual Foundation, Amsterdam - North West Arts Board, UK - APEXchanges, Amsterdam - Soros Foundation Novi Sad - Soros Foundation Skopje FURTHER INFORMATION V2_Organisation Andreas Broeckmann Eendrachtsstr.10 NL-3012 XL Rotterdam tel.+31-10-206 72 72 fax.+31-10-206 72 71 e-mail: [email protected]