From the EMF Orchestra Workshop

July 12th, 2010

On a hot, hot day in Eindhoven, BALTAN Laboratories and workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg (Constant, Brussels, BE), with Julien Ottavi (APO33, Nantes, FR), hosted Angela de Weijer, Olga Mink, Danielle Roberts, Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Mini Smulders, Sarie Hermens, Sarah Matot, Niels Bergmans and Lucas van der Velden for a one-day Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Orchestra Workshop.

After a morning and good part of the afternoon spent building and designing and winding and soldering their own EMF antennae (and a number of trips to the electronics store to remedy a slight technical difficulty with the amplifiers), participants took to the city for a collective intervention on a walk between Strijp-S and the centre of Eindhoven.


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BALTAN at the E-Culture Fair 2010

July 8th, 2010
 
August 23, 2010toAugust 25, 2010

As part of the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010, BALTAN Laboratories is organising and hosting a presentation of Dutch, Belgian and German media art laboratories, brought together around three shared themes. This is an international presentation of BALTAN’s Future of the Lab research and one of the 12 projects from the Netherlands at the ECF. The labs presented at the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 include: BALTAN Laboratories (Eindhoven), Constant (Brussels), FoAM (Brussels), Labsa (Dortmund), OKNO (Brussels), The Patching Zone (Rotterdam), timelab (Ghent), the Urban Reality Lab of the Waag Society (Amsterdam), and V2_Lab (Rotterdam).

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the cross-over fields of creative industry, research, education and media art from August 23 – 25 on the second floor of the Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity. It is the first step of the envisaged long-term cooperation between the three partners, namely Virtueel Platform of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, BAM of Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, and medienwerk.nrw of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, organised by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund, DE). In line with previous events held in the Netherlands since 2000, the E-CULTURE FAIR is being presented for the first time in Germany as a partner event and cooperation project of ISEA2010 RUHR, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Read the rest of this entry »

Future of the Lab panel at ISEA2010

July 8th, 2010
August 23, 2010
 
1:00 pmto2:30 pm

On August 23, from 13:00-14:30 at ISEA2010 in Dortmund, BALTAN Laboratories hosts a discussion around the roles and forms of the laboratory (or media lab) as a follow up to the international expert meeting The Future of the Lab held in Eindhoven in 2009. How can we build on the experiences and challenges shared during the first meeting? What future strategies are needed for the laboratory to thrive? How can we create a framework for collaboration within a network of labs?

In collaboration with 2018Brabant Cultural Capital of Europe | Candidate.

Funware Residency: Naked on Pluto by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk

July 7th, 2010

“You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you like to do?”

Naked on Pluto is a text-based multiplayer game on Facebook. You are stranded on the planet Pluto, naked, alone. Your world is empty except for fragments of data, objects relating to your past life on social networks – but seen through the distorted lens of the game world. You can explore this world, at first alone and later in the game you’ll be able to invite and interact with friends. You can add and manipulate objects you encounter, interact with others and bots. Once you enter deeper into this world and web of data, you become aware of increasing complexity, characters appear you may recognise – are they friends or animated bits of data? Information is substituted and modified in subtle ways. Is it possible to remember what was ever real in the first place?

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.

The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. They will be in residence at BALTAN Laboratories in October 2010. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed at http://pluto.kuri.mu

Naked on Pluto will be presented as part of the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven in November, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

BALTAN Session with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Peter Westenberg and Julien Ottavi

June 25th, 2010
June 30, 2010
 
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

On June 30th from 18:00-20:00, we will take a look at the results of the EMF Orchestra workshop taking place during the day, with workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg from Constant in Brussels, as well as participants from the workshop. Julien Ottavi, from APO33 in Nantes, will also join us to reflect on this workshop in relation to his electromagnetic spectrum research, as well as participate in a discussion around copyleft practices with Wendy and Peter.

Location: BALTAN Laboratories, Glaslaan 2, SWA building, 8th floor, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
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