Report on The Spaces in Between, the fourth session in BALTAN Laboratories’ BALTAN GOES NATLAB presentation series at the former Philips NatLab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. 4.30 - 6.30pm, Friday 26 June 2009.
Installation of one of the student projects at the NatLab
Collaborations between artistic and technological disciplines can generate new insights into different ways of thinking as well as working methods. BALTAN Laboratories is concerned both with investigating who the residents of these hybrid spaces of expertise are as well as their experiences. This three-part program was put together to both show and tell an arts/technology tale starting with urban interventions, delving into effective collaboration techniques and then ending with bright, lateral thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
On Thursday June 11, 2009, BALTAN hosted a workshop for 16 creative professionals, led by Edo Paulus and Jonathan Puckey, which explored new ways of working, collaborating and communicating in interdisciplinary creative situations. The day consisted of a short presentation of the work and manifesto of Conditional Design, and four drawing sessions: two Conditional Drawing sessions in the morning, two Custom Rules sessions in the afternoon.
Students of the Fontys Hoogeschool Eindhoven ICT & Livestyle program have been working in collaboration with BALTAN on a series of projects for their Art & Technology semester of study. BALTAN’s artistic advisors gave the students 5 assignments from which they could choose and have been advising them throughout the process over the last months. The assignments ranged from visualising a database to making an artwork inspired by the work of Dan Graham, using the knowledge and (media) technologies of today.
The Art & Technology semester focused on ICT, design and interactive art. Students developed installations, services and or products that challenge the borders of human interaction with technology. The assignments from BALTAN, as well as those from the other participating organisations in Eindhoven, provided a starting point for work of the students in this semester and have been creatively interpreted. The final results of the student projects will be presented in the former Philips NatLab on Friday, June 26.
People meet in different ways now, even in the most strangest manner. Imagine flying over a city and witnessing all the things that are taking place there. Connect to Google Earth and find Eindhoven, a small city in The Netherlands. As you get closer, a number of YouTube videos appear on top of the city. As you bring up each video you start to experience what is taking place there. Did you know about the man that juggles? That there is a flying saucer in a park? That a young couple are moving into their new apartment? About the people who like to dance tango? Somebody who is an aspiring singer? Every one of these people are broadcasting their experiences. What would it be like if somebody tried to contact them back? Read the rest of this entry »
On Friday, June 26, 2009 BALTAN Laboratories hosts the fourth in its series of BATLAN GOES NATLAB presentations at the former Philips NatLab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. This session will focus on the people working in the spaces in between artistic and technological research and development. Speakers include Michelle Teran (Canada), artist-in-residence at BALTAN who is developing the site-specific project ‘The City is Creative’ for flux-s, a new cross-disciplinary arts festival to take place at Strijp-S in Eindhoven from 10 until 13 September 2009; Stock, an independent software designer and developer who worked for many years in the V2_Lab in Rotterdam; as well as students from the Fontys Hogeschool ICT & Livestyle minor programme who will present the results of a series of projects developed in collaboration with BALTAN Laboratories as part of their Art & Technology semester of study.
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On Wednesday, July 15th at 20:00, BALTAN will participate in the second New Media meeting in Utrecht, organised by Impakt, z25 and NetNiet.org. For more information, see: http://www.medialabutrecht.nl
12_Series by Telcosystems is featured as an Interesting Work on the homepage of Cycling ‘74.
Artist Michelle Teran (CA/DE) is currently in residence at BALTAN Laboratories developing a new site-specific project titled “The City is Creative”. This work is a co-production between BALTAN and flux-s, a new cross-disciplinary art manifestation to take place at Strijp-S in Eindhoven in September 2009.
BALTAN Laboratories participated as a good practice example of creation and technology at the 6th Euro-American Campus for Cultural Cooperation held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 24-27 March 2009.
On March 11 & 12, 2009, BALTAN Laboratories visited a number of artists and organisations in Gent and Brussels working in the field of art and technology as part of BAM’s Visitors Programme. BAM is the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art based in Gent, Belgium.
From February 25 to March 1, PNEK (Norwegian Production Network for Electronic Art) hosted and supported a visit of BALTAN Laboratories to a number of Norwegian media art organisations in Oslo, Kvinesdal and Bergen, Norway. Results of this visit have included participation of 3 Norwegian artists in BALTAN goes NATLAB sessions in Eindhoven as well as a collaboration in progress with Piksel in Bergen and visits to Eindhoven by Per Platou (coordinator of PNEK) and Gisle Froysland and Elisabeth Nesheim (Piksel).
Installation of one of the student projects at the NatLab
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