Documentation and archived resources
This page provides an overview of archived resources documenting the ElectroSmog festival. These include special project websites, archived webcasts of connected debates and discussions, and other relevant materials that can be accessed on-line.
ElectroSmog Leader from ElectroSmog Festival on Vimeo.
Connected Debates and Discussions:
The webcasts of the ElectroSmog debates and discussions are archived in the on-line video archive of De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, annotated with links to information sources and project websites.
Global perspectives on hyper-mobility:
play the video | program info
Witnessed Presence research presentation:
play the video | program info
Hyper-mobility and the urban condition:
play the video | program info
Riverrun, a collective and experimental online artwork:
play the video | program info
10 tactics Q & A with Tanya Notley & David Garcia:
play the video | program info
To Brand or not to Brand: The ElectroSmog city & nation branding debate:
play the video | program info
Deep local and remote technologies:
play the video | program info
Designing for (im)mobility:
play the video | program info
The ElectroSmog internet censorship debate: e-mobility versus immobility:
play the video | program info
Energy and Information:
play the video | program info
Food and global mobility:
play the video | program info
Art projects, on-line art works and special project pages:
Urban Wilderness Action Center linkup
Hosted by Jon Cohrs, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, and Eyebeam
Venues: Eyebeam, New York / Skulpturenpark Berlin / Schijnheilig, Amsterdam / London
The Urban Wilderness Action Center (UWAC) is a project initiated by Eyebeam alum Jon Cohrs, in collaboration with the Eyebeam Student Residents (New York), Eyebeam Education Coordinator Stephanie Pereira, and UK-based artist Kai-Oi Jay Yung (UK). The UWAC project includes a web platform uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com and a day of action where people from NYC, Berlin, and London will work together to design and disseminate specific guerrilla gardening projects and related urban interventions.
During an online linkup between New York, London, Berlin, Amsterdam and elsewhere local results of the project were presented and discussed between the participating cities.
Urban Wilderness Action Center (UWAC ):
http://uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com
UWAC page at Eyebeam:
http://eyebeam.org/events/electrosmog-festival-urban-wilderness-action-center
UWAC Berlin Miocro_turf Expedition:
http://uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com/projects/the-berlin-micro-turf-expedition
UWAC London Everbloom Pocket City Pollination:
http://uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com/projects/everbloom-pocket-city-pollination
LocalSoundScapes
Sound project created by Costas Bissas
LocalSoundScapes is a collection of geography specific audio recordings created from the activities and processes of local businesses and their surrounding natural environment. The recordings reveal otherwise inconspicuous practices of everyday life and moments from the creation of various products.
The project uses binaural microphone recordings to immerse the audience in the 3D sonic environment of the greater area of Forres in the Highlands of Scotland.
www.localsoundscapes.net
Supported by Distance Lab.
Food and Global Mobility / NomadicMILK project
Debate, art project, and installation
Venue: De Balie, Amsterdam (exhibition)
In conjunction with the Food and Global Mobility debate, curtated by Tania Goryucheva, the installation and research project NomadicMILK by artist Esther Polak was presented at De Balie during ElectroSmog. The NomadicMILK project is a quest in the tradition of landscape painting. Based on a collaboration between the artist, robot engineers, anthropologists, documentary makers and philosophers, the project triggers new consciousness with new means.
NomadicMILK tracked the daily routes of two milk related economies between January and December 2009 in Nigeria: “We followed Mr Idiris, Fulani cow herder and his family during dry and rainy season. We also followed the distribution of PEAK milk, one of the best-known powder- and condensed milk brands in Nigeria (partly owned by Friesland-Campina). We collected the routes by GPS (Global Positioning System) and made a drawing of each route on the ground: for this we used a custom developed GPS drawing robot. This way we could discuss the routes with the people involved in an performative setting. Finally we made mono prints of every route: a set of 12 70 X 100 cm sand colored prints per route and thus per person.”
The resulting installation consists of twelve monoprints on canvas, two video projections and sound. It depicts the nomadic life of cow herders versus truckers by visualizing their routes, stories and daily life.
Food and Global Mobility debate:
Information:
www.electrosmogfestival.net/program/#food
Archived webcast:
play the video
NomadicMILK project website:
www.nomadicmilk.net
Food and Global Mobility – Tracing the path of food to our kitchen-table from ElectroSmog Festival on Vimeo.
TeleTrust
Participatory performance by Karen lancel & Hermen Maat
Venues: De Balie, Amsterdam / Banff Center for the Arts / Dunedin, New Zealand
Artists Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat are conducting a series of networked performances in public spaces involving a wearable ‘data-veil’ that covers the entire body. The veil is touch sensitive and by touching her or himself the wearer triggers stories he/she can listen to inside the veil, while the audience around can follow the same story on public screens and via the web. All these stories are interviews conducted around the public performances with the TeleTrust veil. The interviews centre on issues of trust in public space and the question of veiled presence in public space:
“Do I need to see your eyes in order to trust you?”
How is trust established under veiled conditions?
The project can also be seen as a metaphor for the hidden presence of people in digital networks, where ‘the design of trust’ (Nevejan) remains a highly problematic issue.
www.lancelmaat.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128
TELE_TRUST @ ElectroSmog – a participatory performance and installation by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat from ElectroSmog Festival on Vimeo.
The performance was staged simultaneously in Banff, Canada, Dunedin, New Zealand and Amsterdam, The Netherlands – covering a time-zone stretch of 20 hours.
Bureau d’Etudes: Electro-magnetic propaganda
Be an anti-electrosmog fighter!
On- and off-line exhibition.
Locations: De Balie, Amsterdam (off-line exhibition) / on-line
http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/electromagnetic-propaganda/
In 2006 the art collective Bureau d’Etudes (Paris/Strasbourg) created an enigmatic map of the influence of electromagnetic waves on the biological body. This map is transformed for the ElectroSmog festival into an on- and off-line exhibition.
“Humanity has known electromagnetic waves for a century, but their massive use for technical applications only began with the Second World War. Since then, the density of electromagnetic radiation has doubled every four years, and electromagnetic pollution has been multiplied a hundredfold over the past thirty years. Medical and epidemiological research has accumulated over the past few decades showing the destructive effects of these fields on our organisms, affecting our health or even modifying our ways of apprehending the world.” (B.d.E.)
http://bureaudetudes.org/
See also the Semaphore research blog of the Spectral Investigations Collective:
http://semaphore.blogs.com/semaphore/spectral_investigations_collective/
Korawiki – Kete of Remote Artworks wiki
A catalogue of projects from Aotearoa New Zealand using communications technologies to present, perform, and collaborate over time and distance, hosted by ADA – Aotearoa Digital Arts network .
http://korawiki.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/wiki/doku.php
Overview of ADA ElectroSmog events & projects:
http://korawiki.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/wiki/doku.php/electrosmog:programme
Waka.Wireless
Performance by Julian Priest, artist and director of The Green Bench from a wifi enabled waka on the Whanganui river, with Sue James, Michael Poa, Te Wainuiarua Poa, Jonah Marinovich, and Don Hunter
As part of the deep local session the artists set out onto the Whanganui river to present to the conference – 10am – 12pm in Europe/10pm-12am in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
“Milke Poa opened the performance with a karakia to open the korero accompanied by Jonah Marinovich on Pootataro (konch). The discussion then began with Julian Priest and Eric Kluitenberg on aspects of the situation of the discussion. We talked about the contrast between the wireless technical implementation and the mode of transport. We also discussed the experience of http://greenbench.org/project/slowflow and the contrast between the non-connected areas up the Whanganui river in the bush, where no connection is possible (without satellite phones) and the city siutation of the performance.
We commented that being disconnected takes planning, and also a strong intention to do so.
We ended discussing the possibilities for exploring the relationship between waka culture and information technology.”
http://greenbench.org/project/waka-wireless
Backyard Dances
Friday March 19, 22.30 – 22:50 CET (GMT+1)
- being everywhere at once, while staying at home, in our own backyard.
Venues: AUT WT Building, Auckland, remote: Berlin, Brisbane, Oklahoma, Taipa (northland), and Auckland Waterview
Becca Wood + networked performers
‘Backyard Dances’ transports the backyard as actuated space for live choreography using web cameras, chat rooms, transcriptions, the imagination, text to speech software and the dancing body.
Help create a global community, an online neighbourhood of backyard ‘dancers’. Transform your backyard into a screen dance to be used in an online community dance project that responds to the question can remote connections become a truly rewarding experience in and of themselves?
Participants were asked to submit a 30 sec – 3 minute videos “transcribing the terrain of your backyard, the micro and the macro, the gritty and the serene, the discarded and the sculptured through the lens of a camera. Take us on a journey, offer a new perspective, strap your camera to your foot, your knee, your elbow or your head and make a recording of the path made by your dance in your own backyard.”
These recordings were then transcribed into a choreographic score for a performed series of solo dances from divergent places. This global ensemble facilitates a new community of backyard dancers who will perform live at the Electrosmog Festival.
Tools and Models for Online Collaboration
Venue: Eyebeam, New York
Saturday, March 20, 2010 | 10AM – 5PM (Eastern Standard Time / 16.00 – 23.00 CET (GMT+1)
Cover Collaborative Futures book, first version.
http://eyebeam.org/events/electrosmog-skillshare-tools-and-models-for-online-collaboration
Michael Mandiberg & Mushon Zer-Aviv‘s presentation on online collaboration and the Collaborative Futures book sprint.
Slideshare contains audio and slides.
www.slideshare.net/eyebeam/electrosmog-skillshare-tools-and-models-for-online-collaboration
Notes from the presentation are also available here:
www.slideshare.net/eyebeam/electrosmog-skillshare-tools-and-models-for-online-collaboration-3724161
[...] A video of the presentation given at the outset (about the artistic and scientific ideas behind Riverrun and how it works as an interdisciplinary experiement) can be found here: http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/documentation/ [...]