Projects 2004

Events in Reykjavik

TEJP
Public Spaces in Reykjavik
20 - 22 March 2004

Prompted by the excess of commercial media pervading the public arena, the research and design project Tejp draws on youth and grafitti culture to encourage playful ways for individuals to personalize territory - creating a new (digital) space and sounding board for social relationships between residents, passers-by and potential players in the public arena. The goal is to provide technological tools and situations for layering personal traces on public physical spaces for others to discover. Tejp promotes technologically-enabled personal expression that can happen any day, in any public space without the need for group organization or ownership of specific devices.

Tejp contact: Margot Jacobs, PLAY Interactive Institute. Coordinated at NIFCA by Marita Muukkonen and Tomas Ivan Träskman.
margot.jacobs@tii.se, http://www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/tejp/index.html

The project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.


MANYFACTURE
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
20 March - 4 April 2004

Parallel to the international conference “Rethinking the Interface between Human Creativity and Technology” in Reykjavik, March 20 - 22, participants of the Critical Studies course at Malmö Art Academy and Rooseum will unfold a mapping around the term “artistic research” at the Living Art Museum. Implications, differences and resonances related to the broad spectra of creativity and technology will be explored through the confluent modes of theoretical and practical production. Participants: Dorothee Albrecht, Can Altay, Kristina Ask, Hyunjin Kim, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Hanna Styrmisdóttir, Christina Werner, Christine Wolfe

“The challenge of Manyfacture is to combine, within one project, the different interests in and interpretations of its central ‘themes’, that we experience as a group. Our approach has therefore been to build an open structure, flexible enough that it can grow in any direction, without abandoning the starting point of art research/interface/technology.
We will be contributing individually and collectively, with ideas overlapping and collaborations happening within the structure in an ‘organic’ way.
In an effort to interact with the ‘space’ of the LAM, other spaces than the exhibition rooms themselves will be integrated, there will be a series of interviews addressing the art institution and the question of technology, a research on the collaborative process will take place, there will be a sonic component, a ‘mapping’ of the LAM itself, its collection and staff, as well as a workshop inviting input from outside, to name a few aspects of the project.

We want to stress the process-oriented nature of Manyfacture, which is inherent in the emphasis on art as research/knowledge production and its meeting point as such with technology. The above description is therefore subject to change; we reserve room for unexpected turns.”

For more information contact:
Hanna Styrmisdóttir, e-mail: adelia@isl.is
Geir Svansson, e-mail: geirsv@isl.is
Jenny Nybom (NIFCA), e-mail: sleipnir@nifca.org, tel. +358 – (0) 686 43 106
Living Art Museum: http://www.nylo.is
Creativity and Technology Conference: http://www.creativityandtechnology.org

The project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Read an article on "Manyfacture"


NONTVTVSTATION
www.splintermind.com
Reykjavik Art Museum
20 March 2004

nonTVTVstation is an Internet TV-station for real-time based art based in Stockholm. It was founded by the artists group Beeoff. In 1999 they started to stream art via Internet to the web and to museums. Thanks to new distribution technology the nonTVTVstation transmissions can be seen at the museums in a quality comparable to VHS-video.

Today the transmissions are produced in collaboration with a number of Nordic institutions including NIFCA, Kiasma, the museum of contemporary art in Roskilde, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Norrbottens museum, Blekinge museum and Länsmuseet on Gotland.

Artists are invited to make a one month long broadcast. The work shall be produced in real-time for real-time distribution, 24 hours a day. Within these frames the artist is free to choose media.

NonTVTVstation is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

www.splintermind.com


WWW.GROTTO.TV
Reykjavik Art Museum
20 March 2004

What: Dialogues, artworks and animations on the web dealing with questions like: what are the long-term goals of artists, activists and critics in the face of global media consolidation? And: what is the use of critical discourses if they, in the end, do not reach wider audiences?
How: This spring, in a number of but small high-energy contexts www.grotto.tv will bring artists, social scientists, teenagers and other thinking creatures in formats such as workshops, lectures, open mic, parties, dialogues and brainstorming sessions.
To Whom: sentient creatures and and ghosts preying on the living.
Schedule: New Episodes on www.grotto.tv every second week!
New interviews with Aurora Reinhard, Ernesto Neto, Sarat Maharaj, Brian Holmes, Milica Tomic and lots more.
Presentations, lectures and workshops at Reykjavik Art Museum, Belgrade Art Academy and at Suomenlinna NIFCA.

Collaboration with Minority Report, Aarhus Contemporary Art Festival.
A collaboration with schools and universities with a special focus on media criticism is initiated this spring
A collaboration with public service-television and - radio focusing on collaboration and not promotion has been initiated.

Design and Concept: NIFCA in collaboration with WHITE SHEEP .:. multidisciplinary marketing communications & design. Coordinated at NIFCA by Tomas Ivan Träskman.
The project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.


Read more about the NCoM Policy Conference, http://formennskadansk.forsaetisraduneyti.is/Konferencer//nr/1270