GEOTALES, 23-27 FEB 2009 ! with Esther Polak (NL)

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

Registration is open for our workshop on Locative Media:
GEOTALES, 23-27 FEB 2009 !
with Esther Polak (NL)

GeoTales proposes a 5 days unique and creative experimentation workshop with mobile and location based technologies (GPS: Global PositioningSystem, Mobile networks and smart phones) under the direction of Esther Polak (NL) and her assistant Tijmen Schep (NL) . While reflecting upon available tools and their influence on our world's perception, we will hit the streets to dig up experiences of real-life locative media use. From these experiments, participants will develop concepts for locative projects and make a start with hands on development of tools: based on existing open source GPS editing/tracking softwares or newly developed from scratch.
The first day of GeoTales will be dedicated to "best practices" in the field of locative media. Simon Pope (UK), Daniel Belasco Rogers from Plan B (UK/DE), Gwenola Wagon (FR) and Esther Polak (NL) are invited to present their projects. Participants will be provided with smart phones with GPS and a variety of simple GPS devices.

About Esther Polak
>http://www.estherpolak.nl
>http://www.beelddiktee.nl/
Esther is a visual artist working with locative media. Using GPS technology to research on contemporary landscape, her projects have been showing internationally. She received a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, Linz (2005) for her project MILK and was nominated for the Open Doors Grant Prix, Amsterdam (2002). She is also founder of the foundation Beelddiktee supporting art and culture projects that include research on mediation as an integral part of the concept.
Teaching at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, she is especially good at giving conceptual feedback, realistic project design and critical brainstorming with programmers.

Dates: from 23 to 27 February 2009(5 days)
Fee: 100¤ (50¤ for participants from previous NewBraveWorld workshops)
Maximum Participants: 15
Location: iMAL, Brussels

Detailled description and registration on : http://www.imal.org/NewBraveWorld/NBW4/
GeoTales is part of NewBraveWorld, a series of artistic and creative workshops around Internet of Things, Ubicomp and Locative Media
More on NewBraveWorld masterclasses : http://www.imal.org/NewBraveWorld/



SHIFTSPACE workshop / ARTEFACT festival
12 FEB 2009, 10:00 - 18:00, iMAL

A one day workshop at iMAL with the authors of ShiftSpace to understand and use this second layer on top of the web where anyone can collaboratively publish notes and comments on any web page. ShiftSpace attempts to follow the open, distributed and uncontrolled nature of Internet by providing a new public space on the web. In collaboration with STUK during the Artefact Festival in Leuven. Registration will be open quite soon...

Une journée de workshop avec les créateurs de ShiftSpace pour comprendre et utiliser cette deuxième couche du web permettant de créer collaborativement ses notes et commentaires sur n'importe quelle page web. ShiftSpace propose un espace public ouvert au-dessus du web allant au delà des contenus centralisés et fermés. En collaboration avec le STUK dans le cadre du festival Artefact de Louvain. Inscriptions ouvertes bientôt.

Plus d'nfos / More on : http://www.artefact-festival.be/2009/099_lezingen_en.php?id=005
ShiftSpace : http://www.shiftspace.org



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