On September 5th Angela Plohman from BALTAN Laboratories will participate in the panel “Labs as repair shops?” as part of the Pixelspaces conference at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
“If labs want to continue to lodge a claim to design excellence that they have rightfully earned, we’ll have to deal with the world around us. Incessantly progressing global warming, the widening of the so-called digital gap between urban areas and regions with lower-grade infrastructure and between industrialized and developing countries are just a few of the scenarios on which labs are expected to take a stand. The labs of the future will (have to) deploy their entire creative potential in order to utilize technology as a means of bringing about advances in other sectors (like social welfare and education) that have a major impact on culture.”
With Horst Hörtner (AT), Angela Plohman (CA), Masa Inakage (JP), Zachary Lieberman (US) and Gary McDarby (UK).
BALTAN Laboratories launches its new publication The Future of the Lab, a collection of essays and statements that challenge and debate future strategies and forms of the laboratory (or media lab). Stemming from the international expert meeting The Future of the Lab held in Eindhoven in 2009, the book highlights some of the issues raised during those sessions and continues the conversation, acting as a context for future connections and action.
The publication features contributions by Andreas Broeckmann, Eyal Fried, Nik Gaffney, Eva De Groote, Horst Hörtner, the LABtoLAB network, Melinda Rackham, Joost Rekveld, Edward A. Shanken, and others.
In collaboration with 2018Brabant Cultural Capital of Europe | Candidate
Opening remarks by Geurt Grosfeld
Culture broker, Breda, 2018Brabant Cultural Capital of Europe | Candidate (NL)
With an introduction by Angela Plohman
Director, BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
And a toast by Floor van Spaendonck, Director, Virtueel Platform (NL)
Location: E-CULTURE FAIR 2010
Dortmunder U – Centre for Art & Creativity
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
D-44137 Dortmund
Germany
The book launch is part of the BALTAN Laboratories international Future of the Lab presentation at the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010.
Flux/S takes the transformation of Strijp-S from the former – restricted access – Philips industrial estate to a cultural and dynamic city centre as its inspiration for a cross-disciplinary arts manifestation. To mark the first ten years of this long-term development of 27 hectares of dismantled industrial heritage and wasteland, Flux/S invites artists to respond to these developments through visual arts and performance, interventions and dance, architecture, music, new media and poetry & literature. The developments on the site reflect the topical emphasis and practical ‘playground’ nature of the place, resulting in an ever-changing arts festival.
In the second episode in 2010, Flux/S will focus on draft structures, choices and proposals in the broadest sense. As the conceptual and architectural aspects are becoming less abstract in the development of Strijp S, the contours of projected social behaviour point to the basic interpretation of essential conditions. Flux/S – Drafts Establishing Future examines the how and why of these conditions, their underlying mechanisms and the shapes they might take. Invited artists offer alternative approaches, factual and fantastic structures and models, and unexpected opposites, correlations and influences.
BALTAN Laboratories is pleased to collaborate with Flux/S in the presentation of 12_Series by Telcosystems, developed at BALTAN Laboratories under the umbrella of BALTAN’s Poeme Numerique programme.
On Wednesday, 25 August 2010, ISEA2010 RUHR presents an extensive excursion programme. The conference programme pauses for the day to offer all participants the opportunity to take part in these excursions. One of the excursions is hosted by BALTAN Laboratories in collaboration with 2018Brabant Cultural Capital of Europe | Candidate.
This one-day excursion introduces participants to the history and contemporary context of creativity and technological innovation of the Dutch Brabant region. The excursion will take place at two locations in Eindhoven: Strijp-S, a 66-acre former Philips industrial terrain, once known as the ‘forbidden city’ and now the largest urban development project in the Netherlands; and the High Tech Campus, an R&D ecosystem of more than 90 companies and institutes, and more than 8,000 people. It is an opportunity to get a sampling of a number of unique projects and developments from around the region, ranging from an ambitious experiment with RFID technology by the STRP festival in Eindhoven to the CAD/CAM residency programme of the European Ceramic Workcentre in Den Bosch to the open innovation context of High Tech Campus Eindhoven. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
The Future of the Lab publication is out now! With contributions by Andreas Broeckmann, Eyal Fried, Nik Gaffney, Eva De Groote, Horst Hörtner, the LABtoLAB network, Melinda Rackham, Joost Rekveld, Edward A. Shanken, and others. Designed by Eric de Haas. Send an email to info[a]baltanlaboratories.org to order your copy. Price: 10,00 Euro (excl. shipping costs).
From December 3-5, 2009, BALTAN participated in Organized Networks, a Training Programme for Cultural Network Management in Riga, Latvia.
Artists Wendy Ann Mansilla and Jordi Puig presented their new work Flick Flock, developed in residency at BALTAN Laboratories, at Galleri 3,14 in Bergen, Norway, in the Piksel09 exhibition from November 20, 2009 – January 10, 2010. It was also shown at Campus Party Brazil in Sao Paulo in January 2010.
