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Labs as repair shops?

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

September 5, 2010

2:00 pm	to	5:00 pm

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).

For more information, see: http://new.aec.at/repair/en/program/future-factory/pixelspaces/#post-1257

Tags: ars electronica, future, laboratory
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The Future of the Lab book launch

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

August 23, 2010

5:00 pm	to	6:00 pm

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.

Tags: 2018brabant, collaboration, future, isea2010, laboratory
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BALTAN at the E-Culture Fair 2010

Thursday, July 8th, 2010


August 23, 2010	to	August 25, 2010

As part of the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010, BALTAN Laboratories is organising and hosting a presentation of Dutch, Belgian and German media art laboratories, brought together around three shared themes. This is an international presentation of BALTAN’s Future of the Lab research and one of the 12 projects from the Netherlands at the ECF. The labs presented at the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 include: BALTAN Laboratories (Eindhoven), Constant (Brussels), FoAM (Brussels), Labsa (Dortmund), OKNO (Brussels), The Patching Zone (Rotterdam), timelab (Ghent), the Urban Reality Lab of the Waag Society (Amsterdam), and V2_Lab (Rotterdam).

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the cross-over fields of creative industry, research, education and media art from August 23 – 25 on the second floor of the Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity. It is the first step of the envisaged long-term cooperation between the three partners, namely Virtueel Platform of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, BAM of Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, and medienwerk.nrw of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, organised by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund, DE). In line with previous events held in the Netherlands since 2000, the E-CULTURE FAIR is being presented for the first time in Germany as a partner event and cooperation project of ISEA2010 RUHR, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art. (more…)

Tags: future, laboratory, research
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The Future of the Lab panel at ISEA2010 RUHR

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

August 23, 2010

1:00 pm	to	2:30 pm

As a follow up to the international expert meeting The Future of the Lab held in Eindhoven (NL) in 2009, BALTAN Laboratories hosts a session at ISEA2010 RUHR around the changing and future roles and forms of the media lab. In order to build on the experiences and challenges shared during the meeting in Eindhoven, this session will take a number of specific key issues that were raised and delve more deeply into them at ISEA2010 RUHR. Five representatives from media art labs around Europe have been invited to respond to these themes. Following their statements, session participants will break into smaller working groups led by the respondents to further explore the proposed topics. The results of these working groups will take the shape of recommendations or proposals for action to pursue in the next steps of The Future of the Lab research, aiming to facilitate continued knowledge sharing between labs.

In collaboration with 2018Brabant Cultural Capital of Europe | Candidate.

Please note: this session is aimed at people who work in, for or with labs.

Location: Volkshochschule Dortmund, L 102b
Dortmund, Germany
(more…)

Tags: 2018brabant, collaboration, future, isea2010, laboratory
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Funware Residency: Naked on Pluto by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

“You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you like to do?”

Naked on Pluto is a text-based multiplayer game on Facebook. You are stranded on the planet Pluto, naked, alone. Your world is empty except for fragments of data, objects relating to your past life on social networks – but seen through the distorted lens of the game world. You can explore this world, at first alone and later in the game you’ll be able to invite and interact with friends. You can add and manipulate objects you encounter, interact with others and bots. Once you enter deeper into this world and web of data, you become aware of increasing complexity, characters appear you may recognise – are they friends or animated bits of data? Information is substituted and modified in subtle ways. Is it possible to remember what was ever real in the first place?

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.

The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. They will be in residence at BALTAN Laboratories in October 2010. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed at http://pluto.kuri.mu

Naked on Pluto will be presented as part of the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven in November, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010. (more…)

Tags: art, collaboration, copyleft, nimk, piksel, research
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