| March 1, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
On Monday, March 1 from 18:00 – 20:00, BALTAN invites you to its first BALTAN Session of 2010 featuring lectures by Naut Humon, Director of Operations at Recombinant Media Labs – founded in 1991 to research, create, preserve and portray Spatial Immersive Synthesis (the science of projecting image, light and sound objects into 3 dimensional space) – and Tapio Mäkelä, one of the co-founders of M.A.R.I.N. - a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology. Tapio was also founder of the first Finnish artist-run media lab MuuMediaBase. As part of BALTAN’s research into the laboratory of the future, we will explore the history and new forms of the laboratory through their specific experiences and initiatives.
Naut Humon’s lecture is made possible in collaboration with the Sonic Acts Festival (February 25-28, 2010 in Amsterdam). For full programme information see: www.sonicacts.com
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Location: BALTAN Laboratories, Glaslaan 2, SWA building, 8th floor, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Entry: free
BIOGRAPHIES
Naut Humon
Naut Humon has been the Director of International Operations for RML, Asphodel Records and AV curator for select portions of the annual Ars Electronica Festival in Austria where he also helped coordinate their Digital Music’s category for ten years. Having performed in the past with the avant-garde music group Rhythm & Noise and now about to debut a new sound and vision collective known as Careen Ajar, there is a wide range of viewer involvement and constructed environs that build a bridge between these cross media collaborators from several decades.
Recombinant Media Labs emerged from Humon’s lifetime of performance exploration and intermedia cooperations. RML was founded in 1991 to research, create, preserve and portray Spatial Immersive Synthesis: the science of projecting image, light and sound objects into 3 dimensional space. RML cultivates distinctive methodologies for Experiential Engineering; exploring production processes that expand the aesthetic and technological boundaries of panoramic installation, surround cinema, and multichannel a/v performance.
The RML initiatives provide international artists in residence the opportunity to take their creative impulse to the furthest frontiers of aural and cinematic language, and present them in the formats for exhibition, symposia, workshops and real time cinesonic chamber concerts.
http://www.rml-cinechamber.org
Tapio Mäkelä
Tapio Mäkelä is a researcher and a media artist based in Manchester, UK and Helsinki, Finland. He is currently an AHRC Research Fellow with department of Creative Technology, School of Art and Design, The University of Salford. He is working on a book about social and cultural uses of location based media.
Mäkelä is a co-founder of Marin Association and M.A.R.I.N. (Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network), an art, science and ecology research residency and network initiative.
He has recently been researcher as part of a Finnish Arts Council and Academy of Finland funded project, USED, based at HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and m-cult, Finnish Centre for New Media Culture. In the USED project Mäkelä’s work has focused on critical contextualization of location based media in urban environments.
Mäkelä was the programme chair of ISEA2004, the 12th International Symposium of Electronic Art. He is working mostly on new media and cultural studies research as well as research driven media arts practice.
Over the last decade, Mäkelä has presented papers at several international forums and been a visiting lecturer. In the years 1994-1997 Mäkelä was director of artist association Muu, where he established a medialab for artists, the MuuMediaBase. Mäkelä has also realized several media art works and projects, often with a focus on public spaces and networks. He also founded the Polar Circuit media arts workshop series. With m-cult he has worked with new media arts and culture policy research resulting in three publications.
