hallo zusammen.
im rahmen der isea.2010, einem festival für kunst und digitale medien das nächstes jahr in dortmund, essen und duisburg stattfindet planen wir eine reihe mit workshops mit medienaktivisten, durch die kooperationen und ein austausch an know-how ermoeglicht werden sollen.
im vorfeld kommt einer der organisatoren, Graham Harwood, ende april ins ruhrgebiet um zu sondieren, mit welchen partnern man solche workshops durchfuehren koennte.
ich suche jetzt leute, die moeglichst die 'freie medien szene' im ruhrgebiet kennen und die entweder selber darueber berichten koennen, oder aber helfen koennen, weitere kontakte zu entwickeln. wir denken dabei an
radio-, video-, netz-, open-source-aktivistInnen, open-hardware-hacker, usw.
auch leute von offenen kanaelen koennen interessant sein. (in dieser recherche-phase ist es nicht essentiell, dass die leute englisch koennen.)
bin dankbar fuer tips und hinweise. gern _gezielte_ weitergabe dieser anfrage.
mit den besten grüßen, stefan
Harwood and others: Media Field Studies: Workshops and Guides
A series of workshops in the Ruhr region in the autumn of 2009 with community media trainers and youngsters interested in learning about new media systems and their appropriation and usage. These workshops lead to a publication in English and German (Media Field Guides) which will be presented during ISEA2010 RUHR in Dortmund. An editorial meeting can be organised at Chalkwell Hall art centre, Essex, with German and British workshop participants.
This project will be commissioned in cooperation with AV Festival, NewcastleGateshead, where a parallel series of workshops would happen in the autumn of 2009; presentation of the English language publication at the AV Festival in March 2010.
The principal objectives of the Media Field Studies Workshops are to: - Release the full potential of local media. - Produce simple, well defined examples of how media can be used to mediate not by controlling and ordering what can be said, shown or heard, but show how media can provide the means to unblock channels of access, release currents of energy and reveal the margins of what people can feel, sense, reason and imagine. - To be a catalyst for people to begin a dialogue with each other about how they do things for themselves.
The Media Field Studies Guides will be designed to provide clearly written and illustrated guides to enable the media non-specialist to identify the potentialities of mundane and strange media in the field and lab. They will enable the accurate identification of potentialities of objects, signals to act as media which is a fundamental part of most media fieldwork. The MFS guides produce simple, well illustrated and clearly written aids to identification and use and investigate alternative ways in which the identified media can be made strange again.
Bio: Graham Harwood is the artistic director of the UK artist group Mongrel. His main interests are in the networked image and helping other people set things up for themselves. He currently lives at the mouth of the Thames with Matsuko Yokokoji, another member of Mongrel and their son Lani, were they are helping to set up a free media space mediashed.org for local inhabitants. Harwood is best known for his collaborative work 'Rehearsal of Memory' (1995) produced with maximum security mental patients at Ashworth Hospital and as the founder of Mongrel an internationally recognised artists group specialising in digital media.
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