ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 2006, an international conference held in conjunction with ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of art on the Edge, will be held in San Jose, CA, August 7-13 2006. Both events are “situated at the critical intersection of art and technology.” ISEA2006 re:mote is a symposium within ISEA2006 and is issuing a Call for Proposals.
ISEA2006 re:mote, August 10-12, 2006
International new media art discourse is stimulated by festivals and events like ISEA2006 which form temporary cultural centers to represent, present and discuss networked and digital technologies. However by forming temporary centers we also tacitly create a notion of a periphery – with temporary centers also come temporary peripheries. In new media culture this is a paradox as much new media art, theory, and discourse reflects on the network itself and the elusiveness and redundancy of centers and peripheries.
ISEA2006 re:mote attempts to dissuade us from imposing these distinctions by providing a platform for artists, commentators, curators, performers and theorists to participate in ISEA 2006 via online and pre-recorded media.
ISEA2006 re:mote Open Call
ISEA2006 re:mote is inviting media spaces and individual artists, theorists, and curators from around the world to speak or perform via remote technologies to the audience at ISEA. Presentations to be directed at the four themes of ISEA 2006. Participants are invited to present or perform on topics included within the ISEA symposium, and onsite audience interaction with the presenters is also encouraged. ISEA re:mote will focus on presenting media spaces and people that would otherwise be excluded from presenting their work at ISEA due to financial, political, or logistical reasons.
The length of each presentation can be negotiated, however, for now we have set the maximum time limit of 20 minutes. Technologies used will be up to each presenter, the premise is that the technologies should be easy for you to use and access and ISEA2006 re:mote will manage the corresponding technology requirements as much as possible onsite at ISEA2006. Live and pre-recorded material can be included. Live presentations could use any available technlogies including voice technologies such as Skype/OpenWengo/Gizmo/Linphone/Ekiga or other softphones, audio or video streams, video conferencing with softwares like ichatAV/Ekiga/Skype/OpenWengo, web cams, shared desktops using softwares like VNC/RemotePC or Remote Desktop, text chats such as irc or webchats, avatar environments, gaming environments, or even the telephone! In situations where your available bandwidth is limited or restricted, delivery of digital presentation material (audio/video) can be delivered electronically or posted by traditional mail. In all situations online presence of the presenters would be beneficial, this may take the form of IM, irc or other text based chat technologies if ‘realtime’ audio or video communications are not possible. Creative use of remote presentation technologies is encouraged!
Time slots have to be negotiated, but we are willing to bend as much as we can to include as many people as possible from various time zones. Unfortunately there are no honoraria available for this event.
ISEA2006 will feature four themes: Interactive City, Community Domain, Transvergence, and Pacific Rim. Please see the following links for further information on each on the themes:
Transvergence
http://01sj.org/content/view/25/71/
Interactive City
http://01sj.org/content/blogcategory/23/68/
Community Domain
http://01sj.org/content/view/23/69/
Pacific Rim
http://01sj.org/content/blogcategory/25/70/
All proposals need only be a short paragraph outlining what you would like to present, a short bio (one paragraph), and the software, technology, or other delivery process you would like to use for the presentation. Please email this information to Adam Hyde at:
adam@xs4all.nl
ISEA2006 re:mote is a collaboration between ISEA2006 (http://01sj.org/) and Adam Hyde (http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam) and is based on the re:mote series of events:
re:mote auckland – organised by r a d i o q u a l i a and ((ethermap
http://www.remote.org.nz/
re:mote regina – organised by r a d i o q u a l i a and soil media lab
http://soilmedia.org/remote/
Website: http://01sj.org/
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