The 5th RAM workshopentitled “Open Source Media Architecture” will take place from May 4th to 9th, 2004 in Riga, Latvia, organised by the RIXC. The aim of the workshop is to investigate into how the Open Source concept, applied in contemporary practice of architec-ture, locative art and streaming media, can turn closed systems into open-ended narratives. It also aims to explore how the Open Source concept changes the notion about copyright and intellectual property, facilitates free access to the media content, and promotes enhancement of the public domain - leading a step closer towards an interactive, shared and collaborative practice of copyright-free culture.
RAM5: “Open Source Media Architecture” is a part of the “Re-Approaching New Media” se-ries of workshops and events being held across 6 Nordic and Baltic countries. The project is a collaboration between CRAC (SE), Olento (FI), RIXC (LV), Atelier Nord (NO), E-Media Center (EE), Vilma/Jutempus (LT).
www.ram-net.net
The Locative media workshop held during PixelACHE 2004 Festival is the first event in the series of 6 “Trans-Cultural Mapping” workshops initiated by RIXC Centre for New Media (Riga, Latvia). Other partner organisations are TEKS/Trondheim, LORNA/Reykjavik, ELLIPSE/Paris, Projekt Atol/Ljubljana and Piknik Frequency/Helsinki. Each workshop will have a specific focus on outskirts and interregional networking, in the context of an enlarged Europe. Additional goal is to discover specific, deep and relevant layers of the local cultures, involving specific lo-cal communities in the process.
www.pixelache.ac/locative – www.rixc.lv
At ISEA2004 you can further explore the themes presented at the Locative media workshop during PixelACHE 2004. PixelACHE artists such as aether architecture and Amfibio will feature new work in the ISEA2004 programme.
ISEA2004 symposium on electronic arts and research kicks off in Helsinki, Finland, with Inter-facing Sound programme at the electronic music festival Koneisto. After that around 1400 par-ticipants of ISEA2004 board a cruise ferry. The first part of the trip is made in collaboration with Koneisto. The Interfacing sound cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm mixes clubbing, sound art, installations, interactive games and sonic experiments. The journey continues under the file name Networked experience to Åland Islands and to Tallinn, where themes Wearable experi-ence and Geopolitics of media, amongst others will be explored. ISEA2004 culminates in con-ferences, exhibitions, concerts, live performances and club events in both Tallinn and Helsinki.
www.isea2004.net