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PROJECT::Netzfunk
BY: Ignacio Nieto


Netzfunk grupo de personas que trabaja el arte del silencio, está produciendo en Santiago de Chile, hasta finales de Junio, un taller de tecnologías suaves para el postgrado de Estética de la Universidad de Chile. El objetivo principal del taller es transgredir la mirada apolítica que se tiene sobre objetos tecnológicos, alterando su utilidad funcional a una discursividad política.

El curso en cuestión está dividido en tres proyectos prácticos, que finalizarán con una performance en tiempo real, donde se ocupará un GPS y un programa escrito en PHP para dichos aparatos que permitirá extender 'el' punto de localización a un radio de 25 metros. Además el GPS podrá descargar archivos en diferentes formatos digitales (audio, texto, video e imágenes) que corresponderán a los documentos y relatos obtenidos por el colectivo previamente recopilados. Esta acción será realizada desde tres puntos de la ciudad de Santiago. La obra en cuestión será el primer trabajo artístico contempráneo realizado en Chile bajo licencia Creative Commons, del cual se espera un lanzamiento oficial en el mes de Junio de este año en la ciudad de
Santiago.

Para mayor información pueden contactarse con::
David Boardman: d-@netzfunk.org
Diego Mometti: diego.mometti@gmail.com

NetzfunkEnglish version

Netzfunk, a group of people working on the art of silence, is producing a soft technologies workshop in Santiago, Chile, through the end of June,for the aesthetic post-graduate program of the University of Chile. The main goal of this workshop is to transgress the apolitical view that holds sway over technological objects, altering its functional profit context to a political discursivness.

This course is divided into three practical projects, that will end with a performance in real time, where GPS and a software written on PHP for such instruments, will be used that will allow one to extend 'the' point of location on a radio to 25 meters. Additionally, the GPS will be able to download files in different digital formats (audio, text, video and images), that will match with the documents and statements obtained by the collective, which have been previously compiled. This action will be realized from three different locations in the city of Santiago. Such a piece will be the _first_ contemporary artistic work to be performed in Chile under Creative Commons license, from which it will be expected that an official launching will follow.

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OTHER*PROJECTS::Mobile Research and the Asian Space
BY::Molly Hankwitz


Cross cultural collaboration drives much of the compelling creative communications in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Networked art plays between national spaces and is recognized with great interest for this reason. Projects such as Fibreculture, Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific and Seoul 'Media City' link artists, theorists, researchers and cultural policy-makers from the disparate geographies. The degree, however, to which net artists can play any role in the development of 'communications' networks is an area of art and technology (despite low-budget 'wi fi')that remains to be seen.

Two recent projects, one industry-driven and one scholarly, epitomize the research climate and diversity of interests surrounding mobile 'usage' and its intellectual space now emerging in Australasia.

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The AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group is undertaking a research project to gain high level insight into what Australian's know about their mobile phones and how they use them.

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Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities communications conference in Hong Kong.

Immersed in the self-exploration of new networks, can art and scholarship today transcend the essential state of error-dom which mars so notoriously our "cyberhistory" (the second Network Age "after ARPANET")? "Cyberspace" as history, despite its impact and its generations, has left many a crap carcasss of disregard to rot in the wasteland of its own arrival. The sheer rude awakening has forced us to reflect and to sustain ourselves beyond initial gloss. More importantly, globalization has swelled well out of bounds of the initial trajectory and has got no laws.

Uptake of "the tools" does not erase manners, philosophy, social contract and style but forms, instead, the layers of production and development outside of, western-lead economic or 'rational' or corporate dispensation. This Networked age, mobile, portable, charged with the openness of 'non-fixity' has started with self-reflection; already resisting the original self-generating 'cyber' story; and in so doing, participates in the writing, research and culture of its time.
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Related links
Fibreculture
Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific
Media City Seoul


Photo credit: Art by Rowena Dugdale

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