[spectre] CREATIVITY 2.0 - 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference (V2_
Rotterdam Satellite)
Stephen Kovats
kovats at v2.nl
Mon Oct 23 20:40:24 CEST 2006
CREATIVITY 2.0
Rotterdam satellite of the 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference
V2_ (Rotterdam)
Saturday October 28, 2006
10.00 – 13.00 (CEST - Central European Summer Time)
realmedia stream: www.v2.nl (rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm)
IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon
V2_ invites you to participate in CREATIVITY 2.0, an extra-
territorial Tangent_Event taking place in Rotterdam connecting to the
2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference, in Hangzhou China October 28/29.
Featuring special guest Régine Debatty <we-make-money-not-art.com> in
Rotterdam and cultural bloggers Zhang Qing and Gino Yu in Hangzhou,
CREATIVITY 2.0 will bring together leading independent writers and
curators to discuss the rise of the blog as an open medium of
expression in establishing and supporting unrestricted forms of
dialogue and community, both in the sense of cultural enterprise and
artistic practice.
Recently, and during the past year in particular, it has become
increasingly popular to use the new tools and expanded online
facilities that weblogs provide in order to create new social
identities, define cultural practices and create active communities
beyond the physical constraints of urban or national structures. This
is especially the case in countries such as the People’s Republic of
China in which a new ‘middle landscape’ of an increasingly affluent
and mobile citizenry has zealously and enthusiastically attuned to
the latest in global technology and telecommunications. Forming a
significant part of the ‘Web 2.0’ phenomenon Blogs pick up the faded
myth of the Internet as a user generated space of exchange with both
cultural and commercial repercussions.
Associated online tools and services such as, YouTube, Biku, Flickr
and del.icio.us augment the omnipresence of Blogs into complex global
communities of users linked via an infinite number of personal
backgrounds, interests and goals and create new forms of social,
cultural, artistic and economic networks. In areas where traditional
forms of monitoring and control of information is pervasive the
complexity and diversity of blogging’s reach drives the creation of
new platforms and forms of expression. Blogs brought to life by
anyone anytime are now creating a blogosphere rapidly replacing
traditional information structures by unifying in cross-media
frameworks the same mechanisms of text and visual tagging, cross-
referencing of information, and opinion gathering established with
the Internet over a decade ago. But how do these structures
originate, who do they serve, and how are the bloggers covered by
‘traditional’ or local media? Beyond global entertainment and free-
for-all journalism can Blogs instill new cultural identities and open
up new zones of dialogue and critique? Can they lead to cultural and
artistic production per se, or drown in parody and hasty mash-ups
during their authors’ 5 minute bursts of fame?
CREATIVITY 2.0 links the worlds of blogging between Europe, Asia and
beyond in a live and online dialogue hosting players including Régine
Debatty, Zhang Qing, Gino Yu, aaajiao and Kuang Huang who are active
in defining and sharpening both active art communities and
establishing new contexts for transnational cultural dialogue.
CREATIVITY 2.0 will be moderated in Rotterdam by V2_ program curator
Stephen Kovats, and in Hangzhou by writer and cultural theorist Tian
Sun.
The event will be streamed live using REAL MEDIA and IRC moderated
online by Berlin based independent curator Vera Tollmann. The stream
can be accessed directly via www.v2.nl or by using the following
direct REAL player link: rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm
You can download a free Real Player at www.real.com.
If you are online we invite you to participate in the event via IRC
text chat on:
irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon
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Schedule and Format:
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Saturday October 28, 2006
10.00 Doors open at V2_, welcome coffee
10.30 CREATIVITY 2.0 intro + selected Chinese videoblog screening
11.00 – go live, online with Hangzhou – Stephen Kovats and Tian Sun
11.05 – speaker 1: Zhang Qing, in Hangzhou
11.15 – speaker 2: Régine Debatty, in Rotterdam
11.25 – speaker 3: Gino Yu, in Hangzhou
11.35 – open discussion with local and online participants
12.00 – close connection
12.00 – 13.00 discussion/conclusion at V2_, with screenings
All times listed are local Rotterdam times (CEST)
To check your time zone, please consult:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
V2_ will also be streaming the entire conference in Hangzhou and will
moderate online selected presentations and discussions. Check the
conference site for full schedule: http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en/
Schedule
NOTE!: Most areas (but not China!) will revert to Standard Time at
0300 on Sunday October 29. Check if your area has a Daylight Saving
Time shift during the conference weekend:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2006b.html
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CREATIVITY 2.0 Participants:
Régine Debatty (panelist, in Rotterdam)
Régine Debatty initiated we-make-money-not-art.com a pioneering
weblog for critical media art and cultural discourse. She studied
Classics in Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin and
ancient Greek, then moved to media, directing documentaries for
Belgian national TV, working as a reporter for the radio Onda Cero in
Spain and as a consultant for the MEDIA programme of the European
Commission in Italy. She is now an independent writer and researcher
in electronic art. As a jury member she participates in several new
media art and interaction design commissions and festivals. She also
gives talks about how today's artists, amateurs and hackers are using
and misusing emerging technologies.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com
Gino Yu (panellist, in Hangzhou)
Dr. Gino Yu is chairman of the Hong Kong Digital Entertainment
Assocation. He received his PhD at the University of California at
Berkeley in 1993 where he worked to establish multimedia initiatives
such as the Integrated Media Systems Center. He later taught and
worked in Hong Kong where he helped to establish the Center for
Enhanced Learning Technologies at the University of Science and
Technology and the Multimedia Innovation Centre at the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University (PolyU), a leading edge think tank and
research centre on digital entertainment. He is currently an
Associate Professor and Director of Digital Entertainment and Game
Development in the School of Design at PolyU where he oversees
MERECL, a commercial digital entertainment entity that provides
consulting, research, instruction and new ideas for the industry. His
main area research interests involve the application of media
technologies to cultivate creativity and promote enlightened
consciousness.
http://www.hkdea.org
Zhang Qing (panelist, in Hangzhou)
Zhang Qing is Artistic Director of the 6th Shanghai Biennale (Hyper
Design), Deputy Director of the Shanghai Art Museum editor and editor
of Art China . He has been a regular contributor to magazines
including Art Monthly, Dushu , Avant-garde Today and Shanghai Culture
since 1989, as well as editor-in-chief of the magazine Chinese Art of
the 1990s. In 2000, he was named one of the "best curators in China"
by CCTV. His main curatorial roles include Curator of the exhibition
The Art of Yan Peiming (Shanghai,2005); Co-Curator for the 5th
Shanghai Biennale(2004); Curator for Interpreting the Modern:The
Collection Exhibition of Amsterdam Art Museum (Amsterdam, Shanghai,
Singapore, 2003);Junction:Architectural xperiments in Chinese
Contemporary Art (Shanghai, 2003); Red China: Exhibition of Chinese
Contemporary Art , (Gwangju, 2002); Co-Curator for City_Net Asia
(Seoul, 2002); Curator for Cai Guoqiang (Shanghai, 2001); Curator for
Expressions of Contemporary China (Singapore, 2001); and Co-Curator
for the 3 rd Shanghai Biennale (2000).
http://www.shanghaibiennale.com/
aaajiao (participant, in Hangzhou)
The Chinese pendant to Régine Debatty’s media art and culture blog
‘we-need-money-not-art.com> was founded by aaajiao in 2006. WNMNA has
fis, sophywt, ilikesleep working as editors, and hlitch, phoebe,
yangschwang, kulilin, dobby as translaters. The main aim of WNMNA is
to introduce the information of new media art abroad to China by
translating the articles on WMMNA as well as some other colaborating
websites, and to write original reviews to support the 'art from
China' tag, from which people get to know the development of new
media art in China.
http://we-need-money-not-art.com/
Kuan Huang (online participant, New York)
Kuan Huang is a software engineer and new media artist. In 2004, in
order to let his artistic side of his brain breathe the freedom of
life, he came to New York City to pursue his master degree in
Interactive Telecommunications Program of Tisch School of Art, New
York University. His art works vary from interactive musical
instrument, cell phone based video installation, interactive public
projection and etc. His works have been exhibited in Sony Wonder Tech
Lab, Chelsea Museum of Art, Eyebeam and New York University. Kuan
Huang together with Yuchen Chiu and Chun Xi Jiang are the founders of
the Chinese new media art blog Villagypsy. They are hoping that
Villagypsy can serve as a bridge that links the new media industry
between USA and China.
http://www.villagypsy.com
Tian Sun (moderator, in Hangzhou)
Tian Sun is editor of Time+Architecture, a Shanghai-based bimonthly
architectural magazine. She graduated from B. Arch. Tongji
University in 2000 and received her MSc in Architectural History at
the University College London in 2005.
Stephen Kovats (moderator, in Rotterdam)
Canadian architect and media culture researcher Stephen Kovats is
chief curator and events programmer at V2_Institute for the Unstable
Media in Rotterdam.
Vera Tollmann (online moderator, Rotterdam)
Vera Tollmann studied Cultural Studies in Hildesheim and Liverpool.
From 2004 to 2006 she worked as programme curator for the
international media art festival transmediale in Berlin. As an
independant curator, she recently curated the group exhibition Hands-
on history and the video programme Picturing free knowledge. She
publishes articles on internet issues and contemporary art. Her text
'I will chocolate you' deals with the internet use in China and the
role of the western world, published in springerin.
More info:
www.v2.nl
http://cnbloggercon.org/
http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en/Schedule
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CREATIVITY 2.0
2nd China Bloggers Conference
V2_Rotterdam Satellite
Saturday October 28, 10.00 - 14.00 (CEST)
realmedia stream: www.v2.nl (rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm)
IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon
entire conference: http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en
FLESHING OUT: Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials and Living Fabrics
Seminar: V2_ Rotterdam, Thursday November 9, 2006
Workshop: de Zwijger, Amsterdam, Friday November 10, 2006
more info and registration: www.virtueelplatform.nl/fleshingout
REMF - Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival
November 10/11, 2006 at V2_ featuring
Jochem Paap, Nanko, Wolfram de Spyra, Funckarma and Scott Pagano
tickets and info: www.remf.nl
TANGENT_CONSPIRACY
featuring übermorgen, Alessandro Ludovico, Claudia de Azevedo Borges
and Florian Cramer
Friday December 01, 20.00 (CET)
** IFFR07 Speed of Light - Jan 25 - Feb 10, 2007 **
** DEAF07 - APRIL 10 - 29, 2007 **
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