[spectre] ISEA2010 RUHR: "After the Crisis"

[Sonja Herrmann]

On the second weekend of ISEA2010 RUHR (Sat 28 and Sun 29 August 2010)
artists, realists and utopians convene under the motto “After the Crisis”
for a meeting full of courage, scepticism and hope while taking in the
view over the flat horizon of the Lower Rhine. Schedule this weekend for
your trip to ISEA2010 RUHR and don't miss out on the festival's courageous
leap beyond the crisis!

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Programme "After the Crisis"
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Sat 28 August 2010, 12:00h
Geo-Crises: From Knowledge to Action
Keynote: Harald Welzer (de) with Marko Peljhan (si)
Admission: EUR 5/4
Territoriality is today increasingly less tied to geographic locations,
but instead manifests as a multifaceted phenomenon in which national and
power-political demands play a similar role as international financial
flows, technical infrastructure and mass media attention. The technologies
of communication and the mobility of information create a new, globally
effective territorial order. The instabilities of this new order might not
be best described as "crises" but show the functional limits of a system
which had been successfully operating for several centuries. New critical
methods and strategies for the analysis and design of the current
situation are thus required.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30h
Ludic Maps
Panel with Alison Gazzard (uk): Datalogging the Landscape; Tara Pattenden
(fi): Mapplers; Polise Moreira De Marchi (br): Re(cognition) Mapping.
Redefining Space, Place and Territory; Margarete Jahrmann (at/ch), Verena
Kuni (de): Developing Ludic Strategies and Interfaces for Participatory
Practices in Urban Spaces.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30 - 17:30h
Herbologies/Foraging Networks
Presentation & workshop
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Sat 28 August 2010, 17:30h
Global Islands: Ruhrort, Tokyo and the Shepards of the World
Keynote: David d'Heilly (jp/us) with Fernando García Dory (es)
Admission: EUR 5/4
The global currents of capital, work and cultural differentiation are
accelerated today through information technology. Within these currents,
the economic and cultural significance of a place may change fundamentally
in the course of only a few decades or even years. Urban residential and
rural nomadic lifestyles are equally affected by impulsive, seemingly
spontaneous shifts in the global urban fabric. The speed of new technology
and its promise of pervasive availability of economic and social contacts
makes the tenacity of life in rural areas blatantly clear. The specific
mechanisms of self-organised urban, suburban and rural life in parallel
with the world-wide information network provides insulation for the
respective communities. Instead of a global village, a digital
technology-created planetary archipelago arises.
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Sat 28 August 2010, after sunset
Siegrun Appelt (at): Reale Formulierungen (Ruhrort)
Light Installation, 2010
***Only once***: Mühlenweide, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: free
Siegrun Appelt is known for expansive light works that bathe whole city
areas and architecture in bright light. For ISEA2010 RUHR in
Duisburg-Ruhrort, she designs a spacious light work for the park-like
gardens of the Mühlenweide, right on the banks of the river Rhine.
Appelt works with the direct physical perception of light and its
contradictory qualities: the intensity of the light radiates great warmth
and also hurts the eyes. It turns nature into artifice and transforms
whole landscapes.
In their overwhelming intensity, Appelt’s works exaggerate the effects of
light and urgently question the phenomenon of light pollution and our use
of important energy resources.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30 - 16:30h (part 1)  and 19:30 - 21:30h (part 2)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Welt am Draht (Film, 1973)
Film screening
At the institute of cybernetics and future research, scientists created an
artificial world – a counterfeit of a presumed 'real' one. After the
sudden death of the institute’s director his successor, Fred Stiller,
seems to meet the same fate as he begins to suspect that the reality he is
living in is itself a simulation.
This largely unknown film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is an unsettling
phantasmagoria on the anxiety of the use and misuse of computer modelling
as a substitute for reality. Even 37 years after its initial screening on
German television in 1973, the film displays an advanced vision of a
present in which economic and social life have little material value.
Rather, the film is engaged in new constant speculations about the status
of reality – or its inevitable simulation.
After the screening of the film’s two parts, Timothy Druckrey will lead a
discussion on the film’s themes and provide background information about
its production.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 20:30 - 22:00h
Charlemagne Palestine (us)
Concert
St. Maximilian Kirche, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: EUR 15/10
Charlemagne Palestine creates intense, ritualistic music, which he refers
to as 'resonant music', in contrast to the 'minimal music' of his peers,
Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. With his piano
and organ works, he has developed a highly individual aesthetic centred
around layered overtones and electronic drones, which build and change
gradually, gently harmonising. His performances are overtly spiritual in
nature. Palestine's pieces consist of stratifications marked by an absence
of linear progression and by a transcendent timelessness. What we hear
seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity,
an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away.
This concert is presented in cooperation with club transmediale
(www.clubtransmediale.de).
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Sun 29 August 2010, 12:00h
Picnic
Mühlenweide at the Rhine, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: with ISEA2010 Full Professional-, Symposium-, Three-Day- or
Day-Pass
ISEA2010 RUHR ends with a picnic at Mühlenweide, a small park on the banks
of the river Rhine in Duisburg-Ruhrort. Following a densely packed
conference and festival schedule, the participating artists, symposium
speakers and other participants get together in an informal setting to
enjoy spectacular views of the post-industrial panorama while musing about
the experiences, issues and discussions of the previous week. As well as
the breakfast, there will be a one-hour feedback session to reflect on the
16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, and to pass on the baton
to the organisers of the 17th symposium, scheduled for September 2011 in
Istanbul.
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CONTACT: ISEA2010 RUHR, c/o HMKV, Güntherstraße 65, 44143 Dortmund,
Germany, info(at)isea2010ruhr.org
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