Re: [spectre] "Soft Borders" 4th Upgrade International Conference, 18-21 October 2010. São Paulo

Mon Oct 11 11:26:10 CEST 2010

  Unfortunately, I have not found the money in France for my trip  in SP 
:( 4SB's 4th Upgrade!
Please, enjoy there my abstract just for Borders out. Have a nice time 
in Brazil. Best A+F

The worLd of Grid will draw on lineS

Franck Ancel is having an event which will commence a few hours after 
the official opening of the Shanghai World's Fair. He proposes to each 
of you to experience a virtual pavilion. This is one year before China 
launches its uninhabited module "Triangong-1" into space. When 
translated literally, its name means "Celestial Palace", where the 
Taikonautes will conduct experiments in zero gravity.

Franck Ancel had already brought up this near future in his artistic 
project <<1957/2007: from Sputnik Satellite to Explorer Art>>. That 
cosmic dimension is today a major factor in the planetary imagination. 
In, during a conference he gave in Silicon Valley, during ISEA06, he 
even imagined "A Scenography towards a Planetary Network for Shanghai 
2010", also concerned with satellites.^

Without any satellites, the current conception of the Universal 
Exposition has transformed the narrow streets of Shanghai, where the 
universal game of hopscotch^ had been played by the city's youth for 
centuries. Now, *Ancel will create a Celestial Hopscotch* in the 
zerography of planetary consciousness

At the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1900, Loïe Fuller danced under 
the flag of its electricity Pavilion. *Ancel offers by Internet everyone 
to design their own virtual Pavilion*, to "dance" on the ground of world 
cities, a hopscotch grid already present on five continents where* the 
land becomes zero and the sky infinite.*

Franck Ancel also put this continental universality into play in 2005 
during his trip from Shanghai to Europe when he created the world 
premiere, broadcasting a real time video from the air lasting 64 minutes 
live over the internet via satellite, at more than 900 kilometers per 
hour and at an altitude of nearly 30,000 feet.

64 words per minute were broadcast in this video in this manifesto in 
order to construct a personal cosmological lexicon. For this new event, 
they will make up the eight squares of the Celestial Hopscotch grid, 
which each can fill in from his own imagination. It is this type of 
numerological alchemy that will orient our event <<from zero to 
infinity>> under the dome of the Temple de Pentemont in Paris on June 
26, using as its basis an original, as yet unseen, manuscript by Mallarmé.

One week before that date, a Celestial Hopscotch grid will be drawn on 
the outskirts of the International Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland. The 
place has yet to be determined, but it will probably be in front of the 
Euro-Airport. Another will be drawn in Paris on May 19 in rue de 
l'Exposition (Exposition Street). The last Celestial Hopscotch grid will 
be drawn before the Marathon of Shanghai is run just before the closing 
of the 2010 World's Fair, as part of the <<Global Poetic System>> project.

To be continued 
http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/06/13/live-stage-the-celestial-hopscotch-online/

Le 11/10/10 11:02, Chiara Passa a écrit :
> ****************** Please forward widely ********************
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> English version:
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> Soft Borders (http://softborders.art.br/eng/) is the 4th Upgrade!
> International Network Conference and Festival, that will take place in
> São Paulo city, Brazil, from 18th to 21st/October/2010.
> The previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA),
> Ocklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedônia).
> The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers from 30
> countries to present and discuss the field of new media art, in the
> international and local contexts, especially in Brazil, the country
> that is hosting the present edition of the event. The call for
> participation is internationally open and the accepted formats are:
> papers, posters and workshops.
> The new media festival that is also part of the Soft Borders event
> will present artworks selected by two curators - a Brazilian and an
> Upgrade! International Network curator.
> The Soft Borders theme, that drives either the conference and the art
> festival, aim to discuss the borders dissolutions between the many
> fields of the knowledge and life, the contamination of the one
> another, particularly regarding the relationship between
> art-science-technology.
>
>
> PROGRAM: http://softborders.art.br/programa.html
>
>
>
> Versão em português:
>
>
> Soft Borders ( http://softborders.art.br/port/ ) é o 4o Congresso &
> Festival do Upgrade! International Network, que acontecerá em São
> Paulo, de 18 a 21/outubro/2010. As versões anteriores foram em New
> York (USA), Ocklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedônia).
> O congresso reunirá artistas, curadores e pesquisadores de 30 países
> para apresentar e discutir as artes de novas mídias, no contexto
> internacional e local de cada país, especialmente no Brasil, que é a
> sede da presente edição. A chamada para participação no congresso é
> aberta internacionalmente, e os formatos aceitos são: papers, posters
> e workshops.
> O festival de artes de novas mídias reunirá trabalhos selecionados por
> 2 curadores - um brasileiro e um da rede Upgrade! International.
> O tema Soft Borders, que norteia tanto o congresso quanto o festival,
> visa discutir a dissolução de bordas entre os diversos campos e áreas
> do saber e do viver, a contaminação de um no outro, especialmente no
> que se refere a arte/ciência/tecnologia.
>
>
> PROGRAMA: http://softborders.art.br/programa.html
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>
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>
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