When: February 16th 2012 18:30 – 20:30

Location: Studios One and Two, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

Cost: Free

• Where corporate interests increasingly shape the ideology of free culture, what political possibilities are still available to artists?
• How can we sustain an ethical cultural practice?
• How might artists intervene in the market

Data 51.0 brings together an international selection of media artists and theorists, to explore the links between activism, art, and business. Where open source, hactivism and media art generally are still presented as ideologically opposed to the logics of information capitalism, the reality is that many hackerspaces receive corporate funding, open source platforms and user-generated content form the basis for many commercially orientated applications and much of the dominant media art of today is to varying degrees reliant on the financial trajectories of technological R&D. Rather than denying this relationship or refusing to engage with the corporation, we want to ask how artists and activists might use their position in the market and their creative tools to critique, disrupt, or even potentially reshape economic spaces from within. Speakers: Editor of Neural Alessandro Ludovico,and artist Paolo Cirio, creators of the Hacking Monopolism Trilogy: Google Will Eat Itself, and Face to Facebook, and artist/theorist Tatiana Bazzichelli, author of Networking: the Network as Art,

Streaming video by Ustream

Tatiana Bazzichelli Tatiana Bazzichelli is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the transmediale festival team in Berlin. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from Aarhus University (DK), conducting research on disruptive art practices in the business of social media (title: Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking). 
She is the author of Networking. La rete come arte | The Net as Artwork book published in December 2006 by Costa & Nolan, Milan. She is founder of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (2001), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2007. She founded the aha@lists.ecn.org mailing-list regarding artistic activism and net culture in Italy.

website: www.tatianabazzichelli.com www.networkingart.eu

Paolo Cirio Paolo Cirio has worked as a media artist in various fields: net art, street art, video art, public art, software art and experimental storytelling. He investigates perceptions and the creation of cultural, political and economic realities manipulated by modes of informational control. As well as his work with Alessandro Ludovico on the Hactivist Monopolism Trilogy, Cirio is also the developer of the P2P Gift Credit Card, a system for counterfeiting virtual money in order to reintroduce wealth distribution though a new visionary economic model. The project proposes an alternative economy based on peer-to-peer architectures for an equitable distribution of wealth. Other recent works include Drowning NYC which branded and promoted a firm that exploits sea level rise in NYC, Recombinant Fiction, a transmedia storytelling project through social networks, and Open Society Structures, which explores the notion of direct, participatory and processual democracy.

Website: paolocirio.net

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of the highly respected Neural magazine from 1993. He is the author of several essays on digital culture, he co-edited ‘Mag.Net Reader’. He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, one of the founders of the Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers)’ organization and he teaches ‘Computer Art’ and ‘Interface Aesthetics’ at the Academy of Art in Carrara. He also collaborates with Paolo Cirio on artistic projects which have toured the world: Face to Facebook (Distinction Prix Ars Electronica 2011), GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Prix Transmediale 2006) and Amazon Noir (1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007, Honorary Mention Share Prize 2007).

Website:www.neural.it

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This event is funded by the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTVR) and Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

When: Friday 20th January 2012, 18:30 – 20:30

Location: Studios One and Two, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

Cost: Free

DATA 50.0 pays particular attention to the Sonic Arts, showcasing the intersection of practitioners across Digital Media, Electroacoustic Composition, Spatial Audio, Networked Performance and New Interfaces for Musical Expression.This is a good opportunity to see a diverse range of Dublin based sound artists talk through their practices, demonstrate their instruments, interfaces and tools, discuss upcoming projects and perform new work. Presenters include electronic collective Dublin Laptop Orchestra, and sound artists Slavek Kwi and Cobi Van Tonder. Broadcasting live with Ustream

Dublin Laptop Orchestra The Dublin Laptop Orchestra makes music with lots of laptops, hands, golf controllers, and hemispherical speakers. Our aim is to bring some theatricality and ‘physical presence’ into electronic music performance. We do this by creating software instruments that require movement and skill from performers and encourage interaction and improvisation. Dublin Laptop Orchestra are Alex Dowling, Jenn Kirby, Rachel Ní Chuinn, David Collier, Enda Gallery, Tara Lewis, Emma O’Halloran, Saramai Leech, Amanda Feery and Mark Rooney

website: www.dublinlaptoporchestra.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DublinLaptopOrchestra twitter:@DubLork

Slavek Kwi Slavek Kwi is sound-artist, composer and researcher whose main interest lies in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with Reality. He has been fascinated by sound-environments for the last 30 years, focusing on electroacoustic sound-paintings. These complex audio-situations are created mainly from site specific recordings, resulting in subjective reports for radio-broadcast, “cinema for ears” performed on multiple speakers, sound-installations integrated into the environment and performances. His works oscillates between purely sound-based and multidisciplinary projects. From the early nineties Slavek has operated under the name Artificial Memory Trace.

Website: artificialmemorytrace.com/ listen here: soundcloud.com/artificialmemorytrace

Cobi Van Tonder Cobi van Tonder is a South African born composer, electronic artist and lecturer, currently undertaking a practice based PhD in the Art and Technology Research Lab in Trinity College Dublin. Her music, sound art and inter-media works range from networked acoustic explorations, to traditional instrumental works, to video installations and projections – the main focus always the listening experience. Works revolve around sound perception, multi-channel computer-generated composition, networked sound, acoustic studies, tools and methods for the control of spatiality in sound. The recursive theme in works are how they create, challenge and reinvent conceptions of the audio-physical experience of spaces and objects whilst maintaining a sense of mystery and beauty. Van Tonder has also produced commercially for cinema, television, radio, and mobile media before commencing academic studies at a later age.

Website:otoplasma.com/ Listen here: otoplasma.com/here.html View Larger Map

When: Saturday 22 October, 16.00
Location: Darklight Festval, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Barrow Street
Cost: Free for Darklight tickets holders

MARTIAL GEOFFRE-ROULAND
Martial Geoffre-Rouland is a digital artist, interactive developer based in Lyon ( France ). His previous works are mainly focused on interactive scenography, and installations. Combining large scale structures with home made software on live stage, he catches the audience attention with immersive and sound reactive visuals.

He started a collaboration with Superscript and Creators Project in early 2011 to create and produce projects like Light Invaders or Modular Ship.  

Some selected stage installations : 2011 / 2010 : Nuits Sonores ( Lyon ) 2011 : N.A.M.E Festival ( Lille ) 2011 : Danger ( artist ), stage visuals for his tour  

Portfolio : http://www.164-prod.com
Modular Ship : http://vimeo.com/25858246
Light Invaders : creativeapplications.net
Creators Project profile  : thecreatorsproject.com
Danger New Live at Gaité Lyrique ( Paris ) : http://vimeo.com/23213096

 
NORA O’ MURCHÚ: THE HACK OF CURATING
My practice of curating is exercised outside the traditional confines of the museum and gallery and is largely influenced by DIY and open source processes. By blurring the lines between hacking and curation, my approach is to engage audiences through participatory platforms. In my curatorial work, I place an emphasis on building communities and providing structures to support them.

In this talk, I will describe a number of my curatorial experiments and how practices prevalent in the open source communities are influencing curatorial paradigms in visual arts.

Bio: Nora O Murchú is a curator and researcher. Her PhD research looks at open source methods and the visual arts, and how as a curator and facilitator of projects can implement an open source methodology into her practice.

She is the founder and director of Tweak – an interactive digital festival, which is a platform for digital arts in Ireland. She is currently a research fellow at the Interaction Research Studio in Goldsmiths University.

Tweak Festival

DIY LIGHT GRAFFITI WORKSHOP by Recyclism (aka Benjamin Gaulon)

When: Saturday 22 October, 14.00
Location: Darklight Festval, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Barrow Street
Cost: Free for Darklight tickets holders

Learn how to create a simple Light Painting Software with Max/Msp and build your own Light Spray Can by creating a simple circuit using a battery, LED and push button.

You will learn how to create a software that mixes real time video and a light painting layer. All values, over a selected brightness level, are stored and drawn over the real time video. The drawing is refreshed over a defined period of time.
The final results will be presented in an interactive installation, where the public of Darklight will be invited to play with the various light graffiti tools made by the participants.

Benjamin Gaulon is a researcher, artist and has a broad experience of acting as art consultant, public and conference speaker and art college lecturer. His work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society. He has previously released work under the name “recyclism”.

Since 2005 he has been leading workshops and giving lectures in Europe and US about e-waste and hardware Hacking / Recycling. Workshop participants explore the potential of obsolete technologies in a creative way and find new strategies for e-waste recycling.

www.recyclism.com

The Circuit Taco. Experimental audiovisual duo LoVid (NY), will lead a workshop where you will build a Circuit Taco that converts electrical signals from your body’s surface into signals that are suitable for controlling other electronic instruments. This will include assembly of hardware on a custom printed circuit board with some basic soldering, along with discussion of and instruction about the electronics involved with the circuit.

WHAT TO BRING: PREPARE This workshop will run at a relatively basic level and does not require prior soldering, electronics design, programming, or sculpting experience. Participants will gain electronics knowledge, develop soldering skills, and enjoy the Fiesta while developing a tool that they will keep (the Circuit Taco) that they may use in their future music and art making.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own design materials for case assembly and customization to enhance the cardboard and fabric provided. Also, participants who have synthesizers that accept control voltages are encouraged to bring them, though some modules will be available for use in performance for participants who do not have their own.

TEACHER LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Their work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. LoVid combines many opposing elements in their work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of their work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. LoVid are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory.

http://www.lovid.org/

3 to 5pm DATA Event 48.0: Discussion Panel: Rosa Menkman, Karl Klomp, Gijs Gieskes,
Tom Verbruggen and Benjamin Gaulon. Lead by Rachel O’Dwyer.

5.30 to 7pm Audio / Visual Performance by Karl Klomp and Tom Verbruggen / GamePak.
7pm – 9pm Exhibition Opening,

Day 2: Saturday 6th of August

11am to 5pm DATA Workshop 15.0: Circuit Bending Workshop lead by:
Karl Klomp, Gijs Gieskes, Tom Verbruggen and Benjamin Gaulon.

DeFunct / ReFunct (5th to 27th of August 2011)

With international visual artists: LoVid (USA), Karl Klomp (NL), Gijs Giesked (NL), Benjamin Gaulon (FR/IRL), Tom Verbruggen (NL) and Rosa Menkman (NL).

When: Thursday 28 July, 18.30

Location: Science Gallery Cafe, Trinity College Dublin.

Admission: Free

In conjunction with Ahead of the Game workshop, DATA will hold a free to the public event on the evening of the 28th, featuring talks and presentations from invited international artists Duncan Speakman and Peter Petralia from Proto-type Peter Petralia and Dublin based practitioner Teresa Dillon

Duncan Speakman is a Bristol based artist who creates work that physically and emotionally engages audiences in public spaces. He employs walking as both a process and/or outcome in the work. In recent years he has created pre-recorded audio walks, generative GPS-based experiences, live performance using locative media content, and games for public spaces. Duncan was involved in the creation of the hugely successful iphone game, Papa Sangre. Find out more about Duncan on his website.

Dr. Peter S Petralia is a producer, director, writer, curator and artistic director of Proto-type Theater. With Proto-type, he has written over a dozen full-length performance works that have premiered in New York City, North Carolina, the United Kingdom, Romania and Amsterdam. Peter is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre in the Department of Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire. Find out more about Proto-type on their website.

Teresa Dillon Dr. Teresa Dillon is an artist-researcher. Her main interests include the use and role of existing and emerging technologies within live performance and interaction, particularly in public and site specific settings.

Teresa established Polar Produce, while studying at Glasgow University, Scotland. Since then she has directed and produced in collaboration with others various works as Polar Produce. Currently she is the company’s director, working in partnership with the core team to create new work.

DATA EVENT 47.0 is supported by The Science Gallery

When: 27 & 28 July, 10.00-18.00 with a break for lunch

Location: Trinity College Dublin

Price: 2 days 100 Euro (includes entry to DATA talk on the 28 July in the Science Gallery).

To apply for a place on the workshop, please send a short biog/one page CV and a few lines telling us why you would like to take part.

Send your info to hilaryos (at) aol.com or if you have any queries call 087 9443776.

Want to Stay Ahead Of The Game?: **First you need to know the rules and how to break them… Make and Do in collaboration with Project Arts Centre and DATA 2.0 will host a two-day investigation into performance, technology and play. Supported by the British Council. In an increasingly digitised world, where do we look for meaning and how do we express this? How can artists, performers and urban play designers respond to and express these changes? What happens when the space that we work in is constantly shifting? Who are the players and what game are we really playing?

To explore these questions we have invited international artists Duncan Speakman Duncan Speakman and Peter Petralia from Proto-type Peter Petralia to lead workshops in locative play, urban and digital games and interactive performance.

The workshops are aimed at professional theatre-makers, performers, digital artists and game designers/creators who wish to explore the boundaries of live performance, technology, and interactive games.

Duncan Speakman is a Bristol based artist who creates work that physically and emotionally engages audiences in public spaces. He employs walking as both a process and/or outcome in the work. In recent years he has created pre-recorded audio walks, generative GPS-based experiences, live performance using locative media content, and games for public spaces. Duncan was involved in the creation of the hugely successful iphone game, Papa Sangre. Find out more about Duncan on his website.

Dr. Peter S Petralia is a producer, director, writer, curator and artistic director of Proto-type Theater. With Proto-type, he has written over a dozen full-length performance works that have premiered in New York City, North Carolina, the United Kingdom, Romania and Amsterdam. Peter is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre in the Department of Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire. Find out more about Proto-type on their website.

DATA will also host DATA 47.0, a free event in conjunction with these workshops on the evening of the 28th of July in the Science Gallery, with talks and presentations on the theme of technology and performance by Duncan Speakman and Teresa Dillon.**

DATA EVENT 47.0 is supported by The Science Gallery