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ECOLOGY & NEW MEDIA creative media – summer workshop June 8th to 13th june, 2009

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June 8th to 13th june, 2009 – in Like Now! – Birka folkhögskola in Krokoms municipial near Östersund city, Sweden.

About/to do what?: solar panel, electronic components, low technology, sound installation.., collective installation to create together + blog about the process
Free workshop + free living for participants Supported by Krokoms municipial, partner: Birka folkhögskola.

More informations and booking deadline 25th may: upgrade at likenow.org

Below the schedule to download: Schedule “Ecology and new media, summer workshop, 8th-13th june 2009″

SOME PARTICIPANTS WAS WRITING DURING THE PROCESS, see here :

http://econewmedia.blogspot.com/

Work in process Madeleine Heldorsson, bag, recorded message circuit, mixed media and objects (glass, water, grass, tree, metal box..)

Parabolic Sun, performance in the park, Nathalie Fougeras, parabolic antenna built with some eletronics components + bag + clothes and led light+ wearable solar panel

Thought of Stone, Laboratory from Åsa Maria Hedberg, stones + porcelaine + bag + piezos + amplifier

GEOTAGGING Road movie & Internet / New media art / workshop / Minibus trip, weekend 8-9th may, 2009

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Geo Tagging

Road movie & Internet / New media art / workshop / Minibus trip with artists and all people interested / keywords: gps / video/ pictures/ tagging / road movie / Internet / map / workshop + trip + process + online exhibition

workshop minibus + video/pictures + Internet+ landscape in progress

where: several places in the Solleftea commun

when: 1 week-end, the 9 -10th may

who: artists, young, students + all other people interested

Presentation A trip with a minibuss with 7 workshop participants + 2 initiators are doing a travel in differents places of the Solleftea commun and working at a story or performance they want record with a local landscape, their point of view to exprim this landscape. /

Geo-localizations lakes around (sjöarna kring) Junsele and (och) Ramsele, Österåsen(mountainview), Rödskäggsniporna (small mountain view at the river), Oringsjöurskog (woods),Trefaldighetsdalen, (hidden valley by the river for old medical and ritual place in outskirts of Sollefteå, Meåforsen (not waterpowered-built part of Fjällsjö river) a noman’s land part where some works are.. a place in between .. /

Process All participants has either a digital camera, a mobile phone with video, or with pictures, but we brings also some material to share together, to exchange and to record, to work with the landscape. During the bustrip there is several stops at different predefined places… (see the google map) A 1 base where we ll stop back the sunday where we ll use Internet in the afternoon and work at the videos and the computer to edit the pictures, the videos and other material recorded (publishing in google map and some other videos in the website of Like Now! : http://www.likenow.org)

website about the online exhibition under construction : http://www.likenow.org/geotagging

DRAWING GAMES! – Ida Rödén, Härke konstcentrum 18-19th april, 2009 exhibition/presentation

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WHERE: Härke Konstcentrum
Härkevägen 5, Frösön, see map
WHEN: Sat-Sun 18th-19th april,
TIME: kl 2pm-6pm och 10am-6pm
TRANSPORTATIONS: Bus 4, two times per hour
for times see http://www.lanstrafiken-z.se/

We’re for the fourth time in Östersund arranging a special Upgrade! event with a very interesting perspective with an artist from the generation of media artists. This artist is named Ida Rödén and she has already been exhibiing in many places in Sweden. Ida Rödén is working together with programmers and laboratories to create her art. She is presenting her works in a borderland between
computer games, art and printing.

Vernissage – exhibition and presentation from the artist at Härke konstcentrum, Frösön on saturday the 18th april at 2pm.
The exhibition is happening during this concentrated weekend when the artist will be present and explain how she is working on saturday the 18th april and the sunday the 19th april.

A presentation from Ida and a following discussion about the multidisciplinary approach with drawing and computer art will happen on saturday the 18th april between 2pm and 5pm.

Ida Rödén website

For more info:

upgrade at likenow.org
mobile: 073-8073972

In cooperation with Härke Konstcentrum and with support from Östersunds kommun.

SCULPTURE & NEW MEDIA ART Arijana Kajfes Östersunds Konstskola 21st february, 2009 2pm-5pm

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Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm are inviting to the third presentation on new media art. For this time we’re collaborating with Östersunds Konstskola around new media art in relation to sculpture. Arijana Kajfes will present her works and talk about the interdisciplinary approach across scuplture, new media art, science.

The presentation will be followed by informal discussion around the subjects along with tea and coffee.

Free admission. Welcome!

More info at: info [at] likenow.org

Arijana Kajfes
Visual experimental artist working with borderlines of perception and meaning. Completed studies in sculpture at Kunglia Konsthögskolan in Stockholm. From 93-95 worked and travelled in Africa and Asia. Between 97-99 involved in the development of CRAC – an artist’s digital medialab in Stockholm. Between 99-04 a member of the research team at Smartstudio, an interdisciplinary lab at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm. Spent 2000 in San Francisco at the dept. of Conceptual Information Arts, San Francisco State University, exploring possibilities that arise in the convergence of art, science and technology. Involved in several interdisciplinary experiments. Exhibits, talks and teaches in Sweden and internationally, guest professor at Kungliga Konsthögskolan.
http://www.arijana.net/

When: 21st febr, 2pm-5pm
Where: Östersunds Konstskola, Öneslingan 13, Frösön/Östersund

partnerships: Östersunds Konstskola, Östersunds Kommun, Kultur- och fritid, Konstkonsulent Länskulturen Jämtlands, Jämtlands läns landsting,
Konstkonsulent Västernorrland, Landstinget i Västernorrland, Härke konstcentrum

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PERFORMANCE & GAME ART Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm Ahlbergshallen, Östersund saturday 10th january 2009, 11am – 5:00pm

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Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm invites for an one-day-exhibition and presentations at the Ahlbergshallen in Östersund.

Rasmus Albertsen [SE], Nathalie Fougeras [FR], Bendix Freutel [CH] (artists). Exhibition between 11.00 to 15.00 of works and work in progress from the artists and at 15.00 presentation about machinimas and performances in virtual worlds by Rasmus Albertsen.
For more information contact us: Like Now! (contacts name: Nathalie Fougeras, Björn Eriksson) upgrade@likenow.org +46(0)73-8073972

Where: Ahlbergshallen i Östersund, Rådhusgatan 42

When: Saturday 10th of January, 11am – 5pm,
exhibition 11am-3pm, presentation/discussion 3pm-5pm

Who : Rasmus Albertsen, Nathalie Fougeras, Bendix Freutel

Free admission!

Rasmus Albertsen
studied in the LAB school of experimental music and sound art in Denmark ,
in the Ærøkunsthøjskole in Denmark ; in the Valand Konsthögskola in Göteborg, Sweden ;
in the Umeå Konsthögskola. He took part in several gallerys exhibitions and video art film festivals.

“There are three keywords which have fitted my artwork through my art praxis: humour, cut-up and some sort of nostaligia. I am interested in new-media art and I work mainly with video and sound. I have explored
this new-media art in a very basic way. In many of my latest work I have been using sampling to a large degree – using sound and video I find in second hand shops or on the web. I edit it and mix the sources together, so it becomes something completely different. I have often been taking the copyright issue very lightly. Another issue I sometimes deal with is gender roles”. http://www.rasmusalbertsen.dk/

Nathalie Fougeras
is an artist and a performer. She obtained a post-diploma at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de
Paris (Atelier for Interactive Media) and she studied at the University Paris 1 Sorbonne and Paris 8 in the art department. She took part in several video art and new media art festivals but also in
some big exhibitions like “Jouable Paris-Kyoto-Geneva”, in the “protocols meta” in Palais de Tokyo, in iMAL the Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels with “Stream On You”. In 2003 Nathalie tries out performances with interactive sensors and live art performance. She was teaching in the theatre, cinema and art
department in Montpellier University and in Paris and she curated some events like “Nuits blanches off in Saint Denis”, “Stream On You” in Brussels and now she takes part at the Upgrade Östersund-Stockholm with Björn Eriksson in Sweden where she lives part time there and in Brussels. She collaborates with other artists and in several groups and networks
to write and create some pieces for live and streaming performances (“CMYK” for the group “aether”).
She was artist-in-residence in “bains connectives art laboratory” in Brussels, and she will also be in “La Raffinerie” (center of choregraphy) in february 2009 and in the “Synapse” program (Ecole d Art de Rueil Malmaison, France) in march 2009. Her last project is a live art performance in the context of a mixed reality and a double
installation with an avatar and a virtual architecture and 3D sounds.

“I want to raise questions about the body and the space and create a
trouble in the genders.”
http://www.likenow.org/bioNathalieFougeras.pdf

Bendix Freutel
aka Eifachfilm Vacirca is a videast, he was the movie director in the theatre Schauspielhaus in Zürich between 2003 and 2007. He worked with Christoph Schlingensief, Falk Richter, Christoph Marthaler, Meg Stuart, Stefan Pucher, Rimini Protokoll. He worked and collaborated with some artists and for the theatres and TV programs as Theatre video master. Now he investigates the platform of Second Life with the avatars where he creates and plays some live art performances. “They adopt you because they know the moving image is of great power and I am the master there, not really belonging and hidden in the society so they even have more trust because I am like invisible and must be like not existing. I am http://d-oo-b.cc. Creative commons is my answer”.

partnerships: Östersunds Kommun, Kultur- och fritid, Konstkonsulent Länskulturen Jämtlands, Jämtlands läns landsting,
Konstkonsulent Västernorrland, Landstinget i Västernorrland, Härke konstcentrum

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START UPGRADE! Östersund-Stockholm / first gathering Saturday the 8th November 2008, 3:30pm – 6pm

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Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm node propose the first gathering with a series of 2 presentations saturday the 8th of november in Östersund (Sweden) and talks with the audience.
For this first gathering, 2 speakers are invited: Sachiko Hayashi and Imri Sandström.

We invite you to come with us in a minibus for a trip together from Sundsvall to Östersund with a break at the composer Fredrik Högberg who will present us a work in process about Kains kvinna, an opera piece for the premiere of a Internet diffusion concept coming soon.

Free buffé after the debat at 18:00pm in the Folkets Hus in Östersund.
For more details and reservation, contact us: Like Now! (contacts name: Nathalie Fougeras, Björn Eriksson) upgrade@likenow.org 073-8073972

Where: Folkets Hus in Östersund (Sweden), Krondikesvägen 93

When: Saturday 8th of November, 3:30pm – 6pm

Who : Sachiko Hayashi, Imri Sandström

Free admission!

Sachiko Hayashi

is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. Hayashi holds a BA in International & Cultural Studies with an award winning undergraduate thesis from Tsuda College, Tokyo, a MA with Merit in Digital Media from Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry University, UK, and completed additional postgraduate studies in Computer Arts at the Royal Univeristy College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Hayashi’s works exhibit an unique blend of aesthetic and conceptual foundation with the use of technology, as she consistently explores co-relation between image, sound, conceptualisation in art, and discourses in philosophy and other social disciplines.
She is also the Founder of internet network DIAN network. Since 2002 chief editor and founder of Hz, a web journal by Fylkingen in Stockholm, she is also curator of virtual net gallery Hz Net Gallery. Artist in Residence at the Experimental Television Center in New York, 2003. Visiting artist/lecturer at the Department of Art History, the University of Copenhagen, 2003.Nominee of JavaArtist of The Year Award 2003 by JavaMuseum, Germany. Participation by invitation in the workshop “Man Machine” led by curator Björn Norberg at the Interactive Institute, Stockholm, 2005. Curator of video screening programme “Japanese Eye,” compiling 8 young video artists from Tokyo. http://www.e-garde.net/

Imri Sandström
2002 Gay and Lesbian Studies 10 p, Umeå University, 2002 Art theory, Umeå University 20 p, Umeå University, 2006 Queer theory 5 p, University of Lund, 2005-2007 The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen (Nordplus exchange program), 2003-2008 MFA, The Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå
She lives and works in Malmö. Imri Sandströms work consist of layers of text. She uses multi-faceted composition to explore the physicality of language(voice) and ideas revolving body, text and power.
Her work focuses on the pleasures and difficulties of living within language, and within
that language, living within the body.
The recuring abscense of bodies, and the re-writings/tellings of narrative structures places her work as a physical link between the medium; the computer, the speaker, and the viewer.
http://www.imrisandstrom.com/
partnerships: Konstkonsulent Länskulturen Jämtlands, Jämtlands läns landsting,
Konstkonsulent Västernorrland, Landstinget i Västernorrland, Härke konstcentrum

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