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

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

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

Affiliated with Upgrade! International

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.

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

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

Affiliated with Upgrade! International

Excerpts from the video documentation (quicktime):

• presentation_8th nov 2008_1.mov
• presentation_8th nov 2008_2.mov
• sachiko_hayashi_1.mov
• sachiko_hayashi_2.mov
• sachiko_hayashi_3.mov
• imri_sandström_1.mov
• imri_sandström_2.mov
• imri_sandström_3.mov