Curator Statement
August 10-12, 2006
International new media art discourse is stimulated by festivals and events like ISEA2006 that form temporary cultural centers to represent, present and discuss networked and digital technologies. However by forming temporary centers we also tacitly create a notion of a periphery – with temporary centers also come temporary peripheries. In new media culture this is a paradox as much new media art, theory, and discourse reflects on the network itself and the elusiveness and redundancy of centers and peripheries.
ISEA2006 re:mote attempts to dissuade us from imposing these distinctions by providing a platform for artists, commentators, curators, performers and theorists to participate in 1SEA2006 via online and prerecorded media. Technologies used will be up to each presenter, the premise is that the technologies should be easy to use and access. ISEA2006 re:mote will focus on presenting media spaces and people that would otherwise be excluded from presenting their work at ISEA2006 due to financial, political, or logistical reasons.
ISEA2006 re:mote invited media spaces and individual artists, theorists, and curators from around the world to speak or perform via remote technologies to the audience at ISEA2006. Presentations will be directed at the four themes of ISEA2006: Interactive City, Community Domain, Transvergence, and Pacific Rim. Participants are invited to present or perform on topics included within the ISEA2006, and onsite audience interaction with the presenters is also encouraged.
ISEA2006 re:mote is a collaboration between ISEA2006 and Adam Hyde, and is based on the re:mote series of events:
re:mote Auckland Organized by radioqualia and ethermap
re:mote Regina Organized by radioqualia and soil media lab http://soilmedia.org/remote/
ISEA2006 re:mote Presenters
- Stella Brennan
- Christophe Bruno
- Diana Burgoyne
- Clarissa Chikiamco
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti
- Critical Artware
- Vince Dziekan
- Gillian Fuller
- Sylvia Grace Borda
- Ken Gregory
- Jen Hamilton
- Dr. Ross Harley
- Sementara Hartanto
- Derek Holzer
- Luke Jerram
- Deborah Kelly
- Sean Kerr
- Eric Kluitenberg
- Frederic Madre
- Elliot Malkin
- Nancy Mauro-Flude
- Susana Menes Silva
- Ann Morrison Tom Mulcaire
- Marcus Neustetter
- Christian Nold
- Julian Oliver
- Santiago PeresOn a.k.a.Yaco
- Janine Randerson
- Francisca Riviero-Lake
- Tijmen Schep
- David Spensley
- Jason Sweeny/Unreasonable Adults
- Share Montreal
- Simon Tegala
- Streamtime
- Maura Traumane
- Adam Hyde. A musician, media producer and format artist working at the convergence of broadcasting and Internet technologies, Adam Hyde has a background in independent media organizations in television and radio in New Zealand (where he founded b.net and Static Television). Now he is based in Europe, where he co-founded the Internet radio project, radioqualia, and HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He was the initiator of Net Congestion: the international Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam in October 2000, and a co-founder of the Open Streaming Alliance, an initiative that has established several internationally distributed, networked QuickTime streaming servers for arts and cultural use. Under the name ‘eset’,Adam is presently developing his practice as a software artist, and has designed and built several applications including the Theory Machine and the radioqualia MediaBrowser. His performances as a live experimental electronica musician have also incorporated live software development as an integral and demonstrative part of the performance. He also works as Manager of Software Development, Web Development, Streaming Media, NT Hosting, and Internal Systems at XS4ALL in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Brenda Cleniuk