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Dislocate – Festival for Art, Technology and Locality
Koiwa Project Space
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2006 saw the launch of "Dislocate", a project exploring the relationship between art, technology and our locality.
This year the events will focus on our ability to reconnect with our location, seeking to explore, question and debate how technology can be used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of isolating us from our immediate space. When numerous places converge in one site, how do we navigate such space? How does our interaction within a given space formulate identity and how can this be communicated effectively to elsewhere?
"Dislocate" aims to explore the potential that new media has to increase our awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit.
Does new media enable us to plug into our locality, or is disconnection inevitable? As mobile and wireless technologies increasingly enable us to transcend space, our electrical roots are dug up, but are the roots which bind us with a place also cut?
"Dislocate" will call into question the necessity of an intermediary to our immediate surroundings, asking if mediation is a means of connecting or distancing, an expansion or an obstruction. "Dislocate" offers the space to investigate the creative and social potential of new media to engage us with our direct locality and to ask what is the importance of where we are now?
Through this exhibition, symposium and workshop series, a group of international artists will address the relationship between art, technology and locality and offer innovative new methods of interacting with our environment through mobile and locative media.
Exhibition:
Taking place over two sites, of contrasting locality, this exhibition aims to present a particular relationship to its surroundings, revealing new perspectives of our immediate space, engaging with and investigating this site while also fusing with spaces beyond.
Works include a city-wide game in which teams play against each other with their mobile phones, an exploration of the streets led by the beat of your heart, architecture which responds to environmental conditions and emotion mapping of the urban landscape.
Symposium
Zaim – Theatre Space 3F
34 Nihon Odori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0021
"Dislocate" presents an international symposium with confirmed delegates from UK, Germany, Republic of Korea, Indonesia and Japan further contributing to the discourse surrounding the interplay of art, technology and location.
This symposium aims to explore what is meant by ‘locality’, how does new media impact upon our notion of space, our interaction with our surroundings, and how this can be used to transform communities, both virtual and physical.
• Special Events
24th July Opening Party 19:00-21:00 Koiwa Project Space
28th-29th July Symposium 11:00-16:00 ZAIM
29th July Performance Night 18:00 onwards ZAIM
This year the events will focus on our ability to reconnect with our location, seeking to explore, question and debate how technology can be used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of isolating us from our immediate space. When numerous places converge in one site, how do we navigate such space? How does our interaction within a given space formulate identity and how can this be communicated effectively to elsewhere?
"Dislocate" aims to explore the potential that new media has to increase our awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit.
Does new media enable us to plug into our locality, or is disconnection inevitable? As mobile and wireless technologies increasingly enable us to transcend space, our electrical roots are dug up, but are the roots which bind us with a place also cut?
"Dislocate" will call into question the necessity of an intermediary to our immediate surroundings, asking if mediation is a means of connecting or distancing, an expansion or an obstruction. "Dislocate" offers the space to investigate the creative and social potential of new media to engage us with our direct locality and to ask what is the importance of where we are now?
Through this exhibition, symposium and workshop series, a group of international artists will address the relationship between art, technology and locality and offer innovative new methods of interacting with our environment through mobile and locative media.
Exhibition:
Taking place over two sites, of contrasting locality, this exhibition aims to present a particular relationship to its surroundings, revealing new perspectives of our immediate space, engaging with and investigating this site while also fusing with spaces beyond.
Works include a city-wide game in which teams play against each other with their mobile phones, an exploration of the streets led by the beat of your heart, architecture which responds to environmental conditions and emotion mapping of the urban landscape.
Symposium
Zaim – Theatre Space 3F
34 Nihon Odori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0021
"Dislocate" presents an international symposium with confirmed delegates from UK, Germany, Republic of Korea, Indonesia and Japan further contributing to the discourse surrounding the interplay of art, technology and location.
This symposium aims to explore what is meant by ‘locality’, how does new media impact upon our notion of space, our interaction with our surroundings, and how this can be used to transform communities, both virtual and physical.
• Special Events
24th July Opening Party 19:00-21:00 Koiwa Project Space
28th-29th July Symposium 11:00-16:00 ZAIM
29th July Performance Night 18:00 onwards ZAIM
Schedule | Jul 24 (Tue) 2007-Aug 5 (Sun) 2007 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Koiwa Project Space | ||||
| Location | 4F Chiba Bldg., 7-27-2 Minami-koiwa, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo 133-0056 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from Koiwa Station on the JR Sobu Line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3659-2938 | ||||
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