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Pacific Rim New Media Summit

About PRNMS

Written by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Jan 26, 2006 at 09:00 PM
Pacific Rim New Media Summit Pre-symposium Summit co-sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media and Leonardo/ISAST August 7 & 8, 2006 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San Jose State Univeristy Participation by Invitation Only PRNMS Participants PRNMS Schedule About the PRNMS The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity. Experimentation in art, science, architecture, engineering, design, literature, theater and music is emerging new forms of cultural production and experience unique to the region. The complex relations and diversity of Pacific Rim nations is exemplified throughout the hybridized communities that comprise Silicon Valley. As the 10th largest city in the United States, San Jose is an important portal on the Eastern edge of the Pacific region, which shares deep historical and cultural connections that range from Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia to Asia. ZeroOne San Jose: An International Festival of Art on the Edge highlights the Pacific Rim as a central theme by presenting the most significant achievements in art, theory and research from throughout the region. The CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University will host a two-day pre-symposium entitled the Pacific Rim New Media Summit co-sponsored by Leonardo. The Summit is intended to explore and build interpretive bridges between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts programs in 8 areas: Distributed Curatorial; Education; Place, Ground, and Practice; Urbanity and Mobile Media; Latin American – Pacific/ Asia New Media Initiatives; Residencies/ Symposia/ Directory; Piracy and the Pacific; The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area. The summit is intended to explore and build interpretive “bridges” between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises, with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts initiatives. An important objective is to examine and create new transaction spaces for creativity and innovation. With a purview encompassing all states and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including all of Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Islands, this trans-disciplinary event will address the developmental role and capacity of new media arts initiatives to foster greater mutual understanding. Summit objectives include exploration of innovative models for cooperation among institutions, development of interaction strategies with technology corporations, investigation of radical responses to emergent cultural issues and conditions, engagement with Diaspora communities, and the establishment of an on-going Pacific Rim Network of New Media Educational Institutions. Each evening there are scheduled events. Monday includes a reception for Summit attendees, premier of Ryjoi Ikeda’s C43 at the California Theatre and Akira Hasegawa’s immersive projection on the new San Jose City Hall rotunda. Tuesday evening is the gala opening for all ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose exhibitions and public art works featured in venues throughout the city. The Pacific Rim theme then continues on into the Symposium and Festival with presentations of juried papers, an invited keynote presentation and in exhibitions by artist selected through the ISEA2006 Calls for Participation. From the outset we thought of the Summit as a mechanism to encourage and facilitate international cooperation with an eye to sustainable relationships. Understandably this approach is not without difficulties and, as desired, it has been an emergent process rather than directorial. We view the Summit as a point along a trajectory of building ‘interpretive bridges’ that broaden all of our capacities for creative and intellectual exchange. By focusing the Summit on sustainable ‘outcomes’ it is our objective to facilitative cooperative agendas that enable creative production, research and cultural/political practice that challenge current models of cooperation. The Summit is not an attempt to simply become comfortable with one another or to suggest that collaboration is not without controversy, dissent and disagreement. The Summit is also about the collisions of ideology and manifesto. It is about trying to work through the problematics of diversity and difference. On the pragmatic side, what is expected is that each Working Group will have a creative or research project, or program initiative to share. The Working Groups have been asked to identify, shape and pursue a common cause. Documentation of the ‘outcomes’ will serve as the basis for the Summit proceedings. The Pacific Rim New Media Summit is organized by Joel Slayton, Chair of ISEA2006 and Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University. ISEA2006/ZeroOne Director is Steve Dietz. Pacific Rim New Media Summit Co-Chairs are Roger Malina and Joichi Ito. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is the Summit Production Coordinator. Pacific Rim New Media Summit Working Groups: Distributed Curatorial Education Place, Ground, and Practice Urbanity and Mobile Media Latin American – Pacific/ Asia New Media Initiatives Residencies, Symposia, and Directories Piracy and the Pacific The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area Summit Objectives • Focus on common and divergent themes of Transvergence in which traditional borders segregating disciplines, ideology and liabilities are crossed and critiqued. • Explore and build interpretive ‘bridges’ between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts programs and initiatives. • An important objective is to examine and emerge new transaction spaces for creativity and innovation. Summit Outcomes • An ongoing network of Pacific Rim new media initiatives and programs supporting continued interaction. • Publication. Leonardo ISAST will publish an experimental journal issue as a product of and response to the Summit. • Cooperative agreements. Strategic alliances will be formed to promote collaborative research, artistic and scientific investigation, corporate sponsorship and interaction, student and faculty exchanges, residencies, exhibitions, performances, conferences and festivals. • Diaspora involvement. San Jose is very diverse ethnically and culturally. The summit will shape specific outreach programs to engage local communities in the development of interaction networks in the context of these international heritages. • Knowledge transfer. Models will be developed to enable knowledge transfer from expert practitioners to lay participants. The role of new media institutions in creating learning possibilities for the public will be examined, as well as how such efforts can be collaborative with cultural institutions.
Last Updated ( Aug 02, 2006 at 07:12 AM )

PRNMS Schedule

Written by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Jun 20, 2006 at 07:53 AM
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San Jose State Univeristy Participation by Invitation Only Sunday August 6, 2006 Optional Working Group Meetings Monday August 7, 2006 Check in and Registration PRNMS Introduction Working Group Presentation: Place, Ground and Practice Working Group Presentation: Urbanity and Mobile Media Working Group Presentation: Invisible Dynamics Working Group Presnetation: Education Working Group Presnetation: Latin American/Pacific Asia New Media Initiatives Ryjoi Ikeda C43 at the California Theater & Night Culture Tuesday August 8, 2006 Working Group Presentation: Piracy and the Pacific Working Group Presentation: Organizations and Residencies Working Group Presentation: Curatorial Conversant Session: Raqs Media Collective Participation and Admission to the Pacific Rim New Media Summit is by invitation only. Participants should have received a detailed schedule of events.
Last Updated ( Aug 01, 2006 at 06:23 PM )

PRNMS Participants

Written by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Jun 20, 2006 at 07:36 AM
The Pacific Rim New Media Summit is organized by Joel Slayton, Chair of ISEA2006 and Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University. ISEA2006/ZeroOne Director is Steve Dietz. Pacific Rim New Media Summit Co-Chairs are Roger Malina and Joichi Ito. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is the Summit Production Coordinator. Distributed Curatolrial Working Group Steve Dietz, Co-Chair, Director, ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Gunalan Nadarajan, Co-Chair, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Penn State University, College of Arts and Architecture, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Zhang Ga, Professor, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, USA Deborah Lawler-Dormer, Executive Director, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand Alice Ming Wai Jim, Art Historian/Curator, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Ellen Pau Johan Pijnapple Yukiko Shikatas Soh Yeong Roh, Director, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea Education Working Group Gustaff H. Iskandar, Co-Chair, West Java, Indonesia Fatima Lasay, Co-Chair, Korakora.org, Quezon City Philippines Rob van Kranenburg, Co-Chair, Virtual Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands Roberta Alvarenga, Independent researcher, producer and founder of ARTFICIAL - International Network of Digital Culture Articulation, Catolic University of São Paulo – PUC, São Paulo, Brazil Tressa Berman, Director, BorderZone Arts, Inc., Research Fellow, Transforming Cultures, UTS, San Francisco, California, USA Clarissa Chikiamco, Program Coordinator - Ateneo Art Gallery; Initiator/Organizer - End Frame Video Art Project, Visual Pond, Manila, Philippines Nina Czegledy, Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Toronto, Canada Régine Debatty, Blogger, We-make-money-not-art, Turin, Italy Kenneth Fields, Professor, Peking University and China's Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China Deanna Herst, Department of Communication and Multimedia Design, Willem de Kooning Academy/Hogeschool Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lynn Hughes, Hexagram Researcher, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Doyun Lee, UNESCO DigiArts Coordinator, UNESCO, Paris France Nova Paul, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand Daniela Reimann, University of Flensburg, Department of Visual Arts, Germany / University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Austria, Kiel, Germany Willem-Jan Renger, Dean of the Graduate School of Art, Media, Music & Technology, Utrecht School of the Arts, Hilversum, The Netherlands Trebor Scholz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, Brooklyn, New York, USA Place, Ground, and Practice Working Group Danny Butt, Chair, Partner, Suma Media Consulting, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Jon Bywater, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Jason De Santolo, Jumbunna Research Unit, UTS, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Jenny Fraser, Artist, Queensland, Australia Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Interdisciplinary Artist/Musician, Banff New Media Institute / Smartlab, Canada Nova Paul, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand Lisa Reihana, Artist, Unitec School of Design, Auckalnd, New Zealand Urbanity and Mobile Media Working Group Suhjung Hur, Co-Chair, Curator, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea Bo-Seon Shim, Co-Chair, Head of Academic Office, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea Soh Yeong Roh, Co-Chair, Director, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea Julian Bleecker, Research Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Division, University of Southern California Venice, California, USA Adrian David Cheok, Director, Interaction and Entertainment Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Drew Hemment, Research Fellow & Director of Future Everything, Creative Technologies University of Salford, Manchester, UK Jeffrey Huang, Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Anthony Townsend, Research Director, Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California, USA Marc Tuters, Research Fellow, Annenberg Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA Latin America/ Asia Pacific Initiatives Working Group Jose-Carlos Mariategui, Chair, Alta Tecnología Andina (ATA), London, UK Andrea Di Castro Dr. Alejandro Jaimes, Advanced Multimedia Specialist, Fuji Xerox Co, Ltd. Japan, Kanagawa, Japan Geetha Narayanan, Founder and Director, Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore India Ned Rossiter, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies (Digital Media), Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, Coleraine, North Ireland Zhao Shulin, Curator, Beijing Art Museum Of The Imperial City, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Residencies and Organizations Working Group Julianne Pierce, Chair, Producer and Curator, FIMA Projects, North Adelaide, South Australia Irina Aristarkhova Zhang Ga, Professor, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, USA Dr. Alejandro Jaimes, Advanced Multimedia Specialist, Fuji Xerox Co, Ltd. Japan, Kanagawa, Japan Dr. Melinda Rackham, Executive Director, Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Station Arcade, South Australia, Australia Peter Richards, Senior Artist, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA Piracy in the Pacific Working Group Steve Cisler, Chair, San Jose, California, USA Julien McArdle, Director & Producer, “On Piracy” Documentary, University of Ottawa, Canada Eduardo Villanueva, Department of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru Michael Ward, Hidden Knowledge, Electronic Publishing Paul Whitney, Director Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada Invisible Dynamics Working Group Peter Richards, Co-Chair, Senior Artist, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA Susan Schwartzenberg, Co-Chair, Senior Artist, Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, USA Amy Balkin, Artist, San Francisco, California, USA Cris Benton, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Jean Biagini Ian Clothieri Nigel Helyer Michael Jones, Interaction Designer, Smart Design, San Francisco, California, USA Paul Klein, Chair, Design + Technology, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA Gayle Laird Margeigh Novotny, Design Director, Smart Design, San Francisco, California, USA Ricardo Rivera Eric Rodenbeck, Founder & Creative Director, Stamen Design, San Francisco, California, USA Natalie Robertson Scott Snibbe, Media Artist, Sona Research, San Francisco, California, USA Tamiko Theil Paul Thomas Meredith Tromble McDonald, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Center for Art + Science, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA
Last Updated ( Jul 30, 2006 at 06:56 PM )