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ISEA2004: YOUR CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE CUTTING-EDGE OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, TECHNOLOGY AND NEW MEDIA CULTURE

June 9, 2004 - 'The ISEA conference remains a premier venue that brings together the visual, performing arts and sounds arts professionals, but also the theorists, scientists and engineers that are involved in the emerging disciplines.'
Roger Malina, executive editor, Leonardo / The MIT Press

ISEA2004 CRUISE: AUGUST 15-17
ISEA2004 TALLINN: AUGUST 17-19
ISEA2004 HELSINKI: AUGUST 19-22

ISEA2004 Symposium (http://www.isea2004.net) creates the most exciting hub of new media art, technology and research this August in Helsinki, Tallinn and on the amazing cruiser ferry connecting these Northern capitals (see images: http://www.isea2004.net/pictures.html). Finns and Estonians have joined forces to throw what may well be the coolest conference ever.

The interdiscpilinary symposium presents the latest technological and artistic innovations by the most advanced media labs from all over the world. ISEA2004 is the key happening for those working with electronic arts, digital media, content production, wireless applications and mobile technologies. It brings together almost two thousand top professionals: artists, curators, directors of most important media centres and museums, developers of new technologies, scientists and journalists writing on media culture in the leading publications of the field. At the same time the spectacular cruise on the Baltic Sea serves as a forum for pleasant networking and leisure.

Joining ISEA2004 is easy and the registration costs are low. Your FULL EXPERIENCE event package includes not only two nights' accomodation on the ferry, but also breakfasts, luxurious buffet dinners with wine and beer, the funky club programme on 3 stages over 2 nights with 25 djs and live gigs and of course the major conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki. IT IS REALLY HARD TO BEAT THAT!

Book your tickets for the fast-selling event at http://www.isea2004.net/tickets. We recommend booking soon as the most popular cabins are filling up. See more information on who's coming and what the programme will be like below and at http://www.isea2004.net/programme.html.

For group discounts, contact Mika Minetti, mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 7192280.

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The multi-venue ISEA2004 cruise on the Baltic Sea, conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki (where you will have six simultaneous streams to choose from), exhibitions and electronic music clubs unite the leading media labs of the world, researchers, developers of new technologies, designers and artists during the one-week symposium. More than 300 leading innovators, artists and scholars have been selected to present their work from altogether 1200 proposals received by the ISEA2004 International Programme Committee (http://www.isea2004.net/programme/index.html#IPC).

NETWORKING AND CLUBBING DURING THE ALL-INCLUSIVE CRUISE

Collaboration between researchers, artists, scientists and businesses is an essential part of this year's ISEA2004 symposium. In fact, ISEA has never been organised on this scale before. The Silja Opera cruiser ferry alone will host 20 installations, around 10 performances, interactive games and numerous dj and live acts, including an astonishing collaboration with MUTEK (Canada) artists (http://www.isea2004.net/news.html#mutek/). The entire ship turns into an arena for networking meetings, poster sessions, panels, workshops and seminars while sailing through the beautiful archipelago from Helsinki to Stockholm and on to Tallinn via the Åland islands.

Networking sessions offer artists the chance to pitch their work and share ideas. Because of the great scale of the event, you will not only become absorbed into the inspiring networking sessions, but will find it hard to resist joining the numerous clubs on the luxury boat while eating five star buffet dinners with wines and beers, all included in the most affordable price!

The ferry programme streches from lifts to swimming pools, pushing the limits of technological and artistic creation. KELLY DOBSON (MIT Media Lab, USA) brings along her MACHINE THERAPY project to the ferry's gym. The locative sound installation FLOAT by TUOMO TAMMENPÄÄ (Finland) and TAMAS SZAKAL (Hungary) will turn the ship into a play-head and the route into the track by translating GPS coordinates, distance to islands, depth, direction and speed to a slowly developing soundscape.

In the game project FLOATING TERRITORIES by LEON CMIELEWSKI and JOSEPHINE STARRS (Australia), renowned throughout the world for their animations, ISEA2004 participants receive swipe cards that arbitrarily assign a tribal allegiance, after which migration and participants' family history are being explored. ICOLS STRATEGY DEFENSE AND ARMS FAIR maps out relations between the new media technology that artists use and modern warfare, such as GPS, augmented reality systems and VR-technologies. Icols presents a modified 'arms fair' in Mariehamn, capital of the demilitarized zone of Åland.

After the cruise, ISEA2004 continues in Tallinn and Helsinki with conferences and a wide range of other events. The conferences offer networking possibilities for almost 2000 top professionals. Top speakers present future trends and latest innovations in their own fields. Design, technology and research have never been brought together like this before. The topics range from wearable technologies to wireless and mobile applications. In Tallinn, KATHERINE MORIWAKI from NTRG (Networks and Telecommunications Research Group, Ireland) presents her project and design concepts related to fashion and technologies, emerging communication infrastructures, networks and the body.

Tallinn and Helsinki keynotes include ARTURO ESCOBAR (University of North Carolina, USA), SARAH KEMBER (Goldsmith College, UK), JOANNA BERZOWSKA (Concordia University, UK), MICHEL MAFFESOLI (Sorbonne, France), SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA (Sarai New Media Initiative, India), ERKKI HUHTAMO (UCLA, USA), WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN (Brown University, USA) and MATTHEW FULLER (Piet Zwart Institute, the Netherlands).

Tickets and more information at http://www.isea2004.net/tickets and http://www.isea2004.net/programme.html.

For group discounts contact Mika Minetti, mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 719, 2280