ISEA - Inter-Society of Electronic Arts

NEWS

NEW ISEA2004 WEBSITE WITH PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS LAUNCHED
http://www.isea2004

June 24, 2004 - The site introduces the biggest media culture event of the year by highlighting the programme taking place in Helsinki, Tallinn and on a multi-venue cruiser ferry (August 15-17) connecting the harbour cities. The site features artist profiles, speakers, projects and themes. Stay tuned for daily up-dates, and check it out!

The site introduces the biggest media culture event of the year by highlighting the programme taking place in Helsinki, Tallinn and on a multi-venue cruiser ferry (August 15-17) connecting the harbour cities. The site features artist profiles, speakers, projects and themes. Stay tuned for daily up-dates, and check it out!

ISEA2004, the leading symposium on new media culture, is shaping up to be an incomparable mid-August destination for a programme-filled experience on electronic arts, music, research and technology. The cruise on the Baltic Sea provides a multicultural forum for networking and pleasure. The unique experience extends from custom-made buffer-dinners to ferry's gyms, night clubs, pools and sun decks. Even the television programme on the ferry is a part of the comprehensive experience.

Tickets: http://www.isea2004.net/tickets

Group discounts (30% off for groups of 6 or more): contact Mika Minetti, mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 7192280

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*** ISEA2004 - PICK-UPS ***

CRUISE: AUGUST 15-17
TALLINN: AUGUST 17-18
HELSINKI: AUGUST 19-22

TOP ARTISTS SPIN THE HOUSE DURING THE ELECTRIFIED CRUISE
Collaboration between Montreal-based MUTEK festival on electronic arts brings AKUFEN, CRACKHOUSE, SKOLTZ_KOLGEN and DEADBEAT to ISEA2004. On the ferry, Akufen will play 'Music for Pregnancy' - a work that thrilled crowds at Tate Modern some time ago (http://www.isea2004.net/mutek). One of the world's leading VJs, CHARLES KRIEL (UK), has promised to drop dancefloor bombs and introduce the latest VJ technologies during his house act ( http://www.isea2004.net/kriel).

FELIX KUBIN ('refreshingly perverse', the Wire), the German-born pioneer of electro-acoustic music and electronic pop, takes over the Riviera deck ( http://www.isea2004.net/kubin). The pool party continues with the underwater soundscapes created by 2Linja. The Finnish-British band ROGER will add elegance and insight to Northern electronica while mixing in with the FUCHS-ECKERMAN collective's bewildering FutureDJ project, thus creating a DJ set of the future (http://www.isea2004.net/roger). Aboard the ferry, you also get to experience screenings of interactive films, installations such as the locative sound installation 'Float' by TUOMO TAMMENP�� (FI) and TAMAS SZAKAL (HU) that will turn the ship's route into music ( http://www.isea2004.net/float).

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES & MACHINE THERAPY: LEADING MEDIA-LABS PRESENT THEIR INNOVATIONS

During the Baltic cruise and the conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki, leading media labs from allover the world present their innovations, future products and interdisciplinary projects. KELLY DOBSON (MIT media lab, USA) brings her MACHINE THERAPY session to the ferry's gym ( http://www.isea2004.net/dobson); THE SARAI MEDIA LAB (IND) introduces its innovative research and creative projects in urban culture and new media, and its initiator SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is one of the keynote speakers in Helsinki (http://www.isea2004.net/sarai).

KATHERINE MORIWAKI (USA) presents proposals, prototypes and specific outcomes of her research examining wearable technologies, fashion, emerging communication infrastructures, networks and the body in Tallinn ( http://www.isea2004.net/moriwaki). LOCATIVE MEDIA LAB (CA) comes to Helsinki with their location-based media installation Trans-Cultural Mapping as part of the ISEA2004 wireless experience. MAKROLAB (SLO) will host 8 biologists researching the climate, weather and telecommunication in a mobile laboratory, which this time finds its place on a small island in front of Helsinki (http://www.isea2004.net/makrolab).

STORYMUPE is a mobile storytelling application created and developed for ISEA2004 by NOKIA Research Center and HIIT Mobile Content Communities research project. Cruise participants can join the game by using java clients in their mobiles, SMS, web or camera phones. LEON CMIELEWSKI and JOSEPHINE STARRS (AU), world-famous for their animations, bring their interactive Floating Territories game aboard the ferry. Cruise participants get to build tribal allegiances and reflect their own migration history.

TOP SPEAKERS AT HELSINKI AND TALLINN CONFERENCES

Keynotes at the major ISEA2004 conferences held in Helsinki and Tallinn include MICHEL MAFFESOLI, MACHIKO KUSAHARA ( http://www.isea2004.net/kusahara), JOANNA BERZOWSKA ( http://www.isea2004.net/berzowska), JULIAN WEAVER ( http://www.isea2004.net/weaver), ERKKI HUHTAMO ( http://www.isea2004.net/huhtamo) and MATTHEW FULLER. In Tallinn, the Wearable Experience comprises project presentations of state-of-the art ubiquitous computing in fashion and cultural practices. In Helsinki, Wireless Experience maps current emerging cultural and social practices of mobile and other wireless media.

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m-cult, centre for new media culture (www.m-cult.org), is the main organiser of ISEA2004, coordinating the programme and managing the event across the cities and on the ferry. Other organisers in Helsinki include the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (www.kiasma.fi) and Media Centre Lume (www.lume.fi). In Tallinn, the main partner Estonian Academy of Arts (www.artun.ee) works in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Arts (www.cca.ee).