[apnaidea] Apnaidea at ISEA04

[Amanda McDonald Crowley]

Hi Julianne and all!

Thanks lots for checking in on who might be at ISEA2004, Julianne.  I am
afraid that I am rather too immersed in the realisation of the event to have
lifted my head to ask!!

I think it would be a marvellous idea for any of you who are indeed coming
to ISEA2004 who were either at the Delhi meeting or have joined the list
since to meet at ISEA2004.  There are two networking meetings planned with
an "Asia" focus.  One that is specifically targeted to ASEM countries (a
group of 16 european and asian countries that have formed an alliance to
build exchange)  whose cultural exchange is supported through ASEF. This is
a more formal meeting where the artists from ASEM countries in the ISEA2004
programme will present.

The other Asia focus network meeting on the ferry programme on the 16th is
more open and could well be a platform for re-opening some of the debates
that were begun in Delhi in December last year.

It would be great to also find a platform to get feedback from the summit
Julianne mentions -- though it reads to me as if the summit is to precede
ISEA2006, so perhaps this could be a forum to feed into the agenda of that
summit??

I would welcome your feedback and gladly work on ensuring that your
interests are addressed at ISEA2004, even if it is an event that occurs on
the opposite side of the world!!  We will certainly have an interesting
cross section of networking meetings and hope that they might provide some
incentive for an ongoing exchange to emerge:  even if, as we well know, this
is not an easy exchange across complex boundaries.

Another of the networking meetings that will take place is of an emerging
African network, also through related support from UNESCO (the meeting arose
from our capacity to invite a range of artists from Africa), so a dialogue
about the different ways to approach intra- and inter-regional networks
might also be an interesting outcome?

Regards

Amanda




On 6/8/04 11:14 AM, "Julianne Pierce" <julianne at anat.org.au> wrote:

> Dear fellow Apnaideas,
> 
> As ISEA04 is nearly upon us, I was interested to know who from the network
> will be attending? It would be a great opportunity to meet up again,
> especially as there is a focus on Asian networking at ISEA04 with the ASEF:
> ASIAN NETWORK MEETING. Perhaps we could co-ordinate an informal Apnaidea get
> together either on the ferry or at the conference in Tallin or Helsinki? It
> would be timely to re-visit the goals and strategies that were developed
> from our productive discussions in New Delhi.
> 
> I was also wondering if anyone from the Apnaidea network is attending the
> Pacific Rim New Media Summit that is happening this weekend in August 7 or 8
> (details below)? I'm not attending and I think it would be important for
> some feedback to come to the network, as there will be opportunities for
> Apnaidea to feed into the programming for ISEA2006 (that will be held in San
> Jose).
> 
> Best wishes to all of you and I hope that some of us will meet again soon,
> Julianne
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> PACIFIC RIM NEW MEDIA SUMMIT: A PRE-SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM OF ISEA
> 2006
> 
> The Pacific Rim New Media Summit is a program of ISEA 2006, the
> International Symposium of Electronic Art, hosted by the City of
> San Jose, California. The Summit is a gathering of organizations
> and representatives from the Pacific Rim and Asia to focus on
> development of partnerships among institutions with the
> objective of addressing the challenges of how information
> technology and creativity are shaping new directions in art,
> science, architecture, design, literature, theater, music,
> academic research and information technology based industry.
> 
> Why is this important?
> 
> The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents
> a dynamic context for innovation and creativity framed by issues
> of economic globalization, regional interaction, and
> environmental change. Silicon Valley has a vested interest and a
> cultural responsibility to help identify and enable new forms of
> cultural production in the region and locally. Encompassing all
> states and nations that border the Pacific Ocean and Asia,
> including all of Southeast Asia, Pacific Latin America, and the
> Pacific Islands, this event will address the developmental role
> and capacity of new media art to foster greater mutual
> understanding.
> 
> What will be achieved?
> 
> Not just another conference, the intention of the Pacific Rim
> Summit is to enable development of specific outcomes that foster
> cross-cultural and trans-regional cooperation, including the
> establishment of an ongoing network of organizations and
> formalized program of interaction between Pacific Rim new media
> organizations. An International Steering Committee will identify
> Summit themes and invite presentations. Other objectives
> include: 1) a publication of white papers from Summit working
> groups proposing specific collaborative programming; 2)
> cooperative agreements for enabling collaborative research and
> creative practice between organizations; 3) diaspora community
> involvement to shape specific outreach programming responsive to
> city of San Jose's diverse international heritages; 4) defining
> working models for knowledge transfer from expert practitioners
> to lay participants.
> 
> A special volume of *Leonardo: The Journal of the International
> Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology* will be devoted
> to the Summit. 
> 
> Why San Jose and why now?
> 
> San Jose is the metropolitan capital of Silicon Valley. 2006
> will be the first year of a planned biannual international
> festival of art and technology. ZeroOne will be the name by
> which the ongoing festival will be known. It begins in 2006 with
> the hosting of ISEA 2006. ISEA stands for Inter-Society for
> Electronic Arts (http://www.isea-web.org). It is an
> international, artist-run organization, which sponsors a
> symposium and festival of digital arts every 2 years in a
> different city around the world. A consortium of San Jose-based
> organizations competed for and won the bid to host the ISEA
> Symposium in 2006. The sponsoring organizations for the ISEA2006
> | ZeroOne San Jose Festival are:
> 
> o CADRE Laboratory for New Media, San Jose State University
> o City of San Jose
> o Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
> o San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau
> o San Jose Museum of Art
> o Tech Museum of Innovation
> o ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network
> 
> The Pacific Rim New Media Summit is a program of ISEA 2006 and
> will be held August 7-8 preceding the traditional academic
> conference. 
> 
> Summit Director: Joel Slayton
> Co-Chair: Roger Malina
> ISEA 2006 Director: Steve Dietz
> Co-Sponsors: Leonardo/ISAST and CADRE Laboratory for New Media
> Proposed Venue: SJSU/City of San Jose Martin Luther King Library
> 
> For more information, see
> www.sanjoseca.gov/cityManager/releases/2003_ISEAaward.pd
> 
> 
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