ADA symposium
The programme will engage with the local environment and community through exhibitions, projections, and waka voyages on the Whanganui river, and as always there will be in-depth discussions on current work and interests in media art. This will be a major ADA event.
The topic of the symposium is 'Energetics and Informatics'.
We have conceived the following broad thematics.
Media and Energy
- exploring the material of media, information and energy in digital arts.
Energy Networks
- new forms of energy production, distribution and storage
- infrastructural critique.
Social Energy
- participatory practice, DIY media, floss approaches, social networks
as a medium for art.
Sustainable Media
- re-localised media, slow media, sustainable response to globalised
arts practices.
We will be working with One River and have waka available for 50. So we
are looking for some project ideas that explore the river. We're also on
the lookout for forms of alternative transport to, from and around the
city, bikes, trains, electric vehicles etc.
We have also booked out the Pioneer Room in the Memorial Hall which is a
fantastic modernist slab in Queens Park right in the centre of town. We
are collaborating with the Sarjeant Gallery who are offering gallery
space as well as the outside of the building for projections. We have
exhibition and workshop space at Quay School of the Arts and Whanganui
School of Design as well as The Green Bench project room and kitchen.
There are other possible performance and screening venues all within
walking distance.
We'll be making an official announcement and call for proposals by mid
September, but for now if you have any ideas, plans, suggestions or
questions please drop us a mail:
Email: symposium2010@aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz