okno public01: wednesday 24/5

just a little reminder ... okno public01 is starting today, wednesday 
24/5 at 01.50 pm sharp!
we would be really happy if you can join us online or onsite....


WEDNESDAY 24th of MAY:

****3pm: round table debate: Beauty in the age of digital art; 
aesthetic, poetic or rhetoric****
Moderators: Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM) and Michael Samyn (Tale of Tales)
"Let's talk about aesthetics. In many contemporary cultural circles, 
beauty issubordinated to grand statements, elaborate concepts, social 
context, critical theory or technological functionality. We think it 
might be time to reacquaintourselves with it. Collective, digital, 
disembodied or embodied, abstract or figurative, connected or 
disconnected, what do digital artists consider beautiful?Do we even 
remember how to talk about it? "
With Guy van Belle (Society of Algorithm, mxHz.org), Auriea Harvey 
(Tale ofTales), Lawrence Malstaf, Dirk Paesmans (Jodi).

**5pm: round table debate: Transdisciplinary practices**
Moderator: Elke Van Campenhout (etcetera, nadine)
Elke Van Campenhout will be moderating a debate on transdisciplinary 
practicesaccording to the carousel principle.  A slightly different 
question will be put to each of the participants, focusing on their 
personal positioning in the field oftransdisciplinary arts. How is 
their work situated between different disciplines? Where and how do 
they present their work to the outside world? What does itmean for an 
artist/programmer/policy maker to wade through the troubled waters of 
the in-between?
With: Patricia Portela (performance and theatermaker), Christophe 
Deboeck(audiostore), Eric Georges (réseau citoyen), Femke Snelting  
(Constant)

**7pm: launch of .x-med-a. Magazine**
The review originated from a series of technically and artistically 
diverse workshops, organised by four independent technological arts 
initiatives in Brussels: nadine, okno, FoAM and iMAL. The workshops 
responded to the need for a place where continuous learning and 
dialogue between peers is encouraged, with the objective of sharing of 
experience, skills and knowledgeamong diverse groups interested in 
emerging ideas, media and technologies.

**9.30pm: Das Netz / the Neta film by Lutz Dammbeck **
What do mathematics, biological systems and the ‘Unabomber’ have 
incommon? What links these people, places and ideas in a network? The 
search for ananswer takes us back to the 40s, 50s and 60s of the last 
century, during which the foundations of modern life were redefined by 
cybernetics, multimedia art andmilitary research. This provided the 
basis for machine systems which are now networked throughout the world, 
governed by mathematics, logic and binarycodes. "Das Netz" shows some 
of the agents in these systems.


.. and not to forget: okno public01 ONLINE!

We would like you to participate by receiving our audiovisual stream 
and joining us in the irc chat to discuss and reflect upon the onsite 
panel. The chat will be beamed next to the panelists and we hope to 
find many instances to interact and contribute to the conversations. 
Our goal is to connect practices and territories, bringing into 
question different aspects of these processes of cultural production.

We would be very pleased if you can join us online. All round table 
discussions and IRC chats are scheduled daily between 3pm and 7pm CET.
Stream and IRC chat can be jointly followed at http://okno.be/live

and ongoing installations by:
Code31/ welcome to the 20th century back!
mxhz.org/ TICS
okno & Nina Czegledy/ transmutation
Andrei Smirnov: theremin windowpane
stefaan quix/ 3 monochromes RGB
foam/ inflatable meeting room


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okno public01 onsite & online
24 > 26 may 2006, daily from 3pm > 01am

@ matrix art project – koolmijnenkaai 30/34 – 1080 Brussels – Belgium

http://okno.be
audiovisual streaming & IRC chats,  daily from 3pm > 01pm on   
http://okno.be/live
stream also available on: rtsp://qt.okno.be:8000/okno.sdp
IRC-chat on: irc.r23.cc#okno
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