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August on -empyre- soft-skinned space: Paripatetic Pacific
with: open mike plus PRNMS guests TBA
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Welcome an open mike on Pacific Rim and new media practice, in terms
of two metaphors, 'journey' and 'bridges'.
At ISEA this year, there's a Pacific Rim New Media Summit (PRNMS)
going on August 7 and 8. PRNMS hopes for international cooperation
in new media culture, via the metaphor of the bridge:
(quoted from the ISEA PRNMS site http://01sj.org/content/
blogcategory/69/87/
From the outset we thought of the Summit as a mechanism to
encourage and facilitate international cooperation with an eye to
sustainable relationships. Understandably this approach is not
without difficulties and, as desired, it has been an emergent
process rather than directorial. We view the Summit as a point
along a trajectory of building ‘interpretive bridges’ that broaden
all of our capacities for creative and intellectual exchange. By
focusing the Summit on sustainable ‘outcomes’ it is our objective
to facilitative cooperative agendas that enable creative
production, research and cultural/political practice that
challenge current models of cooperation. The Summit is not an
attempt to simply become comfortable with one another or to
suggest that collaboration is not without controversy, dissent and
disagreement. The Summit is also about the collisions of ideology
and manifesto. It is about trying to work through the
problematics of diversity and difference.
And we're keying off of a provocative artists manifesto by Raqs
Media Collective (Delhi) (quoted from the recent Place, Ground and
Practice in Asia Pacific New Media Arts, December 2005, Auckland)
http://culturalfutures.place.net.nz/ Raqs conceptualizes practice in
terms of 'journey' and 'journeyman'.
"The first imperative, that of crossing borders, translates as
scepticism of the rhetoric of bounded identities, and relates to
the role of the practitioner as a 'journeyman', as the peripatetic
who maps an alternative world by her journey through it. The
second, of building a shelter against the odds of the law, insists
however on a practice that is located in space, and rooted in
experience, that houses itself in a concrete 'somewhere' on its own
terms, not of the powers that govern spaces. It is this fragile
insistence on provisional stability, which allows for journeys to
be made to and from destinations, and for the mapping of routes
with resting places in between."
-- Raqs Media Collective, 'X Notes on Practice'
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