Salto Omroep presents Media Playgrounds!


MEDIA PLAYGROUNDS presents creative ways of dealing with broadcast media by community media practitioners, professional artists and young creatives. Media Playgrounds takes place in Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. At each location, during two days, a variety of workshops and public events will elaborate and. This event is part of 'Broadcast Media Scuplture' program.

Broadcast Media Sculptures (BMS)
BMS produces artistic examinations within the field of art and mass media. At the same it fosters broad participation and creativity in the course of an experimental investigation on the future of mass media. It consist of 3 main events that will take place simultaneously in different locations: Media Playgrounds, Sculpture Parks Exhibition and 'The Future of Mass Media' international conference.

It's a collaborative project organized by Salto Omroep, Amsterdam; Freies Radio Wien,Vienna; Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest; Resonance FM, London; Tilos Radio, Budapest; Sofia University ST. Kliment Ohridski. Kindly supported by EACEA and NIMk

The Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
Amsterdam
11/12 December

Current Exhibition: VERSIONS.
With work by: Harm va den Dorpel, Constant Dullart, F.A.T Lab, Martijn Hendriks, JoDi, Oliver Laric, NastyNets, Theodore Watson, e.a.
The exhibition 'Versions deals with 'comment culture': commentary as a medium. With the popularity of social networks and blog sites on the Internet, commenting on each other has taken on a new dimension. Questions about the significance of appropriation, authenticity and agency in the era of 'comment culture' run alike a thread trough the exhibition.


Master Classes Workshops
Friday 11 December
1:30pm - 5:30pm

Media channels, platforms and formats impose strict rules on how you can play with them. This afternoon you will be inspired by artists that have developed new insight through free media experimentation and hacktivism.


Heiner Holtappels (de/nl)
Introduction Media Playgrounds

Raul Marroquín (co/nl)
'Electronic media and visual arts 1968 - 2009, from experimental film to cross media'
This lecture is Raul Marroquín's personal journey as a visual artist working with electronic media departing from events taking place in front of the film camera in the late 60s until today’s parallel multicasting via cable, web, mobile and Second Life.
Raul Marroquín’s own experience and surrounding events and developments in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and other European locations as well as U.S.A. and Canada.

David Garcia (uk)
'Faith in Exposure'
This seminar addresses the central narrative of western democracy our 'faith in exposure'. It is an exploration of the concept of artists as commentators and activists intervening in the news events of the day.
'Faith in Exposure' will reference the history of media art in the Netherlands and Internationally with particular emphasis on the historical impact of video art. This session will look at the concept of 'tactical media' as a movement in both art and in the 'art of campaigning'. And finally we will look at a number of recent projects curated by Nanette Hoogslag for major media and news platforms in which artists are asked to commentate on news stories, notably 'Oog' (Volkskrant) http://extra.volkskrant.nl/oog/client/index.php and 'Visual Foreign Correspondent' http://www.visualcorrespondents.com/.

MauzZ (nl)
MauZ will talk about the 3D web (Second Life a.o.), as the ultimate interactive television of the early 21st century.


The lectures will combine Skype connections with international artists and interventions from Amsterdam based artists and thinkers.

Video Screenings
Friday 11 December
8:00pm-10:30pm

Media Playground invites you for a Friday night session where you can explore some remarkable artistic approaches, consequences and interpretations of the online moving image and live cinema.

Intro by Peter Krapp (us), "Of Games and Gestures: machinima and the suspensions of animation".

The best of Machinima , compiled by Chantal Harvey
Lets talk machinima! The word MACHINIMA is a combination of 2 words: cinema and machine. Machinima works have already been recognized at Cannes and other big international festivals.

Truth and Consequences by Francisco Camacho (co)


Nanette Hoogslag (nl), Oog's initiator and curator, has made a selection from NIMk's amd Oog's archive especially for Media Payground.

More to be confirmed**


Registration required for both events, please reserve your ticket by mail elena@salto.nl

Entrance:
Master Classes + Exhibition (afternoon): € 3,50 / Students free
Screening evening : Free

More info at http://www.montevideo.nl/nl/agenda/detail\_agenda.php?id=556&archief=