On the second weekend of ISEA2010 RUHR (Sat 28 and Sun 29 August 2010) artists, realists and utopians convene under the motto “After the Crisis” for a meeting full of courage, scepticism and hope while taking in the view over the flat horizon of the Lower Rhine. Schedule this weekend for your trip to ISEA2010 RUHR and don't miss out on the festival's courageous leap beyond the crisis!

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Programme "After the Crisis"
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Sat 28 August 2010, 12:00h
Geo-Crises: From Knowledge to Action
Keynote: Harald Welzer (de) with Marko Peljhan (si)
Admission: EUR 5/4
Territoriality is today increasingly less tied to geographic locations, but instead manifests as a multifaceted phenomenon in which national and power-political demands play a similar role as international financial flows, technical infrastructure and mass media attention. The technologies of communication and the mobility of information create a new, globally effective territorial order. The instabilities of this new order might not be best described as "crises" but show the functional limits of a system which had been successfully operating for several centuries. New critical methods and strategies for the analysis and design of the current situation are thus required.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30h
Ludic Maps
Panel with Alison Gazzard (uk): Datalogging the Landscape; Tara Pattenden (fi): Mapplers; Polise Moreira De Marchi (br): Re(cognition) Mapping. Redefining Space, Place and Territory; Margarete Jahrmann (at/ch), Verena Kuni (de): Developing Ludic Strategies and Interfaces for Participatory Practices in Urban Spaces.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30 - 17:30h
Herbologies/Foraging Networks
Presentation & workshop
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Sat 28 August 2010, 17:30h
Global Islands: Ruhrort, Tokyo and the Shepards of the World
Keynote: David d'Heilly (jp/us) with Fernando García Dory (es)
Admission: EUR 5/4
The global currents of capital, work and cultural differentiation are accelerated today through information technology. Within these currents, the economic and cultural significance of a place may change fundamentally in the course of only a few decades or even years. Urban residential and rural nomadic lifestyles are equally affected by impulsive, seemingly spontaneous shifts in the global urban fabric. The speed of new technology and its promise of pervasive availability of economic and social contacts makes the tenacity of life in rural areas blatantly clear. The specific mechanisms of self-organised urban, suburban and rural life in parallel with the world-wide information network provides insulation for the respective communities. Instead of a global village, a digital technology-created planetary archipelago arises.
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Sat 28 August 2010, after sunset
Siegrun Appelt (at): Reale Formulierungen (Ruhrort)
Light Installation, 2010
***Only once***: Mühlenweide, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: free
Siegrun Appelt is known for expansive light works that bathe whole city areas and architecture in bright light. For ISEA2010 RUHR in Duisburg-Ruhrort, she designs a spacious light work for the park-like gardens of the Mühlenweide, right on the banks of the river Rhine.
Appelt works with the direct physical perception of light and its contradictory qualities: the intensity of the light radiates great warmth and also hurts the eyes. It turns nature into artifice and transforms whole landscapes.
In their overwhelming intensity, Appelt’s works exaggerate the effects of light and urgently question the phenomenon of light pollution and our use of important energy resources.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 14:30 - 16:30h (part 1) and 19:30 - 21:30h (part 2)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Welt am Draht (Film, 1973)
Film screening
At the institute of cybernetics and future research, scientists created an artificial world - a counterfeit of a presumed 'real' one. After the sudden death of the institute’s director his successor, Fred Stiller, seems to meet the same fate as he begins to suspect that the reality he is living in is itself a simulation.
This largely unknown film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is an unsettling phantasmagoria on the anxiety of the use and misuse of computer modelling as a substitute for reality. Even 37 years after its initial screening on German television in 1973, the film displays an advanced vision of a present in which economic and social life have little material value. Rather, the film is engaged in new constant speculations about the status of reality - or its inevitable simulation.
After the screening of the film’s two parts, Timothy Druckrey will lead a discussion on the film’s themes and provide background information about its production.
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Sat 28 August 2010, 20:30 - 22:00h
Charlemagne Palestine (us)
Concert
St. Maximilian Kirche, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: EUR 15/10
Charlemagne Palestine creates intense, ritualistic music, which he refers to as 'resonant music', in contrast to the 'minimal music' of his peers, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. With his piano and organ works, he has developed a highly individual aesthetic centred around layered overtones and electronic drones, which build and change gradually, gently harmonising. His performances are overtly spiritual in nature. Palestine's pieces consist of stratifications marked by an absence of linear progression and by a transcendent timelessness. What we hear seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity, an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away.
This concert is presented in cooperation with club transmediale (www.clubtransmediale.de).
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Sun 29 August 2010, 12:00h
Picnic
Mühlenweide at the Rhine, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Admission: with ISEA2010 Full Professional-, Symposium-, Three-Day- or Day-Pass
ISEA2010 RUHR ends with a picnic at Mühlenweide, a small park on the banks of the river Rhine in Duisburg-Ruhrort. Following a densely packed conference and festival schedule, the participating artists, symposium speakers and other participants get together in an informal setting to enjoy spectacular views of the post-industrial panorama while musing about the experiences, issues and discussions of the previous week. As well as the breakfast, there will be a one-hour feedback session to reflect on the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, and to pass on the baton to the organisers of the 17th symposium, scheduled for September 2011 in Istanbul.
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CONTACT: ISEA2010 RUHR, c/o HMKV, Güntherstraße 65, 44143 Dortmund, Germany, info(at)isea2010ruhr.org
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