ISEA2004: YOUR CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE CUTTING-EDGE OF RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY
AND ELECTRONIC ARTS

'The ISEA conference remains a premier venue that brings together the
visual, performing arts and sounds arts professionals, but also the
theorists, scientists and engineers that are involved in the emerging
disciplines.'
Roger Malina, executive editor, Leonardo / The MIT Press


ISEA2004 CRUISE: AUGUST 15-17
ISEA2004 TALLINN: AUGUST 17-19
ISEA2004 HELSINKI: AUGUST 19-22


ISEA2004 Symposium (http://www.isea2004.net) creates the most exciting hub
of new media technology, research and art this August in Helsinki, Tallinn
and on the amazing cruiser ferry connecting these Northern capitals. Finns
and Estonians have joined forces to throw what may well be the coolest
conference ever.

The interdiscpilinary symposium presents the latest technological and
artistic innovations by the most advanced media labs from all over the world
building unique interface for future products and businesses.
ISEA2004 is the key happening for those working with digital media, content
production, wireless applications and mobile technologies. It brings
together almost two thousand top professionals: developers of new
technologies, scientists, artists, journalists and curators. At the same
time the spectacular cruise on the Baltic Sea serves as a forum for pleasant
networking and leisure; it is also a perfect opportunity to figure out what
the Finns are up to in the future;-)

Joining ISEA2004 is easy and the registration costs are low. Your FULL
EXPERIENCE event package includes not only two nights' accomodation on the
ferry, but also breakfasts, luxurious buffet dinners with wine and beer, the
funky club programme on 3 stages over 2 nights with 25 djs and live gigs and
of course the major conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki.
IT IS REALLY HARD TO BEAT THAT! Book your tickets for the fast-selling event
at http://www.isea2004.net/tickets - we recommend booking soon as the most
popular cabins are filling up. See more information on who's coming and what
the programme will be like below and at
http://www.isea2004.net/programme.html.

For group bookings, contact Mika Minetti, mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 719
2280.


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ISEA2004
http://www.isea2004.net

The multi-venue ISEA2004 cruise on the Baltic Sea, conferences in
Tallinn and Helsinki (where you will have six simultaneous streams to
choose from), exhibitions and electronic music clubs unite the leading
media labs of the world, researchers, developers of new technologies,
designers and artists during the one-week symposium. More than 300
leading innovators, artists and scholars have been selected to present
their work from altogether 1200 proposals received by the ISEA2004
International Programme Committee
(http://www.isea2004.net/programme/index.html#IPC).

NETWORKING AND CLUBBING DURING THE ALL-INCLUSIVE CRUISE

COllaboration between researchers, artists, scientists and businesses is
an essenstial part of this year's ISEA2004 symposium. In fact, ISEA has
never been organised on this scale before. The Silja Opera cruiser ferry
alone will host 20 installations, around 10 performances, interactive
games and numerous dj and live acts. The entire ship turns into an arena
for networking meetings, poster sessions, panels, workshops and seminars
while sailing through the beautiful archipelago from Helsinki to
Stockholm and on to Tallinn via the Aland islands.

Networking sessions offer business units, artists and journalists the
chance to pitch their products and share ideas. Because of the great
scale of the event, you will not only become absorbed into the inspiring
networking sessions, but will find it hard to resist joining the
numerous clubs on the luxury boat while eating five star buffee dinners
with wines and beers, all included in the most affordable price!

The ferry programme streches from lifts to swimming pools, pushing the
limits of technological and artistic creation. KELLY DOBSON (MIT Media
Lab, USA) brings along her MACHINE THERAPY project to the ferry's gym.
The locative sound installation FLOAT by TUOMO TAMMENPAA (Finland) and
TAMAS SZAKAL (Hungary) will turn the ship into a play-head and the route
into the track by translating GPS coordinates, distance to islands,
depth, direction and speed to a slowly developing soundscape.

In the game project FLOATING TERRITORIES by LEON CMIELEWSKI and
JOSEPHINE STARRS (Australia), renowned throughout the world for their
animations, ISEA2004 participants receive swipe cards that arbitrarily
assign a tribal allegiance, after which migration and participants'
family history are being explored. ICOLS STRATEGY DEFENSE AND ARMS FAIR
maps out relations between the new media technology that artists use and
modern warfare, such as GPS, augmented reality systems and
VR-technologies. Icols presents a modified 'arms fair' in Mariehamn,
capital of the demilitarized zone of Aland.

After the cruise, ISEA2004 continues in Tallinn and Helsinki with
conferences and a wide range of other events. The conferences offer
networking possibilities for almost 2000 top professionals. Top speakers
present future trends and latest innovations in their own fields.
Design, technology and research have never been brought together like
this before. The topics range from wearable technologies to wireless and
mobile applications. In Tallinn, KATHERINE MORIWAKI from NTRG (Networks
and Telecommunications Research Group, Ireland) presents her project and
design concepts related to fashion and technologies, emerging
communication infrastructures, networks and the body.

Tallinn and Helsinki keynotes include ARTURO ESCOBAR (University of
North Carolina, USA), SARAH KEMBER (Goldsmith College, UK), JOANNA
BERZOWSKA (Concordia University, UK), MICHEL MAFFESOLI (Sorbonne,
France), SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA (Sarai New Media Initiative, India),
ERKKI HUHTAMO (UCLA, USA), WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN (Brown University, USA)
and MATTHEW FULLER (Piet Zwart Institute, the Netherlands).


Tickets and more information at http://Www.isea2004.net/tickets and
http://www.isea2004.net/programme.html.

For group bookings contact Mika Minetti, mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 719 2280