Hi there,
Please find below some information on a major international festival and symposium on New Technology Art taking place in Cambridge, 25th - 29th April, which I’m sure will be of great interest.
Enter\_Unknown Territories Conference, 25th - 27th April
This two-day conference will provide a fascinating and timely platform for discussing the interplay between new technologies and artistic practice. The emergent forms of hybrid and collaborative practice being explored at Enter\_Unknown Territories are not yet widely understood or appreciated, yet new technology art is set to assume ever more significance in the coming decades - not only for artists, but for the research and business communities as well.
The conference will provide an opportunity for practitioners and representatives from the artistic, scientific and business communities to talk about how they can collaborate in more unusual and exciting ways, and what the consequences of challenging the borders between creative disciplines, contemporary culture and commerce might be.
The conference will focus on exploring three themes
- Sustainable Technology
- Consumption and Participation
- Control Technology
The conference will both reflect on recent paradigms of good interdisciplinary practice, and seek to develop future models of productively integrating art, technology, design, and commerce.
The conference will include an examination of the current ACE Artist Placement in Industry Scheme, an initiative that supports and will feature the launch of Uncommon Ground. This research project by Virtueel Platform, the internationally renowned Dutch centre for interdisciplinary e-culture, is in partnership with the Utrecht School of Arts (HKU), funded by Arts Council England.
Please see www.enternet.org.uk for more details and information on how to register for the conference.
Enter\_Unknown Territories Festival, 25th - 29th April
This April, Enter\_Unknown Territories will bring the most cutting edge interactions between art and new technology to the streets of Cambridge. Together with the conference on the interface between art and new technology, this ground breaking series of public art events, live performance, installations, workshops and talks will set the agenda for discussion and practice in one of the most vital art forms of the new century.
New technology art is a slippery and often ill-defined concept - and this festival has been conceived to give some clarity to the debates that arise when art and new technology meet, and to give some truly fascinating and illuminating work the opportunity to find new audiences.
Art is commonly brought to life by technology, but where paintbrushes and cameras are tools of creativity, the artists and practitioners participating in Enter\_Unkown Territories use the revolutionary high-tech changes of the past century as their medium of expression.
New technology art sits intriguingly at the crossroads of art, science and design, and has powerful implications for cross-disciplinary practices within commercial as well as creative environments. Enter\_Unknown Territories will create a perfect forum for exploring these relationships, and for the forging of new networks of creativity.
Enter\_Unknown Territories is firmly rooted in both its East of England context, and the international effervescence of new technology art over the past few years. Artists from across the globe will be coming to Silicon Fen in April and will engage a wide audience of practitioners and the general public in the exciting, unpredictable and interactive worlds of new technology art.
Enter\_ is a collaboration between essexdance, The Junction, Wysing Arts Centre, and is supported by Arts Council England, East and the East of England Development Agency.
If you require any further information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
philip@ideageneration.co.uk
