ISEA94 Art Event Overview

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Art Exhibitions:
- Tuula Arkio: Welcoming Address
  Jon Rose: Violin Music in the Age of Shopping – interrupted improvisations around the Museum
  The ISEA94 Art Exhibition organizing committee consisted of:
  - Asko Mäkelä
  - Päivi Talasmaa
  - Jukka Mallinen
  - Maija Elo
  - Erkki Huhtamo
  The Art Show of ISEA94 is an international exhibition of cutting-edge electronic art projects. The 29 projects of the show display a variety of techniques and styles, with emphasis on interactive, telematic and network technologies and a thematic focus on Women and Technology, Media Archaeology, Collective/Personal Memory – not to mention the humorous aspects of today’s technology. [Read more]
- Tuula Arkio: Welcoming Address
  Jon Rose: Violin Music in the Age of Shopping – interrupted improvisations around the Museum
  The ISEA94 Art Exhibition organizing committee consisted of:
  - Asko Mäkelä
  - Päivi Talasmaa
  - Jukka Mallinen
  - Maija Elo
  - Erkki Huhtamo
  The Art Show of ISEA94 is an international exhibition of cutting-edge electronic art projects. The 29 projects of the show display a variety of techniques and styles, with emphasis on interactive, telematic and network technologies and a thematic focus on Women and Technology, Media Archaeology, Collective/Personal Memory – not to mention the humorous aspects of today’s technology. [Read Less]
- Art Show of ISEA'94: The Next Generation-Introduction
  - A Brief History of Computer Games a...
    [Game Arcade - Cute Museum]
    (Art Exhibition) (Games)
    A Retrospective
    [Iwai]
    (Art Exhibition)
    Virtual Haze
    [Kuwahara] [Oki]
    (Art Exhibition) (Games) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    where i can see my house from here ...
    [Feingold]
    (Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: The Next Generation-Interactivity
  - Violin Music in the Age of Shopping...
    [Rose]
    (Art Exhibition)
    Talking Picture
    [Koskela] [Pihlasviita] [Pihlasviita]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art) (Installation Art)
    The 20th Century Virtuosic Electron...
    [Kimura]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Telematic Vision
    [Sermon]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: The Next Generation-Multimedia
  - Lailah - an interactive expressioni...
    [Schou] [Callesen]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    R.O.M (Read Only My Memory)
    [Berry]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    A Digital Rhizome
    [Miller]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Flora Petrinsularis
    [Boissier]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art)
    Paradise Tossed - New Frontiers or ...
    [Scott]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    CinePlay
    [Davis]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Media Museum, A Finnish CD-ROM Proj...
    [Oesch]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Maire 1993
    [Kallela] [Liulia]
    (Art Exhibition)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: The Next Generation-Visualization
  - Diamond Lake Apocalypse: Illuminate...
    [Verostko]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art)
    Legend Prologue
    [Abe]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art)
    Legend
    [Abe]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art)
    The Computer Virus Project
    [Nechvatal]
    (Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: Spacescapes-Introduction
  - Anthroposcope
    [Mignonneau] [Sommerer]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Awareness of Limits (Galileo)
    [Boissonnet]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art)
    Dialogue with the Knowbotic South
    [Knowbotic Research]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art) (Internet Art)
    Herbaceous Protection, Unconscious,...
    [Pope]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art)
    Night Light: the Remanufectured Env...
    [Weintraub]
    (Art Exhibition) (2D Art)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: Spacescapes-Arch-design
  - Link
    [Eckermann] [Fuchs]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art)
    The Audio Pendulums
    [Möller]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based) (Sound Art)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: Spacescapes-Body
  - CyberSM III
    [Stenslie]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art)
    Audio Ballerinas
    [Maubrey]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    The Virtual Body
    [Richards]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Stomach Sculpture, Hollow Body, Hos...
    [Stelarc]
    (Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: Spacescapes-Soundscapes
  - Soundscapes on 96.8 MHz
    [Ambient City]
    Songlines
    [Hyde]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Music Performance
    [Rinneradio in dub]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: Spacescapes-Cave
  - The Metaphor of Cave in the Electro...
    [Antik] [Dyson] [Morse] [Shaw]
  Art Show of ISEA'94: High & Low - Introduction
  - An Anecdoted Archive From The Cold ...
    [Legrady]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    Plasm: A Country Walk
    [Broadwell] [Fuson] [Myers]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    SEE BANFF! Field Recording Studies
    [Naimark]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based) (Video / Animation Installation)
    The Edison Effect
    [DeMarinis]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art)
    To Fall Standing
    [Cummins]
    (Art Exhibition) (Video / Animation Installation)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: High & Low - East/West
  - Marquee
    [Shchelokov] [Grigorenko] [Sumatokhin] [Fishkin] [Kaminnik]
    (Art Exhibition)
  Art Show of ISEA'94: High & Low - East/West: Conversion: Russian Media Artists Working with Military Technology
- A show at the Guelman Gallery in Moscow and exhibited at the Customs Office and Warehouse Building, Helsinki.
  
  In Russia, a peculiar relationship between art and new technology has always been predominant. The technical innovations were for a long time regarded as follies, something one really did not believe in. Still in the 70’s, a normal audio magnetophone was considered dissident. The possibility of manipulating information with technology was the privilege of the State. The only official centers for new technology were provided by corporations of the military complex. This is why “Conversion” – the recycling of military technology for peaceful purposes – became synonymous for the “Eastern way” as opposed to the “Western way”. lSEA94 premieres the new works of the Conversion art project, silently prepared for six months.
  
  The exhibition features works by
  - Nikita Gashunin – Global Ambitions
  - Savadov & Senchenko – Work in progress
  - Gia Rigvava – You Can Trust Me, You Are Powerless
  - AES Group – Work in progress
  In Russia, a peculiar relationship between art an... [Read more]
- A show at the Guelman Gallery in Moscow and exhibited at the Customs Office and Warehouse Building, Helsinki.
  
  In Russia, a peculiar relationship between art and new technology has always been predominant. The technical innovations were for a long time regarded as follies, something one really did not believe in. Still in the 70’s, a normal audio magnetophone was considered dissident. The possibility of manipulating information with technology was the privilege of the State. The only official centers for new technology were provided by corporations of the military complex. This is why “Conversion” – the recycling of military technology for peaceful purposes – became synonymous for the “Eastern way” as opposed to the “Western way”. lSEA94 premieres the new works of the Conversion art project, silently prepared for six months.
  
  The exhibition features works by
  - Nikita Gashunin – Global Ambitions
  - Savadov & Senchenko – Work in progress
  - Gia Rigvava – You Can Trust Me, You Are Powerless
  - AES Group – Work in progress
  In Russia, a peculiar relationship between art and new technology has always been predominant: think only of Levsha, the left-handed smith of Russian folklore, who knew how to shoe a flea, but with the help of technology that was primitive indeed. The technical innovations were regarded as follies, something one really did not believe in. For a long time, the theory of N.Wiener was looked upon as a bourgeois pseudo-science; which is why the concept of new technology had an overtone of idealist philosophy. Even in the 70’s, a normal audio magnetophone was considered dissident. The possibility of manipulating information with technology was the privilege of the State. The only official centra for new technology were provided by corporations of the military complex. This is why “Conversion” became synonymous for the “Eastern way” as opposed to the “Western way”.
  [Read Less]
Electronic Theatre:
- The computer represents the same chameleon technology as video, although they have given names to two different forms of art (video art/ computer art). The definitions describe the art forms' contents as well as the technology used in them. Video art has its roots in experimental music, performance art, feminist theory of the image and the everyday use of video, as well as in the conventions of traditional cinema and television. The computer can be understood as a language as well as a form of technology. It is an universal media, encompassing the typewriter as well as the 3 D animations that aim towards perfect likeness with the reality. From the artistic point of view, the universality of the computer can be seen as a dilemma that escapes our definition. "Computer art" can be anything that copies or replaces former visual technology. So far, the computer has not created its own independent reality that would fulfill Gene Youngblood's absolute definition of the computer art: "art that is not possible to create by other means." Computers are widely used in the audiovisual technology due to their excellent editing properties. They have become an essential part of the working process... [Read more]
- The computer represents the same chameleon technology as video, although they have given names to two different forms of art (video art/ computer art). The definitions describe the art forms' contents as well as the technology used in them. Video art has its roots in experimental music, performance art, feminist theory of the image and the everyday use of video, as well as in the conventions of traditional cinema and television. The computer can be understood as a language as well as a form of technology. It is an universal media, encompassing the typewriter as well as the 3 D animations that aim towards perfect likeness with the reality. From the artistic point of view, the universality of the computer can be seen as a dilemma that escapes our definition. "Computer art" can be anything that copies or replaces former visual technology. So far, the computer has not created its own independent reality that would fulfill Gene Youngblood's absolute definition of the computer art: "art that is not possible to create by other means." Computers are widely used in the audiovisual technology due to their excellent editing properties. They have become an essential part of the working process, yet in aesthetics we are still discussing other things: pictures, sounds, stories and collages. The subcategories of computer art are in my opinion problematic, purely hierarchical classifications of the professional technology. Such a classification, consisting of ten subcategories, was presented at the I MAGINA festival. The subcategories simply refer to different ways of using the computer; they don't describe new forms of art. For the sake of art, according to Youngblood, we ought to look for something particular to computer art. In my understanding, such particular works have already been presented especially in the fields of Virtual Reality and A-Life. The third useful area provided by computers, telecommunication, is in fact television satellite technology. Naturally, we can find typical (yet not unique) characteristics to describe the computer images. A central one of them is the "Techno-collage". Computers make the production, editing and copying of pictures such a quick routine that the mere routine process in itself can produce an aesthetic format. The artistic originality of the Technocollage can be seen, for example, in the works of Beriou and Peter Callas. The genre reflects the ISEA'94 theme 'High&Low' – the easy experimentation possibilities provided by the computer have tempted many artists to create simple, yet interesting, "icon testaments" about their own life and ideology. However, the most interesting area of computer art is a world still to be created. I call this world the "Real fiction." It is fascinating to observe the world of computer games from the point of view of the subconsciousness. Their images seem to be based on a dark, medieval subconsciousness, the mythological reality of knights, with the creatures of the underworld and the heavens romping freely around in our earthly symbol realism. Yet I'm waiting for us to completely liberate ourselves from the basically realistic world of images, and to move into the "real fiction" (Youngblood's "simulation"), into the mist of man's imagination that has no holds with this world. Culturally and historically, we are the product of this world's image realism, but let us prepare for the moon trips of imagination. [Read Less]
- Digital Narrative: Program 1: Selected ISEA94 Work
  - A Lithuanian Lullaby
    [Wilson]
    (Screening)
    Chaos
    [Kuzminska]
    (Screening)
    Deep
    [Moilanen]
    (Screening)
    Déja Vu
    [Takala]
    (Screening)
    Ernst Will’s Picture Book: A Euro...
    [Callas]
    (Screening)
    Ils Sonst Tous Lá! (Les Quarxs)
    [Benayoun]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Moksha (Language is a Virus)
    [Gohard]
    (Screening)
    Nano in News SOS
    [Popa] [Innocent]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Tableau D’Amour
    [Matteudi (aka Bériou)]
    (Screening)
    The Arcana of the Primordial Numero...
    [Fitzgerald]
    (Screening)
    The First Political Speech
    [Zabranska]
    (Screening)
    The Garden of Earthly Delight
    [Goddard]
    (Screening)
    Trim to Fit
    [Myers]
    (Screening)
  Program 2: The Ride of Your Life
  - Astro Canyon (1994)
    [Talent Factory/Movida]
    (Screening)
    Devil’s Mine Ride (1992)
    [Showscan]
    (Screening)
    Dino Island (1994)
    [Ex Machina]
    (Screening)
    Intergalactic Interface (1993)
    [Links Corporation]
    (Screening)
    Intergalactic Travel (1991)
    [Links Corporation]
    (Screening)
    Journey to Technopia (1993)
    [Boss Film Studios]
    (Screening)
    Megalopolice: Tokyo City Battle (19...
    [Sega Enterprises]
    (Screening)
    Peter Gabriel’s Mindblender (1993...
    [Mega Productions/Angel Studios]
    (Screening)
    Phantom Train to Technopia
    
    (Screening)
    Promotional Video (Excerpt) (1993)
    [Showscan]
    (Screening)
    Robocop: the Ride (1993)
    [Iwerks Entertainment]
    (Screening)
    Space Race (1992)
    [Showscan]
    (Screening)
    Sub Oceanic Shuttle (S.O.S.) (1991)
    [Iwerks Entertainment]
    (Screening)
    The Fantastic World of Hanna-Barber...
    [Rhythm & Hues]
    (Screening)
    The Guardian (1993)
    [Rhythm & Hues]
    (Screening)
    The Secrets of the Luxor Pyramid (1...
    [Ridefilm Corporation/IMAX Ridefilm]
    (Animation)
    Turbotour Colossus (1990)
    [Iwerks Entertainment]
    (Screening)
    Virtual Ad Ventures (1993)
    [Iwerks Entertainment]
    (Screening)
  Program 3: Larry Cuba, A Retrospective
  - Calculated Movements
    [Cuba]
    (Screening)
    The Works
    [Cuba]
    (Screening)
    Two Space
    [Cuba]
    (Screening)
  Program 4: Prix Ars Electronica ’94
  - Artificial Life Metropolis ‘Cell'
    [Kawaguchi]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Displaced Dice
    [Zanker]
    (Screening)
    Ernst Will’s Picture Book: A Euro...
    [Callas]
    (Screening)
    Gas Planet
    [Collery] [Darnel]
    (Screening)
    Generative * System 2
    [May]
    (Screening)
    Ils Sonst Tous Lá! (Les Quarxs)
    [Benayoun]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Jurassic Park
    [Dippé] [Murren]
    (Screening)
    Ko Kid
    [Caro]
    (Screening)
    MTV Top 20 Video Countdown Graphics
    [Cassidy]
    (Screening)
    No Sex
    [Cougnoux]
    (Screening)
    Rhapsody in Light & Blue
    [Yamashita] [Nakamae]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Tableau D’Amour
    [Matteudi (aka Bériou)]
    (Screening)
    The Forest
    [Waliczky]
    (Screening)
    these are the days
    [Tonkin]
    (Screening)
  Program 5: Animated Novelties
  - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    [Pourcel]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    A Nice Easy Turquoise
    [Sharpe]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Cells
    [Fleischer]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Coke ‘Comic Hero’ Japan
    [Pacific Data Images]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Dance lnteractif
    [Perlin]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    D’Apres Le Naufrage
    [Marcal]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Endgame
    [Kuffner]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Listerine ‘Arrows’
    [Anderson]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Motion Capture Samples from the Ali...
    [Provenzano]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Moxy
    [deGraf]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    NATIONS visual effects
    [Jones]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Outside In
    [Munzner]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Shadow Puppets
    [Gamble]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    Smirnoff ‘Message in a Bottle’
    [Miles]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    The Holy Bird
    [Debuchi]
    (Screening) (Animation)
    The True Story of the Roman Arena
    [Williams]
    (Screening) (Animation)
  2 Soirees of Finnish Movies
  - Elokuu
    [Kassila]
    (Screening) (Video Art)
    Ihmisia suviyössä
    [Vaala]
    (Screening) (Video Art)
    Onnenmaa
    [Pölönen]
    (Screening) (Video Art)
    These Boots
    [Kaurismàki]
    (Screening) (Video Art)
    Varjoja paratiisissa
    [Kaurismàki]
    (Screening) (Video Art)
Concerts & Performances:
- The Next Generation-Composition
  - Ab Ovo
    [Ishijima]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Segmento 3
    [Libretti]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Any Resemblance is Purely Coinciden...
    [Dodge]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    The Great Red Spot of Jupiter
    [Zoran]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Espace/Escape
    [Dhomont]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Sound of Life: A Radiophonic Compos...
    [Tiensuu]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Urbis 4
    [Cobian]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Distrak-Sillalla
    [Kosk]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Specimens
    [Hofman]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Gandy Bridge
    [Lippe] [Settel]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio) (Theatrical Performance)
  The Virtuosos
  - Interactions
    [Garnett]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Maritime
    [Rowe]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    New work in progress
    [Risset]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
  e-club
  - Virtual Nightclub
    [DJ Magic Sam]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    Music Performance
    [DJ Mixmaster Morris]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
    midi-violin virtuoso
    [Rose]
    (Performances) (Concert - Audio)
  A Soirée of Electronic Verse by the Living Poet’s Society
  - Poetry Reading
    [Prigov]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)
    Poetry Reading
    [Onegin]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)
    Poetry Reading
    [Koskelainen]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)
    Poetry Reading
    [Kiiskinen]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)
    Poetry Reading
    [Katajavuori]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)
    Poetry Reading
    [Kontio]
    (Performances) (Literature and Poetry)

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