WELCOMES YOU TO
TRONDHEIM MATCHMAKING
PART 3!

Friday 22nd of nov. 10:15 at Blæst.
Beddingen 14, Trondheim
Free entrance, free lunch!-)

SEMINAR PROGRAM:

10:30
Espen Gangvik, TEKS, Trondheim
Introduction
What´s happened the last 6 months in the life of TEKS?

10:50
Tom Løberg, Trondheim
”Matchmaking”
Music for piano and manipulated CD

11:05
Natalie Jeremijenko, New York
Lecture:

"Feral robotic dogs and other spectacles of participation".
This presentation will cover a range of projects and situations that create spectacle, not with the interactivity of new technologies, but with the changing the structures of participation that networked, computational and interactive technologies provide. These projects illustrate the politics of information in the information age, i.e. who gets to create, interpret and distribute knowledge and for who's benefit...

11:50
Ivar Smedstad, Oslo / Trondheim, KIT
Presentation:
”Vortex”
DVD production based on the tidal cyclus in Saltstraumen.
Videowork:
”Century Fuge 255”, 1996
Contradictions and simularities of the industrial- and information age revolution.

12:10
Øyvind Brandtsegg, Trondheim
Presentation:
improsculpt, Freebagtechno:
Improvised material from musicians are being organically transformed with the help of ”ImproSculpt”, a native computer instrument. If the computer is a number crusher, this instrument is a sound crusher.

12:30
Knut Mork Skagen, Trondheim
Presentation:

"SuperDreamHorseBalloonLand"
Trondheim Sinfonietta in collabaration with Ny Musikks composergroup (NMK) are producing a concert 12.02.03 on Blæst in Trondheim with 5 premiers of young composers. The consert is anchored in the american poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). As a scenographic contribution to the consert, Skagen is producing an electronic installation as a visual and interactive comment to Cummings’ work.

12:45
Ruch/TWD/Snail, Trondheim
Videowork:
”Skop”
The first of all times videoscope shortmovie, accompaigned with sound from another space...

13.00 Lunch.
Lunchbuffet served from Tre Kråker!

Installation during lunch hour:
Kristin Bergaust, Oslo / Trondheim, KIT
"Mountain Mirror"

The double, synchronized video projection "Mountain Mirror" shows a dramatic and beautiful landscape of sea and mountains through changing conditions of weather and light. A male figure appears, relating in different ways to the landscape. He is part of his surroundings, he is transparent, he is a stranger, he is reflected, he is charged by the landscape.

14:00
Ingvar Sjöberg, Stockholm, Interactive institute
Head of Smart studio
Lecture:

"Research beyond reason"
Ingvar Sjöberg will talk about The Interactive Institute and in particular about The Smart Studio. The Smart Studio try to find it's way into research from a contemporary art perspective.
Ingvar will give various examples from projects and the ideas behind them.
For example "Hell Hunt" a project where we search the web to find the devil, or "Brain Ball" a game where you become the winner by doing nothing.

14:35
Frode Heggelund, Trondheim, ITK, NTNU
Presentation:
”Remote controlled sphere 1.0”
Institute of technical cybernetichs: experts in team.
A follow up from Trondheim Matchmaking part 1.

14:55
Oddvar I.N., Trondheim
Presentation:
”Triangel”
Presentation: Laser-light project in the sky above down town Trondheim.

15:15
Randi Størseth / Anders Elsås, Trondheim
Presentation and videowork:
”Skipet”
Performance

15:25
Per Platou, Oslo
Presentations:

"FrankenFurby"
They come in great numbers. They come in cute purple and green cardboard boxes. They have big eyes and round beaks, and they don't like being held upside down. They are Furby. And oh yeah, they're ugly! But even uglier can they be when they are stripped down to their bare circuit boards and built up again as a veritable Frankenfurby, none the less.
”Game Set Match”
Revamping Rauschenberg
”Ultra Modern. Very sosial.”
Streaming theatre consept.

15:45
Thomas Kvam / Frode Oldereid, Oslo
Presentation:

"The Machine Project"
(Live example: QuickTime stream: 56 kbs / 1 Mbs)
Worldpremiere at Blæst! Made on commision from TEKS:
Robotic sound and video performance. A dystopic travel through pop cult cutups. ”Cruising the estethic haze of disinformation”.
You´ve never seen anything like it!
Frode Oldereid / Thomas Kvam.

16:05
Schtimm, Trondheim
Presentation and mini concert:
”Headphones tour”
The headphones tour is among others sponsored by TEKS and is a project where the audience is listening to Schtimm playing through serial-wired headphones.
Schtimm consists of Æ, P, B and K.

~ THE END / SUMMARY