Festival Guide Online
Festival Brochure (PDF) now online.
Part of VELOCITY
, folly’s festival of digital culture (12 Oct – 3 Nov 2007). Location: Central Lancaster.
Martin John Callanan will use a mobile phone to publish his physical geographical location to the internet as he travels the VELOCITY festival. Visitors to Lancaster’s map room will interact with a live map of Martin’s location, transforming his physical location into a drawing.
VELOCITY is an extraordinary 3 week long festival of digital art and culture that will stretch from Barrow to Lancaster around Morecambe Bay. VELOCITY’s artworks, performances, games, podcasts, films, workshops and art installations will follow the coastline, showing you this beautiful and sublime setting in a new, creative light. Using the rail route as its navigator, VELOCITY’s journey will encompass new world-class art, technology’s role in society, and contemporary issues that affect the Bay and its communities. There will be art works at train stations, performances on the trains, podcasts you can download to take on your train journey, and much much more.
Location of I has been added to the Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2110 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, websites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends.
Location of I featured at Culture Base in Europe Now | Europe Next
…an interactive space committed to the Europe of today and the Europe of tomorrow. Europe Now | Europe Next examines the process and effects of EU enlargement in the cultural field. At its heart is a series of live and online Encounters.
Location of I featured at Lab For Culture, as is At Home in Europe (funded Location of I).
LabforCulture is an online information and knowledge platform dedicated to European cultural cooperation, complemented by a range of offline services and programmed activities. The website provides an unprecedented range of information on cultural cooperation across the broader Europe, as well as offering a platform for transnational cultural exchange, cultural debate, news and research.
Location of I will be live at…
DISLOCATE July 24th – August 5th 2007
Ginza Art Laboratory, Toyko, Japan.Held over two sites, of contrasting locality, Dislocate will present new possibilities of our immediate space and the multiple connections which link to elsewhere. There will be a particular relationship to the surrounding site of the exhibition venues encouraging interaction and engagement with this environment while also fusing with spaces beyond.
exhibition press release
exhibition website
exhibition website
Location of I live at…
Handwerkergasse – Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte – Europäisches Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur, Völklingen, Germany on 25 May 2007 to 15 June 2007
“The artistic experiment Virtual Residency examines the conditions of personal and collective destabilization than actual, strong engine of the migration stream: Individual pictures generate hope, fear, dreams, obligations, emergency, desire for change, will to the change. They are examples, “samples” or sample of motives for migration. By the virtual Projektionsfläche of the project, they receive its Internet platform, to their direction-finding transmitter a direction, visibly are made and find a place of residence. There they become representatively of their authors virtual residents.”
“In a second step the project group makes a Materialisierung of their ideas and concepts in the material area for a part possible of the virtual residents. On the basis of the “sample character” into the Virtual Residency entered concepts, developed the group the beginning, the ideas as material multimedia installations in different exhibitions in Europe, so-called “sample houses” to convert. The term “sample house” associates a collective Paradiesvorstellung. It is a pure place, a white place, a container, at the same time “void”, “brightly a space”, thus a place without an own character, without personality. The “sample house” becomes in such a way the ideal Projektionsfläche for motives for migration. Sample houses develop starting from October 2006 in Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg.
Virtual Residency officially supported of the center for art and medium technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.”Installation photographs here
here
Press release
I will be presenting at ART+COMMUNICATION: The 9th International Festival for New Media Culture, May 31 – June 10, 2007, Riga, Liepaja Karosta and Aizpute, Latvia.
It’s almost finished. The live public website is up and running
In two hours my flight leaves Riga. My three months here have been a good time, the residency allowing me the time and resources to concentrate on a major piece of research with Location of I, and well as much other work.
Location of I will go live publicly in the next few days and will remain active publishing my physical locations for at least the next year. I’ll continue this blog for all relevant and exciting to life.
I will return to Riga in June to present my practice at the The 9th international festival for new media culture
When I arrived in Riga three months ago, the map of the city that Google used consisted of about two motorways. Although not opensource, Google Maps is the most open mapping tool to use for this work, so I was keen to use it. After several months of harassing people in Riga, the dataset was recently updated. It contains an amusing error, that makes half the city appear flooded. [The error is still there]
The kind of data used to construct Google Maps is normally the responsibilty of local organisation, such as Ordnance Survey in the UK, so how the Riga error goes unnoticed and uncorrected…
There still remains a massive disparity in the data between Latvia and it’s neighbors. Take Estonia, for example:
We are currently working on the web interface for Location of I, it will be online any day now…
Forgot to mention; there is an article (in Latvian) in the current edition of Kultūras Forums [27 aprīlis - 4 maijs Nr. 16(254)], about my work in Riga.
Returning to Riga with fully working hardware. All that is needed now is the website; then everyone will know where I am. [location
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