ARTe MEDIA: Apr 24, 2007

*The MediaShed invites you to:

THE TEMPORARY MEDIASHED at Enter_Unknown Territories, April 26th-29th
*Dome 1, Parkers Piece, Cambridge.

- _ http://www.mediahsed.org _
The MediaShed was set up last year after a workshop involving local artists, designers, arts organisers, computer engineers and technicians.
What is special about the MediaShed model that made us choose it for Southend?

- Social Telephony: from Cromwell’s Head to Congolese Street Phones
(Richard Wright) _ http://www.mediashed.org/?q=telephony _
Mongrel has been developing new forms of “contagious” telephone media to engage marginalised communities that have fallen outside of mainstream media. Using cheap telephony cards and free software these projects allow people to build social networks by passing phone calls between
each other.

- Free LED Sculpture Workshops (Mark Dixon) _ www.markdixon.me.uk/network _
We will be getting people to contribute to the NETWORK covering the main dome viewable in the evening. Workshops will be a very friendly hands-on event. Accessible to ALL ages.

- SkintStream
_ http://skintstream.mediashed.org _
“SkintStream” uses streaming media to connect audiences and grass roots sound producers previously separated by economic, geographic and political distances – a “poor to poor” network. SkintStream.net radio and the “SkintStream Europe” network are now taking this to the next level.

- AWSoM (Stuart Bowditch & Damien Robinson)
_ http://www.mediashed.org/?q=awsom _
AWSoM - the Ambient Weather Sound Machine - uses found-sounds, triggered by the weather on recycled and found technologies to recreate environmental sound and feelscapes.

- Antarctic Data Jam – “Dance to the Sound of the Ice Caps Melting”
_ http://adj.mediashed.org _
/MediaShed launches the CD/DVD of the Antarctic Data Jam sessions
/In February 2007, Adam Hyde from r a d i o q u a l i a set up the first artists radio station on the South Pole, beaming back cold Antarctic data to the MediaShed and The Junction to be melted into pulsating audio visual performances by members of the public.

- Video Sniffin' (David Valentine)
_ http://www.mediashed.org/?q=videosniffin _
Hack wireless CCTV cameras while strolling through the streets of Cambridge. Video Sniffin' means you can create your own television studio within the buildings, shopping centers or streets of any town.

- On The Fly: VJ Mokital (Mike Lowther)
Free and informal visual performance workshop using free open source software, video distortion, live insects and humans.

- The Mimeticon: How to Talk to Images (Richard Wright)
_ http://www.mimeticon.net _*
*Although we are used to hunting for images using search engines, we still have to use words to describe them. “The Mimeticon” is a search engine that uses visual similarity to find images that could not be retrieved in any other way. It is also an artwork about the visual history of writing.

- NetMonster: The Networked Image (Harwood)
_ http://www.mongrel.org.uk/?q=netmonster _
The "NetMonster" is designed to continuously generate a “networked image” of the internet. Made up out of the results of internet searches guided by various keywords, it allows people to collaboratively build up a composite “snapshot” of the internet out of images, text and addresses.

- http://gearbox.mediashed.org (The Free-media Video Toolkit)*
*A collaboration with Eyebeam in New York, “gearbox” will create an online toolkit for young people to make low budget videos using free and open source software. Touring throughout the Eastern region by the end of 2007. If you are interested in learning more about the tour there
will be a meeting directly afterwards.

- Retro Gaming (Tommy and Phil Pope)
_ http://mediashed.org/?q=retrogaming _
Despite the likes of Xbox 360's and Playstation 3's, games are becoming more and more bland. It's time for people to get reacquainted with classics from the past that still boast unbeatable game play. Come and experience the games that helped shape the industry and kept us
imprisoned in our bedrooms.

- Spy Kiting
_ http://www.mediashed.org/?q=spykiting _
Fly kites equipped with CCTV cameras in Parker’s Piece and get an aerial ‘spy-cam’ view of the area. The images will be beamed directly to screens in the MediaShed.

- E2PROM (David Valentine)
_ http://www.mediashed.org/?q=e2prom _ *
*The E2Prom (pronounced ee-prom; the ² is silent) events showcase the best of local work alongside international talent in animation, photography, film and electronica, giving them a chance for critical feedback and exposure to new ideas.

Inflatables (Gordon Flemons)
_ http://cade.writtle.ac.uk/GordonFlemons.asp _
“Inflatables” subvert the classical understanding of buildings as being solid, permanent, and worthy. Instead, the use of materials such as polythene bin bags and plastic shopping bags emphasises their qualities as hollow, ephemeral, and playful.

You can find out more about the festival and the conference at www.enternet.org.uk

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