MMKamp + Putujući slobodni radio

Reni Hofmuller field recording

Same as last year, MMKamp’11 was done in collaboration with TIK project, but this time in small city of Marija Bistrica, surrounded by  north Croatian small hills. MMKamp/TIK had two parts: workshop focusing on “sound-walk” and Eco Time Conference questioning relations between time, ecology and new media arts held between 16th and 21st May, 2011.

Sound walk workshop was held by Jonathan Prior from Edinburgh. His work on ecology of sound together with sound walks (http://12gatestothecity.com/) were presented, and ear cleaning exercise conducted.

Jonathan Prior leading sound walk workshop

Ear cleaning exercise helped students to understand the complexity of sounds around us and recognizing sounds that we usually filter out. This was useful in Oršic castle museum where sound walk recording took place.

Matija Gubec, the peasant king, sculpture near museum

Museum’s focus was on peasant upraising till ’90s in 20th century. Since, it’s orientation has shifted towards landlords living style and Croatian national uprising and its cultural phenomenon. Change of focus from symbols of socialist times  to pancapitalism was interesting starting point for sound research.

Peasant upraising depicted

Recording varied from narrative parts to abstract sounds, sometimes edited in song patterns, with hollow and surrealist touch. End peace was recorded, conceptualized and edited by: Ana Vuždarić, Reni Hofmuller, Barbara Huber, Mimoza Vuthaj, Sonja Fureš, Michal Curdny, Martina Kederova, Jonathan Prior and Kruno Jošt.

Barbara Huber recording sounds of wind around the sculpture

Method, or strategy, was devised to join individual audio pieces in group work. Sounds were mapped on castle, and small groups were choosing their favourite spot. Sound cloud was created and each group had to form their experiance with thir own, but also recordings done by others.

Sound mapping

Draft was edited by Kruno Jost and Jonathan Prior and finalized edit done by Reni Hofmuller. Enjoy sound piece, and have a look at photolog >>

Also find blog entry from Jonathna Prior here >>

PeasantUprisingSoundwalk Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35)

Time – Ecology – New Media Art
Vrijeme – ekologija – nove medijske umjetnosti
Saturday, 21st of May 2011 / Subota, 21.05.2011.

Zabok, Zelena soba – trg D. Domjanića 6

15 h -18h: New Media Art and Ecology
15 h -18h: Nove medijske umjetnosti i ekologija

Speakers/govornici:

Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Obzirom da si danas svatko može uzeti pravo biti umjetnicom ili umjetnikom, zato čak nije potrebna ni posebna naobrazba, u zadnje vrijeme postaje zabrinjavajućom činjenica kako isto tako svatko može smatrati da upravo njezina/njegova djela zaslužuju biti sačuvana za budućnost, čak i svojim cjelokupnim opusom.

http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/ladislav_galeta

Reni Hofmuller
Ekologija za Hofmuller nije samo pitanje kao što je: “koliko struje mogu konzumirati?”, no i razumijevanje ravnoteže. Postoji li ravnoteža u onom što ljudi donose među sobom, postoji li balans između onog što ide unutra i ono što ide van.
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/reni_hofmuller

Jonhatan Prior
Prior radi na polju antropo-geografije u kojem istražuje odnos između prakse očuvanja okoliša i estetskih vrijednosti Velike Britanije. Kroz metodu détournementa te dekonstrukcije akustičnog okoliša Prior stvara nove zvučne ekologije pokazujući da soundwalk daje praktičarima i slušateljima mogućnost da aktivno sudjeluju u činu rekonstrukcije, podizanja, pa čak i brisanja psihoakustičkih svojstva prostora i vremena, nebitno da li se nalazi u umjetničkoj galeriji ili na gradskim ulicama.
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/johnatan_prior

Nina Czegledy i Erika Pasztor
Zašto je hrana važna?
Živimo u vremenu kada se potrošačko društvo pokušava vratiti u ne-potrošačko društvo. Ovaj je pokušaj usko povezan s pojmom vremena i održivosti. Koncept održivosti postoji već odavno, no dobio je novi zamah u posljednjih nekoliko desetljeća. Novi poticaji se razvijaju primarno zbog ekoloških katastrofa i globalne financijske krize. Naravno, hrana je jedan od najznačajnijih faktora u ovoj borbi. Ekološki aktivizam u umjetnosti bio je evidentan ranije od ostalih mainstream javnih manifestacija i naširoko izražena danas više nego ikad prije.
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/nina_czegledy

Conference is realized in partnership of Cal-me, Slovakia and UKE Croatia, with help of Gokul, Croatia.
Konferencija je realizirana u partnerstvu Cal-me iz Slovačke i UKE iz Hrvatske, uz pomoć Udruge Gokul iz Hrvatske

Conference is part of TIK (Time Inventors Kabinet) and MMKamp (Multimedia camp’11) projects by Cal-me, Bratislava and UKE Križevci.
Konferencija je dio suradnje projekta TIK (Time Inventors Kabinet) i rezidencijalnog programa MMKamp’11 (Multimedijalni kamp).

Lokacije/locations:
Zelena dvorana, Zabok – trg D. Domjanića 6

MMkamp’11 has been planed for May 2011 to go together with part of the TIK project that is concerned with radio program from different organizations included in this project. For all those who are interested in radio programming, pls. do contact us here >>

first TIK windclock for calculating windtimes (from TIK WIKI)

This years MMKamp will serve as a fringe activity to one EU funded project TIK, or better its yearly meeting on Korčula island in Croatia. TIK (Time inventors Kabinet) will host people from Belgium, Czech, Slovakia and Austria and MMKamp from Germany and Croatia. This international crew will from 24th of September to 01st of October work with joined efforts to build up wind-clocks, unique time measurement devices, and work on how can wind power small electronic musical devices. Besides workshops an event will create music nights filled with experimental and electronic sounds.

Names of the participants are:  Marcio Domingues, Gert Aertsen, Annemie Maes, Guy Van Belle, Isjtar, Michal Kindernay, Barbara Huber, Michal Palenik, Maja Kalogera, Sonja Fureš, Ralf Schreiber and Kruno Jošt.

Predstavljanje radova sa rezidencijalnog programa u Četvrtak 10.12.2009.:

Program predstavljanja rezidencijalnog programa
Četvrtak 10.12.2009.

19h
Xmedk/st.erme (60 min.) – dokumentarni film o novomedijskim radionicama koje su organizirane suradnički od organizacija iz Belgije: Okno.be, Nadine i Foam.
20h – 20:30h
Kratke prezentacije
20:30h – 22h
Oude destiles oude: prezentacija destilacije absinta
(various artist)
20:30h – 21h
Legs Without Bones:
Multimedijalni performas: Guy van Belle (Okno.be, Belgija), Michal Kindernay (YoYo, Česka), Barbara Huber (Col-me, Slovačka).
21h
Mahila (26 min. Dir. Annemie Maes, Okno.be, Belgija). Vizualnaantropologija / dokumentarni film o indijankama koje rade kao inzinjerke solarnog programa.
21:30h
Yoga unit:
Isjtar (Okno.be, Belgija), Kruno Jošt (UKE, Hrvatska), Motja (France-Russia).

MMKampo’09residency program will be held in Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik between 07th and 11th of December ’09.  Annemie Maes, Michal Kindernay, Isjtar (Junior Vandebroeck), Barbara Hube, Guy van Belle, Trudo Engels and Kruno Jost (read more on this years participants here>>) will be presenting projects and organizations: okno.be, Time Inventors’ Kabinet, YOYO organization from Prague, etc. During the residency performances and collaborative works will be made: GP.inc performance, absinthe distillation performance and collaborative sound performances by participants.

This years MMKamp focuses on new media work and specially on collaboration between Belgian, Check and Croatian organizations for possible further collaborations and events in 2010. Full program is comming soon.

Extensive blogging on MMKamp activities can be found here: http://www.uke.hr/BR-HR/?tag=palm

Movie from the final performance at MMKamp

MMKamp ’08 started on Tuesday 02nd July. Artists and scientist from Switzerland, Croatia and Brazil will exchange knowledge and collaborate on sound situations that could be created in space of dodecahedron sound installation.

This installations has been constructed and build during 2 years project in ICST Zurich and has it’s first installment at MMKamp for experiments in artistic usage. Open collaboration process between participants of MMKamp is searching for best ways how to interact socially, how to interact on creation of the code for different computer applications and finally how to interact in creative production.

MMKamp ’08 participants >>

The iSummit is over, it was fun, Putujuci Slobodni Radio was there and we finally got some new podcasts for you to listen to! Check out a couple of interviews with local radio-active activist Maris and Lazzareti’s coordinator Slaven Tolj, and thanks to Meike Richter from CommonsPage.net you can also listen to Cory Doctorow and the crew from Starwreck Studios!

I really liked the welcoming drinks…

Cory Doctorow Interview Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4)

Starwreck interview Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3)

This girl is radio-active! Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3)

Interview with Slaven Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4)

On sunday at the iSummit we had the Birds of a Feather about structuring further Brazilian <-> Croatian free culture exchange. Only two people from the summit showed up, but we also had a couple of brazilians on-line (valeu cris e machado). With renewed ideas we think that this exchange is only going to get better!

During the iSummit we also participated on a Workshop on setting up free culture spaces, we found out about lot’s of european and brazilian free culture spaces and discussed how to about setting one up in different contexts. it seems that iCommons is going to create a node project just to help out people involved in these ideias, so if you want to set up a free culture space, join the fun.

Selling Free Culture – is it an art performance, social practice, good money collecting skim or just a joke? It does not matter – it worked well. The whole idea is to support the Free Traveling Radio tour by raising funds by doing common brazilian culture Camelôdromo, selling Pinga (brazilska rakija) Havaianas (flipflops) and we also sold some CDs and DVDs packed with free culture media. Using a floating exchange rate we would first sell Brazilian Reais, “real” money, so that clients could then buy our goods (our brazilian partner only accepted real money after all…

We had some interaction with people going and coming at the iSummit in Dubrovnik:

Listen to the local singer Ramis and interview with local hacker Marcell on the podcast!

Ramis sings! Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4)

Interview with local hacker Marcell Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4)

Lazzareti is the place that hosted some of the iSummit, including all the night events. During the friday night party, a unplanned teenage invasion took place, so everyone prefered to stay out in front of the radio. Many iCommoners joined the Free Radio Spirit and palyed their own sets!

We had so much fun the cops showed up to see what the hell was going on…. It’s a free radio, when the cops come, run with your transmissor!

thanks fred for some pictures.

Tune in or listen to the podcasts of interviews from Putujuci Free Radio!

This is beautifull Dubrovnik: