[chi]version03 - Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse

[Joe Erickson <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Havnt seen this posted yet...

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Version>03 | DigitalArtsConvergence | 26-30 March 2003
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Select Media, and OVT Visuals
present Version>03 [DigitalArtsConvergence]

Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse
Exploring the multitudes of technology / activism / arts and culture

26-30 March 2003=20

This year, Version>03 is examining two forceful trends, Globalization (the
merging of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to machine), a=
s
seen, created, and debated by programmers, artists, scientists, activists
and critical thinkers. Subtitled Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse, the
five-day festival brings together emerging and leading practitioners to
respond to the latest advancements in virtual reality, robotics,
bioengineering, and other such technology defining our time. The festival
also examines contemporary social and political developments relating to th=
e
War in Iraq, the War on Terror, and the American surveillance society.
Concerts, films, installations, labs, workshops, and panel discussions
feature proponents as well as critics of the latest developments.

Selected programs of Version>03 are organized with the City of Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs; Video Data Bank at the School of the Art
Institute (SAIC); the Department of Film, Video, and New Media (SAIC); the
Visiting Artist Program (SAIC; Nomads & Homesteaders (SAIC University of
Illinois Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory; criticalartware; an=
d
the Center for Art and Technology at Northwestern University.

Additional support and programs for Version>03 by: Goethe-Institut Chicago;
Sharp; Bruner and Bay; Performance Department at the School of the Art
Institute (SAIC); Nipporn Productions; Genewise; Smartmeme; Heaven Gallery;
Open-End; Deadtech; buddY, Lumpen; Beige; SubRosa; Elisa Harkins; Ray Nolan=
d
(CRO); Method Media; Video Machete; Ideotech; Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; Rotten Milk Productions; onShore; facefive; Azone; nata.org;
Working Bikes; Red Line radio; Ex Teresa Art Actual, Mexico, D.F.; and
Centro de Multimedia, Centro Nacional de los Artes, Mexico, D. F.; Working
Bikes; ; Mod Square; So and So;

(PRICES)
MCA Program
All access pass $35-three-day (March 27-29) pass to panels, films, concerts=
,
and Lab events
Day pass $15-One-day pass to panels, films, concert, and Lab events
Sun March 30 admission: free

Additional Programs
Wed, 26 - Sat, 29 admission to the Chicago Cultural Center Singularity
Systems: admission FREE
Fri 28 1-4 PM Sat 29, 2-5 PM CAVE=AE tours at the University of Illinois at
Chicago: admission FREE

About Select Media

Select Media co-presents and programs the annual Version festival and we ar=
e
hoping this years focus will open up some directions to take into the near
future... This year we will be examining two forceful trends, Globalization
(the merging of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to
machine), as seen, created, and debated by programmers, artists, scientists=
,
activists and critical thinkers.

Each time we produce a festival we like to create accompanying artefacts.
For Version>03 we are releasing a number of media pieces to further
distribute the ideas and goals of version>03. It usually takes the form of =
a
special edition of Select. The Select Magazine is free to the public , but
the CD and DVD will be for sale to the public durin gthe Version>03 program=
s
at the MCA and the Chicago Cultural Center Singularity Systems exhibit.

Issue #6 of Select magazine is a companion reader for Version>03
[DigitalArtsConvergence]: Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse. It includs the
festival schedule. many of these will be available in to get in the Wicker
Park neighborhood before the fest begins.

Select #6 DVD is the companion video artefact to the Version>03 convergence=
...
It features tactical media documentaries, weird videos and resistance media
jamming. We also consider the dvd compilation a portable video festival and
distribution format that we encourage you share with as many people as
possible. Please screen it , dub it and pass it on.

Select # 6 includes these works::

Optimizer Customizer - Jan van Neunen
Tv Sheriff and the Trail Buddies - Ode to the Video Ape
Sunset Strip - Pete Bergeron
Retooling Dissent =AD Streetrec
Seeing Bush =8A Jan van Neunen
How To Buld A Bomb - Carbon Defense League (CDL)
GI Joe PSAs- Fensler Film Academy
Retag: retroactive logo distribution - conglomco
Dearraindrop videos - billy grant with help from joe grillo
Terra Vox - Jon Schnepp
Surveillance Report - 4N6
1-1-02-1-1-02 -Jesse Stiles
AC 130 Spectre =AD=20
Rosita Variations =AD c.o=B9d
Fire and Ice 2003 - Paul Deuth & Jeffrey Weeter
Hypno Chicken 2000 - Davy Force! =AD
Trash Factory - Jan van Neunen
Media Jack =AD 4N6 =AD=20
Arispeak -4N6 -=20
Blade runner =AD Earthfirst / 4N6

curated by J and Ed Marszewski

We also like sweet music.
The Lumptronic 6 Technotopia vs Technopocalypse CD project is a companion
audio artefact for the festival. It contains work by some of the performers
and musicians featured at the Version>03 convergence and also features a
sampling of the digital underground in Chicago. To get a complementary copy
stop by Sonotheque on Wednesday March 26 and help us celebrate its release
at the Version>03 opening nite party.

track listings for the cds::

Lumptronic 6 Technopocalypse
1 Bit Shifter - Parallax Barrier 02:12
2 FWSB - Futurista 04:05
3 Denim and Diamonds - Disneyland in Iraq 02:54
4 Insect Deli - Mini Kiss 02:01
5 Misty Martinez - Stone Heart (produced by Robert Wilkus) 03:23
6 Chicago Uk - Virtual Heaven 03:26
7 People Remains - Indians 01:25
8 Housemaster Bert - Acid Beat 2K3 06:23
9 Pickup - Wargames 02:44
10 Michael Hartman - New Song #4 05:42
11 Koutaro Fukui - Untitled #5 02:17
12 Heavy Petting - Untamed Feline 05:46
13 Mike Finch - San Diego Lazer Tag 02:37
14 Miles Tilmann - Escape from Nothing 02:56
15 Amanda Guti=E9rrez - Gardenia 03:58
16 K-rad - 121pno 02:55
17 Just Jihaad - Enduring Freedom 03:49
18 Sonorous Hat - 6:30 06:32
19 Ernesto Romero - Euphoria 04:23
20 Rotten Milk - Commanding Battle Stations 04:26

Lumptronic 6 Technotopia
1 Ghost Arcade - GKUDB 03:47
2 J+J+J - Portable Ultra Sound 03:21
3 Handheld - The Show Endz 03:52
4 Denim and Diamonds - Cyborg Manifesto 04:00
5 Jason Martin - Please Assist Us in Transmission 03:58
6 Video Ape and Hot Tub Gary - Mouth Full of Gold and a Mouth on a Ho 03:57
7 Mouse on Mars - Snap Bar 04:29
8 Mark DeNardo - Fare (engineered by Koutaro Fukui) 02:36
9 Nobukazu Takemura - Wandering 07:46
10 Bud Melvin - Funky Conveyor Belt 02:02
11 0+1=3DEverything - Strung out 02:34
12 Chris Holmes - =B3We Want Moroder=B2 Megamix (Good Songs Gone Bad) 06:21
13 Jesse Stiles - Head 06:28
14 Portable Dinosaur - What I Could Have Done Sideways 04:10
15 Delray - I Just Called... 04:59
16 Lord of Yum Yum - Grieg, excerpt from Peer Gynt Suite, =B3Hall of the
Mountain King=B2 03:25
17 In Potentia - While We Were Eating 05:00

curated by Doug Lussenhop, Jaime Pickup and Ed Marszewski

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