Satellite Voyeurism, Workshop
July 20-22, 2007

The workshop „Satellite Voyeurism“ addresses questions of production and reception of satellite images.

In addition to public lectures by international media artists, committed scientists and commercial companies’ representatives of the regions’ geo-data industry, a two day workshop program with up to 12 participants takes place.

Within the hands-on part the participants learn how to use a simple antenna, computer, soundcard combination to retrieve satellite images of NOAA satellites, and share own ideas and projects with the other participants. Both lectures and workshop discuss the image quality of satellite images but of course the subject will also touch upon the field of locative media, as GPS, GIS.

Through the workshop the basis for a publication shall be created, which includes documentation about recent media art projects in the field of mapping, satellite images and satellite technology.



The workshop is funded by
Der Ministerpraesident des Landes NRW
LAG Soziokultur NRW
Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund


Program

Fri July 20, 2007 – from 4 pm on
Arrival of participants,
Internal workshop presentations

Sat July 21, 2007 – 11 am – 4 pm
Public lectures (partially in English/ German)
11:00 am Francis Hunger (HMKV, Dortmund) „Introduction: A few comments on the success of Google Earth“

12.00 am Daniel Schulz (IAIS Fraunhofer Institut) „Geomarketing“

Break 1.00-2.00 pm

2.00 pm Régine Debatty (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com,  Berlin) „Recent artists' project using satellite images and geo-data“

3.00 pmTristan Thielmann (Uni-Siegen) „Geomedialität: Neue A-Perspektiven auf den blauen Planeten.“

internal Workshop presentations until 9pm

Sun July 22, 2007 – 11 am – 4 pm
Internal Hands-On Workshop with Thilo Elsner (Observatories Bochum/Amsat-DL)
„Receiving satellite images from NOAA satellites with just an antenna and a PC“
Internal workshop presentations and BBQ

Mon July 23, 2007
departure

The lectures on Saturday, 21 July 2007, are public and do not require booking.


About Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

HMKV serves as a platform for the production, presentation, education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. The activities of HMKV deal, in different formats, with the theme „Augmented Space“: in exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposia, publications, Internet applications and in European research projects. The success of last year’s „How I learned to love RFID“ workshop at HMKV (conceived by Francis Hunger) and the emergence of popular geographic mapping tools led to the development of the „Satellite Voyeurism“ workshop in 2007, directed by Francis Hunger.


Contact
Exhibition and Workshop Venue:
HMKV at PHOENIX Halle
Hochofenstrasse / corner Rombergstrasse
44263 Dortmund-Hoerde

info@hmkv.de
http://www.hmkv.de
Tel: ++49+231+823106

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