May 5th : Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN) Symposium The Upgrade ! Montreal + [mix_sessions] :: RMNC |
5pm
– free
This Upgrade is
full-length! We begin at 5pm with a vernissage for the Mobile Digital Commons
Network (MDCN). Drop in for drinks and beats with DJ tobias
c. van Veen and visuals from VJ Beewoo. The
MDCN Symposium on mobile technologies and their practices begins Thursday evening
and runs until Saturday afternoon with panels and exhibitions open to the public.
The Upgrade kicks
off at 7pm. This May we feature wireless art generated using psychogeographic
techniques with the Sonic Scene project of MDCN/RMNC. Huh, you say? Yes: audio
and video produced to be “drifted” using wireless access points that
are provided free in the city of Montreal by community group Île
Sans Fil. The artists will be discussing their work as well as demonstrating
various pieces.
The Upgrade!
will also feature presentations from two other MDCN/RMNC projects: CitySpeak
by Jason Lewis and the MC3 team. CitySpeak generates real-time
code poetry from wireless network traffic, projected into public environments,
while MC3 offers real-time visualization of geotopological
information as it pursues free creative cultural exchange. These two projects
will be on-hand as installations from May 5th to May 7th.
At 10pm, we feature
an exclusive MDCN mix_sessions with beats from DJs The Mole
(Laïka, Mutek) and tobias c. van Veen (quadrantcrossing.org).
See you there!
Program
of the evening:
05:00pm -07:00pm:
cinq à sept MDCN with VJ Beewoo & DJ tobias
07:00pm -07:10pm: Introduction to The Upgrade
07:15pm -07:40pm: Michelle Kasprzak, SonicScene
07:50pm -08:15pm: tobias c. van Veen, SonicScene
08:25pm -08:50pm: Michelle Teran, SonicScene
09:05pm -09:30pm: Jason Lewis, CitySpeak
09:35pm -10:00pm: Marc Tuters, MC3
For
more information and the artists’ biographies:
theupgrade.sat.qc.ca