Navigating Intelligence
Sept 9 - 12, 1999
The Banff Centre for the Arts

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AGENDA
Navigating Intelligence: A Banff Summit
Sept 9 - 12, 1999
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/nmi


Wednesday  September 8
Location: The Cozy Nook Lounge, Sally Borden Building.
8pm
Meet & Greet


Thursday September 9
Location: JPL 313
Day One: Focus on Curating New Media.
CURATING NEW MEDIA
This event brings together curators, media distributors, artists and
software developers for a
one day discussion about: 1) Current developments in new media, with a
specific focus on  artists who design software, web based works and artists'
browsers, data bases, and info politics interventions.
2)  Strategic alliances between festivals, galleries, web sites for future
plans.  3) Discussion of the
changing role of the curator., 4)  Plans for international alliances and
future collaborations.

8:15 am
Technical Run Thru.  
All 'day of' speakers who require technical support for their presentation
are required to attend this run through. Banff Centre technical staff
(audio/video/computer) will be available to assist you with making sure your
presentation is cued up and functioning. 

9 am 
coffee

9:15  
Introductions and review of key issues from the 1998 Curating and Conserving
New Media event.
Sara Diamond.  Executive Producer Television & New Media, Artistic Director
Media & Visual Arts. The Banff Centre for the Arts.
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/mva
-key on going issues identified in 1998.
Robert Sauvey. Programmer, National Screen Institute - Canada.
http://www.nsi-canada.ca
-the bridge between media distribution issues and curatoral practice
identified in 1998.

9:45  - 12:00
The politics of Information & Artist Software. 
Liz Vander Zaag. CCII artist and director of Front Media Ltd.
http://www.frontmedia.com/ 
-gender and technology.
Mark Hosler. Negativland.  http://www.negativland.com
-issues of rights.
Thomax Kaulmann. Radio Internationale Stadt. http://orang.orang.org/ 
-Live interfaces.
Jorge J. A. La Ferla.  http://www.criba.edu.ar
-Pachito Rex and Valdez around the World: Two narrative  projects for the
Web about LatinAmerica .
Joshua Portway. http://www.realworld.co.uk/


12:00 - 1:00
Lunch


1:00 - 2:30
The role of the curator in the information age: shifting roles, shifting
practices.
Vera Frenkel. Multidisciplinary Artist. http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing
-"Media Scams and Scrambles from the Pompidou to the National Gallery: A New
Media Checklist for Museums"
Robert Sauvey. Programmer, National Screen Institute - Canada.
http://www.nsi-canada.ca
-Cyberheart and Send and Receive.  Public responses to new media.  Bridging
the gap between the works and a public well versed with new media or art.  
Kostja Mitenev. http://www.dux.ru/digbody/bionet.htm
-The Bionet Gallery,  an on line gallery of works,ideas and conceptions of
authors,art-groups and/or their domains which navigation comes in next
media(nexa) meaning.
Skawennati  Tricia Fragnito. Curator in Residence, The Banff Centre for the
Arts. http://www.nation2nation.org/cyber.htm
-Mixing contemporary and traditional work.

2:30 - 2:45 


Break

2:45  - 4:10
Virtual and actual: experiences that are physical and on line.
Beryl Graham. Curator, Artist. University of Sunderland.
http://www.stare.com/beryl/
-Un-purity:  Curating interactive artwork (including Serious Games at the
Barbican) both no-tech and high tech interactives. Physical as well as
virtual presence.  Interactive new media work in conventional galleries, and
interactive artwork made from one sheet of paper.
Susan Aaron. Researcher, Writer.
-The artist body in relation to cyberspace. What is art, what is technology
- how do those match and not in terms of dealing with information.
Gretchen Schiller. Trajets (tba)
Nina Czegledy. http://shaman.dds.nl/~n5m/people/czegledy.html
- Digitized Bodies-Virtual Spectacles. Art and Biomedicine at the end of the
Millennium.


4:15 - 6:00  
International collaborations:  artists, institutions and creative
collaborations. 
Planning for future initiatives.
Jools Gilson - Ellis & Richard Povall. CoDirectors half/angel.
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/people/~rpovall/secret/secret.html
-International funding for new media performance projects, the difference
between screen based art work and performance projects that involve new
media, the challenges of developing performance projects involving new
media.
Nina Czegledy. http://www.interaccess.org/aurora/
-Projects: Aurora Universalis, Virtual Revolutions, Digitized Bodies
(Art&Biomedicine) . International media residency projects and support.
(Polar Circuit, Crossing Over, EMARE).Contexts for Collaboration.
Carlos Soldevila. Executive Director, The Inter-Society for the Electronic
Arts. http://www.isea.qc.ca
- ISEA : future international initiatives realizations.
Banff  and others...

6:15 
Location: Meet in front of La Palette.
Meet software folks and go for a walk to the Hoodoos
(please note: dining hall closes at 7pm sharp)

8:30 - 10:30
Location: JPL 204
Opening event for Navigating Intelligence.
Drinks, show and tell of web sites that fit Navigating Intelligence
histories by Sara Diamond & Clark Dodsworth.  Hang out. Acclimatize.

Friday September 10
Location: JPL 313
Day Two: Focus on navigating intelligence. 
Navigating Intelligence is a think tank. It will provide deep networking
opportunities for artists who create software and other intelligent tools,
theorists and activists who are interested in data base and information
politics, software developers and designers, e commerce experts, network
specialists, distributors, curators, researchers, educators. It's purpose is
to excavate the potentials of digital tools through the metaphor of
intelligence, considering human, sentient, authored intelligence. It
considers will, either embedded or embodied in technologies. Navigating
Intelligence includes artists who do not design software, but whose work has
an influence on software development. Artists are often as concerned with
the capacity to  produce meaning and disclose hidden structures of economic
and social control, as with the aesthetics of art work.  Others amplify
ubiquity, engage complex surveillance systems, and data tracking.  Concerns
about access to information, the continuation of public rights and a
hierarchy of value within data flow are issues that bring together artists
and developers. Artists make tools that are playful, living, cross medium.

Artists make use of artificial life algorithms, artificial intelligence, GPI
and GPS, motion tracking data, robotics, agents, authoring tools that
provide creative experiences for professional and casual users, search
engines, intelligent data bases and archives.

This event also examines the new economy of the knowledge and information
environments.  Intelligent tools and finding aides can allow access that is
literate yet simple. They soften the line between individual "choice" and
corporate marketing.  These tools are fundamental to educational
environments, amongst other sectors, providing the means for content
aggregation and exploration.  What are the politics of information?  NI will
consider a large spectrum of audiences and communities.

8:15 am
Technical Run Thru.  
All 'day of' speakers who require technical support for their presentation
are required to attend this run through. Banff Centre technical staff
(audio/video/computer) will be available to assist you with making sure your
presentation is cued up and functioning. 

8:45  am
Coffee

9:00-9:30  
Event introduction, moderators, participants.

9:30 - 11:15
Smarten Up: An overview of Navigating Intelligence.
Moderators:  Sara Diamond & Joshua Portway.
Sara Diamond. Executive Producer Television & New Media, Artistic Director
Media & Visual Arts. The Banff Centre for the Arts.
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/mva
-Framing Authorships. Some high and low lights of artists and software. The
currecny between meaning and situation.
Simon Pope. Founding Member, Escape. http://bak.spc.org/iod/escape.html
-Deconstructing the process of writing software. Why artists are engaged in
tool building.  Social networks.
Jeannine Parker.  President, The J Parker Company.  International Board of
Directors of the Association of Internet Professionals.
http://www.jparker.com/
-Developing for the net. Working between artists and  funding sources.
Social aspects of computing. Intellectual Property issues.
Jason E. Lewis, Director of Research, Arts Alliance Laboratory.
http://www.artsalliance.co.uk
"Introducing Arts Alliance Laboratory: creating hybrid research
methodologies at the intersection of art + technology + rampant capitalism."
Robert K. Logan (from afar). http://gutenberg.com (Sara Diamond will read a
portion of text.)
-The Dawning of a New Era: Knowledge and InterConnectivity. Rosh Hashanah
greetings. 

Break

11:30 - 1:00  
Emotional computing.
Moderator: Sara Diamond
Joshua Portway. http://www.realworld.co.uk/
-dataplay, participation, synaesthetics, artists.
Peter Plantec. Creative Director, Virtual Personalities Inc.
http://www.vperson.com
-Trust art and technology are not four letter words. The role of the artist
in bringing the technologically disenfrachised, into the new millenium as
fully engaged, on-line citizens.
Nina Czegledy. http://www.interaccess.org/aurora/
-Dream Theories.

1:00 - 2:00
Lunch

2:00 - 2:30
The E-Commerce System
Moderator: Jeannine Parker
Charles Haynes. VP of Production, Internet Card Processing Worldwide Inc.
http://www.icpw.com
-E Commerce. What is it? Facts, Security Hoax, Merchant Risk, Smart Cards,
E-Cash, Escrow Method, Record Keeping, Privacy of Information, Privacy of
Transactions, the TriLink System and implications for Navigating
Intelligence.

Break

2:45 - 4:15  
Amplifying Play: Music, Sound, Toys.
Moderator:  Joshua Portway & Sara Diamond. 
Joshua Portway. http://www.realworld.co.uk/
-Noodle.
Tina Blaine(Bean). Musical interactivist at Interval Research.
http://www.dcuckoo.com 
-Interaction design methods and experiential approaches to social
communication within a musical environment.
Thomax Kaulmann. Radio Internationale Stadt. http://orang.orang.org/ 
-orang archive.
Bruce Pennycook. Vice-Principal (Information Systems and Technology) McGill
University. http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~brp/
-Computer Music Systems for Performers. Performer oriented systems and
intelligent software that permits performers to learn, portage and perform
electroacoustic music by themselves (that is no composer, no host of
technicians.)

4:15 - 6:00
Networks, Nerds, Intelligent Servers and the Politics of Information:
companies and artists.
Moderators: Sara Diamond & Jeannine Parker
Dewey Reid.Creative Director of pre-production and production for Low band
and Broadband Digital Media, Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com  
-Network futures.
Esther Drill. Executive Editor, Gurl.com. http://www.gurl.com
-Smart gurls and their toys. Content on line.
Mark Hosler. Negativland. http://www.negativland.com
-Copyright, music and information.
Robert Nideffer http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer
-PROXY. A  networked social space in extensible electronic environment; a
place where architectural and spatial metaphors run rampant, and where with
proper privilege one can participate in dynamic and mutative relations. 

6:00 - 7:00
Location: Meet in front of La Palette
Walk and talk up Tunnel Mountain.

8:30 pm. 
Location: Telus Studio, JPL.
Artists' Presentations.
Jools Gilson - Ellis  & Richard Povall.  The Secret Project.
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/people/~rpovall/secret/secret.html

Myron & Susan Turner,  Dale Amundson. http://artists.banff.org/reaching/
-"Reaching": "Reaching" is a networking metaphor for communication and
imagination.  It involves three very different projects by three artists
(Susan Turner, Myron Turner, Dale Amundson).  The projects are
self-sufficient yet interdependent, as a way of speaking metaphorically
about the interconnectedness of networks, which move outward from local to
external environments and parallel the movement of communication from the
self and/or community outward into the world.  Each person sitting at a
computer is a solitary node that ultimately connects to a larger network of
imaginations.


Saturday September 11
Location: JPL 313

8:15 am
Technical Run Thru.  
All 'day of' speakers who require technical support for their presentation
are required to attend this run through. Banff Centre technical staff
(audio/video/computer) will be available to assist you with making sure your
presentation is cued up and functioning. 

9:00
Review  of day before

9:15 - 10:45
Smart nets and conveyances.
Moderators: Sara Diamond and Tarik Thami
Ron Goldman. Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/jini/   (tba)
-JINI: creating order and shared ontology in cyberspace. Linking standards
and sustaining hybridity.
Wm Leler. President, Zat. http://www.zat.com
-ZAT, Spin. Server based software that networks, the stuff and the
development history.
Mark Waddington. BBC New Media case study. 
-1)  media asset data bases, 2) the reorganization of work process using
intelligent systems (and humans), 3) search engines

Break

11:00 - 12:30
Surveillance, data bodies, access.
Moderators, Sara Diamond and Mark Hosler
Daniel Andujar. Technologies To The People. http://www.irational.org/tttp/
-The mechanisms of exclusion in the digitalized society. Networks, access,
software design.
Ron Wakkary. Associate Professor, Technical University of British Colimbia.
http://www.techbc.ca  & Maciej Wisniewski. Artist, Programmer.
http://www.stadiumweb.com/turnstile/ 
- netomat, a meta-browser for the network (www.netomat.net)
 Victoria Vesna.  http://time.arts.ucla.edu
- Most networked "communities" are inexorably connected to e-commerce and
architects of these spaces seem to follow the model of malls and credit card
systems. This project takes a critical look at these emergent spaces and
offers alternative ways of navigating connectivity.

12:30 - 1:30
Lunch

1:30 - 3:00
Imaging and Imagining: post-biological? Post-human? In the flesh? Of woman
born?
Moderator: Sara Diamond and Tarik Thami
Dr. Thomas Ray. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.  Dr. Thomas
Ray. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/ 
-"Artificiality: Intelligence and Life Forms" Artificial intelligence and
artificial life, in the context of the organic medium which we are familiar
with, and the digital medium which we are just getting to know.  It is an
exercise in breaking free of our preconceptions about intelligence to make
it possible to conceive of artificial intelligences that may be
fundamentally different from our own.
Liz Vander Zaag . CCI I artist and director of Front Media Ltd.
http://www.frontmedia.com
- Emotional speech analysis.
Charles Ostman. Senior Fellow, The Institute for Global
Futures.http://www.biota.org/ostman/charles1.htm
-Operational Ecologies of Distributed Knowledge and  "Synthetic Sentience"
Conveyance - the Emergent Process Commodity of the Next Millennium. 
Norman White. http://www.bmts.com/~normill/
-Artistic ways of using computers that have no necessary connection with
screen-oriented graphics or loudspeaker- generated sound.


Break

3:10 - 4:30
Space, Time and Intelligence: Ubiquity and Networked 3D
Moderators: Kellogg Booth & Sara Diamond
Clark Dodsworth. Osage Associates
-Ubiquity, networks, media assets and design.
Pamela Jennings. Independent Artist.  The Center for Technology in Learning
SRI International. 
 http://www2.sva.edu/~pamelaj
-ART-I-TRONICS(TM) and "the book of ruins and desire"  The  synergy between
art, artifact and
mechatronics.  Art and artifact denote the creative applications of objects
and symbolic systems made by humans.  
Timothy Childs. http://www.web3droundup.org 
-Portability, responsive environments,  bots meet Burning Man.
Matthew Sloly. The Shadowy Collective.  http://www.interlog.com/~metalogo/ 
- networks as sculpture, the artifice of human extension . . . 


3:30
Break

4:30 - 6:00
Thinking in 3D Intense Visualization.
Moderator: Timothy Childs
Lynn Sutherland. Alberta Research Council. http://www.arc.ab.ca
- Applications in Need of New Metaphors".  Real-world applications that
involve multidimensional data and decision-making. 
Kellogg Booth. Professor & Director of MAGIC. Computer Science, University
of British Columbia.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ksbooth/home.shtml
-Visualizing mathematical knot theory.
Gretchen Schiller. (tba)



6:00
Location: Meet at La Palette
Walk to the Bow Falls.

9 :30 pm 
Party at  The Knowledge House
206 Grizzly Street
BYOB. Snacks will be provided.
If you have music/sound - bring it. DJ participation welcome!


Sunday September 12

9:00 am
Technical Run Thru.  
All 'day of' speakers who require technical support for their presentation
are required to attend this run through. Banff Centre technical staff
(audio/video/computer) will be available to assist you with making sure your
presentation is cued up and functioning. 

9:30 
Review of day  before for party survivors and hard core. 
Sara Diamond

9:45 - 11:15 
Metaphoresm metonyms and smart stories.
Moderators: Sara Diamond & Joshua Portway
Jenny Marketou (remote participation). http://smellbytes.banff.org
Kostja Mitenev. http://www.dux.ru/digbody/bionet.htm
- "Bioloid/UNDINA/Bionet". New biology in cyberspace. 
Tom Leonhardt. Development Director, PING Media Network. http://www.ping.ca
-the development of a new artist centre model based on artist access to web
server technology, development of netwroking tools and creative space for
artists working with on line data bases and programming languages.

Break

11:30 - 1:00 
An assett to learning and educational strategies.
Moderators: Sara Diamond & Kellogg Booth 
Suzanne de Castell. Professor (Curriculum)& Jennifer Jenson, PhD
student/Research  Asssociate. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/index.htm
-THE ART OF THE PRACTICAL: Streamlining and scaffolding skill development
and knowledge-transfer for particular communities of interest on-line,
Steven Forth. President, DNA Media. http://www.dna.bc.ca
-Software as a navigational tool.
Tom Keenan. Dean of Continuing Education, The University of Calgary. 
-New ways of organizing learning systems.

Respondent: Peter Plantec. Creative Director, Virtual Personalities Inc.
http://www.vperson.com


Lunch  




2:00 - 3:00 
The Economies of Intelligence
Moderated:  by Mark Hosler  & Jeanine Parker 
Meredith Cartwright. Barrister & Solicitor . (tba)
Misty West. Developer Relations Manager, Macromedia.
http://www.vectorzone.com (tba)
-The culture of the browser window and multiuser spaces inside and outside
the window.
Robyn Gordon. Director of Communications. Software Human Resource Council.
http://www.shrc.ca/
-Case Study: The SHRC
Tragoes (tba)

break

3:10 - 4:30 
Software development processes: can we work together.
Moderators:  Donald  Audsley, IRAP and Timothy Childs
Tom George. Practice Manager, Internet Services.  Montage IT Services Inc.
http://www.montage.ca/

4:30 - 5:30
Final Strategies, Projects

5:00 pm
Location: 3rd Floor Deck JPL
Wrap Party


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