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6/8/2009

Isea 2009

University of Ulster, Belfast

ISEA2009 will be concerned with Engaged Creativity in Mobile Environments. The incessant change of physical and virtual environments under the influence of global capital and mass migration as well as the fluidity of personal and social relationships effected by digital information and communication technologies has come to determine the life experience for billions of people. These societal and technological conditions radically and rapidly alter the ways we communicate, inter- and transact, how we make meaning of the world and ourselves, and how we conduct our lives along dramatically changing fault lines of the private and the public. Digital technologies as the fuel of global capital have not only effected dynamic and increasingly precarious labour relations. They underpin and challenge the negotiation of political and economic, social and cultural, religious and territorial conflicts and the re/organisation of society and its spaces alongside changing notions of democracy, citizenship and (self-) governance. ISEA2009 seeks to explore how creative strategies engage with and challenge these fundamental issues.

ISEA2009 will promote, support and develop creativity in Northern Ireland and across the border building on the convergence of art and design driven innovation and creativity with advanced digital technologies. It will showcase Northern Ireland’s leading role in cultural, social and economic regeneration that builds on the development of the creative industries sector and the creative potential of its communities with a particular focus on the emergent generation of critical users of digital technologies.

It will demonstrate the leading role of the University of Ulster, and the academic sector in general, in the provision of knowledge, skills and entrepreneurship education and in driving research and development opportunities for and with creative industries businesses.

The symposium will particularly target the young generations as they drive rapid change in the digital age. It will bring together international experts and keynote speakers that are forward thinking in the strategic development and creative exploitation of digital technologies in order to enhance public governance, to generate employment opportunities, to stimulate wealth creation and to shape how people communicate, socialise and network in the future.
Global Symposium schedule

23 August 2009: workshops, master classes, open spaces across (tbc) Northern Ireland

24 August 2009: ISEA2009 @ University of Ulster Coleraine campus

25 August 2009: ISEA2009 @ University of Ulster Magee campus/Derry/Londonderry

26–29 August 2009: ISEA2009 @ Watefront Hall Belfast

30 August – 1 September 2009: ISEA2009 in Portadown, Dundalk and Dublin
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

· Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips

· Moritz Waldemeyer an independent designer and engineer

· MIKA ‘Lumi’ Tuomola, Artistic director of Crucible Studio, and Media Lab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki.

· UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard.

. Sadie Plant an independent British author and philosopher

· Masaki Fujihata artist and Director, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University

· Sala Manca - Group of independent Jerusalem-based artists

· Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas Lithuanian based artists

· Yvonne Spielmann, Professor of Visual Media, University of the West of Scotland.
Confirmed programmed events

· Keynotes, presentations and interventions @ Waterfront Hall Belfast, 26-29 Augustt 2009

· International juried exhibition curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and jointly presented by Ormeau Baths Galleries and Golden Thread Gallery and the University of Ulster Gallery 07 – 29 August 2009, The ISEA2009 Finissage will be held on 27 August 2009

· Creative Industries Exhibition @ Waterfront Hall Belfast, 26 – 29 August

· Creative Industries Forum @ Waterfront Hall Belfast, 26 – 29 August 2009

· Delegate Party (160 places first come basis), Europa Hotel, Edinburgh Suite, 28 August 2009

· Curated exhibition @ Millennium Court Portadown

. Associate exhibition at Belfast Exposed

As well as activities taking place at the various physical locations across the region, all components of the symposium will be made available to a wider international public electronically for on-line viewing and with opportunities for participating in key debates through live web-streaming.

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

ISEA publishes a newsletter; hosts an online archive and exchange environment and oversees the International Symposium on Electronic Art, a regular gathering of the international art, science and technology community.

Private View: @ Ormeau Baths Gallery, Golden Thread Gallery and Foyer Gallery, University of Ulster, Belfast: Friday, 7 August 2009, 7.00 p.m.
Open through August in all three venues Tuesdays to Saturdays 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Finissage during ISEA2009, the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, @ Ormeau Baths Gallery, Golden Thread Gallery and
Foyer Gallery, University of Ulster, Belfast: Thursday, 27 August 2009, 7.00 p.m.

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