A one-day FREE experimental festival, bringing together new media art practitioners and theorists

re:mote is a one-day experimental festival, bringing together new media art practitioners and theorists from Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to discuss the theme of remoteness and technology.

http://www.remote.org.nz/

re:mote will feature on-site, online and pre-recorded presentations analysing the way that digital technologies can augment collaborations across geographical and cultural distance. Artists and commentators from London, Newcastle, Helsinki, Rotterdam and Sydney will give presentations of their work via live video stream to an audience in Auckland. Presenters from around New Zealand will also attend in person to share their work. re:mote is to be an ongoing series of events, which will take place at locations around the world. re:mote: auckland is the global premiere of this series.

re:mote will explore questions like: what does it mean to be remote in an electronic art world? Are there 'centres' and 'peripheries' within a world increasingly bridged, criss-crossed and mapped by digital technologies? Can technologically mediated communication ever substitute for face-to-face dialogue? Is geographical isolation a factor in contemporary art production? Is remote a relative concept?

The keynote presentation will be from Japanese artist, radio pioneer, and lecturer, Tetsuo Kogawa, who is travelling to Auckland especially to present at re:mote, on the topic of technology and the body. He will also perform with and demonstrate micro fm transmission.

re:mote: auckland will take place on Saturday March 19, 2005, from 10am to 6pm at the Elam School of Fine Arts lecture theatre.

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March 19, 2005. 10am to 6pm // Entry is free!

Please bring lunch and maybe a wireless enabled laptop

Elam school of Fine Arts Lecture Theatre (see map at bottom of page)

University of Auckland

National Institute of Creative Arts & Industries
Building 432
Main Fine Arts Building, Level 1
Whitaker Place/Symonds Street Auckland

There is parking available onsite: outside the main building, underneath the 'mondrian building', and at 76 symonds st (entry from whitakker place)

re:mote is organised by r a d i o q u a l i a and ((ethermap