「Constructing Place」

Under the title of 「Constructing Place」Dislocate’s symposium will bring together artists, designers, architects, urban planners in the exploration of our conceptualization of space and the impact of emerging technologies upon our relationship with our surroundings. In a debate upon the components which formulate place and the shift in definitions which these are undergoing we will explore the terms under which we realize location and how technology can further ‘locate’ us.

With an emphasis on the site specifics of place, a consideration of place as politically, culturally, socially and historically defined, the symposium seeks to evaluate our interaction with place, how place is encountered and how it is expressed and the new possibilities which new media may offer to this. With reference to the integration between art and environment our creative participation in our locality will be discussed along with an examination of how new technologies may promote this.

We will question how new media developments can be used in the realization of new spaces and assess the role of mediated space in our daily interactions and our locative awareness. This will include consideration of the increasingly ambiguous transition from one place to another in line with the fusing of multiple locations. Pointing towards the increasing merge of new technologies with the structure of our surroundings we will debate the quality of experience and communication of our contexts through new media strategies the new understandings which this may offer us but also the reduced framing and misconceptions which this may also promote.

Participants include:

Exonemo, Hirakawa Norimichi, Shikata Yukiko, Blast Theory, Drew Hemment, Goncalo Furtado, Venzha Christ, Georg Russegger, Taki Kentaro, Open City、Tapio Maleka, Alistair Gentry, Proboscis

20th and 21st September 10.30am-18.30pm ZAIM 2FHall

34 Nihon Odori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0021

Schedule

Saturday 20th

10.30

Introduction

11

Venzha Christ

12.15

Taki Kentaro

13.15

Break - Lunch

2.15 - ZAIM

Proboscis

3 - ZAIM

Open City

4.15

Tapio Maleka

5.30

Exonemo

6.30~

Discussion

 

 

Sunday 21st

10.30

Introduction and summary of previous day

11

Blast Theory

12.15

Drew Hemment

13.15

Break - Lunch

2.15

Shikata Yukiko

3.30

Georg Russegger

4.45

Hirakawa Norimichi

6

Alistair Gentry

6.30~

Discussion

8pm Closing event ZAIM

Two day pass Adult: 2500Yen Student: 2300Yen

One day pass Adult: 1500Yen Student:1300Yen

To reserve a place at the symposium please email to Emma Ota at info@dis-locate.net