We are announcing the submission deadline for 4th international multimedia festival HAIP 2010 has been prolonged until May 9th. We are looking forward getting your contributions along our this years topic “New Nature”! You can find more information and application form here.

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Obveščamo vas, da je bil rok za prijavo k sodelovanju na 4. mednarodnem multimedijskem festivalu HAIP 2010 podaljšan do 9. maja 2010. Veselimo se vaše prijave k sodelovanju na festivalu HAIP10 z letošnjo temo “Nova narava“! Več informacij in obrazec k prijavi dobite tukaj.

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//HAIP10: NEW NATURE//

23.–26. November 2010

We are happy that we are able to announce that 4th international multimedia festival HAIP 2010 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 23rd –26th November 2010. We are announcing call for participation and looking forward getting your contributions along our this years topic “New Nature“.

Please read the submission guidelines before filling out the form for HAIP10 until 9th May 2010. You can find more information and application form below.

The festival
The idea for the HAIP festival arose within the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre team which operates within Zavod K6/4 in Ljubljana. HAIP is a biannual festival that emerged in 2004. The festival is conceived to be socially active and through it we attempt to reach the very core of the issues and themes in the field of intermedia art and contemporary scientific communication technologies. On the international level the HAIP festival presents the works of young perspective as well as already established artists, theoreticians, creative engineers and groups that are oriented into top artistic practices that are supported by open standards (regardless whether this is from practical or ideological reasons). Thus the festival will present individuals and groups who creatively and critically deal with social development and progress that includes us all due to the bloom of the variety of possibilities and choice. With this focus the HAIP festival supports the research and creation of those contemporary artistic and scientific practices that surpass the borders of specific forms and contents. This is also shown by the name of the festival, i.e. »HAIP« - which is an acronym for »Hack-Act-Interact-Progress«.

/ The festival encompasses: /

- lectures
- workshops
- exhibition of artworks/ spatial interventions
- performances
- club event
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/On the festival theme/

New nature

Data processing through the synthesis, manipulation and characterization of matter on the atomic and molecular level (which enables the creation of so-called nanostructure materials) opens a line of thought as regards the new levels of autonomy and life of a certain matter. In the attempt to understand the use of matter that is in the process of being modified on its atomic level (as a multidirectional medium) the focus turns towards the specifics and (non)materiality of the intermediate spaces – towards contents, quantumly transformed through these spaces. This means that the artistic medium is established on an entirely new – atomic and subatomic level.
In the poetic and performative sense we encounter the idea that we can (trans)form reality through the manipulation of matter on the atomic level. However, the motif for our research of this scientific field is not based on the fascination we show for the fairytale qualities of the ‘fantastic’ images that can be achieved with such processes. It is also not based on the monotonous connection between science and art, in which art is often used merely to illustrate science, while both fields fail to establish a dialogue as regards their reciprocal potentials. Our motif emerges from the intention to establish an analytical discourse on the basis of the paradigm that it is possible to link the artistic concept, creative programming, DIY electronic systems and (inanimate) nature into a new expressive content.

Nanocrystals can be understood as ready-mades that are not manifested in the form of uniquely selected static objects, but are constantly changing manipulative situations/information/samples. Such feasible unpredictable dynamics and hybrid crossbreeding of various (un)organic matter with various other - mechanical and software - media activates the consciousness on nano-cybernetic reality. Through this we witness the establishment of a new domain within which the Cartesian perception of the world has ceased to exist, for the knowledge of the world has become an oscillating variable between the known (visible) and the unknown (invisible).

These phenomenological processes have transformed the relations in contemporary life and do not present a type of nature and culture in themselves. In order for art to function subversively in relation to the (monitoring) mechanisms (as enabled by informational technologies), it has to be experienced as a constant anti-culture that is available to all. This is why we attempt to democratise art in relation to nano technology and science, for here it is possible to transform matter in real time (on the level of their atomic operation). On a certain level these actions are therefore linked to political actions or with the affirmative and utopic gesture that breaks away from the established aesthetic taste and opens the field of the unknown, still unarticulated and unreflected, where we confront the need to reorganise our perception and consequentially operation.

Such processes represent medium personification which is established in the relation between the abstract space of the data and the real space of the matter. The chemical equation (as a scientific model) no longer functions as a hermetic scientific medium, instead it becomes an auto-poetic feedback system and a virtual space for open/multidirectional communication, which is (trans)formed, (re)programmed, synthesised and freshly characterized by the user/artist. With the absence of the tactile the interactivity is manifested in the transcendence of the »senses as monocular images in binocular perception« (Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Such a perceptive frame opens a multidimensional reality, in which reality (as an actual organic and inorganic presence) reveals the new characteristics of spatial dimensions that can transform and redefine the understanding of our existence.

Through the development of the new nature - which also represents the potential starting point for the development of a new artistic expression - we are (on the theoretical and empirical level) interested in the multimedia quantum/chemically generated nanosystem – (in)organic kinetic nano-cybernetic sculpture, which has performative characteristics in itself. The directness of this experience through the broadening of the perception within the merger of scientific discoveries and the visual communication of multimedia art expression and patents/equations/systems/data from these researches should be offered for the potential (co)development and (co)use of intermedia art by similarly thinking authors, for this represents the main condition for the establishment of a qualitative artistic production, which would aid the development, pluralisation and expansion of intermedia cultural and art fields.

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APPLICATION:
The application has to include the following:
- Filled in application form
- Photo documentation of the project (max 10 jpgs, min 180 dpi)
- Video documentation (DVD, CD, USB flash drive or internet connection – in avi, mov or ogg format)
- Technical plan of the project
Candidates may also attach additional documentation (catalogues, texts and similar).
Original works, incomplete and late applications will not be considered in the selection process. The attached documentation will not be returned, but will remain in the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre/ HAIP10 Festival archive.

Application deadline: prolonged until May 9th

Call for applications text in .pdf, .odt and .doc formats.
Application form in .pdf, .odt and .doc formats.

The application form should be sent to the following address:
Contact person: Maja Smrekar

By mail:
Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
With the text: “Application for HAIP10 festival”

By e-mail:
haip@kiberpipa.org

The selection of the projects that will be realised and presented at the HAIP10 festival will be concluded in May 2010. Only successful candidates will be notified.

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//HAIP10 NOVA NARAVA//

23.–26. november 2010

Z veseljem sporočamo, da bo med 23. in 26. novembrom 2010 v Ljubljani potekal 4. mednarodni multimedijski festival HAIP 2010. Objavljamo povabilo k sodelovanju na festivalu in se veselimo vaših prijav projektov na letošnjo temo festivala “Nova narava“.

Prosimo pred izpolnitvijo obrazca k prijavi preberite navodila ter informacije o festivalu in letošnji temi. Rok za oddajo prijav je 9. maj 2010. Več informacij in obrazec k prijavi dobite v nadaljevanju.

O festivalu
Ideja o festivalu HAIP se je porodila znotraj kolektiva Multimedijskega centra Kiberpipe, ki deluje v okviru Zavoda K6/4 v Ljubljani. HAIP je bienalni festival, ki se je pričel leta 2004. Festival, ki ostaja družbeno aktualen, obravnava teme in izpostavlja problematike polja intermedijske umetnosti in najnovejših komunikacijskih tehnologij. Mednarodni festival HAIP predstavlja tako dela mladih obetavnih, kot tudi uveljavljenih umetnikov, teoretikov, kreativnih inženirjev in skupin, ki so usmerjeni v vrhunske, na ravni praktične ali ideološke izbire z odprtimi standardi podprte umetniške prakse. Zato se bodo na festivalu predstavili posamezniki in skupine, ki s svojim delovanjem kreativno in kritično obravnavajo družbeni razvoj in napredek, v katerega smo v razcvetu raznolikih možnosti in izbire vključeni vsi. S tem fokusom festival HAIP podpira raziskovanje in ustvarjanje tistih sodobnih umetniško-znanstvenih praks, ki presegajo meje posameznih zvrsti in vsebin. O tem priča tudi ime festivala »HAIP«, ki je kratica za »Hack-Act-Interact-Progress«.

/ Festival obsega: /
- predavanja
- delavnice
- razstavo umetniških del/prostorske intervencije
- performanse
- klubski večer

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/O festivalski temi/

Nova narava
Obdelovanje podatkov skozi sintezo, manipulacijo in karakterizacijo snovi na atomarni in molekularni ravni, ki omogoča kreiranje t. i. nanostrukturnih materialov, odpira razmišljanja o novih nivojih avtonomije in živosti neke snovi. Ob vzpostavitvi razumevanja uporabe snovi, ki jo modificiramo na ravni atoma kot večsmernega medija, se fokus usmeri k specifiki in (ne)materialnosti vmesnih prostorov - k vsebinam, kvantno preoblikovanim skozi te prostore, kar pomeni vzpostavitev umetniškega medija na neki čisto novi – atomarni in subatomarni ravni.

Tako v poetičnem kot izvedbenem smislu se pojavlja ideja o tem, da lahko z manipulacijo snovi na atomarni ravni (pre)oblikujemo realnost. Vendar naš motiv raziskovanja tega znanstvenega področja ne temelji na površini fascinacije nad pravljičnostjo »fantastičnih« podob, ki jih s tovrstnimi procesi lahko izvedemo in tudi ne na ravni suhoparnega povezovanja znanosti in umetnosti, kjer umetnost dostikrat zgolj ilustrira znanost, obe polji pa nimata vzpostavljenega dialoga o vzajemnih potencialih. Naš motiv izhaja iz intence po vzpostavitvi analitičnega diskurza na podlagi paradigme povezovanja umetniškega koncepta, kreativnega programiranja, DIY elektronskih sistemov in (nežive) narave v novo izrazno vsebino.

Nanokristale lahko pojmujemo kot ready-made, ki se sicer ne manifestirajo v obliki enkratno izbranih statičnih objektov, ampak kot konstantno spreminjajoče se manipulirane situacije/informacije/sampli. Tovrstne morebitne nepredvidljive dinamike in hibridna križanja različnih (an)organskih snovi z različnimi drugimi, bolj mehanskimi in softverskimi mediji aktivirajo zavest o nano-kibernetični realnosti. Na ta način se vzpostavlja domena, v kateri preneha delovati percepcija kartezijanskega pogleda na svet, saj tu vedenje o prostoru postane spremenljivka nihanja med znanim - vidnim in tujim - nevidnim.

Ti fenomenološki procesi so preoblikovana razmerja v sodobnem življenju in ne nekakšna narava in kultura sama po sebi. Da bi umetnost učinkovala subverzivno v razmerju do (nadzornih) mehanizmov, kakršne omogočajo informacijske tehnologije, mora biti doživeta kot nenehna antikultura, dostopna vsem. Zato si tu prizadevamo demokratizirati umetnost v povezavi z nano - tehnologijo in - znanostjo, kjer je možno snovi preoblikovati v realnem času na ravni njihovega atomarnega delovanja. Tovrstna akcija je na neki ravni torej združena s politično akcijo oziroma z afirmativno in utopično gesto, ki prelamlja z uveljavljenim estetskim okusom in odpira področje neznanega, še neartikuliranega in nereflektiranega, kjer se soočamo s potrebo po reorganiziranju svoje lastne percepcije in posledično delovanja.

Tovrstni procesi pomenijo personifikacijo medija, ki se vzpostavi v povezavi med podatkovnim abstraktnim prostorom in realnim prostorom snovi. Kemijska enačba kot znanstveni model torej tu ne funkcionira več kot distribucijski hermetični znanstveni medij, ampak namesto tega kot avtopoetični feedback sistem in hkrati kot virtualni prostor za odprto/večsmerno komunikacijo, (pre)oblikovano (pre)programirano, sintetizirano in na novo karakterizirano s strani uporabnika/umetnika. Interaktivnost z odsotnostjo taktilnega se tu manifestira v transcendenci »čutov kot monokularnih podob v binonularnem gledanju« (Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Takšen perceptivni okvir razpira večsmerno realnost, v kateri realnost kot dejanska organska in anorganska prezenca razkriva nove karakteristike dojemanja prostorskih razsežnosti, ki lahko preoblikujejo in redefinirajo pojmovanje našega bivanja.

Skozi razvoj nove narave, ki je obenem potencialno izhodišče za razvoj nekega novega umetniškega izraza, nas tako na teoretični kot na empirični ravni torej zanima večmedijski kvantno/kemijsko generirani nanosistem – (an)organska kinetično nanokibernetična skulptura, ki ima že sama po sebi performativne lastnosti. Naj bodo tako neposrednost te izkušnje skozi širitev zaznave v združitvi znanstvenih odkritij in v vizualni komunikaciji večmedijskega umetniškega izraza, ko tudi patenti/formule/sistemi/podatki teh raziskovanj, ponujeni naprej v potencialno (so)razvijanje in (so)uporabo istomislečim avtorjem intermedijske umetnosti, kar je glavni pogoj za vzpostavitev kvalitetne umetniške produkcije, s katero pripomoremo h razvoju, pluralizaciji in širitvi intermedijskih kulturno-umetniških področij.

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PRIJAVA:
Prijava mora vsebovati priložene:
- izpolnjeno prijavnico
- fotodokumentacijo projekta (do 10 jpg, min 180 dpi)
- videodokumentacijo (DVD, CD, USB nosilec ali internetna povezava - v avi, mov ali ogg formatu)
- tehnični načrt projekta

Kandidati lahko predložijo dodatno dokumentacijo (kataloge, tekste in ostalo). Originalna dela, nepopolne in zakasnele prijave pri izboru ne bodo upoštevane. Priložena dokumentacija se ne vrača, temveč ostaja shranjena v arhivu Multimedijskega centra Kiberpipa/Festivala HAIP10.

Rok prijave: podaljšan do 9. maja 2010

Vabilo k sodelovanju v obliki .pdf, .odt in .doc.
Prijavnica v obliki .pdf, .odt in .doc.

Prijavnico pošljite na naslov:
Kontaktna oseba: Maja Smrekar

Po pošti:
Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
S pripisom: “Prijava za festival HAIP10”

Po elektronski pošti:
haip@kiberpipa.org

Selekcija projektov, ki bodo realizirani in predstavljeni na festivalu HAIP10 bo zaključena v maju 2010. Kontaktirani bodo le uspešni kandidati.

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In 2009 Haip festival is not resting, but mutating! From its domestic environment in Slovenia capital Haip is moving through Europe propagating itself like a simbiont throughout other cultural structures. “HAIP goes HYPE” is organized by Haip partner organizations - Radio FRO, Time’s Up, CIANT and monochrom - it will take time and place as a part of other international festivals also.

First, Prague, Czech Republic: as a part of ENTER festival, organized by CIANT, where slovenian artist Janez Janša is presenting his project Brainloop. From 19.4. unitl 24.4.2009.

Then Linz, Austria: as a part of LIWOLI 09 festival (Linux Wochen) in the organization of Radia FRO: Robertina Šebjanič and Luka Frelih with the installation and workshop Pufination, Miha Ciglar and Nika Autor with workshop and performance A Small Contribution to The Genesis of Everyday Life, Daniel Turing with an installation and workshop, Gantle Junk (Ricardo Palmeri and Kruno Jošt) with a range if interventions and workshops. Roch Forowitz will again intervene around the city also! From 23.4. until 25.4.2009.

And that’s not all: Time’s Up will continue its HAIP goes HYPE inspired programme in Linz with their project MayHEM from 24.4. until 6.5.2009.

We also have interesting happening in the fall coming up! But more about that some other time!

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Kot smo v jeseni že napovedali, v letu 2009 festival Haip ne počiva, ampak celo mutira! Iz svojega domačega okolja se iz prestolnice Slovenije seli po Evropi in se kot simbiont razmnožuje znotraj drugih kulturnih struktur. Odvijal se bo v organizaciji naših partnerskih organizacij - Radia FRO, Time’s Up, CIANT in monochrom - ter se implementiral in širil svoje permise ob boku drugih mednarodnih festivalov.

- Najprej Praga, Češka: v okviru festivala ENTER v organizaciji CIANT, kjer bo svoje delo predstavljal Janez Janša s projektom Brainloop od 19.4. do 24.4.

- Potem Linz, Avstrija: v okviru festivala LIWOLI 09 (Linux Wochen) v organizaciji Radia FRO: Robertina Šebjanič in Luka Frelih z instalacijo in delavnico Pufination, Miha Ciglar in Nika Autor z delavnico in performansom A Small Contribution to The Genesis of Everyday Life, Daniel Turing z instalacijo in delavnico, Gantle Junk (Ricardo Palmeri in Kruno Jošt) z vrsto intervencij in delavnic. Tudi Roch Forowitz bo ponovno interveniral po mestu… vse to od 23.4. do 25.4.

- In to še ni vse: v Linzu bo v duhu festivala HAIP goes HYPE program nadeljeval Time’s Up s projektom MayHEM od 24.4. do 6.5.

Potem pa nas čaka še prav tako zanimiva jesen, a o tem kdaj drugič!

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At the end of the international open tech festival HAIP, whose third incarnation revolved around the theme of Hacktopia, we would like to thank all and everyone who supported or in any other way helped us with the festival - the attending artists, partners, supporters, sponsors and everybody else who has contributed to spreading the word about the festival. A big thanks goes most definitely to all the visitors and individuals who helped co-shape the festival actively and creatively and invested their time and knowledge into it.

But in the year 2009 our festival is getting no rest - works presented in Ljubljana will mutate and travel to Vienna, Linz and Prague… HAIP goes HYPE! Soon …

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Ob zaključku mednarodnega festivala odprtih tehnologij HAIP, ki je potekal v tretji različici pod temo Hacktopia, se iskreno zahvaljujemo vsem, ki ste festival podprli ter pomagali in pripomogli k njegovi realizaciji - vsem umetnikom in sodelujočim na festivalu, partnerjem, podpornikom in financerjem, medijskim pokroviteljem ter ostalim, ki ste na različne načine pomagali razširiti besedo o dogajanju, ter seveda obiskovalcem in vseh posameznikom, ki ste aktivno in kreativno sooblikovali festival ter prispevali svoje znanje in čas.

V letu 2009 pa festival HAIP ne bo počival - na Dunaju, Linzu in Pragi se bo odvijal HAIP goes HYPE! Festival bo mutiral v manjše enote, ki bodo predstavile dela, ki so bila predstavljena v Ljubljani! Več kmalu…

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Here we go, most of the videos are online. Those of you unable to attend HAIP08 in person can now enjoy the lectures as recorded and produced by the Kiberpipa video team. You can find them here.

Also, in case you missed them, photos have also been published right here.

Enjoy and feel free to let us know what you think!

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You can check out photos of monochrom Sculpture Mob training (click for the whole show) we had on Saturday in the centre of Ljubljana. Brilliant pictures were taken by Alex Davies (more pics also on Flickr). The blocks were meant to be set up in front of the Slovenian parliament (they’d really fit well…), but unfortunately found quite a hostile environment there. Finally, they recieved a warm welcome on Presern Square.

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