[NetBehaviour] ART, TECHNOLOGY, LOCALITY - Exhibition, Symposium and Workshop series

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Dislocate 07 www.dis-locate.net
(via Node London list)

ART, TECHNOLOGY, LOCALITY

Exhibition, Symposium and Workshop series

24th July – 5th August

Tokyo and Yokohama

Ginza Art Laboratory (Wednesday – Sunday 3-8pm)

Koiwa Project Space (Tuesday – Sunday 2-7pm)

ZAIM 28th & 29th July 11am-4pm Symposium and Workshops

Opening Event Koiwa Project Space 24th July 7pm

Performance Event ZAIM 29th July 6pm



All Events are Free

The city is no longer built of concrete, a static posture no longer 
endures. Our surroundings have become a malleable space which can be 
warped, spliced and expanded at will. We no longer stand in one place 
alone, a mass convergence of coordinates is taking place beneath our feet.

As we traverse these points of perpetual motion we are enclosed by 
structures of elsewhere, met with the sliding walls of other places 
which lead us through a never ending maze. Shrouded in alternative 
layers of space, we escape to another confinement through the mesh of 
new media.

As our presence is extended by the veins of technology our sense of 
space is transformed, our nervous system stems through endless reaches 
of universal skin.

Our eyes see through a thousand windows, each with a different view, a 
collision of a multitude of global sounds meets our ears, our fingers 
pass beyond tiers of materiality.

But can we see what is before us? Are we listening to the resonance of 
our surroundings? Can we feel the texture of this place?

Engaged in distant or imaginary space, we flick through the channels 
with our remote control and choose when to plug in when to switch off. 
But as we are absorbed by these electronic pulses are we disappearing 
from the here and now?

Personal technologies offer a kaleidoscopic sensation of a multi-layered 
existence, but perhaps may also provide a microscope by which to examine 
the place which we are in at this moment.

Dislocate 07 – Festival for Art, Technology and Locality

Dislocate brings together a group of over 30 international artists in an 
exhibition, symposium and workshop series in Tokyo and Yokohama. 
Considering the spacial and social dislocation which can occur through 
technology, these artists are investigating how new media can be rooted 
in its specific location and form a meaningful relationship between 
ourselves and our surroundings.

Dislocate aims to explore the potential new media has to increase our 
awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and 
community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit.

This project presents cutting edge approaches to new technology art but 
with a view to seeing beyond the technology itself, examining what lies 
past the screen.

Dislocate prompts us to reconsider the alternative uses of the personal 
technologies which surround us, not merely offering an escape route from 
our current situation but also a tool to actually confront this very 
location.

With an endless array of spaces available to us, we can select our 
contexts of participation like the channels of a television. We may be 
highly active in an online space, engrossed in our constructed personal 
space, but by choice or otherwise we may distance ourselves from our 
immediate surroundings. We are presented with the freedom of ‘unlimited’ 
possibilities and yet are we making these decisions consciously or are 
they occurring without thought?

Dislocate considers the very integration of new media with the 
environment and this might be utilized to consciously reconnect with our 
location, seeking to explore, question and debate how can technology be 
used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of 
isolating us from our immediate space.

When numerous places converge in one site, how do we navigate such 
space? How does our interaction within a given space formulate identity 
and how can this be communicated effectively to elsewhere?

These are some of the questions which will be raised through the 
Dislocate events.



Exhibition

Ginza Art Laboratory

Yogashi West 2F 7-3-6 Ginza Chuo-ku　Tokyo 104 0061　

Koiwa Project Space 7-2-7 Minami-Koiwa Edogawa-ku Tokyo 133-0056

Taking place over two sites, of contrasting locality, this exhibition 
aims to present a particular relationship to its surroundings, revealing 
new perspectives of our immediate space, engaging with and investigating 
this site while also fusing with spaces beyond.

Works include a city wide game in which teams play against each other 
with their mobile phones, an exploration of the streets led by the beat 
of your heart, architecture which responds to environmental conditions 
and emotion mapping of the urban landscape.


Symposium

ZAIM – Theatre Space 3F

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



Christian Nold, Active Ingredient, Dan Belasco Rogers, Taeyoon Choi, So 
Hyeon Park, Erik Pauhrizi, Augmented Architectures, Sascha Pohflepp, 
Miguel Andrés-Clavera and Inyong Cho

Dislocate presents an international symposium with confirmed delegates 
from UK, Germany, Republic of Korea, Indonesia and Japan further 
contributing to the discourse surrounding the interplay of art, 
technology and location.



This symposium aims to explore what is meant by ‘locality’, how does new 
media impact upon our notion of space, our interaction with our 
surroundings, and how this can be used to transform communities, both 
virtual and physical.

The conflicts and integrations which emerge as separate spaces collide 
in one site will be examined raising concerns of homogenization and 
de-contextualisation alongside the awareness of local identity and culture.

This will include a scrutinization of sensitive, meaningful exchange 
between different localities facilitated through new media and the 
manifestations which reconnection or further connection with our 
environment can take.



Workshops

ZAIM (and surrounding area)

In a series of workshops participants will have the opportunity to 
engage further with some of the Dislocate artists and investigate with 
them in an active form of research and collaboration.

The focus of these workshops will be upon the exploration of the 
surrounding environment, investigating its many layers and connections 
with other spaces. Workshops will enable direct participation and 
engagement with the locality and may also draw attention to our 
simultaneous interaction with elsewhere.

Workshop leaders include Christian Nold, who will present his 
bio-mapping project, allowing participants to create emotion maps of 
their travels through the city by the use of bio sensors.

www.biomapping.net

Erik Pauhrizi will lead a workshop exploring lo-tech solutions to 
advanced mobile and locative media.



Performance ZAIM 29th July 6pm

Andreas Schlegel and Vladimir Todorovic

Naoko Takahashi

Musashino Art University Media Art Students



All events are free

If you wish to attend the symposium or workshops please email 
info at dis-locate.net with your name and contact telephone number

Artists Include:

Active Ingredient www.i-am-ai.net

Christian Nold www.softhook.com

Dan Belasco Rogers www.planbperformance.net/dan/

D-Fuse http://www.dfuse.com/

Taeyoon Choi http://tyshow.org

So-Hyeon Park

Erik Pauhrizi http://butonkultur21.org/

Andreas Schlegel and Vladimir Todorovic http://syntfarm.org/projects/btc/

Yuko Mohri http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~moo/

Augemented Architecture http://www.augmented-architectures.com/

Stanza http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.html

Disinformation

For more information please contact

Emma Ota

info at dis-locate.net

Participating Artists:

Active Ingredient, Christian Nold, Dan Belasco Rogers, DFuse, Taeyoon 
Choi, So Hyeon Park, Erik Pauhrizi, Stanza, Yuko Mohri, Ryosuke 
Akiyoshi, Disinformation, Augmented Architectures, Martin Callanan, 
Frank Abbott, Sascha Pohflepp, Andreas Schlegel and Vladimir Todorovic, 
Mouna Andraos, Miguel Andrés-Clavera and Inyong Cho, Laurent Pernot, 
Esther Harris, Andreas Zingerle, Julian Konczak, Genevieve Staines, 
Marco Villani, So Young Yang, Liu Zhenchen, Nisha Duggal, Lori Amor & 
Kevan Davis, Maria Raponi, Lisa Mee, Leo Morrissey, Cary Peppermint & 
Christine Nadir, Anne-Marie Culhane, Jomi Kim, Harry Levene & Jon 
Pigrem, Naoko Takahashi, Son Woo Kyung

Dislocate is supported by The Asia-Europe Foundation, The Sasakawa 
Foundation, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Arts Council, England