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The Subtopic “Get some clues through their language”
-Off-transmediale.09, Behind The Serious Face-

Guests : Kazuhiro Jo(JP/UK), Raffael Dörig(CH), Thomas Dumke(DE)
Date : 15:00 - 18:00, FRI 30th Jan 2009
Place : Loophole, Boddinstr.60, Neukölln 12053 Berlin, Germany
30sec walk from U7 Rathaus Neukölln
http://loophole-berlin.com/
Entrance : Donation
Contact : http://subtopic.isddsk.com/

For the first session of The Subtopic I invited some interesting guests to talk about their activities: Kazuhiro Jo, a Japanese artist/researcher living in Newcastle, UK, is a Visiting Research Fellow at Digital Media, Culture Lab at Newcastle University. His main interests are in the area of Sound Art, Auditory Interaction Design and Inaudible Computing. He will present his research and show us a demonstration of his work. Raffael Dörig is a swiss curator working at plug.in, Basel, Switzerland - a space for electronic art. He is also a co-organiser and co-curator of Shift electronic arts Festival in Basel, Switzerland. Raffael will be here to speak about his artistic and curatorial projects. Last but not least Thomas Dumke, the director of CYNETart Festival, Dresden, Germany will present the festival in detail, as well as give an insight into his personal intentions of running the festival.
My guests are all holding very important positions, despite their young age. Therefore, my biggest interest lies of course in their future and I believe that listening to what they are interested in, might be strongly connected to the future of the art and technology scene. Also I am expecting to hear some off-topics about their activities, private backgrounds as well as a look behind their serious side. The talk will be presentation based but I would like it to be an informal and very relaxed discussion round.

Guests' Biographies and Summary of presentation

Kazuhiro Jo (JP/UK *1977)
Kazuhiro Jo was born in Japan in 1977. He is currently working as a Visiting Research Fellow at Digital Media, Culture Lab, Newcastle University. He is also a member of The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA <http://swo.jp/>, Monalisa <http://monalisa-au.org/plog/>, AEO, and a co-organizer of dorkbot Tokyo <http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottokyo/>.
Summary of presentation:
Kazuhiro Jo will talk about his current project "Inaudible Computing". Inaudible computing is an extension of physical computing using audio signals. He presents examples of his implementations with some art works and mobile applications.
http://jo.swo.jp

Raffael Dörig (CH *1976)
Born in 1976, studied Art History, Media Studies and German Studies. Curator at Plugin, a space for electronic art, as well as co-organiser and -curator of Shift electronic arts Festival in Basel, Switzerland.
Summary of presentation:
Raffael Dörig will talk about Plugin, an exhibition and event space specialized in electronic arts, founded in 2000, and show some examples of his curatorial work there. He will also present the Shift electronic arts festival he co-founded in 2006. Shift includes an exhibition, conferences, concerts, DJ shows, video screenings and workshops. The programs are made by a team of curators and guest curators based on a general festival topic.
http://www.iplugin.org/ http://www.shiftfestival.ch/

Thomas Dumke (DE *1977)
Born in 1977. Studied history, sociology & communication sciences at TU Dresden, postgraduate in culture & management. Since 1999 Thomas Dumke is part of the international festival for computer based arts CYNETart in Dresden, in 2000 he initiated together with DS-X.org the »microscope session«, an event for audio-visual concerts, founding member of TMA Hellerau in 2001, since 2006 he has been the director of the CYNETart festival. Father of one daughter.
Summary of presentation:
Thomas Dumke will talk about CYNETart history (12 years, presenting of some exclusive projects) and his curatorial background.
http://cynetart08.de/ http://ds-x.org/


Moderator's Biography
Daisuke Ishida (JP/DE *1980)
Daisuke Ishida is a Berlin based artist working in the field of Sound-Art and NewMedia-Art. He started his artistic activities in 2000. He pursues aesthetics and consequences of computer music and tries out boundaries of contemporary media and technologies.
http://isddsk.com/



What is The Subtopic?
The Subtopic is a series of talk sessions with artists, researchers, curators, activists, journalists and similar - moderated by Daisuke Ishida.

The Aim
I think it is nice to talk about anything with anybody. Especially talking to somebody who is very much into a topic, particularly people who are dealing with art and technology with advanced thoughts based on their own experience, unique theory, historical relation or their in depth research. I believe the stories of the participants of the Subtopic-talks will be very interesting. I would like to understand their contexts, processes, origins, aims and ideas in detail through discussion. It is important to me to not only focus on their work, but as well to get to know their personality.

Why is it called The Subtopic?
The best way to understand my guests is not only to talk about their work but just to see what they are doing! Possibly the essence of their activities is beyond understanding or not explainable through language. Therefore talking (subtopic) about their works (maintopic) should be seen only as an addition to the process of understanding them. I am trying to simply get some clues directly from them to gain further insight into their work.

http://subtopic.isddsk.com/