HWLA 2 - AIRWAVES

A co-production with the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Initiated by Michelle Teran, and co-coordinated by Jeff Mann and Amanda Ramos in collaboration with The Society for Old and New Media through Sensing Presence with funding and sponsorship generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, STEIM, The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, The Mondriaan Foundation, The Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Allison Bruce (Ph.D. student, Robotics Institute, CMU) and Sonya Allin (Ph.D. student, Human Computer Interaction, CMU) of the TnA Collective.

The theme for this session is Airwaves. What is Airwaves? Airwaves means a number of things to a number of people. Airwaves means establishing different venues for experiencing media, encouraging us to sometimes stand up, move away from the screen, and turn on the light. Airwaves explores non-screen interfaces like body sensor interfaces, architectural (social space), emphasizing the sensorial. Airwaves explores how we define networks. Airwaves means meeting spaces, including between the physical and the virtual.


HWLA 2 Airwaves is about:

• The lab as a social space
  
• Developing experience as you are building experience
  
• Working and playing in different sites (even outside!)
  
• Art being used as a vehicle to create new spaces for something to happen in.
  
• Collaboration with others
  
• Networked and live systems
  
• Combinations of hi-tech, lo-tech and no-tech (digital, analog, and really REALLY analog)
  
• Platforms such as wireless (LAN, audio and video), physical props and materials (air, kites, wearable interfaces outputting MIDI), non-screen based interfaces (video tracking, iListen) and anything else that might come up...
  
• Open systems vs fixed and linear thinking
  
• Multidisciplinary and varied approaches to Live Art