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The ADA BookSprint – Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City

Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City is an innovative collaborative publication that critically addresses the themes, outcomes, and questions of the ADA Mesh Cities project. The book will be written by an invited group of ten people as a 5 day ‘book sprint’. The book sprint is a publication methodology developed by New Zealander Adam Hyde that brings participants together to collaboratively conceptualise and write a book in an intensive and creative period of work.

http://www.booksprints.net/about/

Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City will be a publication that is immediately published via onlinePDF, print on demand and e-book services at the end of the sprint. However the sprint is itself the enactment of a creative network of collaboration enabled by careful facilitation (by Adam Hyde in this case), and the network platform of a synchronous shared production environment. So both a publication that documents a significant body of artist work, interwoven with broader contexts and theory, and a very focused collaborative, creative event.

Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City will include documentation and discussion of media art practices from around Aotearoa that engage with these interconnected themes (space, network, memory). The works discussed in the book may include those supported by ADA in the course of the Toi Uru Kahikatea-funded Mesh Cities project, including workshops, symposium presentations, and the ADA Artbase web archive, as well as the ADA projects that immediately preceded that project, including the Douglas Kahn Masterclass Tour, and the Simon Pope Netwalking tour. The publication will also cover relevant media art works presented by other organisations, with an emphasis on those developed in response to the Canterbury earthquakes and postquake art practices in Christchurch. In this the publication will continue the work of the first ADA Reader (2008), but with a focus that reflects the ADA Mesh Cities project.

While the beginning point for ADA Mesh Cities has been the specific situation in Christchurch since September 2010, our focus on transitionality addresses the conditions in all New Zealand urban spaces. These include the spatial limitations and possibilities media artists address, artist engagement with networks of all kinds, and the layers of memory making that all characterise all cities.

Content may include discussion and documentation such as:

  • ADA supported projects: Neighbourhood Air (Janine Randerson) and Sound Sky (Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund);
  • and works presented at Mesh Cities Symposia
  • Christchurch-based events, and work emerging from them, such as Festa (The Festival of transitional architecture), Audacious (festival of public sound art), Scape, The body festival
  • Work from other, ADA-related networks such as Circuit and the Audio Foundation.

Participants: There will be up to ten writing participants, including people who have been closely involved with the ADA Mesh Cities project and others with specific experience in related projects and valuable perspectives on media art.

Three participants are confirmed with the remaining seven to be selected in response to a call for expressions of interest (now open) The participants will ideally include the following:

  • confident writers and collaborators from both academic and non-academic backgrounds
  • participants in ADA Mesh Cities projects including the artist workshops
  • researchers, writers and artists with interest in and knowledge of some or all of the following fields: media arts practice in Aotearoa; urban space, infrastructure and issues; networks of all kinds, from interpersonal to infrastructural; memory and media.

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Venue:

XCHC @ 376 Wilson Road is currently tipped to be the venue for the ADA BookSprint to take place. Exchange Christchurch is a space for the production, showcase and public exchange of creative work and is a collaborative, networked organisation.

More info about Exchange Christchurch here: http://www.xchc.co.nz/


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