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Leonardo The Pacific Rim New Media Summit Author(s): Joel Slayton Source: Leonardo, Vol. 39, No. 4, Pacific Rim New Media Summit Companion (2006), pp. 285- 286 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20206255 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 05:07 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The MIT Press and Leonardo are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Leonardo. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.44.79.179 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 05:07:37 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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The Pacific Rim New Media SummitAuthor(s): Joel SlaytonSource: Leonardo, Vol. 39, No. 4, Pacific Rim New Media Summit Companion (2006), pp. 285-286Published by: The MIT PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20206255 .

Accessed: 15/06/2014 05:07

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Summit Introduction

The Pacific Rim New Media Summit http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnms

he he political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity. Experimentation in art, science, architecture, engineer

ing, design, literature, theater and music is engendering new forms of cultural production and experience unique to the region. The complex relations and diversity of Pacific Rim

nations are exemplified throughout the hybridized communities that make up Silicon Valley. As the lOth-largest city in the United States, San Jose, California, is an important portal on

the eastern edge of the Pacific region, which shares deep historical and cultural connections

that range from Latin America and the South Pacific to Southeast Asia and Asia. ZeroOne

San Jose: An International Festival of Art on the Edge (7-13 August 2006) highlights the

Pacific Rim as a central theme by presenting the most significant achievements in art, theory and research from throughout the region.

The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organiza tion fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse

organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. The

ISEA Symposium is an international conference on electronic art that is held every 2 years in different locations around the world and attracts attendees from over 50 countries. The

Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) is being held in San Jose, California, in conjunction with the inaugural biennial ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival

of Art on the Edge. As part of ISEA2006, the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University

will host a 2-day pre-symposium entitled the Pacific Rim New Media Summit (7-8 August 2006), co-sponsored by Leonardo. The Summit is intended to explore and build interpretive

bridges between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts programs in seven areas represented by working groups:

Distributed Curatorial; Education; Place, Ground and Practice; Urbanity and Locative Media; Latin America/Pacific-Asia New Media Initiatives; Piracy and the Pacific; and the Invisible

Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area.

The Pacific Rim theme will be accentuated each evening of the Summit, with a reception for Summit attendees on Monday, 7 August, including a premier of Ryoji Ikeda's C43, and

on Tuesday, 8 August, with Akira Hasegawa's immersive projection on the new San Jose City Hall rotunda. Tuesday evening is also the gala opening for ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose,

including exhibitions and public artworks featured in venues throughout the city. The Pacific

Rim theme then continues within the Symposium and Festival, with presentations of juried

papers, an invited keynote presentation and exhibitions by artists selected through the

ISEA2006 Calls for Participation process. From the outset we thought of the Summit as a mechanism to encourage and facilitate

international cooperation with an eye to sustainable relationships. Understandably this

approach is not without difficulties and, as desired, it has been an emergent process rather

than directorial. We view the Summit as a point along a trajectory of building interpretive

bridges that broaden all of our capacities for creative and intellectual exchange. By focusing the Summit on sustainable outcomes, it is our objective to facilitate cooperative agendas that

enable creative production, research and cultural/political practices that challenge current

models of cooperation. The Summit is not an attempt to simply become comfortable with

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one another or to suggest that collaboration is not without controversy, dissent and disagree ment. The Summit is about the collisions of ideology and manifesto. It is about trying to work

through the problematics of diversity and difference.

On the pragmatic side, what is expected is that each working group will have a creative or

research project or a program initiative to share. The working groups have been asked to

identify, shape and pursue a common cause within each group. Documentation of the "out

comes" will serve as the basis for the Summit proceedings.

Joel Slayton Chair, ISEA2006 Symposium/ZeroOne San Jose and Pacific Rim New Media Summit

Director, CADRE Laboratory for New Media, San Jose State University

Pacific Rim New Media Summit Working Groups

Distributed Curatorial

Education

Place, Ground and Practice

Urbanity and Locative Media

Latin America/Pacific-Asia New Media

Initiatives

Piracy and the Pacific The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area

Pacific Rim New Media Summit Working Group Members Distributed Curatorial

Steve Dietz, Co-Chair

Gunalan Nadar ajan, Co-Chair

Zhang Ga Alice Ming Wai Jim Deborah Lawler-Dormer

Ellen Pau

Johan Pijnappel Yukiko Shikata Soh Yeong Roh

Education Rob van Kranenburg, Co-Chair

Gustaff H. Iskandar, Co-Chair

Fatima Lasay, Co-Chair

Nina Czegledy Willem-Jan Renger Roberta Alvarenga Clarissa Chikiamco

George P. Landow

Marie Le Sourd

Nova Paul

Tressa Berman

Duyon Lee

Daniela Reimann

Lynn Hughes Trebor Scholz

Place, Ground and Practice

Danny Butt, Chair

Ashok Mathur

Candice Hopkins Cheryl L'Hirondelle

Jason De Santolo

Jenny Fraser

Rachel O'Reilly Lisa Reihana

Jon Bywater Nova Paul

Urbanity and Locative Media Soh Yeong Roh, Chair Adrian David Cheok

Jeffrey Huang Anthony Townsend

Marc Tuters

Drew Hemment

Julian Bleecker

Jane McGonigal

Latin America/Pacific-Asia New Media Initiatives

Jos?-Carlos Mari?tegui, Chair

Chaos Y. Chen

Geetha Narayanan Andrea Di Castro

Ned Rossiter

Alej andr? Jaimes

Piracy and the Pacific Steve Cisler, Chair

Scott Robinson

Eduardo Villanueva

Roberto Verzola

The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area

Susan Schwarzenberg, Co-Chair

Peter Richards, Co-Chair

Meredith Tromble McDonald

Paul Klein

Wayne Lanier

Marina McDougall Michael Jones Theodore Koterwas

Scott Snibbe Tomas Apodaca

Amy Balkin Eric Rodenbeck

Margeigh Novotny Gayle Laird Cris Benton

PRNMS Coordinators

Joel Slayton Roger F. Malina

Joichi Ito Rachel Beth Egenhoefer

Leonardo Pamela Grant-Ryan Patricia Bentson

Nicholas Cronbach

Kathleen Quillian Lynne Carstarphen

Greg Niemeyer

Jon Phillips

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