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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 .
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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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