[Nettime-nl] V2_ | CREATIVITY 2.0 - Rotterdam satellite of the 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference

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*CREATIVITY 2.0
Rotterdam satellite of the 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference *

Saturday October 28, 2006 at V2_ (Rotterdam)
10.00 – 13.00 (CEST - Central European Summer Time)
www.v2.nl
IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon

V2_ invites you to participate in CREATIVITY 2.0, an extra-territorial 
Tangent_Event taking place in Rotterdam connecting to the 2nd Chinese 
Bloggers Conference, to be held in Hangzhou China October 28/29. 
Featuring special guest Régine Debatty <we-make-money-not-art.com> in 
Rotterdam and cultural bloggers Zhang Qing and Gino Yu in Hangzhou, 
CREATIVITY 2.0 will bring together leading independent writers and 
curators to discuss the rise of the blog as an open medium of expression 
in establishing and supporting unrestricted forms of dialogue and 
community, both in the sense of cultural enterprise and artistic practice.

Recently, and during the past year in particular, it has become 
increasingly popular to use the new tools and expanded online facilities 
that weblogs provide in order to create new social identities, define 
cultural practices and create active communities beyond the physical 
constraints of urban or national structures. This is especially the case 
in countries such as the People’s Republic of China in which a new 
‘middle landscape’ of an increasingly affluent and mobile citizenry has 
zealously and enthusiastically attuned to the latest in global 
technology and telecommunications. Forming a significant part of the 
‘Web 2.0’ phenomenon Blogs pick up the faded myth of the Internet as a 
user generated space of exchange with both cultural and commercial 
repercussions.

Associated online tools and services such as, YouTube, Biku, Flickr and 
del.icio.us augment the omnipresence of Blogs into complex global 
communities of users linked via an infinite number of personal 
backgrounds, interests and goals and create new forms of social, 
cultural, artistic and economic networks. In areas where traditional 
forms of monitoring and control of information is pervasive the 
complexity and diversity of blogging’s reach drives the creation of new 
platforms and forms of expression. Blogs brought to life by anyone 
anytime are now creating a blogosphere rapidly replacing traditional 
information structures by unifying in cross-media frameworks the same 
mechanisms of text and visual tagging, cross-referencing of information, 
and opinion gathering established with the Internet over a decade ago. 
But how do these structures originate, who do they serve, and how are 
the bloggers covered by ‘traditional’ or local media? Beyond global 
entertainment and free-for-all journalism can Blogs instill new cultural 
identities and open up new zones of dialogue and critique? Can they lead 
to cultural and artistic production per se, or drown in parody and hasty 
mash-ups during their authors’ 5 minute bursts of fame?

CREATIVITY 2.0 links the worlds of blogging between Europe, Asia and 
beyond in a live and online dialogue hosting players including Régine 
Debatty, Zhang Qing, Gino Yu, aaajiao and Kuang Huang who are active in 
defining and sharpening both active art communities and establishing new 
contexts for transnational cultural dialogue.

CREATIVITY 2.0 will be moderated in Rotterdam by V2_ program curator 
Stephen Kovats, and in Hangzhou by writer and cultural theorist Tian Sun.

The event will be streamed live using REAL MEDIA and IRC moderated 
online by Berlin based independent curator Vera Tollmann. The stream can 
be accessed directly via www.v2.nl or by using the following direct REAL 
player link: rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm

You can download a free Real Player at www.real.com.

If you are online we invite you to participate in the event via IRC text 
chat on:
irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon

*Schedule and Format:*

V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Saturday October 28, 2006

10.00 Doors open at V2_, welcome coffee
10.30 CREATIVITY 2.0 intro + selected Chinese videoblog screening

11.00 – go live, online with Hangzhou – Stephen Kovats and Tian Sun
11.05 – speaker 1: Zhang Qing, in Hangzhou
11.15 – speaker 2: Régine Debatty, in Rotterdam
11.25 – speaker 3: Gino Yu, in Hangzhou
11.35 – open discussion with local and online participants
12.00 – close connection

12.00 – 13.00 discussion/conclusion at V2_, with screenings

All times listed are local Rotterdam times

To check your time zone, please consult:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

V2_ will also be streaming the entire conference in Hangzhou and will 
moderate online selected presentations and discussions. Check the 
conference site for full schedule:
http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en/Schedule

NOTE!: Most areas (but not China!) will revert to Standard Time at 0300 
on Sunday October 29. Check if your area has a Daylight Saving Time 
shift during the conference weekend:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2006b.html

*CREATIVITY 2.0 Participants: *
*
Régine Debatty (panelist, in Rotterdam)*
Régine Debatty initiated we-make-money-not-art.com a pioneering weblog 
for critical media art and cultural discourse. She studied Classics in 
Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek, 
then moved to media, directing documentaries for Belgian national TV, 
working as a reporter for the radio Onda Cero in Spain and as a 
consultant for the MEDIA programme of the European Commission in Italy. 
She is now an independent writer and researcher in electronic art. As a 
jury member she participates in several new media art and interaction 
design commissions and festivals. She also gives talks about how today's 
artists, amateurs and hackers are using and misusing emerging technologies.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com

*Gino Yu (panellist, in Hangzhou)*
Dr. Gino Yu is chairman of the Hong Kong Digital Entertainment 
Assocation. He received his PhD at the University of California at 
Berkeley in 1993 where he worked to establish multimedia initiatives 
such as the Integrated Media Systems Center. He later taught and worked 
in Hong Kong where he helped to establish the Center for Enhanced 
Learning Technologies at the University of Science and Technology and 
the Multimedia Innovation Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University 
(PolyU), a leading edge think tank and research centre on digital 
entertainment. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of 
Digital Entertainment and Game Development in the School of Design at 
PolyU where he oversees MERECL, a commercial digital entertainment 
entity that provides consulting, research, instruction and new ideas for 
the industry. His main area research interests involve the application 
of media technologies to cultivate creativity and promote enlightened 
consciousness.

http://www.hkdea.org

*Zhang Qing (panelist, in Hangzhou)*
Zhang Qing is Artistic Director of the 6th Shanghai Biennale (Hyper 
Design), Deputy Director of the Shanghai Art Museum editor and editor of 
Art China . He has been a regular contributor to magazines including Art 
Monthly, Dushu , Avant-garde Today and Shanghai Culture since 1989, as 
well as editor-in-chief of the magazine Chinese Art of the 1990s. In 
2000, he was named one of the "best curators in China" by CCTV. His main 
curatorial roles include Curator of the exhibition The Art of Yan 
Peiming (Shanghai,2005); Co-Curator for the 5th Shanghai Biennale(2004); 
Curator for Interpreting the Modern:The Collection Exhibition of 
Amsterdam Art Museum (Amsterdam, Shanghai, Singapore, 
2003);Junction:Architectural xperiments in Chinese Contemporary Art 
(Shanghai, 2003); Red China: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art , 
(Gwangju, 2002); Co-Curator for City_Net Asia (Seoul, 2002); Curator for 
Cai Guoqiang (Shanghai, 2001); Curator for Expressions of Contemporary 
China (Singapore, 2001); and Co-Curator for the 3 rd Shanghai Biennale 
(2000).
http://www.shanghaibiennale.com/
*
aaajiao (participant, in Hangzhou)*
The Chinese pendant to Régine Debatty’s media art and culture blog 
‘we-need-money-not-art.com> was founded by aaajiao in 2006. WNMNA has 
fis, sophywt, ilikesleep working as editors, and hlitch, phoebe, 
yangschwang, kulilin, dobby as translaters. The main aim of WNMNA is to 
introduce the information of new media art abroad to China by 
translating the articles on WMMNA as well as some other colaborating 
websites, and to write original reviews to support the 'art from China' 
tag, from which people get to know the development of new media art in 
China.
http://we-need-money-not-art.com/
*
Kuan Huang (online participant, New York) *
Kuan Huang is a software engineer and new media artist. In 2004, in 
order to let his artistic side of his brain breathe the freedom of life, 
he came to New York City to pursue his master degree in Interactive 
Telecommunications Program of Tisch School of Art, New York University. 
His art works vary from interactive musical instrument, cell phone based 
video installation, interactive public projection and etc. His works 
have been exhibited in Sony Wonder Tech Lab, Chelsea Museum of Art, 
Eyebeam and New York University. Kuan Huang together with Yuchen Chiu 
and Chun Xi Jiang are the founders of the Chinese new media art blog 
Villagypsy. They are hoping that Villagypsy can serve as a bridge that 
links the new media industry between USA and China.
http://www.villagypsy.com

*Tian Sun (moderator, in Hangzhou) *
Tian Sun is editor of Time+Architecture, a Shanghai-based bimonthly 
architectural magazine. She graduated from B. Arch. Tongji University in 
2000 and received her MSc in Architectural History at the University 
College London in 2005.
*
Stephen Kovats (moderator, in Rotterdam) *
Canadian architect and media culture researcher
Stephen Kovats is chief curator and events programmer at V2_Institute 
for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam.
*
Vera Tollmann (online moderator, Rotterdam) *
Vera Tollmann studied Cultural Studies in Hildesheim and Liverpool. From 
2004 to 2006 she worked as programme curator for the international media 
art festival transmediale in Berlin. As an independant curator, she 
recently curated the group exhibition Hands-on history and the video 
programme Picturing free knowledge. She publishes articles on internet 
issues and contemporary art. Her text 'I will chocolate you' deals with 
the internet use in China and the role of the western world, published 
in springerin.

More info:
www.v2.nl
http://cnbloggercon.org/
http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en/Schedule

Remco Beeskow, V2_Communications press@v2.nl Phone: +31(0)10-206 72 72. 
Website: www.v2.nl

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