Programme

PROGRAMME (updated 9. June 2006)

Monday 12 June 2006

Arrival of the lecturers and students
Students: Look out for a “4th Asia-Europe Art Camp” sign at the airport. The Art Camp representative at the airport will advise you on how to get to the city centre. In the city centre, another person will be welcoming you and will guide you to your hostel.

Lecturers will be welcomed at the airport and taken to the Klaus K hotel.

Participants arriving in Helsinki before 12 June 2006, please refer to the additional document about Local transport in Helsinki & from/to the Airport.

Check in for the lecturers

Klaus K. Hotel
Bulevardi 2
00120 Helsinki
Tel. +358 020 770 4700
http://www.klauskhotel.com/
Check in for the students

Eurohostel
Linnankatu 9
00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 622 0470
http://www.eurohostel.fi/location.php

19:00 Welcome and orientation in Helsinki (ASEF + UIAH) at Eurohostel
To be followed by a Welcome dinner at Restaurant Katajanmarja (at Eurohostel)

Tuesday 13 June 2006

6:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:15 UIAH students pick up students at the hostel, transfer to UIAH
Venzha and Fatima will be met at their hotel for transfer to UIAH

10:00 Presentation of the organisers (UIAH and ASEF) and of the objectives of the Fourth Asia-Europe Art Camp
Name tags and work permissions will be given

10:30 - 12:30: Students’ self introduction (part 1)

Mr Steve Hui Ngo Shan, Hong Kong, China SAR
Ms Riin Kranna-Rõõs, Estonia
Ms Brenda Castro, Finland
Mr Antti J Mäki, Finland
Mr Matthieu Savary, France
Ms Therese Schultheit, Germany
Mr Hasan Murod, Indonesia

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 15:30: Students’ self introduction (part 2)

Ms Clare Shannahan, Ireland
Mr Yuichi Nagao, Japan
Mr Choi, Jong won, Korea
Mr Andrius Rugevicius, Lithuania
Mr Ahmad Muzammil Khaidzir Mat Sin, Malaysia
Mr Stanley Ruiz, The Philippines

15:30 - 15:45: Coffee break

15:45 - 17:00: Students’ presentation (part 3)

Mr Telmo Luis Martins de Sá, Portugal
Mr Toh Hun Ping, Singapore
Ms Ariadna Alsina Tarres, Spain
Mr Chatchai Ngamsirimongkhonchai, Thailand
Ms Selina Shah, United Kingdom
Ms Vo Nguyen Mai Tram, Vietnam

17:00 - 17:30: Presentation of the concept: “Hearing Helsinki” / Päivi Takala
• Working methodology, formation of the working groups

17:30 – 18:30 How to move around in Helsinki / Pirita Posti
Pocket money to be passed to the participants (to be used when meals are not provided)

18:30 - UIAH students take the students back to town/to the hostel and the lecturers to the hotel

Wednesday 14 June 2006

6:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
From Wednesday morning onwards, participants will use the public transport to go to UIAH wihout a guide. Please be on time.

9:30 - 10:45 at UIAH: On hearing and listening / Presentation by Päivi Takala (with 30 minutes of Q & A)
During this presentation, Päivi Takala will discuss current knowledge on hearing and listening, as well as introduce the concepts of causal, semantic and reduced listening.

10:45 - 11:00: coffee break

11:00 - 12:15 Presentation by Fatima Lasay, The Philippines (with 30 minutes of Q & A)
http://www.korakora.org/
In this presentation, Fatima Lasay will discuss space (kapookán) and articulation (pagsasadiwà) as keys to the concept of “aesthetic equilibrium” (diwà) in art.
Sound and sound-related experiences in Switzerland, Myanmar and the Philippines will be presented

12:15 - 14.15: Lunch / (Picnic at Lammassaari island near UIAH, tbc according to weather)
http://www.gardenia-helsinki.fi/viikkinature/placestovisit.htm (scroll down a bit for Lammassaari)

14:15 – 17:00 Technical presentations:

• How to carry out the recordings: Päivi Takala / Richard Widerberg
Introduction to recording gear. Try out recorders and microphones.
- Platform for Hearing Helsinki project / Richard Widerberg. What to present?
How to present?
• Mobile technology in Hearing Helsinki/ Richard Widerberg. Hand out phones.
Introduction to IMPROVe. How to record and upload with phones.

17:00 Back to town

17:30 - Recording in the city, Kamppi area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamppi

Individual listening and recording of Kamppi. Record objects and spaces.

Evening and morning after: Everyone listens to their recordings and choose one clip out of the recordings to present.

Thursday 15 June 2006

6:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:30 - 10:45 at UIAH Presentation by Christiawan “Venzha” Vincensius, Indonesia (with 30 minutes of Q & A)
http://www.natural-fiber.com/
Statement: My work is based on my personal experiences. But, my personal experiences could be considered as part of our collective experience. My works uses sound as one of its primary elements. Audio/sound refer to an abstract level.
As human beings, we have one sensitive tool in our body, and this is the ear. We are often touched by sound, coming from natural or digital sources. We usually relate more to the “words culture” than to the “sound culture”. In this lecture session, I would like to share about the topic of the possibilities offered by the sound medium. Sound itself has an independent life. That’s why I am interested to explore it. The possibilities can explore the connection between sound and between the levels of consciousness and unconsciousness. My work is based on my personal experiences, and I want to share a nuance from this exploration. That could be your experience, everybody’s experience. I believe art could view reality in its different sides. Therefore, through the sound I explore, I could share “something” behind the language, to open our sense of humanity.

11:00 - 12:00: Listening to previous days recordings/ discussion
Päivi Takala/ Fatima Lasay / Christiawan “Venzha” Vincensius/ Richard Widerberg

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
+ Interviews in view of the ASEM6 multi-media presentation “Borderless Me!”
On 10-11 September 2006, there will be in Helsinki the Sixth Asia-Europe Meeting of Political Leaders (ASEM). As part of the cultural events, ASEF will be presenting a multi-media presentation “Borderless Me!” The multimedia presentation will consist of an installation (photo + video + sound) at the ASEM Summit venue that would reflect the rich diversity of ASEM cultures, and experiment with new technologies that could be used to enrich the Asia-Europe cultural collaboration. Apart from the result of the Fourth Asia-Europe Art Camp (Hearing Helsinki), there will be an interactive multimedia installation which will present an exclusive preview of the ASEMUS Virtual Collection of Masterpieces (VCM). A series of 1,000 photographs representing the collection of participating institutions will be made available through a video presentation.
Part of the process of making the multi-media presentation, very short interviews are conducted with participants, lecturers, organisers of ASEF events on their definition of masterpieces and what they consider as their masterpieces.

14:00 – 15:30 Technical presentation: editing / Richard Widerberg

Introduction to Audacity.
Importing sounds to Audacity.
Simple editing in Audacity.

15:30 Back to town

15:30 onwards: trip to Suomenlinna Fort/ recordings in Suomenlinna
http://www.suomenlinna.fi/index.php?menuid=2&lang=eng
Continue recording practices. Objects and environments.

Friday 16 June 2006

6:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:30 at UIAH: Working in groups

- Upload sounds for IMPROVe
- Concept development for the Monday presentation
- Listening to recordings and discussion
- Editing of the collected material
- Tutoring on editing

Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30

13:30 First presentation of ideas (commentators tbc)

Evening programme:

17:00 Traditional Finnish Public Sauna
http://www.aatos.fi/sauna/Kotiharjunsauna_eng_web_05.pdf

18:30 Cooking and Party (venue t.b.c.)

Saturday 17 June 2006

8:00 – 9:30 Breakfast

Morning: recording in Myllypuro Forests (accessed by metro)
Myllypuro Forest info

Lunch in town

14:00 at UIAH: Editing, group work; work on collected materials

Sunday 18 June 2006

8:00 – 11:00 Breakfast

11:00 Visit to KIASMA / Ars 2006 exhibition
http://typo.kiasma.fi/index.php?L=1&id=11&FL=1

Lunch in town

Afternoon: Sound improvisation with mobile technology (in Myymälä2 Gallery)
IMPROVE / Richard Widerberg
Students improvise with their own recorded city sounds using mobile technology
http://mlab.uiah.fi/improve/

Late afternoon, evening: Editing of sound pieces, uploading for the website

Monday 19 June 2006

6:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

(9.30 uploading the stuff for the website)

10.30 Presentation session
Presentation of the pieces + text plus image

Last touches for the Hearing Helsinki presentation

14:00 Press conference and Hearing Helsinki presentation at UIAH, LUME Foyer
This presentation Hearing Helsinki will be a preview of what will be shown at the ASEM6 premises on 10-11 September 2006

15:30 Final addresses by the organisers
In presence of Kaarina Suonio, Vice chairperson for the ASEF Board of Governors

16:00 Final feedback session (participants only)
-Presentation of the Follow-up project, a call for projects applications only open to participants of the art camps 2003-2006
-Feedback forms will be distributed along with a list of useful weblinks for art schools, residency programmes and new media related weblinks in Asia and Europe
Session moderated by Anjeli Narandran, Cultural exchange, Asia-Europe Foundation

19:00 Evening: farewell party at Uunisaari island
http://www.hel2.fi/tourism/EN/haku_paikka_lisa.asp?id=80&aspkieli=en&taulu=Paikka
ligth buffet dinner, DJ

Tuesday 20 June 2006

Departure of the participants