Sunday, November 9th, 3pm in Atelier Nord’s project space, studio 1 at Kunstnernes hus

Data forensics [in the landscape] presentation

Howse and Oliver are in Oslo to give a workshop entitled Data forensics [in the landscape]. Sunday,  there will be a public presentation of the workshop. The workshop has an emphasis on the active construction of hardware and software apparatus. The Data forensics workshop will apply practical tools, techniques and theory to analyse [un]intentional data emissions within the city of Oslo. The workshop extends a succession of practical and theoretical investigations concerned with electromagnetic [EM] phenomena into the world of data space. Spanning signal and noise, digits and decay, Data Forensics explores the often unintuitive reality that digital data has its own electromagnetic (physical) presence, a physicality that can be read and perhaps even modulated through the carrier medium itself.

Data Forensics presents a window between the domain of the digital and the physical; the digital both informs and reveals the physical and vice versa. It is through this relationship that we can find a fortuitous exchange of practices. We can - for example - borrow techniques from real-world forensics to examine and attempt to make sense of leaked data emissions. Alternatively, we can expose and elaborate upon the notion of data sedimentation; taking an archaeological approach to examining everyday digital activity.

Martin Howse:

Martin Howse founded ap in 1998 to implement a truly artistic operating system (OS) in its most expanded sense and within a free software context. Martin Howse has performed and collaborated worldwide using custom software and hardware modules for audible/visible code/noise generation. ap projects have included the ap02 distributed environmental code-creation software and an environmental computational work, entitled ap0201 installed deep within the Mojave desert which received first prize within Art & Artificial Life VIDA 8.0, 2005. xxxxx was initiated in 2006 with the ongoing xxxxx event series [London, Norway, Germany] and the acclaimed xxxxx [reader] compendium publication. Current projects include an ongoing series of open workshops towards the establishment of a research institute in Berlin and London, and the implementation of a mobile flaneur/scrying data platform.

Julian Oliver:

Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, based in Madrid, Spain. He has presented papers and artworks at many international electronic-art events and conferences. Julian has given numerous workshops and master classes in game-design, artistic game-development, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality and open source development practices worldwide.

Presentations and lectures

Atelier Nord organizes a series of lectures, presentation and debates related to unstable art forms, such as electronic and new media art. The goal of this series is to broaden and deepen the field and it is open and free to the public. This event usually takes place at Atelier Nord, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo (Kunstnernes Hus). Please check the website for future program.