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Euro-Asia Channel Meeting
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MEETING#01
Monday, 27 August 2007 Wild Animal Rescue Center – Pusat Penyelamatan Satwa Jogja (PPSJ), Yogyakarta
02:00 PM
Another meeting that was part of Cellsbutton#01 events was held on this day. Euro – Asian Channel (EA Channel) meeting for future plans discussion with Cellsbutton#01 artists and officials. Several EA Channel members involved in this meeting were Ariadna Alsina Tarres (Spain), Selina Shah (United Kingdom), Therese Schuleit (Germany), Clare Shanahan (Ireland), and Venzha (Indonesia). Also joined the meeting were Kévin Bartoli and Jean-Marie Boyer from RyBN (France), Marika Dermineur from Incident.net (France) and Brian Sherry (Ireland). From The House of Natural Fiber representative were Venzha, Tommy Surya, Irene Agrivine, Istasius Praditya, Bagus Tri Budiarto, Julian Abraham, Raden Andang, Arghaa Mahendra, Agus Kurniawan, Ferial Alif, Raphael Donny, Benny Wicaksono and Andreas Siagian.
In this meeting, EA Channel presented their objectives in making future media art collaborative projects. Despite the physical distance of each artist that was involved, EA Channel would like to enable collaboration even in disparate parts of the globe. Art pieces proposals in EA Channel will be responded by anyone who had interest in making collaboration out of those idea. Using internet fasilities for e-mailings, meetings and even exchanging informations, it is now possible to create anything regardles of substantial physical distance. By these facts, EA Channel would like to invite any artists who are interested in making collaborative art pieces.
Installation Work
Sunday, 26 August 2007
The House of Natural Fiber (HONF) Space
07:00 PM
At HONF space in Wora-wari street no. A80/6 Baciro, Yogyakarta, an installation work was displayed. The installation work was made by Ariadna Alsina Tarres (Ari) from Spain and Therese Schuleit (Therese) from Germany. This event was not published in any Cellsbuton#01 publication because it was planned during the festival. The installation work is called Presence/Absence.
  
 
Despite of having a bit technical difficulties to display their installation, Ari and Therese managed to pull it of even though, they never tested the technical issues before. Their installation was using two projectors that displayed videos of two empty rooms. Through out the videos, there were sounds of two persons typing keyboards from the speakers. It sounded like they were chatting and continuously responding to others typing.
After a few moments, there was a discussion between Ari and Therese with the audience concerning of their installation. As they explained, Into the context of Euro-Asian Channel (EA Channel), Presence/Absence is related to the fact that because of the physical distance between the members of the group, the community is based in internet for meetings and communication of information. This fact makes them feel the presence of other members in some special way; they “are” together while they have chat meetings, but anyway, nobody is at the same physical space.
They also added into their explanation how Server Technology and Net Data exchange, art pieces can be projected into real spaces and vice versa. By using those technologies, it is possible to arrange one exhibition in two spaces and cities. But how to orchestrate absence in contrast to presence, when one is able to extend its presence through technology? How can a medium represent this dialectic medial presence? By this inspiration, they focused on their project and presented Presence/Absence work they have done until Cellsbutton#01. After the installation they made in HONF, they are planning to expand this installation project further more in the near future.
MEETING#02
20 August 2008, cellsPICNIC at Langgeng Gallery, Magelang
In this session, all participants and HONF member went to Kyai Langgeng Park, Magelang, which located 30 km from Yogyakarta. The participants get the chance to visit a gallery owned by Mr. Dedy. After a few hours, Venzha gave a presentation about HONF and its’ future plan and agenda. HONF' intentions to bring the entire participant in a session of discussion was arrange future collaboration projects. The discussion was started with an introduction of every participant in the discussion about their background, interest and focus in media art. After the introduction, Venzha explain HONF agenda for 2008-2009, 2 main festival from HONF and EFP which will be the main focus in every HONF activities.
  
  
Participants:
Miha Horvat (Slovenia), Pavel Sedlak (Czech Republic), Leila Abuhilal (UK), Tengal (Philippines), Adam Sharples (UK), Jerneja Rebernak (Slovenia), Venzha (Yogyakarta), Irene Agrivina (Yogyakarta), Julian Abraham (Yogyakarta), Marcello Vishnoe (Yogyakarta), Andreas Siagian (Yogyakarta), Aldy Rento / unkl347 (Bandung), Benny Wicaksono (Surabaya), Rahma (Yogyakarta), Argha Mahendra (Yogyakarta), Ferial Affif (Yogyakarta)
MEETING#03
20 January 2009, Discussion by Selina Shah
 Jogja Connected discussion was Selina Shah final presentation for her residency program in YIVF#04. The discussion was taken from her research during the program focusing on Internet use in Yogyakarta society. Indonesia as a developing country has become the 5th top Internet users in Asia and the 15th top Internet users in the world with 10% of overall Indonesia population, which estimated reaches more than 25 million users out of approximately over 235 million total populations. The data of these users was provided by Internet World Stats. But how efficient and the application does the Internet is used in the society of Indonesia?
   
In this discussion Selina brought up the issue of Internet café in Indonesia, which are accessible to children and students. Several Internet café in Yogyakarta created a private room and provide porn for their customer to access, copy and download. It is already known that the societies in Indonesia don’t use Internet as their main communication tool and recent published policy of non-pornography issued by Indonesian government in 2008. However in the application, Internet café still provide easy access even for children to access pornography via Internet.
   
The discussion was spread out to the situation and condition in Indonesia. Responding to the situation, Venzha from HONF presented his paper called Circle of Satan (COS) that actually will be presented in Transmediale 2009, Berlin. COS issued a general problematic things that happen in every aspect in Indonesia such as deforestation supported by government, corrupted government institutions, money politic, Indonesian reformation movement, election campaign etc COS brought up to the discussion participant brought up different opinions and reaction to the audiences however the solution to the topic so vary because of the systematic that has been created in Indonesia government since Suharto region. The discussion was closed with a motivation to act per steps responding the situation and condition concerning the abilities from each individual and independent institution. For current information on the Internet in Indonesia, provided by Indonesia Internet Provider Association, visit this website http://www.apjii.or.id
Participants:
Selina Shah (UK), Venzha, Tapio Makela (FI), Tommy Surya, Irene Agrivina, Julian Abraham, Andreas Siagian, Bagus Budiarto, Argha Mahendra, Marcello Vishnoe, Desiree Aditya, Eka Jayani Ayuningtyas, Ragil Lanang, Pradhono Aji, Hagigie Suluh, Andri W, Hasan Murod
21 January 2009, Discussion by Tapio Makela
A visit from Tapio Makela; a media artist, researcher and an event organiser based in Helsinki, Finland; to HONF was the last program in YIVF#04. Tapio held a presentation to introduce him to HONF members and his innovative residency program co-founded by Marko Peljjan called MARIN (Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network). MARIN residency program invite interdisciplinary individual to explore marine ecology on a catamaran to seek solution for global climate change issue. After first public presentation of MARIN in Art, Culture and Climate Change Dialogue organized by ASEF in Beijing, China, MARIN plan to schedule first marine ecology in Baltic Sea on May 2009. Several issues that MARIN would like to explore are over nutrition, heavy metal, Cyannobacteria (blue-green algae) and also nitrogen fixed bacteria, which has been primary discussion with UGM biotechnology Prof. Irfan D. Prijambada.
  
As Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world that consist 17,508 islands, MARIN research output is set to be on public for everyone in Indonesia to use. Tapio invite everyone to be participated and use MARIN research output to be collaborated with scientist, artist and engineer in Indonesia. The topic that Indonesia is the 4th CO2 gas emitter in Indonesia also being countered by the audience acknowledging in the previous discussion (Jogja Connected) about the situation and condition in Indonesia. The primary concern was that Indonesia oceanography that has been put aside from the claim, realizing that Indonesia oceans consist most biodiversity in the world. Tapio ended the presentation with an invitation to HONF and the audience creating future collaboration with MARIN, enriching the output to be useful for international society.
  
Participants:
Tapio Makela (FI), Selina Shah (UK), Bagus Budiarto, Venzha, Irene Agrivina, Tommy Surya, Julian Abraham, Andreas Siagian, Prof. Irfan Dwija Prijambada, Argha Mahendra, Bintang Ramadhan, Maria Carmilla, Kunto Nugroho
MEETING#04
7 August 2009, Suralaya Peak
 
The EA Channel Meeting, this year on cellsbutton#03 took place on Suralaya Peak, Samigaluh, Northwest of Yogyakarta. The chill wind of the climate at Suralaya made most of participants tighten their jacket, blanket or sleeping bag, while attending the discussion and presentation from each speakers.
Participants:
Kanno So (Japan), Somaya Langley (Australia), Marc Dusseiller (Switzerland), Marko Batista (Slovenia), AndreJ Boleslavsky (Slovakia), Dan Gregor (Czech Rep), Jemeja Rebernak (Singapore), Magdalena Peseva (Czech Rep), Tengal Drilon (Philippines), Michal Mariánek (Czech Rep), Ondřej Skala (Czech Rep), Darina Alster (Czech Rep), Mar Canet (Austria), Varvara Guljajeva (Estonia-Austria), Peter Tomaž Dobrila (Slovenia), Venzha, Irene Agrivine, Argha Mahendra, Sutanto Syambas Effendi,Tommy Surya, Julian Abraham, Andreas Siagian, Budi Prakosa, Samuel, Bintang Ramadhan, AKPRIND team
MEETING#05
29 August 2009, Jogja Nasional Museum
                
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2010 is near to end, but another Lab>>2>>Lab 2010 series is about to begin. HONF will host a project from Lab>>2>>Lab Series named G.A.S in this October. View the blog here
