SYMPOSIUM 4: Audio Extranautes: Flux, Distance, Sociability :: December 17-18, 2007 :: ENSA Villa Arson, Nice :: Ping the Vatican workshop :: December 19-21. Details concerning registration here.

The principal objective is to investigate questions concerning the local, social and collective aspects of interaction between physical and digital space (Internet, telephone etc), expressed through experimentation in current digital audio practices. Audio Extranautes, new perspectives on acoustic space via electronic networks, opens several axes of research developed jointly by the two laboratories:

– Occurrences within physical space of networked projects, (extenuates, virtual environments, new forms of productions, atmospheres).
– The signification of the appearance of flux as forms of expression (streaming, pod-casting and in general web 2).
– The impact of mobile technologies on artistic expression

Participants: Alejandro Duque, Atau Tanaka, Angus Carlyle, Bastien Gallet, Christian Licoppe, Jean Cristofol, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Jérôme Joy, Julien Clauss, Julien Morel, Nicolas Maigret, Roger Malina, Martin Howse, Peter Sinclair, Philippe Franck, Samuel Bordreuil, Scott Fitzgerald.

This symposium is organised by Locus Sonus and the sociology laboratory LAMES of Aix en Provence, directed by Samuel Bordreuil. This collaboration is part of the research program Audio Extranautes, funded by a contract “accord-cadre” between the CNRS & the French Ministry for Culture (Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique and Ministere de la Culture).