Presenters:   Elio Caccavale   Dawn Danby   Olaf Dreyer   Juan Geuer   Rob Godman   John Hatch   Kenneth A. Huff   Mantissa   Miroslav Lovric   Sally McKay   Eric Raymond   S. David Rosner   Mariano Sardón   Frederic P. Schuller   Krister Shalm   Lydia Sharman &   Stephen Morris   Donald Spector   Joseph Thywissen   Marion Tränkle   Koala Yip Symposium Scribe (Translation drifts) by Eric Raymond Université du Québec à Montréal http://www.eric-raymond.com Scribe (Translation drifts), is a media art installation using miniatures robots and radio waves receivers to draw cartographic images derived from multiple emitting sources. The resulting map gives a complex layered image of both natural and artificial radio events reaching beyond perceptual threshold. It creates a very suggestive environment where language and data shifts are exploited for their metaphoric potential. The work raises aesthetic questions that highlight the influence of technological extensions and apparatuses on the construction of our everyday reality and it's intuition. This talk will foster ideas related to displacement in both language and space as they raise common issues regarding reference to what they attempt to describe. Navigating through figures of speech, map projections and loxodromes will allow to assess their respective share of translation drifts. Biography: Eric Raymond has been active in the field of electronic arts for over ten years. He has exhibited his work on the national and international scene notably at the Absolut L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational (L.A. U.S.A.), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), L.A.Freewave (L.A. U.S.A.), Artcore Gallery (Toronto) and Dazibao (Montréal).   Page Top Copyright © 2004 Subtle Technologies Festival