E-Tribal Art.

Feast of the Digital

Cluj, 19-22 February 2010

www.etribalart.net
Artists: Susanne Berkenheger (DE), C6.org (UK), Katya Damyanova-Terzieva (BG), Iana Krachunova (BG),
Ekmel Ertan (TR), Bronac Ferran (UK), Vanessa Gocksch (CO), Jorge Dib (CO), Alexander Nikolic (AT),
Véronique Foulon (UK), Szilárd Miklós (RO), James Powderly (USA/UK), Ştefan Tiron (RO), Claudiu Cobilanschi
(RO), Ubermorgen.com feat. Annabe (AT)
Curators: István Szakáts (RO), Thomas Dumke (DE)

In today's society groups with common interest cluster in the virtual space forming tribes of the electronic space.
Electronic tribes assert social power, are able to legitimate symbols and create or shape brands, fashions or
movements that reach far beyond the boundaries of the community. During the past six months the invited artists
have researched different e-tribes and tested new ways of reaching them through art in a project initiated by
AltArt and British Council within the Creative Collaborations Programme.
The four day event includes an exhibition of artistic interventions connecting the real and virtual space, D.I.Y.
workshops and a public discussion on the potential of the e-tribal environments to generate social, economical
and creative impact.

www.etribalart.net, office@altart.org, 0723 263072

Programme:
Location: Cluj, Fabrica de Pensule, Str Henri Barbusse no 59-61
All presentations, workshops and debates are in English.

Friday, 19.02

19.00 E-Tribal Art Exhibition Opening

Studio, 1st floor
20.00 Blow in – interactive installation, Ekmel Ertan (TR)
presentation | 4th floor, entrance A
Blow In is a network tool for collective-online-physical participation. It connects people remotely yet in a
physical way in order to achieve a goal – be it a public protest or an online game.

Saturday, 20.02

13.00 E-Tribal Art Exhibition

opening hours 13.00-21.00 | Studio, 1st floor

14.00 Bijou_ware – hardware hand-made jewellery workshop, lead by Zuzana Duchová (SK)
open workshop | 14.00 – 17.00 h| 1st floor
What do fashion and technology have in common? Just as fashion trends come every day, better, faster
technology replaces the old one. Good news is that old technology can be recycled. Keys and other parts
of your old computer can still serve you, as fashion items. Zuzana Duchová invites you to create hand-
made naïve jewellery from embroidery and electronic parts.

15.00 Jumeleizhi. Recovering the Ancestral, Bronac Ferran (UK)

prezentare | 1st floor
An artist-run website initiated to recuperate the sacred objects of Tairona tribes from Sierra Nevada.
Having their lands taken away the Kogi, Arahuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamos tribes have lost many of their
pottery, gold and carved stones. These objects today are found in museums, private collections and are
being sold online. A campain to virally spread the story and the message of Tairona.
16.30 E-Tribal Art – presentation of the artworks by the artists and the exhibition curators
presentations, screenings, discussions | 1st floor

18.30 Day to Say # 3: Click here to enlarge your life

Public debate on virtual communities | 1st floor
Are we ready to let the virtual enter our lives? To what extent? Are we going to live the most of this new
communicational dimension? How can we avoid being old when it comes to new technologies? A debate
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among digital believers, atheists and 1 class guests.
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20.00 hor ‘29 novembar’ – performance, Alexander Nikolic (SR/AT) and “29 november” choir
performance | 1st floor
Worker, partisan and socialist songs sung by an amateur choir gathering members from all over former
Yugoslavia, currently living in Vienna. hor ‘29 novembar’ is a virtual tribe – a group that shares myths and
a common history, but not a common ground. At least not anymore, since the Yogoslav state doesn’t
exist anymore.

21.00 E-Tribal Art Feast – food&party for senses

for ears: Matze
for eyes: lennyoplasma & vj Aaron
for tastebuds: Akos/The Feast

Sunday, 21.02

13.00 E-Tribal Art Exhibition

opening hours 13.00-21.00 | Studio, 1st floor

14.30 D.I.Y./R.I.P. workshop, lead by James Powderly (USA/UK)

open workshop | 1st floor
Join the tribe of the ones that design their own funeral show! The workshop will introduce technologies
that allow you to make your last performance spectacular and cost-effective. By the grace of a former
NASA engineer.

16.30 Media Hacking & WOPPOW.net - workshop I, lead by Hans Bernhard/ubermorgen (AT)
open workshop | 1st floor | part II: Monday, 22.02, 18.00 h
The strategy of Media Hacking and the WOPPOW project is the main topic of the workshop. We will look
at some recent UBERMORGEN.COM projects and then at the WOPPOW project in detail. Then we will
start to discuss communicative strategies for this project and for projects by workshop participants. We
will develop some Media Hacking ideas together...
Media Hacking is the intrusion into mass media channels with lo-tech means that we all use daily, such
as SMS/texting, mobile phones, email, web, cheap print-materials, twitter and much more, plus a very
strong story. with such strategies you can reach 100s of millions of people worldwide.

18.30 Sweat Lodge: Tales on the Future of Technology - tribal gathering, hosted by: Ştefan Tiron&Claudiu
Cobilanschi
Studio, 1st floor
Oral traditions in the post-internet era.

Monday, 22.02

18.00 Media Hacking & WOPPOW.net - workshop II, lead by Hans Bernhard/ubermorgen (AT)
open workshop | 1st floor |
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Contact:
AltArt Foundation
office@altart.org,
tel. 0724 510 464, 0723 263072
www.etribalart.net

E-tribal Art is a project of AltArt Foundation and British Council, within the Creative Collaborations Programme.
Partners: C6.org (UK), European Alternatives (UK), GMT+2 (BG), InterSpace (BG)
Project co-financed by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Romanian Cultural
Institute through Cantemir Programme (2009).