{"id":3478,"date":"2012-10-10T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medeaelectronique.com\/koumaria\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2024-08-27T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:09:06","slug":"koumaria-residency-day-1-and-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medeaelectronique.com\/koumaria\/2012\/10\/10\/koumaria-residency-day-1-and-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Koumaria Residency 2012 DAY 1 and DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/51120982″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The residents have all arrived this afternoon and evening to Koumaria.\u00a0 Stalwart Medea Electonique members have already been here for days&mdash;bringing truck-loads a equipment and food here (with some memorable results, including getting stuck in the olive groves!), and cooking for two days.\u00a0 Many of the residents are in Greece for the first time, and everyone is, as always, taken by the beauty of the place.\u00a0 We were met by a table full of small sounding-robots, and the cases, cables and speakers that, by late tonight, or tomorrow morning, will be transformed into our multi-media laboratory.\u00a0 Over our typically generous dinner, with much local wine, we started to discuss what we are all here for.\u00a0 A spirited discussion about what machine-human interactivity meant to each of us artistically took place.\u00a0 The discussion roamed widely&mdash;from what counts as a machine, through the notion of nostolgia for earlier generations of machines, the speed with which computer-based machines are &ldquo;catching up&rdquo; to humans, and the idea of machine personality.\u00a0 We decided to have assorted residents lead informal workshops, to help us all learn more about each others artistic practices and sensibilites, and to serve as a breeding-ground for possible collaborative projects. Under a richly glowing milky-way, residents converged on the deck to\u00a0 chat, smoke, eat sweets, empty bottles of wine, and come to learn about each other as artists and persons.\u00a0 We think this is going to be a successful residency!\u00a0 Tomorrow, our annual group walk to the village, where we will meet the cafe regulars who have become, often literally, a part of our annual artistic creations.<\/p>\n

The residency woke up this morning to clear skies against a backdrop of brightly etched mountains.\u00a0 After breakfast we took a walk to the village to meet the locals who have over the years always shown great interest and kindness to us.\u00a0 Coffee, beer, cognac, cheese, bread and, of course, olives!\u00a0 We returned to complete setting up the main studio, cables constructed, patches being designed.\u00a0 There was an air of studiousness in the main house, with residents intently writing notes, or programming their computers.\u00a0 After\u00a0 dinner, many courses, and, as usual washed down with bottles of local wine, we started to discuss what folks had done that day.\u00a0 A couple of themes emerged, one focusing on the linked metaphors of bones and packaging to link both bodies and machines.\u00a0 Whether it is the insides of instruments, the skeletal mapping of the human body via a Kinect, the visual schemas of Max programs, or lines of communication linking both humans and machines to each other over wireless or wired systems, it was thought we might try to reveal &ldquo;the bones&rdquo; of such interactions, and the packaging that they support.\u00a0 This talk of packaging also was revealed in a project to consider both the visual and sonic qualities of the processes of food production, bringing in the local manufacturing of olives, and the production of jams by the residents themselves.\u00a0 A wide-ranging discussion followed, culminating in a more technical talk about the performance space, and what we need to do when.\u00a0 A number of resident led workshops are planned for tomorrow.\u00a0 Folks seem ready to collaborate and create, its going to be fun![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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