Pre/amble (Vancouver, Canada)

Pre/amble is a two-day festival of art and psychogeography which takes as a starting point the exploration of the city, an interest in dialogue surrounding methods of psychogeography, and the intersection of psychogeography with contemporary art practices.

Pre/amble will take place 1-2 November 2003 in and around Western Front Artist Run Centre at 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada.

T A L K S:
Artists and researchers will give presentations about past works, works in progress, or works that will be included in the event portion of Pre/amble, from a broad range of media and subject matter including but not limited to mapping, mobile technologies, digital/analogue hybrids, experimental cartography, data movement, moblogging, WiFi, warchalking/wardriving, interventions in public space, audio works, or other fields of art as they intersect with situationist action and/or psychogeography.

W A L K S :
Artists and researchers will present works that engage participants in projects or experiments that take place in public urban spaces, whether performative events, drives, fieldwork, tours, audio installations, participatory actions, GPS drawing, generative and/or algorithmic walks, or other kinds of events as they intersect with situationist action and/or psychogeography.

Projects may fall into one or both of these categories. Please send project proposals to Kate Armstrong at [email protected] until October 12, 2003.

To join the mailing list, email Kate Armstrong at [email protected]. For updates, including information about the opening reception and a schedule of events, please visit http://specialairplane.org