The conference and its accompanying concert programme focus on the agency of sound machines based on analogue technology.
As is the tradition at ECCM conferences, we draw parallels with other cultural fields: we look at how cybernetics influenced the art and architecture of Soviet Estonia, what science fiction has to say about oxidised technology, and what the practices, expectations and fears of the creative field are in relation to today's cutting-edge technology. On the intertwining of past and future utopias, we invite AI optimists and critics, apologists of innovation and interpreters of the history of technology to debate together with practitioners of the cyberpunk generation.
Schedule
Friday 8 November
17:00 Opening of the exhibition "Primaarid" and discussion
Kaarel Kurismaa, Kiwa, Härmo Härm, Margo Kõlar, Taavi Kerikmäe
19:00 Concert "Drosseli Ringid" in the White Hall of the House of the Blackheads
Programme: music by Õie-Olinda Sachermann and Sven Grünberg on period instruments.
Performed by: EMA, the ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society
21:00 Robert Dick Trio, in the ECCM hall, Pühavaimu 9
Saturday 9 November
Conference in the ECCM hall
(in English)
10:00 Taavi Kerikmäe The Õie-Olinda Sachermann phenomenon
10:30 Mikko Ojanen Studio utopias and dystopias: Erkki Kurenniemi and electronic music studios in the 1960s
11:00 Nina Stener Jørgensen The Power of the Tower: Nicolas Schöffer's Cybernetics and Participatory Architecture in the 1970s
11:30 Tarmo Johannes Tt- Early Interactive Works of Udo Kasemets
12:00 Erica Synths presents: Elektor Formant system for Tallinn 1965
12:15 Discussion
16:00 Hainbach workshop (separate ticket)
19:00 Kasemets - Kurenniemi concert in the ECCM hall
DND Dialogue - DIM duo Mikko Ojanen /Jari Suominen
Concert-installation Udo Kasemets - Estonian Electronic Music Ensemble EMA
Sunday 10 November
Conference in the ECCM hall
11:00 Jaagup Irve The Creative Person and Machine Creation
11:30 Kristjan Jansen
Reviving Virtual Performing Arts and Music Installations
12:00 Tõnis Kahu
12:30 coffee break
13:00 Andrus Laansalu THE NOISE OF TIME [If music cannot be heard, does it exist?]
13:30 Jaak Tomberg The Reconciling Purpose of Alternative Histories
14:00 Discussion
15:00 END of the conference