ADJ cd

In February 2007, Mediashed and The Junction invited you to come and play with live data sent from Antarctic by the I-TASC Groundhog team, and turn it into shapes for your ears and eyes. All the performances from both events were recorded and excerpts from them now appear for the first time on CD. Also included are tracks made from Antarctic data by artists who where on the ice or who submitted work for the performances.

The events were: Sat 10th Feb @ the MediaShed, Southend-on-Sea > Sat 17th Feb @ The Junction, Cambridge

Artists that took part in ADJ were:

Thomas Mulcaire, Adam Hyde, 1st Born aka Ntsikelelo Ntshingila, Rebecca Mattos, Amanda Rodrigues Alves, Aymeric Mansoux, Harwood, Tony Shaper, Derek Shaw, Stuart Bowditch, Rob Gretton, David Valentine, Mike Lowther and Johnathon Gilmurray.

CD tracks are:

01. Jonathon Gilmurray - Melt

02. Cambridge - Aymeric Mansoux

03. Cambridge - Scene 1

04. Hybernation – Nunatak

05. Gem Squash – Transit

06. Rebecca Mattos and Amanda Rodrigues Alves - Piece for a Solitary Machine

07. Southend - Scene 4

08. Gem Squash – VLF

09. Cambridge - Scene 2

10. Aymeric Mansoux - Alessandra 7351

The cd/downloads will be available very soon

I-TASC's operation GROUNDHOG conducted from December 2006 – February 2007 involved the identification of remote sites of scientific and environmental interest within 100km of the South African base SANAE IV in the Dronning Maud Land sector of Antarctica, ahead of the deployment of the I-TASC LADOMIR mobile renewable energy powered research station in 2008/2009; the gathering of meteorological, geographical and logistical data relating to the sites identified, the deployment of the GROUNDHOG Automatic Weather Station (AWS) at the test site to monitor and log shifts in weather and environmental data over the next year and the establishment and testing of a solar/wind powered packet radio communication link to enable the transfer of live data between the test site and SANAE base.

I-TASC is the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation and was conceived by Thomas Mulcaire and Marko Peljhan. I-TASC is a decentralized network of individuals and organisations working collaboratively in the fields of art, engineering, science and technology on the interdisciplinary development and tactical deployment of renewable energy, waste recycling systems, sustainable architecture and open-format, open-source media. I-TASC is a lichen-like structure sharing and integrating local knowledge, resources and skills across six continents in order to symbiotically engage with the air, ocean, earth and space commons. I-TASC is an official project of the International Polar Year 2007/2008

The MediaShed is the first "free-media" space to open in the East of England. It's a place for doing art, making things or just saying what you want “freely” – replacing money with imagination.

The MediaShed was founded by members of Mongrel - an internationally recognised artists group specialising in digital media. The The Antarctic Data Jam project was conceived of by Mongrel.

PureData workshops were hosted by Aymeric Mansoux from goto10.org. 

“Data Jams” use data visualisation to create live participatory sound and visual arts events. Environmental data, scientific statistics or historical records are captured from remote locations and then used in local workshops or “jams” – building engines, filters and samplers to transform the numbers into kaleidoscopic music and video performances.