V2_, in cooperation with NAi Publishers, will release a publication Feelings Are Always Local, accompanying DEAF04 - Affective Turbulence. Other than festival catalogues, Feelings Are Always Local features essays exclusively written for this book by the symposium speakers and other writers, as well as essays on the exhibition's installations. Price: € 22,50 - ISBN 90-5662-423-7

The music video of All is Full of Love by Björk was directed by Chris Cunningham. In it, two robots sing a duet as they court each other while being assembled. When the robots finally meet in a blissful embrace they are still under construction.

Bitmirror shows the observer in a digitized form, in abstract particles projected on a screen and combined with acoustic fragments. The system shows the contrast between a real, analogue image of a human and the sterile, abstract digital form of the computer. This contrast is played upon and brought to an extreme.

DEVMAP is the virtual meetingpoint of DEAF04. There are three terminals that offer festival visitors access to a immersive 3-D environment composed of web cam images, videos and live-streams, texts and animations of the festival. These media will be reshaped, altered, and remapped to create a virtual version of DEAF04, constantly shifting. DEVMAP questions the relationship between experience and information, memory and interpretation.

"gravicells" puts the senses on edge. This installation produces a visualization and sonification of the force of gravity acting upon the visitor. Interconnected sensors continuously measure the visitor's weight, movements and speed. The resulting data are converted into physical audio-visual experience by various media systems.

iCinema films are films produced especially for projection on the inside of a sphere and are screened in a ten meter high Dome. Simply put on one of the headsets and let your eyes scan the film that covers all of the Dome's surface but is visible only where your gaze is directed. The following iCinema films will be shown: Perm (Ulf Langheinrich) and Si Poteris Narrare, Licet (Jean Michel Bruyere).

One of the i-Cinema movies

The first i-Cinema Movie

Suspended in mid-space are ‘Membranes', large, translucent projection screens woven out of thin metal threads. On both sides of the screens images of the visitors walking around them are projected. Their behaviour is converted into image and sound effects on the other side of the screen.

Traditionally, the mapping of territory has been a form of visual knowledge generated by the military. Nowadays, digital wireless web-cartography opens this closed practice to any individual intent on creating their own spatial network. The Mobile Cartographic Command Centre (MC3) is a forward command post, synthesing a wide spectrum of artistic locative media projects, including FRIDA V. (Luka Frelih) and Bio Mapping (Christian Nold) which through the Urban Map Hack workshop create participatory electronic maps of the city of Rotterdam.

Through conversations conducted by mobile phone in trains or on the streets, we are often unwillingly confronted with intimate details of other people's private lives. Mobile Feelings creates the physical intimacy with the person on the other end of the line. Through organically formed mobile phones, visitors ‘receive' bodily sensations of the other person such as their heartbeat, breathing and even body odour.

M.U.S.H. is an interactive, audio-visual space where two people at different locations are connected via the Internet through image and sound. In a tangle of sounds a navigational wand is used to conduct the system into a highly excited state. While playing, the contours of the other person are revealed in flashes.

n-Cha(n)t consists of a community of seven speaking computers which exchange texts associatively. Each computer listens in on conversations of spectators with microphones and speech recognition software. This input sends it on a new trajectory of associative links. When there is too much outside input, the computers stop listening, focus on each other and fall into an emergent chant.

Networking Boothspresent artistic projects which question common given perceptions of networks we often take for granted. onewordmovie is an online platform which organizes the flood of images on the internet into an animated film. Civilization IV is a game that maps socio-economical processes and flows, simulating activities of some of the world's top IT corporations. WIMP (Windows Interface Manipulation Program) utilizes the graphical user interface of the Windows operation system as a VJ tool, a screensaver, a graphics generator or as a piece of conceptual art. Perpetual Self Dis-Infecting Machine is a transparent computer presenting the endless attacks and counterattacks of the viruses that infect the world of computing.

Networking Booths present artistic projects which question common given perceptions of networks we often take for granted. Civilization IV is a game that maps socio-economical processes and flows, simulating activities of some of the world's top IT corporations.

Networking Booths present artistic projects which question common given perceptions of networks we often take for granted. onewordmovie is an online platform which organizes the flood of images on the internet into an animated film.

Networking Booths present artistic projects which question common given perceptions of networks we often take for granted. Perpetual Self Dis-Infecting Machine is a transparent computer presenting the endless attacks and counterattacks of the viruses that infect the world of computing.

Networking Booths present artistic projects which question common given perceptions of networks we often take for granted. WIMP (Windows Interface Manipulation Program) also refers to Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing device - the prehistorical GUI of the 1970's. WIMP is a program for creating full-screen visual animations synchronized with sound in real time. As the only visual input WIMP utilizes graphical user interface (GUI) of the Windows operation system. Whatever applications, windows, icons, images, texts, etc. you have open on your desktop - they become an inspiration source for WIMP and you. Animations are generated by simple 2- and 3-D effects and filters and their superimpositions. As such WIMP can be used as a VJ tool, a screensaver, a cool grafix generator or as a piece of conceptual art.

Ohrwurmbeschleuniger uses a microwave oven as a musical particle accelerator. Instead of food, the microwaves steam tunes that you cannot get out of your head. Select two melodies via the 'Ohrwurm'-pipet and collide them to mix a new one.

The Peoples' Portrait uses the Internet to produce a global series of portraits, thus making a connection between people of greatly varying cultural and ethnical backgrounds. In cities such as Rotterdam, New York, Brisbane or Singapore passers-by can enter special photo booths to have their picture taken, which is then instantly and simultaneously displayed on large screens in all of these cities, including the large Reuters screen on New York's Times Square.

Running on a conveyor belt with a large projection screen in front of you, you find your way through a city with seemingly empty streets and dark alleys. You yourself determine the development of the movie by unexpectedly dashing into streets. Experience a thriller-like adventure over which you only partly have control.

Tide makes gravity audible. In spinning glass spheres filled with water, the tiniest change in gravity causes the water to rise or fall. The spheres are made to produce tones like ringing wine glasses: one hears the changing tides and the force field between the earth and the moon.

The scenario of UnMovie originates in the interaction between bots (autonomous software personalities) and visitors. The installation consists of an online chat environment and a video database with a large collection of video images found on the Internet. The bots analyse conversations of online visitors, and based on this, create the script of the 'unmovie' in real time.

The starting point of Utopia Travel is a mobile archive of videos and interviews, transported and screened by Danesch and Rych during a tour from Egypt to Vienna in an Egyptian taxi. During DEAF04, a special vehicle will be stationed at strategic locations in Rotterdam, such as Witte de Withstraat and Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, where visitors can watch video art and documentaries from earlier itineraries of Utopia Travel.

Normally, bubble wrap is used as packing material, but VSSTV utilizes it to print TV screens. Via shortwave a plotter-like machine receives images and then fills the bubbles with either red, green or blue ink, forming the pixels of the VSSTV screen.