On Monday, March 1 from 18:00 – 20:00, BALTAN invites you to its first BALTAN Session of 2010 featuring lectures by Naut Humon, Director of Operations at Recombinant Media Labs – founded in 1991 to research, create, preserve and portray Spatial Immersive Synthesis (the science of projecting image, light and sound objects into 3 dimensional space) – and Tapio Mäkelä, one of the co-founders of M.A.R.I.N. - a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology. Tapio was also founder of the first Finnish artist-run media lab MuuMediaBase. As part of BALTAN’s research into the laboratory of the future, we will explore the history and new forms of the laboratory through their specific experiences and initiatives.

Naut Humon’s lecture is made possible in collaboration with the Sonic Acts Festival (February 25-28, 2010 in Amsterdam). For full programme information see: www.sonicacts.com