Watch online! Low Lives 4: Networked Performance Festival, April 27 – 28

Low Lives 4 – Networked Performance Festival will feature more than 50 live performance-based works over two days, each transmitted over the web and projected in real time at venues across the globe. The exhibition will begin on Friday, April 27 from 8:30-11:30p.m. (EST) and continue on Saturday, April 28 from 3:00–6:00 p.m. (EST).

April 27, 2012; 8:30 – 11:30 pm (EST)  PDF: Schedule Day 1
April 28; 3:00 – 6:00 pm (EST) PDF: Schedule Day 2

What does EST mean if I live in Germany?
+ 6 hours (e.g. 8:30 p.m EST is 02:30 a.m in Germany)

Plug in and participate

“Over the past four years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites and enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to “plug in and participate” from anywhere an internet connection exists.”

Exploring the potential of live streaming networks as a creative medium

“Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time, it is also about exploring the potential of live streaming networks as a creative medium connecting performance artists with audiences around the world”, explains  Jorge Rojas, artist and independent curator, who founded the festival in 2009.

For more information, visit www.lowlives.net.

Musik als soziales Labor im digitalen Zeitalter – Diskussionsabend am Nationaltheater Mannheim

In der Utopie Station, dem utopischen Salon mit lokalen und internationalen Gästen aus Wissenschaft, Kunst und Politik am Nationaltheater Mannheim, diskutieren heute, 30. Marz ab 19:30 Uhr, unter der Moderation von Adrienne Goehler unter anderen Gudrun Gut (Musikerin und Labelchefin, Berlin), Christian von Borries (Komponist, Dirigent und Filmemacher, Berlin), Prof. Jannis Androutsopoulos (Sprach- und Medienwissenschaftler, Hamburg und London).

Anschließend kann man das Konzert RUSSENGEMA FÜR MIDI-ORCHESTER, von und mit Christian von Borries und Mitgliedern des Nationaltheaterorchesters, in der Utopie Station Extra besuchen.

Der Abend ist eine Kooperation mit dem Jetztmusikfestival, das seit 26. März bis noch zum 02. April in Mannheim stattfindet. Das Festvial, das sich als Schnittstelle zu Kunst, Film, Literatur und Weiterbildung versteht, feiert dieses Jahr 5-jähriges Jubiläum.

Links:
Utopie Station – Nationaltheater Mannheim
Jetztmusikfestival

Intolight: Changing the Relationship between Performance and Audience

Intolight, a group of musicians, visual media artists and product designers, will present a two-day public event to field-test CHET (Collective Hedonistic Environments Toolkit) at the upcoming FutureEverything Festival in May.

What’s CHET all about? “People will be able to bring their individual audio and video content and meet for audiovisual jam sessions.” Read more about CHET at FutureEverything’s Website.

A presentation of the complete project is planned in November at CYNETART in Dresden.

Here’s a glimpse of Intolight’s UNCANNY HEROES premiered as part of the AUTOMATIQUE CLUBBING events at CYNETART festival for computer based art in Dresden, 2010.

Related Article on this Blog: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Technology’s influence on artistic performance practices

This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically enabled “responsive environments”—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders.

Entangled: Reference for Students, Researchers, and Artists

Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter’s exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging practices—in particular in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of digital art need to master not only electronics and code but also dramaturgy, lighting, sound, and scenography. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and artists as well as a handbook for future praxis.

Additional Information

On Rhizome you can find a detailed review by Dr. Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]. Have a look at the table of content and selected chapters as PDF at the MIT Press website.

See on this Blog: Virtual Mobility – Judith Staines’ study “Exited Atoms” Informs about a New Powerful Arena for Performing Artists

Virtual Mobility – Judith Staines’ study “Exited Atoms” Informs about a New Powerful Arena for Performing Artists

Researching New Artistic Approaches

Judith Staines, UK based freelance cultural consultant, has recently published the results of her study on virtual mobility. She defines virtual mobility as:

• the various practices of interactive networked performance where performers and audience can be in different physical or virtual places
• the use of virtual channels in the creative process, enabling co-authoring and co-production of performance work by artists and producers in different geographical locations
• new networking options in the performing arts (use of virtual tools for international mobility in training delivery, meetings & conferences)

In an interview with Lidia Varbanova on LabforCulture she talks about her study “Exited Atoms”.

Difficulties for Artists

The study not only informs about interesting artistic approaches, but also draws attention to the difficulties performing artists might have to face:

“In some countries and regions, falling between designated funding areas can mean that such work is not eligible for subsidy and more traditional forms are favoured.” (p.22)

Interviews, Glossary, Research Section with Links

Interviews with key practitioners, cultural managers and critical observers make “Exited Atoms” a very useful source of information. The study includes a glossary that explains some of the terms and helps to demystify technologies and areas of creative practice. The research section “Explore More” contains over 150 links to artists, projects, platforms, reading and other references to help enthusiasts doing further research on their own.

Download “Exited Atoms” by Judith Staines
The study was published in April 2010 by On-the-Move.org. The dossier may be used freely for non-profit purposes, as long as the source is credited.

See also on this blog: Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir

Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir performing “Lux Aurumque” – The Creative Hemisphere of the Brain at Work

Composer Eric Whitacre never met 99% of the Virtual Choir in the “real world” and only once he met Scott Haines who produced the video. Read the full story of how “Lux Aurumque” was realised on Eric Whitacre’s Blog.
What else will be possible in the internet hemisphere in the future? Listen and let your imagination run wild.

The photo shows a visualisation of the Internet based on data from January 2005.

Thanks to Kulturmangement Blog by Christian Henner-Fehr. I stumbled upon the video on his blog. Keep up the good work .

Natasha Tsakos über ihre Vision von der Verbindung von Theater und Technologie

Sprache: Englisch.