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Vilayanur Ramachandran: Crossmodal Synesthetic Abstraction

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 1, 2008 at 6:21pm

http://www.ted.com - In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor: Embodiment and Interconnectedness

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 1, 2008 at 6:00pm

http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Stephanie Rothenberg: The Double Happiness of a Virtual Middle Class

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 30, 2008 at 6:34am

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Intermedia artistStephanie Rothenberg presents "Invisible Threads", a mixed reality project in real and Second Life. Form Eyebeam's website. Stephanie Rothenberg uses performance, video, and net-based media to create interactive situations that question relationships between individuals and socially constructed identities, lifestyles and public spaces. Referencing corporate models and their infrastructures, her work merges popular forms of advertising and market research with participatory experiences involving role-playing and fantasy. Stephanie received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her work has been exhibited in numerous media festivals and galleries in the US and abroad. Stephanie commutes between New York City and Buffalo, New York where she is Assistant Professor of Communication Design at the State University of New York at Buffalo. While at Eyebeam, she will be working on the project “The School of Perpetual Training,” which explores the intersections between physical labor in the real world and the immaterial labor of the virtual sweatshops that have emerged over the past five years in the online gaming industry. http://www.pan-o-matic.com/

moves08

Posted by CreationEditor on April 29, 2008 at 12:05pm

Moves08www.movementonscreen.org.ukThe Movement on Screen Festival (short moves08) took place in Manchester and Lancaster from 22nd to 26th April 2008. Here is my little summary of the event for anyone who – unfortunately - could not make it because you really missed something. It was simply awesome! Pascale Moyse, Festival Director of Moves08, pulled together a well-organized, interesting and elite-level string of events and although the festival was filled with high profile and international input; it still remained very personal and offered a great opportunity to network and to gain real insight into the contemporary world of video dance.Due to work commitment (I was filming TRENCH with Anthony Missen and Kevin Turner) I had to miss the first two days of the festival but joined in on Thursday and that’s where this blog starts:Thursday, 24th April 200810am – 11:25am Brigitta Hosea at RNCMForum 6Brigitta Hosea spoke about sound drawings and performance drawings and demonstrated various ways to great stunning imagery purely with her voice. She also mentioned how she uses PWM, light sensors and motors in her work and her interest in motion sensitive toys like the ones that can be found in an Argos catalogue. For example, there is a Barbie head that is able to learn a song and sing it with its lips in sync. From here on the discussion was opened up and the “Modified Toy Orchestra” by Brian Duffy from Birmingham was brought up as well as French emotional toys. More physically active gadgets like a Wii or GPS can get literally our bodies involved in an interactive way, e.g. in a project based in London a drawing was created matching the tracks tagged mobilephone carries have taken. And then we wondered how Maurice Merleau-Ponty would have viewed those new aspects of technology and knowledge of sense-data in his philosophy on perception.USEFUL:www.arduino.ccwww.tinker.itb.hosea@csm.arts.ac.uk11:45am – 1pm Alex Reuben at RNCMForum 7Alex Reuben was once a DJ who moved his passion for dance to filmmaking. His quest to find out why he loves dance and why especially certain styles of music make him dance led him to travel America and documented personal journeys of the roots of dance in “Routes”. It is a sound-led work for cinema that shows an anthropological side of music and dance and was commissioned by Capture/ English Arts Council.Reuben’s own artistic roots lie in Fine Art which is still reflected in his video work like Que Pasa bringing together painting, sound and ethnic dance. He says that as a DJ, he was able to ‘sculpt’ a room with his music and that he sees similar physical responses created by American artists like Jackson Pollock.2:30pm – 4pm Donald Glowinsky at RNCMForum 8, Keynote speakerDonald Glowinsky is based at the InfoMus Lab at Casa Paganini at University of Genova, Italy. His research focuses on activity analysis of music and dance performance to develop novel techniques and computational models for understanding non-verbal communication. The interactive software Eyesweb derives from the concept of animacy: kinematics (speed), form (shape) and dynamics (force) to give information of intention. 12 dots are sufficient enough for the human eye to recognize a human being in motion and its emotion, possibly even with as little as 3 dots (GEMEP Corpus).USEFULwww.nime.org (festival in June)Mr Gurk effect 1970www.infomus.orgwww.casapaganini.orgwww.eyesweb.org4pm – 5pm Conference Wrap Up6pm – 9pm Dance for Camera Night at Sandbar with South East DanceMy friend Christopher Perkins, a photographer and filmmaker based in Manchester wrote a blog about this particular Thursday night’s eventhttp://snapztalks.blogspot.comFriday 25th April 200810am – 4pm Eyesweb Masterclass with Donald Glowinsky at MMU CheshireThis workshop gave a hands-on experience with the Eyesweb software which has a straightforward layout resembling a mix of an email inbox and Apple Motion. The icons are kept simple: a camera represents the camera input, a TV is the connection to a monitor; this makes it very easy to achieve interactive results with little start-up help.Eyesweb is a free software and is currently utilized by about 10,000 users6:30pm – 8pm Visions d’aillieurs, screening at RNCMThis screening brought together an international selection of various video dance genres. The possibly all-over favourite was Pork by Gido Leytens from Netherlands: a guy is watching TV when a woman on the screen starts speaking, this causes him to have a fit and flashbacks of being treated like a dog explode in. This might not sound too exciting, yet, the way it was shoot, directed, edited and acted worked really well. Personally, I enjoyed Tango Finlandia by Hannu Lajunen because it used animation in an original way and the story of two guys trying to dance/wrestle was very amusing. In Andy Wood’s Three is a Crowd the audience can sense how Wood actually dances with his camera in this uncut version with the improvising, tango-dancing couple. Analog Brother by German Falk Peplinski applies stop-motion animation technique to the dancers/actors with a fantastic overall bluish grade. It throws you back to the 80’s and I couldn’t help thinking of Petshop Boys and Kraftwerk.8:15pm – 9:45pm Alex Reuben’s Now that’s what I call Modern Disco Dancing Classics Vol 1 at RNCMReuben ingeniously mixed together video works he created between 1999 and 2007; a natural flow run throw the varying imagery and proves his djing skills can also be applied to editing and vjing. It blended together hand-held documentary shoots with scripted studio shoots to motion capture animations. The Q & A afterwards offered the opportunity to get some background information about the works.Saturday 26th April 200811am – 1pm Industry Brunch at SandbarApologies if any names are misspelled!Tamsin Durie from LANWest (Live Art North West) brought to attention the various opportunities that are around in the area of Manchester:- Emgerency is an Open Performance platform happening in September/October- 3 yr funding scheme with In-Transit- LANWest collaborates together with the GreenRoom in Manchester but also with Leeds, Klucol, Carlisle, University of Lancashire, Neville in Lancaster to create a network for producing work and promotion- Panda-Arts focuses on support for stage, street theatre, live art, film, networking and business development. They offer mentoring and show-starter seminars for graduates and students.Werner Moebius and Mariella Greil are part of the Sound Networks which affiliates with the Open Source City, an autonomous village and is shaped by its members. On 3rd and 4th May 2008 a Contact Theatre is taking place.Lesley Ann Rose runs the Northern Film Maker Network which have been established since 2000; it is a dynamic creative non-profit agency helping uprising filmmakers to find funding and crews. The Northern Film Maker newsletter offers members to add in their own call-outs. The programme of events spans from opportunities with Channel 4 and Dazzle Films to networking events…and works together with the Cornerhouse (Manchester) and FACT.USEFULwww.panda-arts.org.ukwww.lanwest.orgwww.soundnetwork.org.ukinfo@northernfilmnetwork.comBrigitta Hosea contributed to the discussion on Funding & Comprising the fact that in Spain digital artists are not given any support and therefore set up Technearte in Asturias and Bilbao. This organization offers residencies for digital artists in professional companies that e.g. specialize in alarms and mobile phones and welcome the artists’ innovative creative approach.4pm – 5:30pm Outside the Box, Screening at RNCMOutside the Box screened my video A_WAY_AWAY which is a mix of live action and animation and can be view on my website www.creationeditor.co.uk. Pan Y Cebollas by Ramona Poenaru plays with the notion living on your object of desire alone; in a raw animalistic way two beautiful women “eat” a naked man laid out on a wooden table. The most inventive film was Kitchen by Francois Vogel from France; a special lens was created to for this video to give the illusion of a spinning room viewed through a fish-eye.6pm – 7pm Transcended, Screening at RNCMPhilippa Thomas’ Electric Desert brought together footage filmed form a limo in Las Vegas and shoots of a male dancer recreating Loie Fuller’s butterfly. An enigmatic visual mix intensified by music by 7Hertz. Suspension by Nicolas Provost from Belgium draws the audience into hyper-realistic psychedelic exploding clouds and I imaged it would be wonderful to see them in a looping installation or as an interactive backdrop of a performance.from 8pm Closing Night with Filmmaking Lab Screening at SandbarTo round up the festival, the screening of videos created over the duration of the festival was just the perfect way. Fantastic innovative ideas with hand-puppets, animation and live shoots accompanied by live music by Tony proved that performance can happen anywhere, anytime and anyway. My personal favourite was Mark Pilkington’s video of the ballerina in a black tutu filmed in the back of a driving car.The Closing Night also offered another great opportunity to meet more interesting people from the field of video dance and to have time to talk.To sum up: it simply was a fantastic festival which I thoroughly enjoyed and found very inspiring. It cannot be neglected how warmly we were all welcomed and how comfortable it was to be all in the same hotel around the corner. Many Thanks to Pascale Moyse for bringing us all together for an events-packed festival!NOTE: ALL THE ABOVE MENTIONED INFORMATION CAME FROM MY OWN PERSONAL NOTES AND SORRY BUT I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT THEY ARE 100% CORRECT!

Taeyoon Choi: Disrupting Public Spaces with Sense of Humor

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 29, 2008 at 7:36am

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Short interview with Taeyoon Choi on his project Camerautomata developed at Eyebeam as an artist in residency. From Eyebeam's website: Taeyoon Choi is a Seoul-based artist working with performance and digital media. Choi’s works intervene into urban media spaces humorously, in order to deliver critical commentary on contemporary digital culture. Choi is involved in interdisciplinary collaboration with various networks and collectives including: FunOut Urban Game Inc, DOTPLAY Mobile Hacking Workshop, and Upgrade! Seoul. Choi earned a B.F.A at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and completed a M.S. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. For the 2008 Eyebeam Commission, Choi will create Charlie: Camerautomata, a duck-shaped robot built from the hacked electronic components of a digital camera and photo printer, which consumes and defecates images in public spaces at its own will. http://tyshow.org

Friedrich Kirschner: digital puppets prototype@Eyebeam

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 28, 2008 at 6:03am

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I visited Eyebeam's reception for several fellows. Friedrich Kirschner presented a prototype of one of his recent projects as Production Fellow. From Eyebeams's website: Friedrich joins Eyebeam as a fellow in the Production Lab. He is also a filmmaker, visual artist and board member of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and re-purposes computer games to create animated narratives and interactive performances. Friedrich’s work has been shown and performed at various international animation festivals and it occasionally spreads into the physical realm as well, where he investigates the impact of milk and other liquids on computer graphics. http://www.zeitbrand.de/

Interview with Michelle Ellsworth: Dance Artifacts and the Cloud

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 26, 2008 at 11:30pm

I interviewed Michelle Ellsworth before the premiere of her work http://www.tifprabap.org/ at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC. She talked about her journey as dance soloist making connection between technology, religions and humanness. In this episode I am experimenting with hyperlinking het video material/documentation to augment her words. I am using Viddler that allows you to create links and comment and more as dots in the timeline. So, hover over the dot and click in the link and will take you to some samples of her work. Documentation provided by the artist

Grant & In-kind Support for Dance Video - Young Choreographers Initiative

Posted by Deirdre Towers on April 26, 2008 at 7:30pm

YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVECompetition for The 2008 Susan Braun AwardDFA is offering an opportunity for a choreographer between the age of 16-25 living in New York City to create a short dance film and/or adapt a stage choreography for the camera with a young filmmaker with grant from DFA. Named after DFA's founder, the late Susan Braun, the award is cash and guidance from mentors who are dance and film professionals.1st prize: Susan Braun Award Winner* Cash prize to be used towards the production* Opportunity to advance your cinematic ideas with team of mentors* Screening of recent Dance on Camera Festival winning shorts2nd prize: Honorable Mention* Opportunity to advance your cinematic ideas with team of mentors* Screening of recent Dance on Camera Festival winning shorts3rd prize: Special High School Student Prize* Workshop in shooting dance for the camera* Opportunity to shadow a mentorAll applicants will be invited to a special Dance Film Lab to learn more about adapting choreography and the process of making dance films.Application on-linehttp://dancefilms.org/AboutBraunentryform.htmlDeadline to enter: May 9, 2008Our purpose: To encourage a new generation of dance filmmakers.

Evolution

Posted by Deirdre Towers on April 25, 2008 at 11:30pm

Marlon & I have been debating the design of an on-line component to dance on camera. We've explored some names, such as dance on camera: mash-up or Mash-Up Mambo. We've wondered whether to make it a contest to be judged by editors, to tie it to specific scores or themes, to offer prizes or to set it up as something more timeless, something that could continue into perpetuity.Reading today that Charles Darwin would be 200 next year, I propose that we honor his theory of evolution. How to do this exactly? We could provide the "garden" of dance footage on-line and invite everyone to cross-pollinate.Designing this venture challenges everyone and simultaneously pushes the merits of honing an idea.We have a sponsor as of this afternoon.More soon.

Dance and Technology class

Posted by Jaki Levy on April 25, 2008 at 8:00am

UPDATE: Here are some links I've put together re: dance+tech. Visit this site for a short-list of what I mentioned.I'll be teaching a class on dance and technology this week at Hofstra. I'll be speaking about some of my work with Misnomer, dance-tech's work, and work elsewhere.If you have particularly interesting or recent work you'd like for me to show, send it my way. I'll add it to a list of links for the students. Stay tuned for updates from the class!

Please take this survey on videodance and Move the Frame blog

Posted by Anna Brady Nuse on April 23, 2008 at 5:00pm

Click here to take a survey on Move the Frame!Dear friends and colleagues,I'm conducting a little survey to collect information about your perceptions of Move the Frame blog and videodance in general to help me to improve the blog and make it more useful to you and the videodance community. Also, I'm writing a case study on Move the Frame for my Media Management class on branding at The New School, so it's a good time to take stock and get some feedback on what I've been doing.This survey is really short. It should only take a few minutes to complete, and your feedback will be sooo sooo helpful to me. I've loved all the comments I've gotten on this blog, and I hope that everyone, including readers who are normally too shy to post, will participate in this survey to make your voice heard. Don't worry if you don't know what videodance is, or have only glanced at Move the Frame blog once or twice. All information is useful information.Many many thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts, and feel free to forward to others.Yours in moves and frames,AnnaSurvey url:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=39RhCVF51UHiES6tSyhbzA_3d_3d Click here to take the survey

Vlogging:Visit to Eathdance to Interview Ruth Zaporah

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 22, 2008 at 3:30am

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Find more videos like this on dance-tech.net www.mediatisedsites.net a one day performance festival in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK with live events and installations. The festival brought together a rang

Posted by tamara on April 21, 2008 at 9:09pm

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www.mediatisedsites.net a one day performance festival in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK with live events and installations. The festival brought together a range of performance, movement, sound and visual artists who use free online social technologies in their work as a means of developing interactive performance vocabularies that transcend geographical space. There was also an interest in how these technologies can encourage the development of an intimate relation to a specific place in which one is physically located. Interactive events made use of tools such as skype, ustream.tv, blip.tv, blogs and online discussion forums. The festival was curated by Tamara Ashley and Kate Craddock.

Mini Makeover

Posted by Susan Elena on April 20, 2008 at 9:07pm

The FireBox website has had a mini makeover this weekend with slicker page views and online videos. I'm trying to monitor how quickly the videos are streaming on different browsers and connections so please let me know what you think of the waiting time. The videos will open up in a new page so feel free to browse through the rest of the site while you're waiting.www.fireboxdancetheatre.co.uk

Shared[RE]View: Invitation to collaborative on-line dance reviews (with video)

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 20, 2008 at 7:00am

This is the first the installment of Shared[RE]view, an experiment in on-line video review of dance performances. This video is an invitation to a collaborative review and feedback system for artists taking advantage of the increased access to the internet and on-line video sharing. I rReviwed a shared program: Jilian Pena presented Mothership and Michelle Ellsworth presents Tifprabap.org April 16 - 19 at 7:30 pm at Dance Theater Workshop. Create your own review or make a video response to others Use You Tube and you must show the program of the show or the ticket. Please be mindful and respectful of the artists work. Make it brief, honest, to the point and support it with your argument. You can read something that you have written or just talk straight to the camera! Is like taking to friends about what you saw! Suggestions welcome! Add your video review to the You Tube Group: https://www.youtube.com/group/sharedreview Join Shared[RE]View Group at dance-tech.net for communication and discussion!

corrected live broadcast URL

Posted by tamara on April 19, 2008 at 1:39pm

Laura Cooper's performance:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/laura-cooper-roses

live internet broadcast mediatised sites performance festival 19.04.08

Posted by tamara on April 19, 2008 at 12:41am

for full schedule clickwww.mediatisedsites.net http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mediatisedsitess-show - channel live between 2-00 – 5-30pm BST and 8-00-9-00pm BSTTune in to the following URLs for live feed of virtual performances:Laura Cooper performs Exercise Rose(es) from 1-2pm BST http://www.ustream.tv/lauracooperLive from the British Council in Bangkok

Clarification about Cycling74 and dance-tech.net...NOT A SPONSOR...a friend...please read!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 18, 2008 at 5:30pm

These is a thread at matt's blog with a Tony Shultz's comment that I need clarify: http://quodlibet.tumblr.com/post/31986032 I posted this as response to their comment in but I am placing here also: hello Tony and Matt, this is Marlon from dance-tech.net I respect you opinions about the content etc. I just wanted to make clear that Cycling74 IS NOT A SPONSOR of dance-tech,net. It is an "institutional friend" as way of facilitating a sustainable practices on dance and technology for independent artist that are not affiliated to any academic institution. This deal allows our members practitioners to enjoy a very cool educational discount. http://www.cycling74.com/purchase/discounts That is all. there is no money trade by me or going towards the network. They give discount to the dance-tech.net members. This is one of the strategies and models that I am trying to facilitate. That is all, Marlon PS: about the comment on the patches and code...I did told you that we were jocking and taking things lighter...I also told you that we might not be as skilled like you and that you can take us to were you are to help us to understand...but really dance-tech,net might not be the place for your goals...so we are all part of this landscape and we make it...by the way there technologIes that are embodied and also that are not code... "SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES "IS A VERY IMPORTANT IDEA WHEN YOU ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE UNIVERSITY RESOURCES... I HAVE ALSO HEARD FROM SOME MEMBERS THAT THEY VERY HAPPY ABOUT THE DISCOUNTS...SO... PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM... AND AGAIN THIS IS NOR A BLOG... dance-tech.net is a network of people and institutions...a community of practice and we try to foster a healthy and collaborative environment...

This Week at Eyebeam: Feedback Closing | Interactivos? | Eyebeam Benefit

Posted by Eyebeam on April 17, 2008 at 10:20pm



			What do tadpoles and toilets have in common? Hint: Feedback. That’s right, Feedback, our show on sustainability closes this Saturday, so you only have a few days left to see the “mind-blowing” work on display. Added incentive: a day of workshops followed by a closing reception—perhaps this preview will pique your interest? There’s a wealth of new material online: podcasts, guest reBlogger Andrew Price from GOOD Magazine, and, of course, information on how to get tickets for our May 6 benefit celebrating freedom and creativity. The fun’s just around the corner … . This Week at Eyebeam: April 19: FEEDBACK Closing: Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening April 25: Interactivos? Application Deadline May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity New from our Labs: April 19 + 22: Zach Lieberman at See Conference + FITC April 21: Médecins Sans Frontières Visualization April 24: Non-Motivational Speaker Series April 26: Art Wiki Marathon 2 May 1 – 2: Futuresonic Conference 2008 Community: April 12 – May 30: 1800 Frames \| Take 4 April 25: Opening Reception: Main Space: The New Normal Colbert Discovers the Darkside Coworking at The Change You Want To See April 19: FEEDBACK Closing: Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening Date: April 19, 3 – 6PM FEEDBACK Closing Reception: 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free Join Feedback artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Leah Gauthier, and Brooke Singer for a day of workshops. Natalie Jeremijenko will lead a surface-level noPARK action on a plot of pavement in Chelsea (within a short walk of Eyebeam, exact location TBA the day of the event). noPARK is a public art project to create “no parking zones" of micro-engineered green spaces to prevent storm water runoff, use foliage to stabilize the soil, and provide a durable low maintenance surface cover. In order to help raise funds for the noPARK project that the artist plans to implement throughout the city, limited-edition potted plants will be sold as "shares" of the project (complete with certificates) at Eyebeam for $10. (A single noPARK zone is estimated to cost approximately $6000 to implement.) Shareholders will be encouraged to take their plants to the site of the April 19 noPARK for the 3-6PM action. Leah Gauthier will lead Sow-In, in which participants will distribute hundreds of seed pots to community gardeners across the city for transplant, care, harvest, and seed saving. Brooke Singer with Michael Heimbinder and Emily Gallagher will conduct a virtual toxic tour followed by a hands-on workshop. The virtual tour will focus on a site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that is currently undergoing contamination evaluation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health. Together they will explore the region’s historic and current industries, detail the contaminants of concern and discuss potential remedies. In the second part of the workshop, the artists will provide resources for participants to identify toxic exposures in their own neighborhoods. The workshop will end with a group discussion of effective organizing strategies and ways to develop activist networks . Brooke Singer is a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient. This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program. top April 25: Interactivos? Application Deadline Entramado, Plaza de Luz, installation and photo by Pablo Valbuena. Interactivos? @ Eyebeam Call for Participation online April 25: Application deadline \| May 15: Notification of acceptance May 26: Call for Collaborators \| May 29: Notification of acceptance This summer, Eyebeam will produce Interactivos?—the Medialab-Prado and Madrid City Council program initiated in 2006—as part of our workshop-based programming. Invited projects will creatively explore the theme of “real versus fake” in an intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary two-week project development cycle, resulting in a public exhibition in our Chelsea gallery. In May, Eyebeam will open a second call for individuals interested in collaborating on the selected projects. Submit you project proposal now to be a part of this two-week workshop, exhibit, and seminar. The program will be produced by Eyebeam staff, fellows and residents. Please see the Call for Participation for details: http://eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/join_detail.php?program_id=472096 top May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity Eyebeam 2008 Freedom and Creativity Benefit Date: May 6 \| 6:30PM Cocktails \| 7:30PM Dinner/Show \| 9:30PM After-Party Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Honoring Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder and the Internet’s best known customer service representative. Proceeds from the evening will help underwrite Eyebeam’s international fellowship and residency programs for artists and creative technologists, more than 300 of whom have benefited since 1997. Featuring: Drawn and Magical, an A/V performance by Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Zach Leiberman Kinetic Shadow, by Eyebeam Production Lab fellow Addie Wagenecht Consellational Models from the Nebulous Object Archive, by Eyebeam resident Joe Winter Fame Game, a social network that re-invents fame Little Death, featuring Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, and Aaron Brooks The Hanging Out Station, by Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez Plus: Special Guests, DJs, VJs, and more! Tickets and information online: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/6209/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=497 top New from our Labs April 19 + 22: Zach Lieberman at See Conference + FITC See Conference Date: April 19 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany http://see-conference.com/ Flash In The Can Festival Date: April 22 Location: Toronto http://fitc.ca/ Eyebeam fellow Zach Lieberman will be presenting and perfoming his work at See Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany on April 19, and at Flash In The Can Festival in Toronto, Canada on April 22. Zach will show recent projects and talk about the work underway at the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, including the upcoming Interactivos? workshop. top April 21: Médecins Sans Frontières Visualization (MSF) Ars Electonica Futurelab Date: April 21 Location: Vienna http://www.msf.org/ http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/ Eyebeam fellows Jessica Banks, Ayah Bdeir, Friedrich Kirschner, Zach Lieberman, and Addie Wagenknecht have teamed up with MSF and the Ars Electonica Futurelab to craft an interactive visualization for a live concert and fundraiser in Vienna on April 21. The visualization will track and display in real-time the the SMS donations of audience members. top April 24: Non-Motivational Speaker Series Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series Date: April 24, 7:30PM Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St., NYC Cost: Free Culture jammers and pranksters are the topic of this month’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series organized by Gelf Magazine. The evening’s featured speakers will be Alan Abel founder of The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding and subject of the recent award-winning documentary Abel Raises Cain; Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding vigilante, and subject of the documentary POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English. top April 26: Art Wiki Marathon 2 Art Wiki Marathon 2 Date: April 26, 12 – 8PM EST (9AM – 5PM PST) Location: Wherever you want to gather. At the library (for books you can reference), at mini house parties, a local art center, or at home online at: IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/#artwikimarathon \| AIM: join chat artwikimarathon Following on the success of the last wikimarathon, we present the Great Wikimarthon 2. Participating artists will include: Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert, R&D OpenLab fellow Michael Mandiberg, and alums Bennett Williamson, Jamie Wilkinson, Marisa Olson, and Joe DelPesco aka Mr. Collective Foundation. For more information on how to participate, visit: http://thegreatinter.net/wikimarathon/ top May 1 – 2: Futuresonic Conference 2008 Futuresonic Conference 2008: The Social Technology Summit Date: May 1 – 2 Location: Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK http://www.futuresonic.com/08/2008conf.html May 1, 2PM – 3:30PM: Collective Media Spanning user-generated content, collaborative authoring and collectively owned media, this panel will feature case studies of initiatives from India to Germany. Featuring: Platoniq (Olivier Schulbaum, Susana Noguero), Ravikant Shama (Sarai), Jennie Savage (STAR Radio), Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez, Christine Hanson and Michael Schafae. May 2, 10AM – 11:30AM: Musical Interfaces Featuring: Florian Hollerweger, Gauti Sigthorsson, Steve Daniels, and Eyebeam resident Jamie Allen. This panel will consider the mobile phone user as micro-DJ, a Toronto-wide open source musical interface and more. Additional Events: Freeware: The Manchester Collection May 3, time TBD (check website schedule) \| Fashion show: May 4 Zion Art Center \| Free A workshop about Manchester, its people and the stuff they give away. This session will be dedicated to creating fashion items out of freecycled materials collected around the city. The clothes will be presented in a community fashion show at the end of the workshop. Also presenting (TBA) is Eyebeam senior fellow Jeff Crouse and Production Lab fellow David Jimison’s Dirt Party project. Dirt Party is a performance where salacious information about each party attendee is gathered from the web and other means and presented to the entire audience. top Community April 12 – May 30: 1800 Frames \| Take 4 1800 Frames \| Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union Date: April 12 – May 30 Location: cWOW Gallery, 6 Crawford St., Newark, NJ Cost: Free http://www.cwow.org 1800FRAMES \| Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union, curated by Eyebeam alum Norene Leddy and Eyebeam’s director of education and public programs Liz Slagus, City Without Walls’ fourth annual one-minute video exhibition. The exhibition continues through May 30. The show is free and open to the public, Wednesday through Friday 12 – 6PM and Saturday 1 – 6PM. Artists on display include Eyebeam program coordinator Paul Amital, and alum Benton-C Bainbridge. The video show is online at http://www.cwow.org, and DVDs are on sale at Eyebeam’s bookstore. top April 25: Opening Reception: Main Space: The New Normal Main Space: The New Normal Date: April 26 – June 21 Location: Artists Space, 38 Greene St. 3rd Fl., NYC Cost: Free http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future.html Curated by Michael Connor, co-organized with Independent Curators International, with works by Eyebeam alums Jonah Peretti, Michael Frumin, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy; along with Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson and Craighead and Sharif Waked. top Colbert Discovers the Darkside Eyebeam alum Trevor Paglen promoted his new book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World, on the April 7 broadcast of The Colbert Report. For a taste of the black humor visit: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?episodeId=164897 top Coworking at The Change You Want To See The Change You Want To See Location: 84 Havemeyer St. (storefront), Williamsburg, Brooklyn http://www.notanalternative.net/ Tired of complaining to your cat about broken code or a bad client? Wondering what the next wave of social software will be? Looking for an invigorating environment to call your office? Join Williamsburg Coworking! Break free from hourly coffee runs and grab a slice of Williamsburg’s alternative working community by coworking at The Change You Want to See—a café-like community and collaboration space for developers, writers and freelancers. Bring a laptop, snack, manuscript, screenplay, or killer app and leave the cats behind! For more information on coworking opportunities at The Change You Want to See, visit: http://thechangeyouwanttosee.org/coworking, or email: info@thechangeyouwanttosee.org top

Jilian Pena at DTW: a déjà vu of my own fantasy

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 17, 2008 at 4:45am

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i intervied dance/visual artist Jillian Peña. She creates video vignettes/tableaux as hybrid performances mixing hope and cinicism, spiritulaity and UFOs as a way of dealing with the concept of dance. Interviewed at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 4/10/08 Video-based artist Jillian Peña's newest work, MOTHERSHIP, is a virtual meta-dance which creates movement through intimate interaction with its viewers. Set in an imaginary landscape of pop spirituality, the piece pulls the audience between hope and failure, devotion and cynicism, group experience and alienation. Upcoming performance at DTW, NYC Apr 16 – 19 at 7:30pm http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/ellsworth_pena jillianpena.com

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