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Panorama Aumentado |Augmented Panorama is a dance-tech.tv Augmented Reality Experience Lab @ Festival Panorama 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

http://panoramafestival.com/2012/panorama-aumentado-2_en/

Panorama Aumentado creates a hidden media landscape that grows as the festival happens.

Use your smart phones to discover geolocated videos of performances and interviews with the dancetrchtvARapp on festival program, banners, posters, logos the facades of the theaters.

The lab explores the intersection of online video journalism and Augmented Reality technology, creating a mobile media experience during the festival. The lab works a hub to share with the community new ways of media production, distributions and interfacing. It explores potential of mobile augmented reality  technology to intervene and augment the festival  with digital content.

The audience uses smart phones or tablets to scan programs and posters of the festival  and theater facades to discover video layers with performance excepts, artists interviews and other contents created by a team of volunteers from the local community.

 

 

 

How does Panorama Aumentado work?

It uses a free Augmented Reality app of dance-tech.tv and it allows the user to discover video layers on printed material and building facades. It also allows the user to create their own AR geolocated content.

12249543880?profile=originalUse dancetechtvARapp available for FREE for apple and android devices.
Download for IOS devices: iPhone, IPad, Ipod
Download for Android devices

It combines an image recognition engine and geolocation.

The dance-tech.tv AR app is designed to be used mostly in the contexts of arts festivals and older events to augment printed programs and posters with video layers of the artists involved in the festivals and with video content created in the festivals by the dance-tech.tv team. It may also be used for some urban games and performances with the geolocation feature.

The dance-tech.tv AR app makes image and location a site for multimedia performance experimentation.

 

Instructions:

1.-Download  dancetechtvARapp for free, install and run it.  

Download for IOS devices: iPhone, IPad, Ipod
Download for Android devices

2.-Tap on information icon (I) in the bottom right of the screen and read detailed guidelines on how to use this app for making location auras and also create your own AR channel.

 

Where to see the content?

Augmented Printed Program

Point the device to images of the Festival Panorama 2012 main program, names of artists and logos.

 

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Tap on the video layer to make fullscreen and single tap to go to the url to watch the full video.

Video demo over the Augmented Program at Festival Panorama 2012!

Panorama Aumentado| Installation

This video shows the installation running at the festival center (Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro), where the visitors change pieces of the printed program and scan them with an iPhone and iPad running the dancetechtvARapp connected to an LCD screen and discover the trailers of the pieces and interviews. The app then, recognizes the image and plays a video layer on it. All the images of the program and logos are augmented with video content. Combines social media journalism, interactive media and augmented reality technology.

 

Geolocated Videos on facades of Theaters and big posters:

You can  use the app to scan the facades of the main festival venues  and banners to see video trailer of upcoming events. 

Scan the big banner in front go there Teatro Joao Caetano and Carlos Gomes and you will see the trailers of the upcoming show or the festival:

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Important:

I you are near of AR geolocated augmented reality content  you will see several icons on the bottom part of the viewer.

See screenshot  from app when you are close to the Teatro Joao Caetano. Tap on the icons to get more information about the AR location and the image hint.

 

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Panorama Aumentado

The Lab/workshop

The project offers a workshop to explore social media video production and augmented reality. The lab participants video and edit using portable devices and an online tools to produce a collinear documentation of what happens at the theaters and other venues and its headquarters are the Center of the Festival. In generates a sustainable exchange from the festival and volunteers of the community.

 

Team for Panorama Aumentado @ Festival Panorama 2012:

Julia Alapenha

Paula Beatriz Dantas

Maria Ricilena Santos

Rita Lins de Mello

Karine de Bacco

Luiz Guilherme Guerrreiro

Bia Paes

Images from Panorama Aumentado workshop:

Screenshots of app augmenting programs and building facades:

 

Send us questions, feedback and screenshots of the app working to marlon@dance-tech.net

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Use the app to scan from this screen the following images and see media from the festival:

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Festival Panorama 2012 logo

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Ana Borralho & João Galante    

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Cena 11

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Meg Stuart | Damaged Goods

You can also scan the images from the program pdf:

Festival Panorama 2012 program as .pdf

More in dancetechtv augmented reality app

http://dance-tech.tv/2012/10/24/augmented-reality-app/

Panorama Aumentado was conceived by Marlon Barrios Solano as a collaboration between dance-tech.tv and Festival Panorama 2012.

Thanks to: ACCAD – The Advanced Computer Center for Arts and Design from the Ohio State University (USA) and DanceDigitalUK.
The dancetechtvARapp is powered by Aurasma (UK)

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MAX/MSP 3: Polyphony

One of the great joys in modern digital music is the amazing possibilities with polyphony. My first hardware synthesizer was a WASP: an amazing little machine with a touch keyboard that cost less than $200, in 1979, from Oxford Synthesizer Company. It was of course monophonic. But I loved it so much I bought their big machine, an OSCAR, in 1987. It was $600 and sounded like a much more expensive machine, but could only manage a limited duophony. In 2001 I traded it in for a Waldorf Q. I was astonished by its 10 voices and loved weaking its knobs. But in a few short years computer technology made some amazing leaps and bounds, and now I can easily play 100 voices on my computer.Why so many voices? One may think that a standard composition only has a couple dozen notes playing at once at any one time, so what's the point of more voices than notes? Well, as computer music has made leaps and bounds, the sounds which used to marvel have become old hat. The most difficult synthesis techniques are now within reach of teenage laptop garage bands. A couple of simple oscillators, even when playing wavetables, have difficulty reaching inspiring acoustic wonder any more.Some of the best sounds in the modern world are built up by layering multiple sounds over each other, so that they interact with each other and add subtleties into the soundmix. For this, one note has to play many voices. My predecessor to Max/MSP, Reaktor, has excellent support for polyphony. From a hardware perspecitve, it makes use of wide instructions (MIMD), implemented by Intel as MMX, to increase processing speed on parallel instructions. This enables low CPU loads for increased polyphony. Reaktor was originally designed from the ground up to support polyphony. Any module can be changed between monophonic and polyphonic operation from its context menu. The modules indicate whether their selected operating mode with a color light in the module icon: black when non functional, red when monophonic, and yellow when polyphonic. Monophonic modules can always connect to polyphonic modules, in which case single values passed into them convert into multiple voices with the same value in the poplyphonic module. Reaktor also permits customization of each voice with a range of simple modules for converting between the monophonic and polyphonic domains the most frequent of which are "to voice", "from voice", and "voice combiner". Hovering over a wire in a polyphonic structure indicates all the values of all voices, which is very useful when debugging a complex instrument. Here's an example.

In the Reaktor world, I rapidly became very accustomed to moving signals between the monophonic and polyphonic domains for building up complex layers and vector-style processing. So when I started in Max/MSP, I assumed movement to polyphony could not be that difficult, and started building a monophonic sytnesizer for conversion to polyphony later. When I got to thinking about the polyphonic part, I looked around for examples of polyphonic synths in the maxobjects database, but did not find much; the only extensive polyphonic example on the Web was a tutorial on the Cycling 74 Web page. However, there had not been many synthesizers at all in the public database, so I assumed it was because people had just not shared their designs. One of the few synthesizers uploaded, from a profesor in Wales, implemented the MSP modules for polyphony, but only operated with one voice. I again assumed it was because it was designed for an old version and no longer worked in MAX/MSP 5, and carried on with my initial design.Then I got to the conversin to polyphony, I was in for a shock. Rapidly, I learned what could be the main reason I had not found many polyphonic design examples. Probably there have been many others with the same experience as me. I assumed it would be easy converting my design to polyphony, and started arranging it carefully as I thought would be best. But when I got to adding polyphony, I was in for a surprise, and the information appears after many other long tutorials, so I did not work out the problem for some time.In Max/MSP, polyphonic objects cannot be mixed with monophonic ones. They must be in a separate patcher. Ah, I thought, I can get past that. I can make the polyphonic patcher one of the objects in my main file.

But it didn't work. It caused my quite a bit of confusion in fact. When editing the patcher referred to by the "poly~" object, changes did not reflect immediately in the main design; I had to save the file first. After a while I realized that the patcher I was editing was being saved inside the parent patcher, and the polyphonic part was not in the same file at all; the polyphonic piece really has to be in a separate file. Then, when playing in polyphony, Max opens the separate file multiple times, one instance for each voice.From a software perspective, this is a trivial implementation, but it imposes some real problems for my own designs. First, the multiple separate instances are very expensive computationally, as niceties like MMD processing are totally impossible. But moreover, it is very difficult to debug, as one needs to open the same file multiple times for each voice. When considering a design with 100 voices, this means 101 patcher instances! 101 files in a GUI environment? I cringe at the thought.So it's back to the drawing board. Really, I had got used to using polyphony in Reaktor because Reaktor does it so well. But for many permutations in my designs, I was using polyphony as it was convenient, not necessary. Gradually, I'm working out how to convert the Reaktor structures with >256 voices into array-based data within one voice. Most of the processing is events (MSP patches in Max terminology), not audio, so theoretically it could be handled with vector processing within one voice. So the next real challenge will be looking at how Max supports large data structures and a much larger range of data types, which thankfully is much better in Max than Reaktor, and as I plan to examine, finally, in the next Blog. But meanwhile, I think with sadness how many others may have found, like me, that when they got to conversion to polyphony, they would have to throw out their design work and start all over again.
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Pilot #1 February – June 2015 

In 2017, PARTS will start the Research Studios, a specific research program independent from its three year Training program. The Research program is intended for young choreographers and dramaturges, who will work in an environment where reflection and studio experimentation, exchange and collaboration with other artists are the basic working formats. 

A full Research cycle will last two years and each one will have a specific research theme. In 2017-2018, the topic will be the different relations between dance and music. 

In 2015-2016, there will be a pilot phase in which the new approaches and the research topic dance – music will be tested. Four blocks of four months (17 weeks) will each have a singular perspective: a specific artist or approach to the question dance vs. music. For the first block we stay close to our own experiences at PARTS/Rosas, as we will focus on the practice of our director/choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In the three following blocks we will research totally different experiences, methods and practices. 

It is possible to register for only the first block (pilot #1) or only for the three following blocks (pilot #2). And of course both pilots can be combined. 

In pilot #1 (February 16 - June 12, 2014), the compositional concepts and tools of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas will be studied critically under the headings ‘understanding’, ‘handling’ and ‘positioning’, through theory and music lectures and seminars, studio sessions and personal creative tasks. They will be used as tools for experimentation that feeds the creative practice of the participants, and for reflection about the use of the past for future creativity. Auditions for pilot #1 will take place in November, deadline for application is October 17. 

A second project pilot #2 (three blocks of 4 months from August 2015 onwards) will focus on many other possible relations between dance and music. It will feature workshops, masterclasses and seminars with different artists and thinkers, and a strong thread of studio experimentation to develop new ideas and practices relating choreography to music. 

Auditions for pilot #2 will take place in Spring 2015. Details about the program will be published in December 2014. 

The Research Studios are coordinated by Steven De Belder, Alain Franco and Gabriel Schenker. 

For each pilot project, we offer 12 positions. 

Focus is on persons with a strong choreographic interest and 2 or 3 theoreticians who prepare for a career as a dramaturge or a dance critic. 

Requirements: 
- MA in dance/choreography or MA in dance/performance studies, OR similar professional experience 
- good basic musical knowledge 
- minimum age 23, maximum age 35 
- very good skills in speaking and writing in English 

Pilot #1 will run between February 16 and June 12, 2015, a full-time program of 17 weeks. 
The tuition fee amounts to 4.000€. Scholarships are available. 
The first selection is by dossier, to be submitted before October 17 2014. 
The final selection round will be an audition in Brussels, November 21-24. 

For more information about the program and admission procedure, visithttp://www.parts.be

Contact: PARTS/ Eva Vanhole, Van Volxemlaan 164 1190 Brussels Belgium – eva.vanhole@parts.be 

Details about pilot#2 will be available in December 2014. 

P.A.R.T.S is an intiative of Rosas and De Munt. The school is funded by the Minisrtry of education of the Flemish Government. The Research Studios project is part of the European project [DNA] and is supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission. PARTS and HES-SO/Manufacture (Lausanne/CH) are partner institutions for higher education in contemporary dance for the 2013-2017 period.

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http://www.perfmts.net/detail.asp?id=ann_0109#sthash.3wit7hkA.dpuf

http://www.perfmts.net/detail.asp?id=ann_0109

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Led by Cristian Vogel and Marlon Barrios Solano, the participants – dancers, choreographers, musicians and composers – will be working on the issue Dialog: Sound and Movement.

 

The GVA Sessions 2011 will offer a mixed format providing a collaborative space for different types and levels of knowledge, artists research and production.

 

Over a seven-day period, the 2011 edition will offer the participants a hybrid collaborative format that will have two intersecting instances:

 

July 16th and 17th 2011 : Perspectives and Frames Symposium

 
We will start a two day seminar over the weekend with an international guest group of choreographers, composers and interdisciplinary artists who will dissect and discuss with participants their recent work and practices, exploring the practical and conceptual challenges involved in the composition of choreography, music and sound.

 

 

You can join on-line the GVA Sesssions 2011

 Perspectives and Frames Symposium

July 16th  and 17th from 10h  to 18h CET

WATCH AND PARTICIPATE 

 

LIVE BROADCAST on dance-tech.TVLIVE:

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/dance-techtv-live/

 

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Welcome package GVA Sessions 2011

updated July 11)


PEOPLE


Guests panelists:

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Adam Harper (United Kingdom)

Musicologist


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Adam Harper is currently studying for a PhD in home-recorded, ‘lo-fi’ popular music at the University of Oxford. He writes a forward-thinking music criticism blog, Rouge’s Foam, which has seen essays on subjects such as microrhythm and pitchbending in contemporary dance music and the framing of nostalgia in electronic music. He has written for Wire magazine and is the author of ‘Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making’, (forthcoming for Zer0 Books in November 2011), a manifesto for modernist musical creativity by means of a relativistic process ontology of music.

Alain Crevoisier (Switzerland)

Composer


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Alain Crevoisier is senior researcher at the Music Conservatory of Geneva, leading a research group dedicated to musical interfaces and interactive technologies. He is the founder of Future-instruments.net, a collaborative platform that supports the development in this field through an interdisciplinary research network and various initiatives, such as the Live Connections project (www.future-instruments.net). Alain Crevoisier studied micro-engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Digital Arts at the university Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Beside his research work, he created numerous sound installations, performances and musical compositions, notably for the B-polar dance company (www.b-polar.com).

 

Anna Huber (Switzerland)
Choreographer

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Exploring movement in all its complex simplicity, Anna Huber repeatedly questions formal language of dance, which in her work is marked by intensity, precision and singularity. 1989 – 2007 she has been living and working in Berlin, where she developed several solos, duets and ensemble works, as well as site-specific projects, which she is performing internationally. Since 2007 Anna Huber is artist in residence at the Dampfzentrale Bern and has been generously supported by Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern as well as Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council. In 2002 she is awarded the Hans Reinhart-Ring and in 2010 the Swiss Dance- and Choreography Award.


Ariella Vidach (Italy/Switzerland)

Choreographer


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Born in 1956 in Umag (Yugoslavia) Ariella Vidach began producing her choreography in New York where she moved in the 80’s inspired by the work of the most significant artists of the postmodern dance generation as Trisha Brown, Dana Reitz, Steve Paxton and with the aim to deepen her study in contemporary dance. Her work was presented in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Macedonia, Turkey, Luxemburg, Cuba and Portugal.

She is co-founder of Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti , founded in 1988 in Lugano and she creates in 1996 with Claudio Prati, the Ariella Vidach - AiEP dance company with which she produced multimedia performance among others: Exp ('96), Drans ('98) and Beat Box ('00), Opus (2001), Buffers (2003), DanxyMusic (2004), Id (2005), Intervita (2007), .Mov (2009).

The Ariella Vidach - AiEP dance company has an artistic residency inside the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milano an old industrial area that was renovated and reused as cultural and artistic venues. She currently teaches at Scuola D’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi and continues her research producing performances concerning the relationship between body and technology. She lives in Milano and Lugano.

http://www.aiep.org/

 

 

Cindy Van Acker

Dancer/choreographer

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Trained in classical ballet, Cindy Van Acker first worked in the Flanders Royal Ballet, Belgium. Afterjoining Geneva’s Grand Theatre, she decided to settle in the city. Always interested in the opportunitythat modern dance offers for experimentation, she began creating her own pieces in 1994, andlaunched into an international career with Corps 00:00 at the Geneva ADC in 2002. In 2003, CindyVan Acker created two other solos, Fractie and Balk 00:49.
In 2005, Italian director Romeo Castellucci chose Van Acker to represent Switzerland at the VeniceBiennial. This first meeting then developed into an artistic collaboration with Castellucci, whosuggested that she create the choreographic part of his production of Dante’s Inferno for the 2008edition of the Avignon Festival, and for Parsifal, which he will be producing at La Monnaie in January2011.
In 2007, Kernel provided an opportunity for an unusual and stimulating collaboration with Finnishcomposer Mika Vainio of the Pan Sonic group which created and played the performance’s musicalscore. This experience continued with the creation of the sound effects for three solos producedbetween 2008 and 2009, Lanx, Nixe and Obtus. Obvie, Antre and Nodal completed this series of sixsolos and the same number of films directed by Orsola Valenti.
Cindy Van Acker also ran courses in bodily movement for student actors at the Manufacture,Lausanne’s Theatre School, from 2006 to 2009.
With Monoloog in 2010, she renewed her collaboration with the Electron Festival.
Her choreographic scripting, which allies esthetic gravity, minimalist movement, precise compositionand electronic music, allows Cindy Van Acker to examine the connections between body and spirit,sound and rhythm with almost scientific precision, and to create works that cross the barriers betweendance, performance and plastic arts.

http://www.ciegreffe.org/

 

 

Claudio Prati (Switzerland/Italy)
Videomaker and multimedia artist


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Born in 1954 in Bern (Switzerland) he graduate in Gymnastics & Sports at ETH Zurich, in Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milano and trained as a Mime at the school of Piccolo Teatro in Milano.

Between 1986 and 1988 he lived in New York, where he studied Videoart and Special Project mixed media at New York University, as well as Contact Improvisation Dance at the Movement Research Centre and PS 122.
In 1988 in Lugano (Switzerland), he founded Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti cultural Association with Ariella Vidach, Carlo Somaini and Marcello Mazzella and in 1996 he was the founding partner of Ariella Vidach - AiEP dance company in Milan.

Between 1989 and 2010 he produced fifthteen multimedia interactive dance productions, in collaboration with Ariella Vidach, and various dance videos, inspired to the performances, which were presented in several international dance Festivals in Paris, Skopje, Ankara, New York, Montreal, La Havana, Roma, Freiburg, Arnhem, Ljubliana, Luxembourg, Bern, Zuerich and in Video Dance Festivals like the “TTV Video Festival of Riccione”, “Electronic Choreographer of Naples″, Videodance (Athens), Invideo Festival (Milan) and in Tel Aviv, Oslo, Luzern….

He was member of the jury of some international and prestigious video and multimedia contests like “VIPER Luzern”, in 1996, “Premio Immagine IBTS/Milano” in 1997, “Prix PIXEL IMAGINA– INA Monte Carlo “in 1998 and “Il Coreografo Elettronico/Napoli”in 1999.
He lives and works in Lugano and Milan.

http://www.aiep.org/

 

 

Cod.Act (Switzerland)

Music/Architecture/Kinetic Digital Art


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Michel Décosterd

Architecte and  artist

André Décosterd

Musician and composer

From movement to sound, from sound to movement: the interactive machines of Cod.Act

Since around ten years, Cod. Act develops and builds sound machines presented in the form of installations or of performances.

They always associate movement and music. During his various projects, Cod. Act tries to improve the relation and the harmony to obtain the best fusion of them.

Awards and distinctions:

Grand Prize- Art Division – Japan Media Art Festival 2010

Award of Distinction –Sound Art- ARS Electronica 2010

Cynetart Award 2010 Distinction 

International Media Art Award 2004– ARTE/ZKM

http://www.codact.ch/

 

 

Christian Garcia (Germany/Switzerland)

Composer


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Christian Garcia (b. 1968) trained in classical guitar, piano, and music education. He composed and directed the music for five theatre pieces with the Swiss collective Velma, which unpredictably alternates between Performance, music theatre and concert in works like “Cyclique 1&2” (2000), “Applique” (2001), “Rondo” (2002), “Velma Superstar” (2005) and “Requiem” (2007).Garcia also composes for various dance, theater and performance productions by Elodie Pong and Robert Pacitti, Denis Maillefer and Fabienne Berger.

He also writes music for films, in Switzerland for, among others, Jean-Stéphane Bron, as well as for Vincent Pluss, in Germany for Sonja Heiss, and in England for Andrew Kötting. He began staging his own music-theatre pieces in 2010, including “Glissando” in Warsaw’s municipal theatre, and “Pastiche” in Stadttheater, Bern. He has also established a reputation as a filmmaker, above all with the short film “La Caverne” (2009). Garcia’s works have been performed in Switzerland, Germany, South Africa, Belgium, England, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Spain and other European venues.
http://www.christiangarcia.ch/

 


Cristian Vogel (Chile/UK/Switzerland)

Composer


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Cristian Vogel has more than 15 years working independently and professionally at the vanguard of electronic music creation, recording, mixing, performance and sound design.
Alongside simply composing music for the love of it, his personal research streams are ongoing. These days they branch away from the conventional music industry into philosophy of music, performance research, realtime sound environments and sound-art, data-sonification and much more. 
He has recently relocated from Barcelona and is now based in Geneva."
And a full Bio and Works list 


Danile Schorno (Switzerland/The Netherlands)

Composer


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Composer, born in Zurich/Switzerland in 1963.
He studied composition in London with Melanie Daiken and electronic and computer music in The Hague/Netherlands, with Joel Ryan and Clarence Barlow.Invited by Michel Waisvisz he lead STEIM - the renown Dutch Studio for Electro Instrumental Music, and home of 'New Instruments' - as Artistic Director until 2005. There he collaborated with musicians and artists like Frank van de Ven, Frances-Marie Uitti, Netochka Nezvanova, Laetitia Sonami, Francisco Lopez, Jon Rose, Anne Laberge, Steina Vasulka, and numerous Dutch New Music Ensembles and organisations like the FNM/Stuttgart and the Theremin Institute/Moscow. He is currently STEIM's composer-in-research and creative project advisor.
Recent works also include the ongoing 'KAIROS Project', where he invites instrumental virtuosi to play along with his new sensor instruments. His concerts and workshops have taken him all over Europe and as far afield as Johannesburg's Soweto, Iceland, Shanghai and the street artists & kids of Guatemala City.

http://www.pocketopera.info/

 

 

Eric Linder /Polar (Ireland/Switzerland)

Author/Composer


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Of Irish descent, Eric Linder, was born in Switzerland. In his early twenties he started a solo career under the name of Polar. He has produced five albums including “Jour Blanc”, co-written with French artist Miossec.In 2006 he signed with EMI and was published in the same catalogue as artists like Air, Etienne Daho or Camille. This songwriter, who has met public success both in Europe and in the United States, has also been regularly collaborating with performing artists.He has composed music for two pieces by Cie 7273, for Estelle Héritier’s “A5” , for Maud Liardon’s “Zelda Zonk”, for Perrine Valli’s “Je ne vois pas la femme cachée dans la forêt”. He also created for the national Swiss exhibition in 2002, Expo 02, the musical show “Halbtraum”, along with Die Regierung – an orchestra composed of mentally challenged musicians –, and more recently, he has composed music for two pieces by the National Contemporary Dance Company of Korea.From 1994 to 2005, he was in charge of music promotion at Festival de La Bâtie in Geneva, and is one of the co-founders of the new Genevan winter Festival Antigel, which started this year. His last album, “French Songs”, was released in 2009, and has been widely acclaimed since.

 

 

Jennifer Bonn (Sweden/Canada)

Composer


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After studying Fine Arts in Toulouse and in Marseille, where she obtained her Master's degree (DNSEP) in 2002, Swedish Canadian artist Jennifer Bonn continued her work experience in Switzerland and in Spain. She has been working on her own sound creations for installation, film, dance and theatre since 2005, which has allowed her to collaborate with, amongst others, the 72/73 company, the Belgo-Suisse company, the theaterkombinat company, Perrine Valli, Cindy Van Acker, Mathieu Bertholet, and the artists' collective kom.post. Jennifer Bonn lives and works in various European countries.

http://jenniferbonn.net/

 


Jerome Soudan (France/Switzerland)

Musician and Promoter


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Jerome Soudan started playing music at the age of 5 years old atthe Conservatory of Chambery, France. He learnt to playorchestral percussions, the clarinet and later on, acoustic andelectronic drums. He obtained a master degree in musicologyspecializing in 20th century music at the University of Lyon, Francereceiving a distinction in 1993, after submitting his master thesis onindustrial music.


Jerome Soudan then settled down in Paris where he worked with numerous contemporary composerssuch as Kasper T. Toeplitz for the GRM (Maison de Radio France) or with rock bands such as LesTétines Noires or industrial bands such as Von Magnet. In 1996, he moved to Berlin where he startedto work as a composer and percussion player with the experimental band Column One. In 1998, hestarted his own solo project named MIMETIC.


In 2000, Jerome Soudan established himself in Geneva,Switzerland and began working with the contemporary electroacoustic group ART ZOYD in France. The group, which existssince 1968, has become one of the main references in terms of”new music”.


Since 2000, Jerome Soudan is also one of the official composersfor the choreographer Carol Brown (a New Zealander, establishedin London, UK) for whom he composed dance performances aswell as video installations. Other choreographers with whomJerome Soudan worked include Jan Linkens (Comic Opera ofBerlin, Germany) and Lionel Hoche (Neerdeland Dance Theater 2in The Hague, The Netherlands).


In 2003, Jerome Soudan founded with the Belgian, HermanKlapholz, a new electronica project called Wai Pi Wai. In 2005, hewon the award for the best design and artwork packaging for electronic music during the FrenchQwartz awards for the cover box of MIMETIC DANCING “The Changing Room”. The following year,Jerome Soudan released his first DVD with MIMETIC on the German label Ant Zen.


During all these years, Jerome Soudan released numerous CDs or vinyls with various bands ondifferent labels such as Ant Zen, Hands, Parametric, Moloko+. To date, MIMETIC holds no less then 15releases. Jerome Soudan took also part in several concerts, live acts, dj sets or performances allover the world (Europe, USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan …). In 2005, he received support from ProHelvetia for his international solo project tour.


In 2007, Jerome Soudan released a live album « All my lives » on theGerman label HANDS. Meanwhile, he was also composing the musicfor the film « Un éclat » by Rodolphe Viémont, staging Olivier Py.


In 2008, Jerome Soudan celebrated the 10th anniversary of his soloproject with the release of a 160 pages book with 2 CD’s calledMIMETIC X “one more than nine”. The book: International guests(Paul Kendall (Depeche Mode producer), Franz Treichler (TheYoung Gods), Luc Van Acker (Ministry),…) are giving their personalpoint on view on Mimetic in different forms (poetry, prose orjournalistic style). Christian Zanési (co-director of the GRM (Groupede Recherches Musicales) INA/RADIO FRANCE) wrote the Preface.


Jerome Soudan is actively pursuing his collaboration as composer and musicians with Art Zoyd forvarious special shows such as “Metropolis” (with the movie), “Eye Catcher” (with the movie), ortogether with GROUPE F (fireworks artists). He is about to compose the soundtrack of the next LechKowalski’s movie (who did “D.O.A” with The Sex Pistols, “Born to lose” with Johnny Thunders, “hey isDee Dee home” with Dee Dee Ramone, etc…)

http://www.myspace.com/mimetic

 

 

Kasper T Toeplitz (France)

Musician


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is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man's land between "academic" composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic "new music" or "noise music".

He has won several prizes  and distinctions ; 1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the "Opéra autrement/Acanthes" competition, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs  (New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco) , Villa Kujoyama  (Kyoto),  DAAD (Berlin). 

He got numerous commissions from the French Governement, the radio and from  electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS..

He also works  with experimental or unclassifiable musicians  such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Francisco Lopez,  Antoine Chessex, Ulrich Krieger, others……..

In 2007 he started KERNEL, an ensemble of live electronic music, working  on precise scores – definition  of a written language - for the electronic medium.

He has definitively integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, or working  on the sheer electronic noise.

Through all those years he has collaborated with numerous projects of contemporary dance, always proposing live music

 

 

Myriam Gourfink (France)

Choreographer


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The respiratory techniques of yoga are at the source of Myriam Gourfink’s endeavors. The idea is to seek after the inner urge that leads to movement. Guided by breath, the organization of bases of support is extremely exact, while the consciousness of space is shaky. The dance becomes slow, tedious within continuous time. This knowledge of movement and space makes possible the conception of choreographies without studio rehearsal. Thanks to what it suggests of a dance situation, there is no need to move in order to feel dance : the senses and the intellect reconstitute it.

 

As do musicians, she uses a symbolic writing system to compose the geometrical universe and poetic evolution of dance. Having studied Labanotation with Jacqueline Challet Haas, she undertook a quest, using this system as a point of departure, for the formalizing of her own compositional language. Each choreography encourages the performer to be conscious of his acts and of whatever passes through him. The scores activate his participation : he makes choices, carries out operations, confronts the unexpected within the written text, to which he responds instantly.


For certain projects, the scores include computer programs for the scrambling and real-time re-generation of the pre-written composition : the program runs the score in its entirety and generates millions of possible compositional sequences. The performer, via captor systems, guide the process of modification of the choreographic score, which they read on LCD screens. The computer setup is thus at the core of the space-time relationship. As the piece proceeds, it makes possible the structuring of as yet untried contexts.


A leading figure in choreographic research in France, but also the guest of numerous international festivals (springdance in New York City, the Künsten Arts festival in Brussels, the Festival de la Bâtie in Geneva, the Danças Na Cidade festival in Lisbon etc.), Myriam Gourfink was artist in residence at the IRCAM in 2004-2005 and at the national Fresnoy-studio for contemporary arts in 2005-2006, Myriam Gourfink has since january 2008 been director of the Center for Choreographic Research and Composition (CRCC) at the Royaumont Foundation.

http://www.myriam-gourfink.com/

 

Muriel Romero (Spain)

Dancer/choreographer


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Muriel Romero is  a dancer and choreographer. Her work is currently focused on the investigation of generative choregraphic structures and the incorporation of abstractions taken from other disciplines such as music or mathematics.

She has won several international prizes such as Moscow International Ballet Competition, Prix de la Fondation de Paris-Prix de Laussane and Premio Nacional de Danza. She’s been first soloist in some the most prestigious companies around the world including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Semper Oper Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballet Munchen, Gran Théatre de Genéve o Compañia Nacional de Danza.

During her trayectory she’s work with some choregraphers of our time like W. Forsythe, J.Kylian, Ohad Naharin orSaburo Teshigawara. She teaches at the Professional Conservatory of Madrid.

 

 

Pablo Palacio (Spain)

Composer


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Pablo Palacio is an independent composer currently living in Madrid. His work has been focused on the transformation an perceptual connections of sonic images. He has held residences in Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Lebanon, and his pieces have been performed in many countries from Europe and United States to China, India, Brasil, Australia or North Africa. He is also an active composer for dance and performing arts receiving commissions from Compagnie Buissonnière-Lausanne (Switzerland), Palindrome Inter Media Performance Group (Weimar, Germany), Staatstheater Mainz (Mainz, Germany), Maqamat Dance Theater (Beirut, Lebanon), Cisco Aznar (Switzerland) or CCG-Centro Coreográfico Gallego (Galicia, Spain).

He also collaborates with several conservatories, universities and institutions through publications, workshops, and talks divulging new perspectives and technologies in sound composition. He is professor of sound space at the Master in Performing Arts and Visual Culture (UAH-Madrid).

 

 

Perrine Valli (France)
Choreographer

 
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Perrine Valli was born in Aix en Provence in 1980. 
She studied ballet and contemporary dance at the Conservatory of Aix en Provence. 
She continued her education at the Hallet Eghayan School, at the same time studying Arts at the University of Lyon. 
A year later, she was accepted at the National Conservatory of Lyon and in 2001, she entered the CDC (Choreographic Development Center) of Toulouse. 
After that, she obtained a scholarship to join the London Contemporary Dance School, where she graduated in 2002.
After her graduation, she went to America for three months, doing workshops on improvisation with Julyen Hamilton, Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simson, Daniel Lepkoff, Olivier Besson and Andrew de L.Hardwood.
Back in Europe, she went to Switzerland to work with Estelle Heritier at the Arsenic Theatre, on a piece called A5.
She also did a project entitled Temps Morts with the Collective de la Dernière Tangente at the Theatre of Vidy in Lausanne and at the National Theatre of Sénart in Paris.
She than met the choreographer Cindy Van Acker with whom she worked on several projects: Corps 00:00 at the Biennale of Venezia and Teatro Comandini in Cesena (directed by Roméo Castelluci) , Pneuma and Puits with Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre. She has also performed in Van Acker’s last creation Kernel, showed at the Grütli theatre of Geneva, with the musician Mika Vainio, Pan Sonic.
In 2005, she started her own company called Association Sam-Hester. Her first piece Ma cabane au Canada played at the Usine Theatre in Geneva and at Mains d’Oeuvres, in Paris.
In april 2006, she obtained a three year residence at Mains d’Oeuvres in Paris where she created her second piece called Série.This piece wins the first prize at the Masdanza international choreography contest in Spain, and is also chosen for the Swiss platform Tanz>Faktor>Interregio 2008.Perrine Valli presents a third piece Je pense comme une fille enlève sa robe in January 2009, at the festival Faits d'Hiver in Paris and at the theatre l'Usine in Geneva.She receives a research stipendium from Cultures France "Hors les murs" which will take place in Japan in 2009. In may, she has been rewarded with the second prize of the Premio contest in Zurich.
At the moment she works on a new piece called « Je ne vois pas la femme cachée dans la forêt » (I don't see the woman hidden in the forest).

http://www.perrinevalli.fr/

 

 

Marlon Barrios Solano

Online Producer//curator/facilitator


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Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan professional nomad, Vlogger, on-line experimental producer, and curator, consultant, researcher and international lecturer/workshop leader based in and New York, USA and Geneva, Switzerland.

He is the executive director of Dance-tech Interactive llc and creator/producer dance-tech.net, a social networking site, dance-techTV, a collaborative internet video channel, and of dance-tech@, a series of online video interviews exploring innovation and interdisciplinary investigations on the performance of movement. He has also developed several projects on collaborative journalism and produces the on-line video series featuring innovative and pioneer movement, new media artists and researchers.

With a hybrid background in dance, new media technologies and cognitive science, he continues to investigate the intersection of the performance of motion with new media technologies, real-time composition (improvisation and interactive technology), embodied cognition while experimenting with on-line platforms for the development of sustainable models of knowledge production-distribution among trans-local communities and contexts.

He is a lecturer for the Masters on Performance Practices and Visual Cultures for the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and consults for the Gilles Jobin Company (Switzerland) and for the South American Network of Dance.

Marlon is also associate producer for DanceDigital (UK).

As a professional dancer in New York City, he performed nationally and internationally with Susan Marshal and Dancers (1997-2000), Lynn Shapiro Dance Company (1995-1998), and with the choreographers Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, among others. He also performed with the musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander. Under Unstablelandscape (2003-07), he performed and researched improvisational performances within digital real-time environments performing in the US and Europe.

He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology (real-time digital technology, performance of improvisation and cognition) from The Ohio State University, USA.

http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/network_producer

 

Also attending:


Andrea Boll

http://www.tanzhaus-zuerich.ch/en/tanzhaus

Alexei Issacovich

http://www.danzamalaga.eu/

 

Pedro Jiménez Morrás/Translation

 

International Participants


Ashley A. Friend (USA)
Aniara Rodado (France/Colombia) 
Fernando de Miguel (Switzerland)
Gavid Gernez (France)
Hector Thami Manekhla (South Africa)
Jamie Jewett (USA) 
Jeannette Ginslov (South Africa/Denmark) 
Jens Biedermann (Switzerland)
JOU jo (Japan) 
Liliana Goldman Carrizo (USA/Urbana) 
Oscar Martin Correa (Switzerland)
Melissa Ellberger (Switzerland)
Mitsuaki Matsumoto (Japan)  
Nunzio Verdinero (Switzerland)
Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld  (Spain/Berlin) 
POL (Switzerland)
Riikka Theresa Innanen (Finland) 
Susana Panadez Diaz (Spain) 
Thabiso Pule (South Africa) 

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Moving Without A Body
Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
By Stamatia Portanova
Overview
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does not amount to a technical assessment of software’s capacity to record motion but requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become.

Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution, including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers these technologies and dances as ways to think—rather than just perform or perceive—movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the performance: a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance. Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, Moving without a Body offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.

Stamatia Portanova choreographs technology, media, dance, and philosophy together to make a brilliant, multilayered account of contemporary culture and the changes and possibilities brought by the floods of computation. This is a book full of sensual abstraction and lucid, rigorous bodies: an inspiration!”
Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

Moving without a Body is a book about choreography, and about the use of digital technologies in contemporary dance. But beyond this, the book also offers a deeply original discussion of the relations between body and mind, between analog and digital, and between the fluidity of the organic and the algorithmic complexity of software. These pairs of terms should not be seen as opposites; for Stamatia Portanova demonstrates the fertile creativity that arises from their intertwining.”
Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University; author of Without Critiera: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

“In the increasingly rich literature exploring the intersections between contemporary dance and philosophy, Stamatia Portanova’s Moving without a Body stands out as a true achievement. Investigating the digital as metaphor of thought, Portanova shows how choreography is not only concerned with the creation of artistic works, or with the implementation of training techniques, but reveals itself to be also, and importantly, an ‘abstractive perspective’ that forces us into thought—as Deleuze would say.”
André Lepecki, Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

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Entrycall 2010

Call for entries dance screen at Cinedans 2010!
Festival dates 8 – 12 December, 2010



Stichting Dioraphte will award € 7500,-
and € 2000,- for the winning filmmakers of dancescreen 2010 at Cinedans.
Cinedans would like to thank Stichting Dioraphte for supporting the competition of this years festival!

‘Dioraphte Student Encouragement Award’ € 2.000,-
‘Dioraphte Cinedans jury award’ € 7.500,-

NOTE The deadline for entry is July 21st 2010!

Bright prospects for lovers of video dance: Come and join us in the Dutch city of Amsterdam! Cinedans and the IMZ would like to cordially invite you to participate in dance screen at Cinedans 2010: On 8 – 12 December, Cinedans will host this 12th international festival and competition for dance films and videos. In Cinedans, dance screen has found synergetic partners to co-organise this event. Additionally to programming dance films and videos Cinedans also focuses on crossover projects and media installations. Cinedans further features commissioned film projects, installations, live games and workshops and will take place from 8 – 12 December.

dance screen at Cinedans 2010 will be featuring an irresistible programme of events! In addition to the extensive film programme, lively panels and productive discussions on the state of the arts, inspiring lectures, hot topic talks on community focal points and presentations will let us explore the variety of our alluring playgrounds. The video library is as always a wide fishing pool for programmers offering a varied overview on the art form.

Focussing on excellence and innovation, the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 competition forms the centre of the festival, which thus will culminate in the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 Award Gala, presenting the ‘Dioraphte Cinedans jury award’ of € 7.500,- and the ‘Dioraphte Student Encouragement Award’ of € 2.000,-

Hence high time to put out our first call for entries! You may submit your work(s) in the following categories:

A) Live performance relay
Multi-camera relay of a live dance performance

B) Camera re-work
Adaptation of an existing choreography

C) Screen choreography
Television/film/data productions with a choreography specifically created for the screen, movement based video clips, experimental films, animation & fiction

D) Documentary
Profile or feature of e.g. a choreographer, a dance company, dance history, etc.

Competition Rules, Online entry form, Online personal registration form are to be found on: dance screen

Deadline for submission and receipt of material is 21 July 2010!
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Part of the series Choreography or ELSE


“My Private Bio-politics” performance by Saša Asentić was from the beginning conceived as an open research within the field of dance and performance in Eastern-European transitional context. It arose as a part of a perennial research and artistic project called „Indigo Dance“ in which a number of associates of different profiles were included – performer and culture worker Saša Asentić, ballerina, dancer, and choreographer Olivera Kovačević – Crnjanski, performing arts and culture theoretician and dramaturge Ana Vujanović, as well as others – and is realized through different work formats: in addition to the performance, there are also a CD presentation “Bal-Can-Can Susie Dance” and historical archive/video installation “Tiger’s Leap into the Past” and “Recycle Bin” as its addition.

Author and performer: Saša Asentić
Assistance: Olivera Kovačević-Crnjanski
Theoretical support and dramaturgy: Ana Vujanović

Duration: 55 minutes

Premiere date: 11th February 2007

Place of premiere: Serbian National Theatre – Novi Sad, Serbia

Supported by: Performance is made in co-production with Centre national de la danse – Paris, research in residency (Theorem Dance residencies), and is prepared within interdisciplinary dramaturgical trainings of THe FaMa in Belgrade and Dubrovnik. Performance is supported by DanceWEB (with the support of the Cultural Programme 2000 of the European Union within the frame of danceWEB Europe).

Concept:
This work tries to deal with its own macro and micro conditions in which it appears.

For the beginning, to make them visible because of specification of mechanisms and procedures of the production of dance on Serbian scene. Then, to intervene. However, this led to a series of questions which were left without final answers. Finally, these questions, in their complexity, became the main intervention which this work is going to try to carry out. 

The questions spring from the problem of positioning within relations of global and local bio-powers and bio-politics of dance in Serbia today. How to locate “one’s own (private and public) specificity”? And what is to be done with it bearing in mind the tensions between local ideologies and global expectations related to these ideologies: evacuate it from the work in order to achieve successful communication (or coquetting) with the global, that is, Western, trends, in which this specificity is not included; or to base the work on it even at the cost of failure, i.e. exclusion from conceptual-programmatic map of the international scene? Furthermore, does the former strategy gives us “a right to discourse” or is this decided at a completely different place and by means of completely different procedures?

Which ”bodies” are imprinted in the body that is dancing today on the Serbian scene? For example, which bodies (coming from this specific context) are projected, through expectations of a hypothetical “Western curator, and by this a spectator as well, almost as a genetically determined feature/difference from the “Western one”?
Where the particularity of that context is, in its contemporaneity, very gloomy – that context is not a part of the First World, it is not EU, it is still called the East (even though the West is not called “West” any more), it is post-socialist in the capitalist world, and it is terribly transitional, without a single bit of “flexibility and nomadism” which would make it exotic.
Which are, on the local dance scene, the bodies that hover dancing in the air here, over an “indigo paper” (carbon copy), without being “grounded” in such a context, and which are moved by a wish to be contemporary, maybe even resistant? And then again, which are the other bodies that would carry the local specificity, for which, in fact, neither we ourselves want to know? Nevertheless, if we construct and show them, although we would rather not… which bio-politics are we executing? Isn’t it not already a contribution to some other bio-power? Local? Or…? Where, in this (inter)space are this work and the politics of the body that will perform it in a public space, which we share and in which we continue to live?

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Bio


Saša Asentić has interest in re-thinking and experiencing (performer’s) state of “I am…” through differentiation and understanding of actual reality (current situation in transitional society and performing arts scene) through artistic / social / political (re)actions.
He has experience as author, co-author and performer in different performative forms in diverse contexts (since 1998).
Individually or together with his colleagues, he has initiated several international and collaborative performing arts projects: workshops, seminars, festivals, etc (since 2000).
His work was presented in different festivals and art centers in USA, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Lithania, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, etc. (since 2000).
Asentić has autodidactic informal education in the field of performing arts (since 1995), he is initiator of the artistic organization Per.Art (2005) and author and leader of program „Art and Inclusion“ for mentally disabled people (since 1999).
He took part in ex.e.r.ce 2008 program in Centre choregraphique national Montpellier and in 6m1L extenssion project in 2009 in PAF (France) and IN-presentable festival (Spain).
He collaborates with Ana Vujanović, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Bojana Cvejić, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski and others.
Asentić studied Agriculture and Pedagogy at University in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Page on dance-tech.net

dance-tech.net interview with Sasa Asentic and Ana Vujanovic at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City. March 9th 2009


 
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PRESS QUOTES:

 

…A Bosnian who lives in Serbia, Asentić decided on lecture-performance format not because he, as he noticed self-ironically, “wouldn’t be able to produce a dance piece,” but first of all, to raise the issues dealing the way of functioning and codes of dance concern. In “My Private Biopolitics” the performer is toying with quotes of Western-European role-models like Jérôme Bel and Xavier Le Roy, and opposes clichés of “exotic,” “awkward” and “old-fashioned”, with which an Eastern-European artist has to fight against, if they wish to endure on an international market.
tanznetz.de (Berlin, Germany)
Reviews –Shows – Burning questions
Tanz im August Festival 2007

 


…Productions like Sasa Asentic΄'s which do not hold the terrified and terrifying mask of contemporaneity up to their audiences' face, fare better. Sasa Asentic΄ plays around with the trauma in a humorous and funny way, keeping his ironical distance to the mask without denying both the artistic and economic necessity to deal with it.
Balkan Dance Platform 2007 Journal (Athens, Greece)
The Fear of Representation, or Reifying the Weosft eCronn Itmemagpeo raneity
Gerald Siegmun

...In this critical look at the Serbian dance scene, Mr. Asentic also explores larger issues in the world of contemporary dance. His observations, through text and movement, delve into questions of marketability and what constitutes authentic Eastern European dance...

...There are many levels to “My private bio-politics” — a good thing — yet its message is simple: Always break the rules.

The New York Times (New York, USA)


...Serbian artist Sasa Asentic directly addresses the question of the creative distribution system, deconstructing the absurd processes, expectations, and outcomes it produces. He uses linguistic tricks borrowed from theorists, picking apart their practical quandaries, all the while constructing his argument and, by extension, this particular performance...

 

...Critical and self-reflexive, Asentic exposes and exploits the absurd conditions that exist within our cultural systems, laughing but aware of the consequences that come when those at the margins are brought into the center.

What's particularly enticing about the artist's implicit thesis is that by participating as audience members at his debut US performance - that is, in purchasing his performance product through the distribution modes of the West - we become part of the dialectic in the immediate moment of the performance as it happens.

It's hard to make ontological pluralism or theory of any kind entertaining, but Asentic succeeds spectacularly.

Gay City News (New York, USA)

Modes Of Production

Brian McCormick

 

 

…At first site, “My Private Biopolitics” is mainly a text, a conceptual piece, bordering with lecture-performance genre.And then again, as this short council unfolds, it becomes more obvious how Asentić arranged this small piece with quotations and repeated parts, an astonishing shifts of perspective and subtle shifts of context, as well as alternations of closed and complex sequences of movement.

Every sentence, every reminiscence and gesture flows back into discourse on contemporary dance and its conditions in different context. Of course, as a performative practice which Asentić, with such an ease, managed to interweave in a formally completed étude that made it more tangible, and in the same time more convincing, for it lacks any kind of artificial or didactic stance.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Frankfurt, Germany)

My Private Biopolitics” in Frankfurt Mousonturm

 

 

Resources:


MY PRIVATE BIO-POLITICS: A Performance on the Paper Floor (Third phase) for MOVE 10

 

Tiger’s Leap into the Past (evacuated genealogy)

http://vimeo.com/16446445


The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/arts/dance/09asen.html

 

Media, performace and politics
www.bmacmedia.net/?p=130

 

Scena (in Serbian; page 37 – 51)
www.pozorje.org.rs/scena/scena1210.pdf


Of the present of the body by Bojana Bauer

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Arena

Review: YOUR GEOPOLITICS – MY BIOPOLITICS

Andraž Golc

 

Dance is, similarly to music, by its tradition some sort of 'pure' art. Pure, because it realizes the aesthetical effect more directly and primarily than the language does. In other words: dance is attractive because it is mute. A body, being the main organ of dance articulation, is mute. Furthermore, when talking about contemporary dance, which has given the body additional theatre expressive devices, we can talk about aesthetics all of which are, again, in connection with the way the choreographer wants a body to be handled with, ie with his attitude towards the body. Jérôme Bel, for example, brings to his memory bodies in dialogue with mass culture discourse, while, on the other side, while watching bodies closed in precise organic-mimetic minimalism, we think about Xavier Le Roy.

 

Saša Asentić puts in front of us comment dance. In his case, the body speaks and while speaking, it talks about itself. Instead of a body in front of discourse (presence in front of a language), he offers us a body in discourse. We could say that it is all about performance-lecture, but this statement would not be precise enough. The essence is in dance, the one that is present in its absence, with Asentić’s witty remarks.

 

The question that arises is: what kind of show an East-European artist (dancer) should make to draw attention? It goes without saying that being noticed means the same as staying alive. It represents a source of income and a chance to organize on other locations already active shows, as well as a chance to create new ones. In other words: to be noticed, you do not have to be an artist. This truth mostly bothers an artist, on the field of his creativity freedom. The problem that occurs in Asentić's correspondence reading, quoting, and representation of materials for his projects is present to the same degree as in subordinated-stereotypical perspective of West and East which is being kept alive by coordination of an international net of critics and theoreticians about art historization and contemporary aesthetic trends, and also like in inertion of Eastern (in Asentić's context Balkanian) scene that came to his dream like an elephant trained to respond to it by rhetoric, while the elephant itself moves with great difficulties. He asks himself, with ironic sharpness, whether the destiny of dance in Eastern Europe is to continually sink into oblivion, on one hand doomed to its local context and exoticity, and, on the other hand, to refusal of Western aesthetics.

 

In conclusion, Asentić offers us dance that consists of caricatured choreographies of well-known names of modern dance (among them important places are taken by the above mentioned Jérôme Bel and Xavier Leroy) and a video clip (made from the ground floor) without a comment that in the end he satisfies Western aesthetic standards to apply for a festival, which opens him the door to the world.

 

The joke is delicately brutal and the message brings us directly down to earth: freedom in art is relative and territorially conditioned. Geopolitically colored dance valuation forces dancers to develop a strategy of aesthetic manipulation with their own bodies, which is, at the same time, their surviving strategy – their own biopolitics.

 

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Between the seats

“My Private Biopolitics” in Frankfurt Mousonturm

 

Frankfurt. It is a short journey between East and West. But then again, entire worlds lie between the two theatre spheres, which Saša Asentić in “My Private Biopolitics” started to measure over while talking, contemplating mainly in a choreographic-theoretic, therefore practical way. On the left, there appears dance scene as the core abstract frame, as a discourse platform of conceptual strategies with video, sketches and stacks of texts while the right side presents stylized mine field, on which there’s barely anything, except for an icon and, serving as its mirror, a graphics showing a dancer like Loie Fuller or Mary Wigman, with a shiny golden frame.


The space between is basically the one thing that entire Asentić’s performance moves around. This is the performance with which the artist from Bosnia, living in Novi Sad, presented himself for the first time in Frankfurt Mousonturm. Because, the essence of this extraordinary light, and at the same time highly concentrated and continually, pleasantly comic work, is nothing short than contemporary dance itself. And, as far as this subject is concerned, the answers to all those questions asked to someone living in Serbia, who happens to be a dancer there, a socialized artist, he is trying to find in the West. Should he thematize the political context, to give way to traditional dance, or even folklore, so that he, as an outsider, could present himself as refreshingly interesting? Or is he contemplating on Avant-garde from Jérôme Bel to Xavier Leroy, so that he himself could become a part of an international discourse? But, how can that function, to refer to great masters without making a simple “ornament” out of them? How to find your own language and choreographies, without becoming corrupt? At first site, “My Private Biopolitics” is mainly a text, a conceptual piece, bordering with lecture-performance genre.


And then again, as this short council unfolds, it becomes more obvious how Asentić arranged this small piece with quotations and repeated parts, an astonishing shifts of perspective and subtle shifts of context, as well as alternations of closed and complex sequences of movement.

Every sentence, every reminiscence and gesture flows back into discourse on contemporary dance and its conditions in different context. Of course, as a performative practice which Asentić, with such an ease, managed to interweave in a formally completed étude that made it more tangible, and in the same time more convincing, for it lacks any kind of artificial or didactic stance.

 

As “work in regress” (the way that artist characterized his work in the meantime), “My Private Biopolitics” does not show itself simply as a dilemma in form of performance, but in the same time as a way to overcome it through dance, completely in the sense of what Boris Groy said: The basic difference between the Eastern and the Western art is, as performer quoted, the fact that Eastern art always comes from the East. Asentić probably doesn’t believe in that. But he is working on it.

 

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Thanks to Saša Asentić for his close follow up and allowing  us to show to penetrate his process so close to his body/mind,

Marlon Barrios Solano

Dance-techTV Producer

Choreography on ELSE: Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion

Curator

 

 

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Lectures, consulting and labs

on-line producer/curator/researcher/workshop leader

dance and new media/networked media production/collaborative technologies

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I offer consulting, lectures and facilitation of workshop as participatory platforms for knowledge sharing and change with an embodied improvisational approach.
 

I like to share my experience on:

  • On-online/off-line collaborative technologies/methods
  • Social media and hyper-media for artists and cultural managers
  • Movement arts and new media (dance and technology).
  • Networked/collaborative creativity and interactive tools for knowledge production, generation  and distribution
  • Open Space technologies and interactive learning for collaboration and innovation
  • Performance, communication and sustainability
  • Post-pc technologies for collaboration and creation
  • Collaborative spaces and networks for/in the performing arts

I facilitate the materialization of social dynamics that augment dialogue and increase the possibilities of  collaboration for social innovation.

 

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Labs and workshops*:

With a hybrid background on dance, cognitive science, new media and organizational development, I combine improvisational arts, collaborative methodologies, on-line  collaborative technologies, eco-systemic approaches and mindfulness training to facilitate the necessary environment and collaborative architectures to augment participation, engagement and innovation.

I focus on embodiment, collaborative creativity and the potential of the new internet for the development of alternative and self-organizing  strategies for knowledge production  and learning.

I use interactive learning strategies, games and open space technologies as relational interventions questioning traditional approach for knowledge sharing between bodies, countries, disciplines and organizations.

I have lectured and facilitated workshops in more than 20 countries within professional events (conferences, symposiums, festivals) and educational institutions.

* All workshops are adaptable in their formats and may be modified based on needs and local conditions. 

Open Space Technology is the main format  for all workshops.

Mobile lab equipment is provided.

 

meta_creation lab

Inter-actors, attractors and the aesthetics of complexity

An embodied collaborative workshop interfacing movement art practices, digital arts, computational networks and social systems oriented to movement and interdisciplinary artists (music, new media, theater, etc)


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This workshop is a collaborative lab to creatively explore the contemporary performing approaches of real-time composition considering them practices of an aesthetics of self organization and of complex systems.

An embodied/distributed cognition approach is used to generate physical activities and games (scores), guided discussions/conversations about relevant artists works and concepts exploring the aesthetic of embodied complex systems  their emergent properties for spaces activated by human and computational actions.

meta-creation are  real-time composition games/scores, that explore the dynamic couplings of mind, body and information/data flows as a hybrid meta-design that allows for emergent and self-organized "dramaturgies"  and/or performance experience.

This workshop is an open space for experimentation and inquiry about  bottom-up architectures as compositional prototyping strategies and processes.

The participants explore interactivity plus generativity:  use of rule systems, computational and hybrid (human/machine) algorithms as "scores" conceiving the performance space as a cognitive system.

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meta_media lab
social media production and internet presence in art festivals and events
Open Studio/Installation/Workshop

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meta_media lab sustainable collaborative format to produce and distribute networked digital content in the arts. It is geared to collaborate with artistic venues and festivals on leveraging the viral power of social media platforms and the new Internet (Web 2.0) augmenting presence, developing audiences and facilitating the generation and distribution of knowledge. These strategies benefit from an engaged international community of more than 5000 members including individual artists and organizations.


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MOTION in the Cloud

social media dynamics for art administrators and stubborn artists

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The new internet is social, locative, multimedia rich and open.  It offers many possibilities to  artists and art managers (organizations) to augment their presence, produce and distribute knowledge and develop collaborative artistic experiments. The participants are introduced to the basic principles of the new internet and its fundamental technological characteristics and platforms. Strategies are developed and  prototyped.


mobile_lab is provided


DIY=DIWO

Do It Your Self with Others

Embodied /Distributed Creativity Lab

Open Space  for creative collaboration

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A collaborative space is facilitated with open format methodologies combining  improvisational embodied activities, games and exchange.

This approach is the frame for any kind of collaborative gathering and creative laboratory in the cultural industries or organizations.

 

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INVISIBILITY OF THE PRESENT - TRANSMEDIALE 2010

The speed of our times is accelerating, day by day the rhythm grows faster. We are doing more and more things at the same time. Our digitalized lives are virtually (social-)networked. Digital technologies and information last only for very short time. A computer is outdated within less than 5 years time, news are updated in a 5 second frequency and thus outdated within a couple of hours. Thanks to micro-blogs, messages get shorter and shorter, provide us with life search to keep up with the pace.

The huge amount of digital data processed per day makes it difficult to keep track of them. This also occurs to digital art projects, whose creators or buyers stand before the problem on how to archive them in a reliable way. Everything we do and use is more temporary than ever before. The present seems to get shorter and shorter. To be able to project towards the future, we'd need to be able to define presence more thoroughly. To know what the present is. BUT: The importance of thinking of the future helps us to give meaning to the present. A viscous circle then?

Contemporary visions and imagination of future have a big identity problem.

Future is no longer what it had been. Present is no longer what it had been. And the present is not yesterday's future... tm10 (Transmediale Festival 10, 2 - 7 February 2010) was dedicated to this contemporary identity crisis of the future. With its great varieties of installations, performances, conferences, workshops , etc., we had wonderful, very versatile and contrary discussions and approaches, not so much to tackle the problem of the future's identity crisis, but to name it and think about it, to raise new questions, to explore solutions for not being part of a disappearing past.

After an inaugural speech that shows us images of the moon landing (yes the original 1969 event), the tm10 opens officially with a flashback to "modern" vision of future. Charlemagne Palestine, modern composer, musician, bell expert (& whiskey lover), gives us a half hour concert, ringing bells of the Tiergarten's bell tower…. With this image of an ancient means of communication, the bell tower, we are prepared to travel towards a nearer past, the 1980s: At the same time Yvette Mattern's7-colored rainbow laser-beam was projected from Berlin's hkw, (with its' stunning 1950s architecture in shape of an oyster shell) to the 1960s architectural gem Fernsehturm at Alexanderplatz.

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Fernsehturm Alexanderplatz © ANBerlin

Two symbolic architectonic cold war signs of the former east and the former west part Berlin. A sign for the reunification of Berlin, she states. To me it seems rather a time travel to a period when two superpowers were competing to own the future. The whole opening ceremony was visually, sonically and conceptually a collective time travel towards a moment when
utopia and future vision were still intact.

Let's jump to more present times: tm10 invited — amongst many others - Bruce Sterling (placing him next to an overhead projector he unfortunately didn't use). Sterling, sci-fi novelist and a central figure in utopia and visions of future, gives us an entertaining but dark-visioned speech about atemporality [1], to place ourselves in the present, questioning the relations and concepts of past, present and future. His talk, full of pleonasms and contradictions gets confusing, as he seems to mix up art-historic terms. The difference in postmodernism and network culture/atemporality is, that the latter doesn't define the problem, gets overloaded by irrelevant information and stays completely disorganized. That's why we cannot define history or present.

He appeals to "creative artists" to refuse being driven by technology, refuse reverence to the past in order to move forwards; to become the vision of the future ourselves in order to be convincing with our art. To give a ••• about what others think of us and personify our utopia(s).[2] His visions will give you a chill….

THE EXPOSITION

At Future Obscura, the festivals exhibition at hkw, the presented artworks are using language of the past to talk about the present situation. About a present that might have been future in the past. A nostalgic and historical presence. The artworks use any historic image making techniques (rather than THE state of the art) from photography, film-making and robotics to "create a collisions between the past, the present and future" [3], whereas I found future visions were lacking completely .

The artworks thematize already existing technologies, putting them in context with contemporary everyday life. They translate common digital situations and phenomena into the visual, sonic, into the artistic field. The little Paparazzi-Bot, a robot that recognizes movement and (if you're not too quick), shoots a photo of you, that is transmitted via a noisily disturbed wifi connection to a small flatscreen just behind it. The images shot by the robot will be uploaded to the webpage manually by human beings. Quite a 1970s manual work for nowadays…

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Paparazzi-Bot © Jonathan Gröge

The most impressive work at the exhibition was Gebhard Sengmüller's A Parallel Image. An electronic Camera Obscura, the installation uses 2500 copper cables connecting a photo sensor unit with a display unit, consisting of 2500 light bulbs. It illustrates how the composition of a digital image would look like if serial data transmission had never come to existence. The installation sends all pixel data in parallel. A very poetic way of reflecting the present, assuming past events didn't happen and offering a "new" solution to an old, already solved problem: how to live-project moving image.

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Parallell Image - © Jonathan Gröge


SATELLITE EXPOSITIONS

[The User], with Coincidence Engines One & Two: Universal People's Republic Time translates the "atemporality" problem by using the time machine itself as part of his installations. The two-part installation, takes the clock out of context and uses it as a sound and light making machine. Coincidence Engine One is a tower of unsynchronized analogue alarm clocks whose tickings build up to a beautiful sonic environment. The second part is a wall of synchronized clocks, that are equipped with an external control, so each clock ticks only in response to instructions issued by the artists. Patterns of light and sound events move rhythmically across the vertical plane. Coincidence Engines is an actual reflection about the present, about time and atemporality with thoughts and play behind it.

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One of the few women present(ed) at tm10, AgnesMeyer-Brandis surprises amusingly with an unimaginable imaginative piece of work: The installation Cloud-Core-Scanner – Inside the Tropospheric Laboratory [4] exhibited at Schering Stiftung. Agnes Meyer-Brandis explores the experimental edge between art, science and technology and borders between facts and fiction, which
you definitely will discover when looking at the installation. My first impression left me confused. You really have to confront yourself with the piece to dive into it's surreal narrative.

The installation Inside the Tropospheric Laboratory gives insights into material that Agnes Meyer-Brandis generated under conditions of extraterrestrial realities: it was developed in micro-gravity on a scientific flight in corporation with the German space agency. The oversized test tube construction consisting of a variety of elements that, one after another get into action at a certain point, has something theatrical, scenic about it.

A laser printer and a lit candle produce CO2 particles which are captured into a glass balloon. The number of particles are measured. At a certain amount, a noisy sound coming from a vacuum pump (that leaves the bowl in vacuum as you can imagine), announces the creation of a little cloud. This triggers (or seems to at least) subsequent events: a disc filled with objects is rotating. A video of one randomly selected object filmed in microgravity is projected on the wall and on a thick piece of plastic. At the same time a stone who seemingly lives in zero gravity, is being measured by a constantly moving aluminum bar.

Far away from artistic romanticism she wants to scan the cores of the clouds. To get into the heart of the object of investigation. As artistic science the results are images rather than formulas. Images and relations. A very poetic research-experimentation on how the future of art could look like.

She was also participant at tm10 salon talk: Destination Moon, where she made the listeners dive into her surreal scientific dreamlike narratives.[5]

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ROUND UP

A big trend in the exposed artworks at tm10 was the visualization of the invisible. In his audio visual performance Test Pattern, Ryoji Ikeda, pictures the invisible: Data-streams we are exposed to continuously are transformed into a stroboscopic optic attack of black and white barcode patters, flittering flickering and flashing in an almost unbearable speed (100s of frames per second), synchronized perfectly to aggressively electronic sounds that remind of an overlay of dozens of digitalized morse codes, morphing towards some very heavy beats. The system of Test Pattern is converting any kind of data (such as texts, sounds, images, videos….) into barcode patterns. A visualization of the immaterial in the most minimalistic and direct form.


Another approach to the data visualization: the Panoramic Wifi Camera by Adam Somlai-Fischer, Usman Haque, Bengt Sjölénvon, who illustrate the wifi-nets as colorful clouds and their physical behavior;

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Julius von Bismarck visualizes the camera movement of movies in his The Space Beyond Me [6], Agnes Meyer-Brandis with her Cloud-Core-Scanner the consistence of a cloud, Ken Rinaldo's Paparazzi-Bots the users that interact with it, Alice Miceli's Chernobyl Project the invisible radioactive contamination in Chernobyl…

On the contrary, the Artvertiser project un-visualises the visible by replacing (visual) data we usually consume on a daily basis. Julian Olivier and Clara Boj, Diego Diaz and Damian Stewart have developed a little binocular which, walking through the city, distresses our overcharged visual senses. Ads are detected by the machine and replaced by artworks of your choice (still images, video, animation…).


AWARDS

The aspects of Bruce Sterlings "atemporality" idea, the shallowness and disorder of contemporary (or atemporally) art are mirrored not only in this year'snominations, but also in the awarded work by Michelle Teran, "Buscando al Sr. Goodbar". Connecting the virtual and "real life," Teran uses geo tagged youtube videos in the city of Murcia, Spain, that automatically get displayed on GoogleEarth. The "participatory performance" offered a bus tour to explore the city's the geo-tagged places. The tour took simultaneously place on Google Earth and YouTube. With this (voyeuristic) work she wants to question the reason behind publishing intimate data with the exact geographic location. Her answers are not really convincing, seemingly shallow she states "people seem to have the urge to reveal and display their private lives." The award jury's statement didn't help to convince either. [7]

Connecting the (social) web and the physical space is in not so much a novelty and has been done in more interesting ways before.[8]

It seemed not to have undergone the filter of the artists' perception/opinion, world and future view, seems rather the ingredients for an uncooked meal. Take a youtube, take a google earth, travel to the place of investigation and invite some viewers to travel the map….

Should transmediale's future-barometer be the only truths, we'd face a mixture of a quite stressful, chaotic and indigestible digital era of consumption without time and space for reflection…. And a time of wild creation of new visual forms of anything you'd never known about…. It was definitely a very communicative, networked and entertaining event, and a big petty I couldn't stay for the whole event.

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[1] Atemporality is a "modern (I think he means contemporary) phenomenon… a problem in the philosophy of history. His definition is well worth checking out: The full transcript of the speech can be read on Sterling's blog

[2] The whole conference can be seen in video here. An interview with Bruce Sterling in german at de-bug

[3] Comment by Honor Harger, the curator of the exhibition in an interview with freshmilk.tv

[4]Agnes Meyer-Brandis' installation Inside the Tropospheric Laboratory looks for an answer to the question: "what are clouds made of"? By moving towards the clouds, on a micro-gravity flight with a German Space Agency plane, she leaves terrestrial realities behind, gets close to her subject of studies, trying to grasp it with her hands.

[5] here she was presenting various of her projects: the one I liked most was meteorites… a project in a siberian she organized public meteorite-crash-onto-earth-viewing event together with the museum.

[6] Old school film camera with a light source to convert it into projector. A software analyses the camera movement and makes the projection move accordingly. It is a mechanical version of a process that happens in the brain when watching a film with camera movement.

[7] Jury Statement:“Buscando al Sr Goodbar by Michelle Teran is a timely and considered exploration of synergies between online social space and physical urban spaces. Her work asks us to consider the hidden pockets of virtuosity that take place all around us. In her hands, online tools become not only a platform for display, but a method of discovery and reconnection to other people. She combines old methods (bus tours)and new (online tools) to create a work that is a complex commentary on our present moment, but also points the way to future layering of our digital and physical selves."

[8] Looking at works like Goldberg's 'The Robot in the Garden'[ link], and at [link], the builders association, Blast Theory, you will find a relevant use of the connection between the virtual and the "real"
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Go to Motion Bank Website

MOTION BANK is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

Public educational activities and events reflecting the diverse issues related to score creation will be offered at The Frankfurt Lab, and will include performances and presentations of the guest choreographers as well as lectures. Workshops and residencies organized with senior scientists and scholars aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research based on questions coming from dance practice. Exchange of information with and support for related projects is facilitated through working groups and associate networks.

The pilot project for Motion Bank is the award winning Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced: a joint project of William Forsythe and The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance.

*The guest choreographers for 2010-2013 will be Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, and Bruno Beltrão.


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Prague Call for Participation | Deadline 22|2|2011

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ENTER: DATAPOLIS (April 14-17, 2011) is the 5th art | tech biennale held in
Prague, Czech Republic, organized by CIANT.


http://festival-enter.cz

Exhibitions | Performances | Lectures | Debates | Workshops | Screenings

DATAPOLIS is a call for theory and practice based proposals addressing
emerging interactions of media technologies, novel visualization practices
and urban realities.

Let us discover the moods and the rhythms of our cities, bodies and planet
and innovatively mash both visible and invisible data that re-present
individual and collective lives and actions.

Keywords: data, city, communities, mapping, social, geographical,
economical, political, sentient, ambient, mobile, ubiquitous, embedded
intelligence, architecture, furniture, clothes, quantified selves, body &
environment monitoring, robotic systems, trash, transport, pollution, open
innovation & design

Among the artists and researchers pre-negotiated to participate there are
(A-Z): Darina Alster (CZ), Guy van Belle (BE/CZ), Dusan Barok (SK), Prokop
Bartonicek (CZ/DE), Laura Beloff (FI), Mar Canet (ES), Daphne Dragona (GR),
Takumi Endo (JP), Andy Gracie (GB/ES), Varvara Guljajeva (EST), Michal
Kindernay (CZ), Martin Kohout (CZ/DE), Alessandro Ludovico (IT), M2F? (FR),
Macula (CZ), Michael Markert (DE), Akos Maroy (HU), Julian Oliver (NZ/DE),
Radka Peterova (CZ), Marie Polakova (CZ/ES), Jan Rod (CZ/JP), Tomas Rousek
(CZ), Mark Shepard (USA), Petr Sourek (CZ), Franco Torriani (IT), Mahir M.
Yavuz (TU), and many more...

We invite your participation too!

Submission deadline for artworks, papers, posters: 22|2|2011

Submit via: http://festival-enter.cz/participate

Organized by CIANT (http://ciant.org/) in partnership with NTK | National
Technical Library (http://www.techlib.cz/en/) and in media partnership with

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12249504078?profile=original|FESTIVAL VIDEODANZABA - NOVEMBER 22 to 27, 2011

 

Call for entries: videodance, documentaries 

DEADLINE: MAY 16, 2011
Call for papers: MAY 30, 2011

 

The International Festival VideoDanzaBA opens its call for

videos and papers

for its thirteenth edition, to be held November 2011.

Entries must be registered online at www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar

 

Videos have to be delivered until May 16, 2011 to:

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL VIDEODANZABA

CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION CINEMATOGRAFICA

Benjamín Matienzo 2571 (C1426 DAU) Buenos Aires – Argentina

 

Jury for videos: Rodrigo Alonso, Diego Terotola, Silvina Szperling

International Symposium of Videodance Coordinator: Susana Temperley

 

We are waiting for your piece!

                     
                 
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GVA Sessions 2011 Dialog: Sound and Movement July 16th - 23rd 2011

GVA Sessions is an interdisciplinary research and international exchange platform organized by the Gilles Jobin Company, geared to respond to the ever changing artistic environment of the performing arts, primarily contemporary dance, music and related creative technologies.

The GVA Sessions 2011 we will be focusing on exploring one of the longest established collaborative partnerships in the performing arts: that between choreographer and composer, choreography and music. This year, it will offer a mixed format providing a collaborative space for different types and levels of knowledge, artists research and production.

Since 2007, the GVA Sessions have led knowledge exchange gatherings inviting international creative arts practitioners to Geneva (Switzerland) with the goal to share their artistic inquiry, think  and create together, in an informal collaborative yet rigorous setting.
GVA Sessions is offered to the selected participants through a grant. More infomation on the website of the Cie Gilles Jobin.
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The GVA Sessions 2011 will take place in Geneva in July as an eight days seminar-workshop. It offers to the participants a hybrid collaborative format that will have two intersecting instances:

1. Perspectives and Frames International Seminar : July 16  - 17   2011
We will start a two day seminar over the weekend with an international guest group of choreographers, composers and interdisciplinary artists who will dissect and discuss with participants their recent work and practices, exploring the practical and conceptual challenges involved in the composition of choreography, music and sound.

Speakers :
Cristian Vogel (composer), Myriam Gurfink (choreographer), Cindy Van Acker (choreographer), Ariella Vidach & Claudio Prati (interdisciplinary artists), Anna Huber (choreographer), Jennifer Bonn (composer), Kasper T Toeplitz (composer), Christian Garcia (composer), Perrine Valli (choreographer), Eric Linder (composer), Andre & Michel Decosterd (music & architecture), Adam Harper (composer, musicologist), Daniel Schorno (composer), Jérome Soudan (composer), Robin Rimbaud (composer), Muriel Romero (choreographer) & Pablo Palacio (composer).

2. Collaborative Lab : July 18  - 23  2011
Monday begins six days of workshop at the Gilles Jobin Company studios where concepts and ideas will be explored and embodied by the GVA Sessions participants in different collaborative configurations. The first 5 days will start with a 90 minutes warm-up leaving the rest of the day for encounters, informal collaborations and self-organizing creative projects.

GVA Sessions 2011 culminates  eight days  of creative explorations with an informal showing session open to the public on Saturday July 23rd 2011.
Other stimulating activities have been scheduled  for two evenings during the week.

GVA Sessions 2011 are oriented to:
Professional dancers, performers, choreographers, composers, musicians, researchers and interdisciplinary artists.

Application process:
Participants  for the GVA Sessions 2011 will be selected via application.
GVA Sessions 11 is limited to 18 participants.

How to apply:
GVA Sessions 2011 will use the GVA Dance Training website for the application:
http://gvadancetraining.ning.com/

Procedure:
- Sign up to the GVA Dance Training website and fill out the profile questions (top right cornerof website).
- Include in your GVA Dance Training profile your bio, picture, meaningful projects and collaborations.
- Upload  at least 5 photos and useful online references to your work.
- Send and email to gvasessions11@gillesjobin.com with a short statement of interest including previous dance and music collaborations (if any) and your reasons why would you like to attend to this event.

Deadline for applications : May 30th of 2011

Inquiries : gvasessions11@gillesjobin.com

Acceptance will be notified in June 2011 via email

NOTE: the selected participants must commit to attend the complete program and  they would be asked for a deposit of 300 CHF to reserve the spot in the event. Deposit will be returned after completion of the sessions.

GVA Sessions 11 Production Team:
Gilles Jobin/General Direction
Marlon Barrios Solano/Project Leader/Research Associate
Cristian Vogel/Research Associate
Melanie Rouquier/Production
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Reminder: Dance on Camera Festival 2012
Call for Entries Deadline: October 1, 2011

 

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Dance Films Association is still accepting submissions for our 40th Dance on Camera Festival co-produced with The Film Society of Lincoln Center, taking place January 27-31, 2012.

Entry fee is free to DFA members; $30 for non-members. We accept dance videos of all types and lengths. We welcome screen adaptations of stage choreographies, narratives, documentaries, abstract and experimental shorts as well as performances videos. CompleteEntry Form is available on the DFA Website.

For more information, contact Deirdre Towers, Festival Curator. Thank you for your participation.

 

 

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URGENT WANTED: 2 FEMALE DANCERS, 1 FEMALE ACTOR,

FOR EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECE

DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE: MAY 23RD at LA CASA ENCENDIDA, MADRID (SPAIN)

-2 female dancers, 1 female actor (English is OK and/or Spanish speaking is perfect)  to be a part of an experimental piece, outside of the 'comfort zone' in an art exhibition space in Madrid

Description / Concept

The piece is created by Elena Bajo, a visual artist who has exhibited internationally and

focuses on the social, political aspects of the site in the city of Madrid. Bajo combines performance with large scale installations to investigate the political and social conditions of change in post-industrial structures, creating site specific work and a space of collective action.

The performers will be required to perform in the space. They will be required to do both improvised and choreographed movements determined before hand with the artist. The generator of the piece is a political text/poem.

This political text-manifesto will be handed to the performers and it will be used to generate their individual choreography (in the case of the dancers), and the scripts (in the case of the actors)

Total duration of the performance around 20 min. 

I am preparing a performance at La Casa Encendida, the opening is the May 23, the curator is Juan Canela. I'm looking for 3 women performers: two dancers who are interested in creating their own choreography, solo (the dancers)  and her own script (for the actress) starting with an anarchist text ongoing work fruit of my artistic research. You should create a choreography or a script 2-3 minutes long and it will be shown in a 15-20min performance. The total duration of the solo piece that the performer should prepare based on the text is just around 1-2 min (that will be looped in different ways throughout the performance, 20 mins in total). The piece consists of a solo part, rehearsed and a collective-improvised part unrehearsed.

None of the performers will know what the others are presenting until the moment of the performance . I would like to work with performers who can work the concept of exhaustion in dance (Andrei Lepecki) and performance (Becket the quadrant)  non-movement and still movement, more postmodern and conceptual, more absence than presence .... 

Conceptual line, aware of the postmodernist discourse and technique,  Yvonne Rayner, Trisha Brown, Laban technique...etc

REHEARSALS: 2  days, 2 hour/day rehearsals and1 run-through the day of the performance or the day before.

If you are interested in this project please send me an email to elena@elenabajo.com  including a link where I can see your work  as soon as possible. Express briefly why you want to participate in the project. You will be contacted by email to proceed forward. This is quite urgent. 

If you don't have a link to video online let me know and I would send you a text fragment to prepare something short 1-2 min that you could record in Skype or video camera or iphone.

This is an event widely advertised and expected to be a good exposure and experience.

You will receive a small payment for your participation, dvd video footage and photos of the performance as well as program credits.  The greatest reward of this project lies in that you're interested in the experience for your work.

More information about Elena Bajo’s work you can find in her webpage: www.elenabajo.com

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SE BUSCAN: 2 bailarinas y 1 actriz, MUJERES, 

PARA PIEZA DE PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTAL en MADRID, SPAIN

Dia de la performance: 23 de mayo en La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ESPAÑA) 

-2 Bailarinas,y 1 actriz (acento extranjero en Inglés está bien y hablar español es perfecto) para formar parte de una pieza experimental, fuera de la "zona de confort" en un espacio de exposición de arte en Madrid, La Casa Encendida

Descripción / Concepto 

La pieza esta creada por Elena Bajo, un artista visual que ha expuesto a nivel internacional y 

se centra en los aspectos sociales, políticos del sitio en la ciudad de Madrid. Bajo combina performance con instalaciones a gran escala para investigar las condiciones políticas y sociales del cambio en las estructuras post-industriales, la creación de trabajo específica del sitio y un espacio de acción colectiva. 

Será necesarios que las performers actúen en el espacio de exhibición. La pieza tendrá elementos improvisados y tambien movimientos coreográficos determinado de antemano con la artista. El generador de la pieza es un texto político / poema. 

Este texto-manifiesto politico será entregado a los performers y se  utilizara para generar su coreografía individual (en el caso de los bailarines), y el guion (en el caso de los actores) 

Duración total de la actuación en torno a 20 min. 

El performance se realizara  el 23 de mayo y el curador es Juan Canela. Estoy buscando a 3 mujeres artistas: dos bailarines que estén interesados ​​en crear su propia coreografía, solo (los bailarines) y su propio guión (para la actriz) a partir de un texto anarquista en curso fruto de mi trabajo de investigación artística. Debe crear una coreografía o una secuencia de comandos de 2-3 minutos de duración y se mostrará en una actuación de 15 -20 min. La duración total de la pieza en solitario que el performer debe preparar partiendo del texto esera de 2-3 min (que se presentara en loop de diferentes maneras a lo largo de la actuación, 20 minutos en total). La pieza consta de una parte en solitario, ensayado y una parte colectiva improvisada. 

Ninguno de los artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes sabrá lo que los otros están presentando hasta el momento de la actuación. Me gustaría trabajar con actores que pueden trabajar el concepto de agotamiento de la danza (Andrei Lepecki) y el rendimiento (Becket el cuadrante) no-movimiento y still movimiento, más postmodern y conceptual, más  ausencia de movimiento que presencia .... 

Línea conceptual, consciente del discurso posmoderno y de la técnica, por mencionar modelos: Yvonne Rayner, Trisha Brown, técnica de Labán. 

ENSAYOS: 2 días, 2 horas / día y 1 día antes del opening para el run though con todas las performers. 

Si este proyecto es de tu interés, por favor envíame un 

correo electrónico a elena@elenabajo.com incluyendo un enlace a video donde pueda ver una muestra de tu trabajo o de como te mueves,  tan pronto como sea posible. Por favor expresa brevemente por qué deseas participar en este proyecto. Me comunicare contigo por correo electrónico para continuar el proceso. Esto es muy urgente. 

Si no tienes un enlace de video online dejamelo saber  y entonces te le enviaria un fragmento de texto para preparar algo corto 1-2 minutos que se puede grabar en Skype o cámara de video o iphone. 

Este es un evento ampliamente anunciado y se espera que sea una buena experiencia. 

A cambio de tu participación recibirás un pequeño pago, dvd video y las fotos de la actuación, así como los créditos en el programa. Aunque la mayor recompensa de este proyecto radica en que estés interesada en la experiencia para utilizarlo para tu trabajo. 

Más información sobre la obra de Elena Bajo puedes encontrarla en su página web: www.elenabajo.com 

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Techné: body+motion+computation

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Aeolia cello garment shown at TEI 2010

Last week we presented our cello garment to the Tangible & Embedded crowd at MIT's Media Lab. The garment incorporates knitted stretch sensing being developd by Martha Glazzard to feed gestural data back into the performance in real time. The shirt was fitted for Peter Gregson, who does a lot of work with digital music, especially for New Media Scotland's 10th anniversary event last year, and has recently evolved from a proof of concept to a more exciting stage, where we can see the potential for integrated performance and production of new music. Yann Seznec was responsible for the sound design, and also created this video of the work in rehearsal.

Martha recently embarked on her MA at Nottingham Trent University, exploring further the potential functionality and technical issues inherent in knitted structures for wearable circuits (sample above), and we hope to continue the work through movement and choreography.More information on the project can be found on my website website.
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Hello dance-techers, This is Marlon, the network producer. Welcome to new members! remember to take advantage of belonging to this engaged community: explore it!. Take ownership of your page customizing the looks and the formatting and find pointers to other members asking to connect with them. That way you create your own network inside dance-tech.net Share your ideas, work and vision as blog posts, videos, photos create and follow groups and discussions. Also review the dance-tech.interviews and dance-techTV MENU Check out the MENU>on-demand library on dance-techTV A bit of focus... I also want to remind you that the goal of this website is to serve as a platform for information and knowledge exchange on interdisciplinary and innovative approaches on the performance of movement, creativity, embodiment and therefore humanness. The site is open to any individual interested on participating in the conversation within a broad scope of topics and diverse ways contexts and word views. So, diversity is welcome. Allow your common sense, curiosity and creativity to maintain and stretch your contributions within this scope. So, please be mindful about your content and remember that due to our potential for difference and diversity it is very important to add tags and description in order to contextualize to your content...your culture... So...please make it useful for yourself and the community. Highlights: Dance-techTV features Emio Greco | PC: interviews, performance excerpts and documentaries USA dance-techTV announces Special broadcast of the documentary Double Skin/Double Mind From September 27th to October 4th 2009 we will broadcast the documentary Double Skin/Double Mind directed by Maite Bermúdez which has as a reference point a dance workshop created by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. This special broadcast is made possible by MAPP International Productions and Emio Greco | PC Some new dance-tech.interviews Interview with Radhouane El Meddeb @ Beirut International Platform of Dance Across Bodies and Systems: Interview with Susan Kozel Interview with Sonia Sobral @ Rumos ITAU Cultural Danca ( in Portugues) Interviews by deborah hustic aka lomodeedee Interview with Raimund Hoghe: Inner landscapes marked through simplicity Interview with Maja Drobac: Dancing between East and West aka lomodeedee We are featuring Tweeter feeds from dance-tech.net members on home page: Norah Zuniga-Shaw...Thank you Norah! THANKS TO ALL DANCE-TECH.NET VIP CONNECTIONS

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Call for Proposal 2009.La Granja Art Center is a space for the development, research and exhibition of contemporary art work, and also the promoter of new social dynamics between artist and the community through the Chamaco Project.The residency program offers a unique opportunity to step outside of daily live in order to work in a stimulating environment, and provides the privacy for focused work while still encouraging community exchanges with children, art organizations and other artist in Mexico.The Program Committee of La Granja will select from 2 to 4 artists to develop or finish an artistic project. Artist will have different alternatives for the public exhibition of their work. Consistent to the goal of linking the activities of La Granja with the nearby community, guest artists will conduct a working session with the children of Chamaco Project.Disciplines:all media—visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, music, audio, video, digital media.Residency duration:a minimum of 10 days to a maximum of 30 days from March to May 2009.Deadline for the submission of documentation:December 18 2008.Commitments of La Granja and sponsors.1. During the residency:Unlimited use of the studio and / or any other suitable space for the creation of the work.Housing and access to the common areas in the house.Transportation to and from Mexico City to La Granja.Materials for the class with the children of Proyecto Chamaco.One meal each day with Rainbow trout.Servicios de vigilancia y mantenimiento.Logistics and publicity.2. For the exhibition of the work:The Regional Cultural Center of Valle de Bravo:Exhibition of either finished or in progress art work in the auditorium or main gallery. Including but limited to performing arts, confererences, lectures, visual arts exhibitions, etc.50% of the expenses for the installation material for exhibition of visual art work. The other 50% is responsability of the artist.Publicity.Legaria Theater:Presentation of either finished or in progress performing art work. The Legaria Theater will consider the amount of shows (up to three), and will also evaluate paying a fee of $2,000.00 pesos for each performance (around 200 US Dollars), plus 50% of the box office sales, depending on the work to be shown. Publicity.Los Talleres Cultural Center A.C:Housing during the days of the presentations in Mexico City.Exhibition of either finished or in progress art work in the lobby or theater. Los Talleres will consider the amount of shows or time for the exhibition, and will also evaluate paying a fee depending on the work to be shown.Publicity.Senior High Schools and Professional Schools of the National University (UNAM)Presentations in either an auditorium, plaza or classroom. UNAM will consider the number of shows or time for exhibition, and will also evaluate paying a fee to the artist, depending on the work to be shown.Publicity.The Program Committee will select the space for the final presentations depending on the format and technical needs of each project.Artists Commitments1. Expenses paid by artists:Mexican artists: a fee of $160.00 pesos per day.International artists: a fee of $25.00 US Dll. per day.Transportation to Mexico CityAll materials required for their project.2. Collaboration with La Granja´s project:2.1. During the residency:Share their experience with the Children of Chamaco Project (teaching a class, video conference, etc.)Participate from one to a maximum of two hours per day in maintenance activities of La Granja (gardening, general reparations, trash gathering, black berry picking (in season) etc.) and similar needed labors.2.2. At the end of the residency:Submit a written reflexion (three page minimum) about their experience in La GranjaLeave one piece of work made during the residency as a donation to La Granja Art Center. The donated piece is decided upon by the artist and the executive directors.(eg. visual art work, audiovisual o literary work etc.) pieces created specifically to be installed in La Granja are greatly encouraged.Show results of the project (finished or in progress) in the Regional Cultural Center of Valle de Bravo and at least one of the following: Legaria Theater, Los Talleres Cultural Center, Schools at the National University.Answer a written evaluation about the Program of Artistic Residencies.Selection process:The Program Committee composed of artists, curators and other art professionals, will select from two to four of the applicantsTo participate in the selection process each artis should submit either by email or certified mail the following material:Written propousal including: justification, general and specific objectives, needs and expectations, propousal for the work session with the children of Chamaco project and exibition of the art work (no more than 8 pages)Curriculum vitae.Plan to fullfill the compromises required by the program.Supporting material of their art work in an appropiate format (photography, video, cd, publications, etc.)The artist can program their residency in one to three time periods. Each artist will be allowed to have a visitor for up to 2 days by paying the expenses generated by this visit.The final selction will be published by December 25th.The Program for Artistic Residencies 2009 is co-sponsored by: the Regional Cultural Center of Valle de Bravo, the National Coordination for Dance, Dance Coordination of the UNAM, Los Talleres Cultural Center A.C., Legaria Theater, Los Alevines Trout Farm and La Manga Video & Dance.La Manga Video & DanzaContact in México City: Gabriela Medina / Mario Villa / 5563 6433Contact in Amanalco de Becerra: 01 726 2510107Email: mangapc@hotmail.comSend projects to:Nattier 18 - 301Colonia San Juan Insurgentes CP 03730México DF, México
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