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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Video and Texts from Remote Encounters Performance
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:00:51 -0400 (EDT)
Video and Texts from Remote Encounters Performance Sandy Baldwin and Alan Sondheim 1. Alan Sondheim's chat.txt 2. Sandy Baldwin's chat.txt 3. Alan Sondheim's condensed chat.txt 4. Sandy Baldwin's condensed chat.txt - all in: http://www.alansondheim.org/remoteenc.txt - some video: http://www.alansondheim.org/remoteencounters.mp4 About Remote Encounters from Garrett Lynch: Remote Encounters: Connecting bodies, collapsing spaces and temporal ubiquity in networked performance keywords: performance, networked, body, space, place, time, real, virtual URL: http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/ :: Description :: Since the internet entered the public domain in the early 90's there has been an explosion in artistic interest in its use as a means, site and context for creative practice. Much of this practice is performative in nature; ether originating from a performance background and using the internet as a new site and/or augmenting aspect of that practice or is a form of practice developed as direct response to the internet and becomes performative to some degree in its spectatorship. It has been well established that the internet is not the first or only example of the use of a networked technology repurposed for creative practice. There is a clear time line that can be traced back through the practice of Roy Ascott and his coining of the term Telematic Art in the 1980's to artist's use of satellite networks, telephone and other telecommunication devices as each were invented. Seen in this respect the internet can be considered as one of many networked technologies that has enabled networked performance. The internet is unique however in that it is not a singular network type that favours a particular form of media, broadcast or spectatorship. Most famously known as the network of networks it enables multiple protocols of which the world wide web's http is just one, is multimedia in nature and encourages intertextual folding and layering of media, is multi-directional not simply a broadcast communication form, de-centralised in ownership and the majority of its technologies are openly accessible. Remote Encounters, a two-day international conference with performance evening, aims to explore the use of networks as a means to enhance or create a wide variety of performance arts. How do networks as a site for performance provide opportunities for us as artists and performers? In particular how can we remotely collaborate, merge geographically separate places and times, reconfigure the space of performance and the relationship between artist and audience? Location: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN. Date: 11th - 12th of April 2013 _______________________________________________ Our proposal in brief: Pain dance / performance in OpenSim with Sandy Baldwin: textual materials would be presented in the form of chat and sound-over/ voice-over. We would be working with distorted avatars and modeling from tissues, etc. [We'll perform in Second Life.] The text would deal with issues of death, sex, and pain in virtual worlds.