A Meeting is a Meeting is a Meeting
9 short holiday performances by Annie Abrahams and Antye Greie
for You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, show co-curated by Anna FC Smith and Nathalie Boobis
++++++++Time is BST(British Summer Time) + 1h ++++++++
Preferences August 5th 7pm Press evening
Patriotism August 7th 8pm Private view evening
News August 8th 5pm
Wilderness August 9th 5pm
Love August 10th 5pm
Space August 11th 5pm
Communism August 12th 5pm
Collaboration August 13th 5pm
Turn, turn, turn August 14th 5pm
More information from http://bram.org/9meetings
+++ Documentation of the Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation performance at NIMk Amsterdam available from http://bram.org/huisclos/ontranslation/
+++ Article on the HTTP show of this spring IF NOT YOU NOT ME, ANNIE ABRAHAMS AND LIFE IN NETWORKS by Maria Chatzichristodoulou in Digimag 54 May 2010 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1793
workshop at MES56, Yogyakarta
Following the artist talk and installation performance at Tembi contemporary gallery, I gave a 2day-workshop to local artists, at MES56 Gallery, on networked creative collaboration, sharing info about internet platforms, tools and processes.
Humour, focus and motivation contributed to overcome language difficulties. Different priorities, variable accesses to internet and speed of connection (slow at times!) were interesting challenges, reinforcing the demand of being flexible to scale/re-scale/adjust schedule and content. Thanks to MES56! Sip! – photos by Wimo, Akiq, Dolly and Andre -
exhibition on gallery walls:’Contact Lens’ by Victor Zwiers
at Tembi contemporary Gallery, Yogyakarta
Visits to artists encouraged me to formulate better and further the concept of VIRTUAL FOUNTAINS and what networked performance means. It also showed me that if the project is based on contribution and collaboration, it needed to be done in stages.
So Scotia and I made an installation performance at Tembi contemporary Gallery, followed by an artist talk and few days later I gave a workshop (next post).
The installation performance was closely connected to the gallery’s two ponds. Beautiful art space! Plastic bags full of water hung over the ponds (people use them here for drinking). Two of them contained a goldfish. There were 2 simultaneous projections on the walls behind the ponds:
- video of village people, grouped by age, drinking, mixed with images of waterfalls (from plenty to scarcity), ending on an image of drought
- animated loop of Scotia and I drinking from plastic bottles, using internet platform Upstage, with participation of Marlena Corcoran as a remote performer in Munich, performing/responding to me in real time. When the water diminished in the other projection, a wall of plastic bottles gradually covered the frame.
A soundtrack built up, consisting of a common ‘choosing’ rhyme (‘I love him, I love him not’ in 3 languages: Bahasa Indonesian, English and French) layered in crescendo and gave rhythm to Scotia for developing a movement variation inspired by water usage and then, piercing the bags (with same idea of plucking petals from a daisy) creating waterfalls from each into the ponds. This continued until only the bags with the fish remained.
At this point, 2 fish appeared on UpStage saying ‘I love the world, I love it not’ and developed a short ‘on-line performance’. Scotia released the fish into the ponds and piled up all plastic bags.
The cartoonesque fish on UpStage then introduced my artist talk about VIRTUAL FOUNTAINS. – photos by Elly Mangunsong -
trials on Selfworld
Since March, am doing some trials on Selfworld with ActiveLayers (with Cherry in London and Liz in Kawerau (NZ) and James and I in Brisbane). Ivan Chabanaud comes sometimes to our meetings to tweak the server and our room, and in some pix, played Gulliver demonstrating how to use the encoder as a moving backdrop….
We are working on theme of water…made few movies, gather some images and songs, and try to find scores that we can do online.
The use of multi-video streams is powerful, opening up a lot of possibilities but it needs a lot of tweaking and patience, above all for the sound. But somehow being able to see each other is a big reward which gives us all the patience needed!
It gives definitely another space to ‘perform’, a space of intimacy, closeness, macro details, computer’s immediate surrounding, but also outdoors, public spaces, landscapes…
In Yogyakarta (Indonesia), we bought a 3G stick, and continued our trials from here, just beside a paddy field.
James went to internet cafes/parlours to have a separate connection. He could not put his own laptop on the network, and had to use the local computer/webcam….which once was pretty fuzzy (because of fungi growing with humidity)… but other time, were quite interesting cause not in-built in the computer, giving freedom to film around and have various angles.
Because we didn’t have access to printers, we start using other devices with mini-screens to show images (iphone & digital camera), sketches, little objects, using also paper that we were tearing on the spot to shapes… great immediacy, interesting aesthetic, fine movements of hands… to be continued!
Backyard Dances & Electrosmog Festival
James and I participated in BACKYARD DANCES, an on-line community dance which tempted to bring the ordinary and the local to the global stage through a collection of backyard video streams performed by Becca Wood and dancers in Berlin, Brisbane, Oklahoma, Taipa, Auckland City and Auckland Waterview. These locations were linked by the same sound score made of a mash up of backyard videos sent by contributors responding to a call for participation.
Backyard Dances was made for the Electrosmog Festival performance/events program.
ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival introduced and explored this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility they refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.
Part 2, Presentation Dec 09
After 3 months of my fellowship, I presented to peers what I have done and what I am preparing : the first part of the presentation was about ‘Screendance’, second part about ‘Networked Performance’. I delivered the presentation twice:
- at Igneous studio with 18 people, on December 6, 2009 – download transcript
- online with 12 people from 3 different time zones(!), on December 13, 2009, on UpStage and using audio on USTREAM. Download the log.
Below is the video of the 2nd part of the online presentation about ‘Networked Performance’. For the 1st part of the online presentation about ‘Screendance’, see this post (screendance category).
The sessions were followed by a critical response process facilitated by James Cunningham.
KEDJA Oslo + TELE-PLATEAUS
In October 09, KEDJA Oslo encounter was focusing on Dance and New Media.
Kedja from Creation Editor on Vimeo.
TELE-PLATEAUS event this morning 6 Dec 09, at 5am (Oz time) in the context of Cynetart Festival in Dresden. Aim of Tele-Plateaus: to establish a permanent network allowing for direct audiovisual real-time interactions between similarly configured public sites and performance stages across Europe. Tele-Plateaus is composed, controlled and structured by movements of people from different cities. Within these networked stages and sites people from Dresden, Madrid, Norrköping, and Prague (among the first connected cities) can dance and play together. They can simultaneously create pictures, sounds, and light effects by means of their own movements without operating any additional interfaces. The shared virtual hyper-site is based on the generation of data that is available for processing to all computers within a common network. Movement parameters (speed, spatial position, etc.) are captured and digitalised by camera-based motion system and exchanged between computers at distant locations with a technically similar configuration.
DANCETECH was producing the streaming of the event and diffusing interviews about the processes experienced by artists participating at the preparation of the event. (I found some interviews posted afterwards here)
Deadlines – January10 update
31 January 2010 – dança em foco – International Video & Dance Festival
The 2010 edition will take place in August in Rio de Janeiro followed by other cities, with free public showings.
The applications will only be accepted though the site.
5 February 2010 – Arizona State University Art Museum Annual Short Film and Video Festival
guidelines no longer than 10 minutes
The festival is an annual event, taking place in April of each year.
a still image from your entry in digital format (.jpg) for the Web and publicity purposes.
send your DVD copy with a brief description of the work + name + e-mail +phone numbers + mailing address.
Entries selected for the festival will become part of the festival library. By entering the festival, you give the ASU Art Museum permission to make copies of your work for press and educational purposes.
John D. Spiak – ASU Art Museum
Arizona State University
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2911
12 February 2010
Please submit to the online portal
Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in London England on 14-16 June 2010
Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums
covered by
Computational Aesthetics. Specific examples include, but are not
limited to:
• artworks that employ real-time visual processing;
• artworks that employ computer graphics on the web;
• 2D or 3D artworks that run on stand-alone consoles;
• virtual worlds created for the web;
• game art pieces that run on stand-alone consoles or the web;
• performances that include live computer graphics and/or live real-
time visuals; and
• artist presentations, posters or screenings that explore topics
related to computer graphics, modeling, and/or real-time visuals
15 February 2010 Naoussa International Film Festival
- The subject of the films depends on the judgment and the inspiration of the creators. The film has to be mainly created by using digital means. The total duration twenty (20′) minutes for fiction and animation films, ten (10′) minutes for experimental category.
- Please send your film in a DVD (PAL) for the process of selection.In case your film will be selected you should send to Naoussa International Film Festival a projection copy in DVCPRO or DVCAm or miniDV or BETA format.
- completed 18 months maximum before the date of the Festival.
- FILL IN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FORM, print it, sign it and send it along with the film with the indication: “No commercial value, only for cultural reasons” + CD or via e-mail to publications@niff.gr: Stills (in electronic form*) + Photos directors/perforamers (in electronic form*)
TO: Naoussa International Film Festival- Digital View Department – Katsoulaki 1 – Naoussa, 59200 – Greece
28th February 2010
17th – 23th June 2010 Munich short film festival 2010 (Germany) (reelport)
28. February 2010
SIGNES DU NUIT – Paris (reelport) 31. March – 11. April 2010 – deadline: 28. February 2010
- allowed genres: fiction, documentary, experimental, video art
- 30 minutes max. lenght for shorts
- full lenght for documentaries
- films must have been completed on January 1st, 2008 or after
- screen ratio for 35 mm / 16:9 or 4:3 for DV / Sound/Son: PAL or NTSC
- language sequences should have English or French subtitles
28. February 2010
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD (Germany) (reelport)
From 10th to 13th June, accompanied by video installations, workshops, concerts and parties.
1 March 2010 – Companhia de Dança de Almada (Portugal)
“International Platform for Choreographers” and/or “Video-Dance Showcase”
Companhia de Dança de Almada (Almada Dance Company) is organizing a large forum for performing, meeting, dancing and interacting, to be held in Almada from 16 to 18 September, 2010. Individual choreographers or dance companies are welcome to submit their projects. Download the Conditions and the Proposal Application Form
2 March 2010 – [self ] ~imaging // artists portraying themselves in film and video
- The films/videos may be produced between 2005 and 2010
- Excerps of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 10 minutes
- Only one film/video can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be preferably made available online for review and/or download as Quicktime . mov, Windows Media .wmv, Flash video .flv – minimum size 480×360 px, preferred 640×480 px
–> if no own website is available, alternatively the film can be submitted via a free upload/download service, for instance, SENDSPACE – www.sendspace.com – or PANDO – www.pando.com
Once selected, the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality
5 March 2010 http://www.fileprixlux.org/entry-forms.aspx
INTERACTIVE ART
ELECTRONIC SOUND
DIGITAL LANGUAGE
31 March 2010
in May 2010 NapoliDanza – PARTICIPATION RULES
All the companies, videomakers and producers will be admitted to participate sending us a work about dance belonging to one of the following categories:
· A – Recordings of shows or studio processing of shows
· B – Video creations
· C – Documentaries and/or ethnic dances
Participants have to:
• Compile the online entry form on our web site, in each part ( as correct and complete as possible) for each video subscribed – http://www.napolidanza.com/index.asp?ling=e
• Mail us
1. a DVD copy of the video, PAL format only, which will remain as part of the Napolidanza videodance archive and will be used only for not commercial purposes.
2. 1 CD containing at least two still photos in JPEG format about the video, including the back stage working and write information on the support itself (avoid paper prints) and a brief outline (in .doc or .pdf format) about the content of the video (even with printed page attached).
3. (New) For works whose duration exceeds 3 mins. you must send us also a teaser (duration max 3 mins.) on a second DVD copy (always in PAL format) for free publishing on on-line archive on our website Napolidanza.com.
The folder must be sent to: NAPOLIDANZA c/o Marilena Riccio – viale Nicola Fornelli 8, 80132 Napoli – ITALY
FOLDER ARRIVED BY ORDINARY MAIL AFTER APRIL, 15TH 2010 WILL CAUSE RESPECTIVE WORK ELIMINATION FROM 17TH EDITION OF FESTIVAL.
2 April 2010 - One Minute Films of OMFC
(One Minute Film Collection)
5 April 2010 – CologneOFF VI – Cologne Online Film Festival
festival theme: “Let’s Celebrate – memory & identity in an experimental context”
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2004-2010.
- Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 10 minutes (exceptions up to 15 minutes are possible)
- Max 2 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should preferably be made available online for review and/or download
- as Quicktime . mov, Windows Media .wmv or Flash video flv (size 640×480 px)
After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.
Entry form.
23 April 2010 – VISIONI DAL FUTURO festival international contest
second edition .:IridescentWorlds:.
Torino May 28-29-30 2010 Cinema Massimo, Hiroshima Mon Amour
New competition announcement Video and Live media
Visions from the Future 2010 calls all the videomakers and audiovisual researchers to create, shaping image and sound, works that pass through us to imagine IRIDESCENT WORLDS.
Entry Form
30th of April 2010 – K3: Short Film Festival Villach – Awards
The uniqueness of this festival is the courageous mix of engaging and disturbing films.
send films with completed entry form to:
Fritz Hock
c/o K3: Int. Kurzfilmfestival Villach
Eichenweg 16/15
9520 Treffen-Annenheim
Austria/Europe
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TANK TV: An open Call for open minds
tank.tv welcomes submissions. Each piece of work is judged on its own merit rather than on name or history of the artist. In this way, tank.tv exhibits the known and unknown artist side by side.
deadline 1 September 2009 – 1 September 2010
Java Museum – Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010
details, regulations and entry form
from 27 January 2010 – SFC – Shoah Film Collection
A Virtual Memorial Foundation/VideoChannel
More information and entry form.
REGULATIONS
-The films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2009
-Only complete films are accepted, no excerpts!
-The films/videos can be submitted only in a digital format –> Quicktime, AVI, mpeg2, .flv via an upload platform like SENDSPACE – www.sendspace.com or an URL online
-The duration of a film/video may be min. 1 minute and max. 15 minutes, the duration may be exceeded, but only on request.
-Max. 2 films/videos may be submitted
-Films/videos produced in another language than English, need in any case English subtitles
