The Mobile Studios - a European project by Public Art Lab
by admin on December 6th, 2006
From April until the end of May 2006, the Mobile Studios will travel as
a nomadic multimedia platform from Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade to
Sofia, and will temporarily possess the urban spaces in these cities.
The Mobile Studios
are an internationally networked pilot project of a mobile, autonomous
production laboratory for young artists, musicians, performers and
cultural programmers. In a subsequent […]
IN_TENTION: Emerging Contemporary Performance Art Practices
by admin on October 19th, 2006
Steven Lam
IN_TENTION :: October 25-November 4, 2006 :: Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA :: OPENING Thursday, October 26 2006, 7-9 pm.
This exhibition explores emerging contemporary performance art practices, and is curated by the student group Produce. The project will include work by five artists from across the country. A two-week exhibition will present ongoing performances by David Howe (GA) and Steven Lam (NY), and there will be three one-night performances by artists Quentin Davis (PA), Benjamin Kinsley (OH) and Nelson Loskamp (NY). In addition, a panel discussion will be led by philosopher, critic and artist Tom Zummer, and a workshop for students will be offered by Benjamin Kinsley from the Poke Orchestra.
Steven Lam’s project (in the Main gallery) will consist of an alternating suite of videos and a pirate radio transmission. Pulling from cybernetics/systems theory, apparatus theory, post-modern dance, and historical video art, the project is dialectical in nature; it re-uses discarded clips from an earlier library splicing them with new footage.
For the past few years, Lam has been interested in video as a medium that recodes, archives, and transmits. A new suite of videos will be introduced periodically within the duration of the exhibition. A perpetually evolving archive, the exhibition, ironic and deadpan, will be an experiment for me to toy with distributional media. Additionally, Lam will transmit an audio project on a local AM radio band of me reading the entirety of Friedrich Kittlers “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.” This will be broadcasted and accessible 24 hours a day during the exhibition. The AM band will be announced shortly.
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experimental geography
by GeoSocial on April 17th, 2006
how to interpret the world around us
The work of Trevor Paglen is tactical media, speculative non-fiction - an “experimental geography” - as he calls it, accompanied, of course by “experimental lectures”. The online component of his work has a travel-logue quality, with interventions and alien inspired expeditions validated by documented, journalistic interviews. Paglen is a cross-disciplinary practitioner and tactitioner in writing, installation, photography, lectures, performances, interventions, and exhibitions. He appropriates technologies and practices and originates the necessary techniques. One such, “limit-telephotography”, was developed for The Secret Bases project to examine the non-space of secret bases and their supposed non-existence.
In projects like Carceral Landscape the Prison Infiltration and Surveillance Suit was performance attire developed to enable covert videography for the project. Documentation is shown from these visits. Pagen co-opts the stealth technlogies to spy back on the spies and uncover the covert, which he weaves together in speculative, but plausible narratives to help us interpret the world around us.
ambienttv.net
by admin on April 11th, 2006
transmedia practice
ambienttv.net is a crucible for independent, interdisciplinary practice ranging from installation and performance, through documentary, dance, and gastronomy, to sound and video composition and real-time manipulation. We continue to develop social and technical infrastructure and promote network architectures that facilitate alternatives to current socio-political and economic formations. Techniques and effects of live data broadcasting and transmission provide theme, medium, and performative space for many of the works.
ambient.tv describe networked performances as linking geographically distant real spaces with networking technologies such as live streaming. Themes and narratives grow out of telematic feedback, and the interplay between real spaces and imaginary realms. ambientTV.NET’s networked performances span the range from dance-theatre to poetry-gastronomy.
AV DINNERS 1: EPIC EROSM is a live and online audio-visual gastronomic event. The first in a series of sensory networked cook-ins featuring collaborations between digital and performance artists and chefs.
TELEJAM: MYRIORAMA is a telematic dance performance using GPS and sensor systems in collaboration with kondition pluriel. Texts written by roaming performers are tagged with location data and projected into a surround-audiovisual environment.
tryptichon is a dance / sound / video performance within a live locative media environment.See video
CCTV filmmaking as performance or THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT is a manifesto for the opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus.
Arist Manu writes on wearable computing, artistic possibilities in a broadband environment and other issues of networked existence.