[spectre] SAT[meta_lab] ::: NEURO[tick]1.3

Wed, 22 May 2002 13:47:54 -0400

[sorry for cross-posting]

Hello,=20

Sorry about the lateness of this information, but I invite you to tune in
tonight, Wednesday May 22, to the live web transmission of the discussion
panel, NEURO[TICK] 1.3 "La performance se refait une image " :: "Performing
with technological prosthetics=B2  (see description below) at
http://www.sat.qc.ca, the web site of the Society for arts and technology
(SAT) in Montreal, Quebec.  It will be held tonight at 6pm (eastern standar=
d
time).  If you have any questions for the panelists, please email,
magda@sat.qc.ca.  The presentations will be given in English and French.

Best regards,=20

Magdalena Wesolkowska
SAT[meta_lab] Coordinator
Society for arts and technology (SAT)
http://www.sat.qc.ca/

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A SAT[meta_lab] Communiqu=E9

NEURO[TICK] 1.3
=AB La performance se refait une image =BB
=B3Performing with technological prosthetics=B2

Within the framework of the  SAT[meta_lab], the SAT presents
NEURO[TICK]1.3, an original meeting bringing together three emerging artist=
s
- Michelle Kasprzak (Toronto), Kinga Araya (Montreal), Hart Snider
(Montreal) - as well as a veteran of video and VJing - Yan Breuleux
(Montreal).

Wednesday May 22, 2002, at 6:00pm  (doors open at 5:30pm).
The presentations will be made in both official languages and the evening
will be streamed on the Internet at the address www.sat.qc.ca.

Confronting us daily, our experiences are constantly negotiated and altered
by an abundance of technological and scientific tools.

Performance and video as artistic activities have historically turned away
from the theatrical in order to position themselves in immediacy. "We want
the world and we want it now": catchphrase  of a generation, or rally cry
of an emerging culture?  Or more, still a rebuff of the fine arts, judged a=
s
ancient forms of expression, sometimes even relegated to the shelf of
uselessness in order to reposition the body as the central subject of actio=
n
and of virtual re-representation?

How and where do digital technologies participate to reconfigure and to
deport the real body towards the digital body within the context of artisti=
c
creation? The question of =B3esthetics vs ethics=B2 forces us to consider the
modes of association between the body and digital environments and the
transformations taking place in the lab, touching on the artistic,
scientific and technological milieus in order to address key social and
cultural issues.=20

How do we negotiate and validate our feeling of belonging through the use o=
f
"technological prostheses=B2 (computers and surveillance cameras)? How is the
de-localization of the body (dis)integrated in order to place itself inside
a virtual space?=20

The use of the word =8Cperformance=B9 is inherited from the English verb, "to
perform", and can be translated as an action, but also as a result, perhaps
one to offer itself at the altar of technological progress. Those machines,
machina, are they machinations which are to perform in the service of
contemporary performance or prostheses par excellence, as much in the
original meaning of the word techne as in its ordinary usage? The banality
of daily actions performed through common interfaces, such as keyboards, th=
e
click of a mouse, or the interaction in front of camera (usually
surveillance), affects and participates in transforming us.

Today, the performer plays in front of the public: he becomes the public.
Passive. =20

This NEURO[tick]1.3 meeting would like to be a dialogue about performance a=
s
action, the mediatized results about the representations of experience
through the image, the body, through the image of the body, through the
prostheses of a society where technology is part of the day-to-day banality
and of daily ephemerality, without trace yet immortalized on platforms of
digital conservation.

About the presenters:
Kinga Araya was born in Poland, studied at the Catholic University of Lubli=
n
(KUL), the University of Ottawa, York University, Texas Tech University in
Lubbock (USA), and currently, at the Concordia University in Montreal
(PhD-Special Individualised Doctoral Program). She exhibited in many
galleries abroad and her videotapes were shown at Canadian, Australian,
Italian, Yugoslavian and Polish (WRO'99) film and video festivals.

Michelle Kasprzak is a transdiciplinary artist based in Toronto. She has a
BFA in the New Media from Ryerson University. Her solo work
(www.michelle.kasprzak.ca), and collaborations (www.badpacket.org) have
recently been exhibited at: the Art Gallery of Ontario, ASpace Gallery,
Mercer Union, PleasureDome, iMAGES Festival, CONTACT Festival of
Photography, Cinematheque Ontario, the 7A*11D Performance Art Festival, Yea=
r
Zero One, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, and Trinity Square
Video. In the year 2001, she won the InterAccess Electronic Media Arts
Centre/Toronto Community Foundation Emerging Electronic Artist award.

Hart Snider is a new media artist who completed a Master's Thesis project
(Media Studies, Concordia University) on the subject of scratch video
(http://www.artengine.ca/scratchvideo/).  As a VJ with the multimedia
collective Covert Ops, he experimented with live visual performances fusing
video and motion graphics.  The Creative Director of a digital production
company 8bit Studio, Hart is currently working on the online curation and
dissemination project Oboro.TV (launching in September 2002).

Yan Breuleux completed his collegial and university studies in visual arts.
Since, he has dedicated himself to a practice spanning video and electronic
arts.  In the past few years he has created video works and performances
associating music and images in collaboration with composers and performers=
.
His project "A-B-C Light" obtained an Honorable mention at the prestigious
festival Ars Electronica 1998 and a nomination in the category =B3best video
of the year=B2 at the Rendez-vous du cin=E9ma qu=E9b=E9cois 1999. In 2000, he was
invited to present the performance A-live at the Transmediale festival in
Berlin. He also pursues collaborative projects with Alain Thibeault
(PURFORM.COM) and he participated at the Sonics Acts Festival in Amsterdam
as a VJ artist. Presently, he is collaborating with Jacques Moisan and the
collective Epsilon Lab at various events  (http://www.epsilonlab.com).

A unique mise-en-sc=E8ne and a musical ambiance will favour exchanges and wil=
l
contribute to an open debate about the impact of technology on live
performance.=20

NEURO[tick]1.0 is a series of unique meetings, which link theory and
practice, and which focus on the implications of technology as a tool,
medium, content, and language, with the participation mostly of young
theoreticians, artists, and critics.

For informations related to this, as well as any of the other activities of
the SAT[meta_lab], please contact:
Magdalena Wesolkowska
SAT[meta_lab] Coordinator
514-815-7297
www.sat.qc.ca