[spectre] Tonight 6/12 openingsparty Liveform:telekinetics

[Floor van Spaendonck]

Waag Society presents: Liveform:telekinetics Test Kitchen

by Jeff Mann & Michelle Teran

date : 6th-19th of December
Exhibit-location: Theatrum Anatomicum - Waag Society Amsterdam 
entrance: free

Tonight Opening Party starts at 17.30 o'clock


LF:TK - Experiments in Connected Social Spaces

Waag Society presents the LiveForm:Telekinetics project by Canadian
artists Jeff Mann and Michelle Teran. The LF:TK lab and test-kitchen
descends on the Theatrum Anatomicum in December. The lab develops
recipes for connected social spaces, where ordinary physical objects
come to life as networked kinetic art. Local cafés, hotel lobbys, and
apartment parties will be transformed into a series of transgeographical
temporary performance zones, and connected live via wireless Internet to
counterpart locations in the Netherlands and Canada.
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Digital networks extend communication across distance and time. How
might they influence the forms of our daily social interaction? Sharing
a meal, a walk in the park, weddings, sports, or cafés - these are the
kind of social activities and rituals we associate with human
relationships. But the computer screen and keyboard seem out of place
here. What if the interface allowed for body language, gesture, and
physicality? What if you could go out for dinner and dancing with
friends, even though you're a thousand kilometers away?

Within our urban environments there is a recent phenomenon of wireless
Internet access points, found within typical social environments. These
"hotspots" represent convergences between technological and social
networks. They are portals, providing the possibility of multi-situated
presence, but also placed within a fixed physical location, a social
environment rich with familiar objects, rituals and codes of behaviour.

LF:TK takes a playful approach to the ways we might inhabit such a
hybrid environment. Furniture, decorations, cutlery, bric-a-brac and
cultural debris are reconstructed as networked interfaces that populate
surfaces within everyday social spaces. Each object provides a simple
function, yet when combined with others helps build a complex
arrangement of movement and gesture. Imagine a shared creation, a social
ritual, a dance through objects, a table that is played.

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LF:TK online community cookbook at lftk.waag.org - an open forum for
recipes, menus, inspirations, techniques, and documentation.

The LF:TK test-kitchen at Waag Society will be open daily Monday-Friday
10 am - 5 pm, , but the chefs may be out on location. Please check
lftk.waag.org for schedule updates and special events, and join us for
experiments with everyday hybrid realities.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

Theatrum Anatomicum

December 6th, 5:30 pm - launch party
December 13, 8:00 - The artists Jeff Mann and Michelle Teran will
discuss LF:TK. There will also be a screening of Jan Svankmajer's
'Alice.
December 18, 12.00 - Telekinetic cooking class for children
December 19, 3:00 pm - LF:TK Christmas sale


Translocal Connected Events (all times listed as Amsterdam local time)

December 8-9th, 16.00 - 22.00 

Eat at Jo's at the Melkweg (Amsterdam) 
Marnixstraat 409 

SAT (Montreal) 
1195 Saint-Laurent 

December 11, 17.00-23.00 

Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society (Amsterdam) 
Nieuwmarkt 4 

SAT (Montreal) 
1195 Saint-Laurent 

December 12, 16.00-23.00 

de Balie (Amsterdam) 
Kleine-Garmanplantsoen 10 

SAT (Montreal) 
1195 Saint-Laurent 

December 16, 16.00 - 22.00 

Latei (Amsterdam) 
Zeedijk 143 

Café Utopik (Montreal) 
552 Sainte-Catherine est 

December 17, 18.00-? 

house party at undisclosed location(s) 


LiveForm:Telekinetics is a project by Jeff Mann and Michelle Teran. In
collaboration with Arjen Keesmaat, Isabelle Jenniches and Alex Schaub.

Partners/Supporters:
Canada Council for the Arts/Conseil des Arts du Canada,
The Netherlands Culture Fund of the Ministery of Foreign Affairs (HGIS
Cultuurprogramma), Melkweg, BEAP04, Latei, de Balie, Café Utopik, île
sans fil, Melkweg, Societé des arts technologiques (SAT), 

Special thanks to Floor van Spaendonck, Lucas Evers, Nancy Mauro-Flude,
Alex Schaub, Deanna Herst, Pauline Williams, Sher Doruff, Michelle
Kasprzak, René Barsalo, Véronique Paradis and Simon Piette. 



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Waag Society/for old & new media, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR, Amsterdam, NL
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