[spectre] World Premiere of the Connected performance “See You in Walhalla”

[Floor v Spaendonck]

  PRESS RELEASE
  World Premiere of the Connected performance “See You in Walhalla”

September 14, 2006

Amorphy.org-Athens, Interspace- Sofia, Waag Society- Amsterdam and  
Interaktions Labor Gottelborn  are proud to present the world  
premiere of “See you in Walhalla,” a distributed live performance  
connecting three cities; Amsterdam, Athens and Sofia.

This multi-media dance/theatre project, collaboratively created by  
artists and designers from four different European countries presents  
the unusual journey of a video game “avatar” through a haunted  
urban industrial landscape composed of digital fragments from  
diffferent cities in Europe.

The audience is invited to witness the exciting premiere on one of  
the three locations in Athens, Amsterdam or Sofia. The first live 3D  
computer game enacted by three dis/located performers simultaneously,  
with Ermira Goro playing the “avatar” on location in Athens, while  
Nancy Mauro-Flude and Ivaylo Dimitrov are streamed via web-cams into  
the game but are located respectively in Amsterdam and Sofia, and  
watched by local audiences in those cities. At the same time, “See  
you in Walhalla” can be witnessed live on the Internet, where online  
players can log on to offer their comments and reactions to the  
performance/game.

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Logistics:
Date:                        September 14th, 2006
Time:                        21:00 (Athens/Sofia) & 20:00 (Amsterdam)
  Info:                        www.amorphy.org/imap

Locations:
Athens/Greece (Πολιτιστικο Κεντρο Ελληνικος  
Κοσμος,
Πειραιως 254 - Kτιριο 5)
Amsterdam/Netherlands
(Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam)
Sofia, Bulgaria
(Red House for Culture & Debate,
15 Ljuben Karavelov Street, Sofia)


Development History

With funding support of the European Culture 2000 Framework Program,  
the project development of “See you in Walhalla” began in  
September 2005, and after extensive filming on location and digital  
choreography and computer programming workshops in the various  
partner sites , the new work will be shown as a live networked  
performance on September 14th, 2006 in Amsterdam, Athens, and Sofia.

The collaborative project, implemented through a trans-European  
network of four participating media art organizations, is dedicated  
to fostering new and innovative works of art through effective  
integration of interactive technologies and live performance practices.


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