[spectre] PERFORM.MEDIA

[Andrew Bucksbarg]

PERFORM.MEDIA
http://performthemedia.net

Perform.Media is a transdisciplinary festival and symposium of  
creativity, theory, research and technoculture.
September 29th-October 14th, 2006
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Perform.Media presents a ground breaking first for Indiana University  
and the Midwest, with a festival and symposium creating intimate  
discussion, performances, gallery environments, presentations and  
workshops, both online and off.  Perform.Media brings together  
artists, directors, writers, composers, musicians, DJs/VJs,  
researchers and theorists, in a festival and symposium, to share work  
and engage in discourse at the confluence of performance, new media,  
and technoculture.

Perform.Media traverses transdisciplinary territories in the  
collaboration and social feedback of creative/artistic work, research  
and theory.  The festival and symposium will include experiments in  
live audio-visual improvisations, interactive and game media,  
performance processes, mobile and locative works, mixed and virtual  
reality presentations, net.art and “all things newer media.”

With over fifty participants from around the globe, Perform.Media  
will explore the "performing" and "playing" of participatory and  
collaborative new media and technology.  Perform.Media supports  
collisions as much as intersections and affirmations, including  
creative/artistic, cultural or science/research approaches to the  
activity of new media performing and technology.

Perform.Media will take place on the campus of Indiana University,  
Bloomington, and will include a gallery program at The Henry Radford  
Hope School of Fine Arts Gallery from September 29th-October 14th,  
2006. The event will additionally feature a symposium with  
presentations and workshops on wikis, virtual communities, mobile and  
translocal work, a talk show produced in the video game Halo 2 and  
more, on September 30th and October 1st.  There will also be an  
evening of performance work on  September 30th, including DJs/VJs and  
audio-visual improvisers, collaborations of writers, artists and  
musicians, experimental/new media composers, ambient sounds, Game Boy  
beats and much more.  For current information and scheduling, please  
see the website- http://performthemedia.net

--> Festival opening- September 29th, 2006, 7-9PM @ The School of  
Fine Arts Gallery
--> Evening of performances- September 30th, 2006, 8-11PM @ The John  
Waldron Arts Center Rose Firebay
--> Symposium- September 30th, from 9AM-5PM and October 1st, 2006,  
from 9AM-1PM

Focus areas for the festival and symposium include-

Performing the Audio-Visual
Performing the Virtual or Mixed Reality
Performing the Mapped, Mobile, Translocal, or Distributed
Performing Identities and Personalized Media
The Performing Participant and Embodied Media

Some of the participants include-

Aerostatic, NY, will perform a set of down tempo atmospheres,  
ambience and microbeats performed with an array of interactive  
sensors, software and gestural interfaces.

Isabelle Arvers is a French new media curator, based in Geneva (CH).
She will discuss video and computer games, networks and digital  
cinema telematically.

Robert Allen, Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of  
Maryland and Antoinette LaFarge, Associate Professor of Digital Media  
at the University of California, Irvine will present Demotic, a mixed- 
reality performance work about American Memory.

Eli Blevis and Kevin Makice, Indiana University School of  
Informatics, will present a talk and workshop on media wikis.

Peter Brinson, a filmmaker, game developer, and educator living in  
Los Angeles will present his piece "No Animals Were Hurt," a short  
film about Alan Turing that increases in length as more people view it.

Susan Broadhurst, Brunel University, London, will explore digital  
performance practices and her theorizations on liminality and new  
media performance.

Erik Bucy, Indiana University, will present a talk on the  
relationship between interactivity in artistic spaces, and research  
on interactivity in the academy.

Chris Burke, NY, producer of This Spartan Life, a talk show shot  
entirely in the Xbox Live game Halo 2, will explore Gamespace and  
Glitching, live in Halo 2 with special guests.

Brendan Byrne and Ana Carvalho, iRes Research Cluster, University  
College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, will present a talk on VJing based on  
the initial findings from the forthcoming VJtheory project collection  
of essays.

Marjorie Cohee Manifold, Indiana University, Bloomington, will  
present her work Images of Fan-Art and Cosplay as Neo-teatrum Mundi.

Robert Ladislas Derr, Ohio State University, will perform Chance, a  
live performance using chance operations to explore the  
psychogeography of the urban landscape with video and a mirrored suite.

Mark Deuze, Indiana University, Leiden University, will present  
research based on in-depth interviews with media practitioners in the  
Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States on what  
co-creating content with 'the people formerly known as the audience'  
means to their professional identity.

Christa Erickson, Stony Brook University, will show her works Search  
and Eternal Climb.  Search evokes global movements of bodies through  
tracking viewer's physical movements, providing feedback amidst a  
video of the childhood game of spinning a globe and stopping it.   
Eternal Climb ties the visual metaphor of financial climbs in life to  
the live stock market, making this real-time informational process  
physical.

Jason Freeman, Georgia Institute of Technology and Rebecca Uchill,  
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art,  
will present an interactive computer kiosk and listening station with  
music pieces, video, and interactive compositions.

Suguru Goto, artist and composer, IRCAM, France, will present his  
work with "Robotic Music" and the "Body Suit" system.

Karma Mayet Johnson, Medgar Evers College, will perform Indigo:Folk  
Spectra a ritual theater performance that addresses the history of  
human bondage and the use of the erotic as a site of resistance to  
imperialism performing with multiple senses.

Sarah Kanouse, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, will present  
ISP Bloomington, a site-specific performance, micropower broadcast,  
and related ephemera produced by walking the campus of Indiana  
University.

Ilias Koen, a Greek media artist, will show Albatross, a prototype  
autonomous robotic structure that will roam the gallery space  
collecting visual data of the space and its obstacles.

Michelle Adolfs and Petra Müller, Germany, are visual artists and  
social scientists presenting work in the gallery.  They work together  
by the name of atelier KUNSTKOMMT!

Randall Packer, American University, will present The Situational  
Tours, which consist of a spontaneous, site-specific blog narrative  
and performance videos – cultural dissection for perilous times in  
post-apocalyptic America.

Mark Trayle, musician/sound artist/teacher, California Institute of  
the Arts, will perform Goldstripe, Electromagnetic music from  
financial instruments: sounds revealed, identities concealed, using  
card reader technology and the audience’s credit cards.

Jaka Železnikar is an Artist/Editor/Curator from Slovenia.  His work  
Changer, which is a feature that adds dysfunctionality to web pages,  
will be shown.

And many more, including DJs, VJs, artists, media theorists,  
researchers in psycho-physiology, informatics, and synthetic worlds…

Michelle Adolfs & Petra Müller (Germany), Robert Allen and Antoinette  
LaFarge (USA), Aerostatic- Michele Darling and Terry Golob (USA),  
Rosanne Altstatt (USA), Myfanwy Ashmore (Canada), Isabelle Avers  
(France), Brooke Bampton (Canada), Jeff Bardzell (USA), Shaowen  
Bardzell (USA), Michael Betancourt (USA), Eli Blevis and Kevin Makice  
(USA), Peter Brinson (USA), Susan Broadhurst (UK), Andrew Bucksbarg  
(USA), Erik Bucy (USA), Chris Burke (USA), Ana Carvalho and Brendan  
Byrne (UK), Edward Castronova (USA), Rob Dietz (USA), Robert Ladislas  
Derr (USA), Mark Deuze (Netherlands), Egg Ensemble (USA), Christa  
Erickson (USA), Julie Gendron (Canada), Suguru Goto (Japan/France),  
Mary Gray (USA), Jerel Hall (USA), Norbert Herber (USA), Lisa Hutton  
(USA), Yuk-Yiu Ip & ST (China), Adriene Jenik (USA), Sarah Kanouse  
(USA), Denisa Kera, Pavel Sedlak, Haeyoung Kim (Korea/USA), Ilias  
Koen (Greece), Karma Johnson (USA), Marjorie  Manifold (USA), Don  
Marvel (USA), NOKAMI (Canada), NY Soundmap- Andrea Polli (USA),  
Randall Packer (USA), Zach Poff and N.B. Aldrich (USA), Rob Potter  
(USA), Matt Roberts (USA), Leslie Sharpe (Canada), Robert Spahr  
(USA), Adriaan Stellingwerff (Australia), Betsy Stirratt (USA), Mark  
Trayle (USA), Rebecca Uchill and Jason Freeman (USA), Robert Willim  
and Anders Weberg (Sweden), Narine Yegiyan, Jaka Zeleznikar (Slovenia)

Produced and Directed by Andrew Bucksbarg and Leslie Sharpe

Supported by The Center for Electronic and Computer Music, The  
College Arts & Humanities Institute, The College of Arts and  
Sciences, IUPUI New Media Program, New Frontiers- New Perspectives,  
The Henry Radford School of Fine Arts, The School of Fine Arts  
Gallery, The School of Informatics, and The Department of  
Telecommunications

Press Contact:  Andrew Bucksbarg
andrew at adhocarts.org
812-219-5310