Turbulence Commission: We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation In 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield:

We Ping Good Things To Life is an ever evolving and expanding interactive networked installation that brings together elements of Toy Theater, Vaudeville performance, Surrealism, and consumer culture. Users can activate dozens of store-bought, found, and donated objects to create a unique performance, alone or with others, via the live streaming video feed.

Inspired by the work of friend and artist Jarvis Rockwell, Act 1: Remember When We Used to Have Fun? explores the hidden lives of toys. Continue reading

Moving Forest 500 Slogans Workshops: AKA the Castle presented by Furtherfield Continue reading

CREW presents Terra Nova — Radical confluence of immersion and theatre @ Festival d’Avignon :: July 6-14, 2011; daily @ 3:00 and 6:00 pm :: La Chartreuse, Villeneuve lez Avignon.

Terra Nova, a remarkable mixture of theatre and state-of-the-art image technology, will have its premiere at the Rencontres d’été of La Chartreuse, organized in collaboration with the Festival of Avignon. Terra Nova is created by Eric Joris, Peter Verhelst, Stef De Paepe, Robby Cleiren and CREW. A performance and immersive adventure at once.

Terra Nova takes us back to R. F. Scott’s dream to be the first man on the South Pole, in 1911. Beaten by only a month by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, the English explorer and his team perish dramatically on their way back. Continue reading

[Image: The Vitruvian World by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, David Steele] From Black Box to Second Life: Theatre and Performance in Virtual Worlds :: May 20, 2011; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Performance Studio 3, School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, United Kingdom.

Immersive virtual worlds have grown enormously in popularity in recent years. The most popular of them, Second Life (SL), which was developed by Linden Labs in 2003, now has 1.4 million users. Although the exact number of active SL users is not known, there is no question that there has been a dramatic growth in users of virtual worlds in general: according to Castranova (2007), total registrations to virtual worlds were well over 100 million as far back as 2007. Continue reading

The fifth annual 111111 UpStage Festival is now accepting proposals.

UpStage is a web-based platform for cyberformance: remote performers combine images, animations, audio, web cams, text and drawing in real-time for an online audience.

This year, the festival coincides with the full moon, and we encourage proposals that incorporate this, but you do not need to be restricted to this theme. The only limitations are that all shows must be created and performed in UpStage, and must not be longer than 20 minutes and 11 seconds (during the festival a performance begins every half hour). Continue reading

Performance, All Over the Map: On Chris Salter’s “Entangled” by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], Rhizome.org:

Chris Salter’s Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (MIT Press, March 2010) is a massive undertaking and a book long overdue. In this ambitious project, Salter sets out to provide a historical overview of the intersections between technology and artistic performance in order to demonstrate the profound entanglement in the historical trajectories of both sets of practices and developments. Entangled seeks to address how technological developments have altered our making and perception of artistic performance and the socio-political, cultural and economic contexts of such developments (p. xiii). Furthermore, Salter understands the histories of new media arts, theater, and other stage-based artforms as divided in a tension between the technophilic and technophobic, and his investigation is an attempt to fill this gap. Continue reading

Upstage Walk-Through :: July 13, 2010; 10:00 am UK time (find your local time here).

The open walk-through is an opportunity for newcomers to learn the basic operations of UpStage and how to create live online performances in this platform. It’s also a chance for regular UpStage users to meet, chat and jam. the walk-through lasts between one & two hours & is a fun, informal way to get a feel for the medium.

If you would like to participate, please email helen [at] upstage.org.nz requesting a guest log-in. You can also drop in on the walk-through as “audience” simply by clicking on this link. Continue reading

[Image: Jane D. Marsching, NOAA Web Cam, 2005/2007 (6 min. video with sound, collaboration with Victor McSurely)] NMC Media-N, Summer 2010, v.05 n.04 — New Media Caucus Panels and Events at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2010. Panels:

New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research, Chair: Jessica Walker: To Ph.D or not to Ph.D? by Victoria Vesna :: Legitimizing the Ph.D. as Creative Research by Jonah Brucker-Cohen :: University of Washington, DXARTS by James Coupe.

Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, Chairs: Jane Marsching & Andrea Polli: Airspace: The Practical Use of Radio in Antarctica by Andrea Polli Continue reading

[David Levine Image from Bauerntheater, 2007. Photo: Joe Dilworth] Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of Spectacle :: May 18, 2010; 5:30 p :: The Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Education and Research Building, 4 West 54 Street, New York, NY.

The Contemporary Art Forum is an annual platform of discussion about timely and pressing issues in contemporary art and education. This year’s forum explores ways in which contemporary theater, performance, and non-art practices are redefining the notion of spectatorship or audience. Additional topics will include the influence of pedagogical ideas in the construction of performative experiences, the relationship between author and a collaborating public, and other common concerns shared by the spheres of theater, performance art, and activism. Continue reading