Stories of identity and histories that connect countries, cultures
and centuries are among the performances selected for the 080808
UpStage Festival, which takes place on 8 August 2008.
<http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=130>http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=130
The festival features 14 live online performances by artists in 14
time zones, and will be accessible to anyone with a standard internet
connection and browser. People in Munich, Oslo, Los Angeles and
Wellington can also attend 'real life' access nodes
(<http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=138>http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=138).
A story of bridges unites the cities New York and Munich, while
another performance brings together the every-day lives of women 100
years ago in Turkey, Canada and a Portuguese immigrant to the USA.
Other performances feature a digital ego, a miniature biome based on
climate-warming data from the internet, live audiovisual mash-ups,
the celebration of the birthday of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano
Zapata, and much more. See the full list of performances at:
<http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=159>http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=159
One performance has already begun: "Calling Home" by activelayers
introduces four characters who are trying to find their way home. As
well as the 080808 festival performance, a build up of performances
and appearances in UpStage and other online environments is taking
place. For more information, visit
<http://www.activelayers.net>www.activelayers.net.
UpStage is software that allows audiences from anywhere in the world
to participate in live online performances, created in real time by
remote players. Audiences need only an internet connection and web
browser and can interact through a text chat tool while the players
use images to create visual scenes, and operate "avatars" - graphical
characters that speak aloud and move.
Last year's festival, 070707, featured thirteen performances and was
screened at the New Zealand Film Archive as well as online. This year
most shows will be performed twice, and there will be 'real life'
access nodes in Munich, Oslo, Los Angeles and Wellington.
The artists involved range from experienced cyberformance
practitioners such as The Plaintext Players and activelayers, to
children: the youngest performers are six years old. In Belgrade,
children attended a workshop before the festival to create their own
show.
The full list of performances, artists, performance times and RL
access nodes is on the UpStage web site:
<http://www.upstage.org.nz>www.upstage.org.nz. Live links to the
stages will be accessible from the UpStage web site on August 8;
online audiences just need to click!
UpStage is supported by CityLink, MediaLab (NZ) and the Auckland
University of Technology.
<http://www.upstage.org.nz>www.upstage.org.nz
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helen varley jamieson
UpStage project manager
helen(a)upstage.org.nz
UpStage
a web-based venue for live online performance
http://www.upstage.org.nz
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Hi all!
ActiveLayers have received Grand Uncle's latest broadcast - this time
he has been taking calls from Peter Smith in New Zealand and Lizzy in
England. He is also showcasing some original music by Brynne.
Follow the link to have a listen:
> http://www.activelayers.net/~activela/callinghome/uncle.html
We believe Grand Uncle will be broadcasting again next week and after
that he will be joining us at the Upstage 080808 festival - see you
there!
ActiveLayers
hola a todos,
i'm off to Sao Paolo tomorrow to install a piece at the whopping FILE
festival <http://file.org.br>. i see that Brit's on the lineup (are you
going?). any others from this list?
cheers,
--
julian oliver
http://julianoliver.comhttp://selectparks.net
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Hi all
Just a reminder of the ADA events organised at ISEA so far:
Cloudland opens at the Substation (45 Armenian St) at 9pm, tomorrow night
(sunday July 27)
Etherradio Live performance: PSN Electronic and Adam Willetts at the
Substation theatre (45 Armenian St) at 10:30 pm tomorrow night (sunday
July 27)
And the launch of the Aotearoa Digital Arts reader, hosted by the New
Zealand High Commissioner for Singapore.
12:30pm, Monday July 28 in the Salon at the Singapore National Museum
(beyond the fabric david, past the stairs, just before the glass atrium)
All welcome!
Look forward to seeing you there
Best
Zita

Hi all
We have a couple of sites about the Cloudland show up + running now - an
info page and a blog:
http://cloudland.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
and
http://www.cloudlandblog.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
Su has written a really nice post about how the show came together.
It would be great if ADA members in Singapore could comment to it and also
post to the blog about the show + the ISEA experience - if you log in you
will automatically be a contributor + can write a post. It'll need to be
moderated so it'll take a little while to come through but i'll try and
keep things rolling through efficiently.
best
zita
Hi All
After the Cloudland opening at 9pm on Sunday night at the Substation
Gallery, on Armenian St in Singapore, there will be a performance by New
Zealand sound artists Adam Willetts and PSN Electronic (Peter Stapleton,
Su Ballard, and Nathan Thompson).
Adam, Peter and Nathan will all play live in Singapore, and Su will be
playing via Skype from Port Chalmers.
Look forward to seeing ISEA-bound ADA members there.
Etherradio Live
Performance by Adam Willetts and PSN Electronic (Peter Stapleton, Su
Ballard, and Nathan Thompson)
Substation Theatre, 27 July 2008, 10:30pm
Adam Willetts and PSN Electronic will create live improvised versions of
their sound works in the Etherradio Series. In performance these works
engage with the particularities of the Singaporean radioscape - shaped by
a very different combinations of atmospheric, political and geographic
conditions than New Zealand.
Hi,
The revised schedule of stuff at ISEA includes things posted into the list
recently. July 28th worked for most people so are running with that for the
scanz@isea dinner.
25 July
5:30pm
Official Opening of ISEA2008 | National Museum of Singapore
*there are some interesting workshops and presentations during the day.
26 July
Kerstin Mey, Yvonne Spielmann, Zaki Omar,
Ingrid Hoofd, Sean Cubitt, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 25 9:30am - 11:30am
Eastern-Western Interaction in Digital Media SMU SR 2-3
Nina Czegledy 105 10:00am
On Translations SMU SR 2-2
Su Ballard 47 11:30am
Antipodean Media Ecologies: Journeys to Nowhere and Back SMU SR 2-1
Interdisciplinary residency programs 2pm - 4pm
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium SMU
Danny Butt 428 2:30pm
Creative Research and Creative Practice: Bridging Histories SMU SR 1-1
7.30pm Official Opening Partner Exhibition - Lucid Fields: Media
Artworks by Swiss Artists-in-Labs LASALLE College of the Arts
27 July
10am to 1pm Invited Forum - LEF@ISEA2008 At the Crossroads of Media
Arts & Science and Technology | Nanyang Technological University School of
Art, Design and Media
Caroline McCaw, Rachel Gillies 429 11:00am
Dunedin Does Not Exist NTU
Deborah Lawler-Dormer,Frances Joseph 438 11:30am
Communities of Inquiry: The development of Co-Lab, Aotearoa, New Zealand
NTU
27 July 9pm Cloudland opening
A FACES meeting is being organized for July 27
in the evening - have no details yet
28 July
Ian Clothier 119 11:30am
On Integrated Systems: Hybrid Culture and Nonlinearity SMU SR 2-1
Launch of ADA reader
The Salon, the National Museum of Singapore on the 28th July 2008
from 12.30 - 2pm.
Angela Main 90 4:00pm
Incarnate Expositions: The Hybrid Mix SMU SR 1-1
CRUMB panel 4-6 pm
8pm Official Opening Partner Exhibition - Experimenta Play ++ |
Sculpture Square
Evening meal - SCANZ at ISEA for all people interested in kiwi connection.
Likely to be a vegetarian restaurant in Little India - there is one with a
really good menu. Price is good too.
29 July
Ryszard W. Kluszczynsk,
Nina Czegledy, Renata Sukaityte, Zoran Pantelic,
Maciej Ozog 204 9:30am - 11:30am
From isolation to networking. Cyber homosovieticus in search of promised
land. SMU SR 2-5
Todd Cochrane, Grant Corbishley, Patrick Herd,
Bryan Haynes, Emil McIvoy 268 10:00am
An Intelligence for Cross-world Collaboration, Real and Virtual SMU SR 2-2
Sally Jane Norman 60 10:30am
³Jam to-morrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.² The White Queen to
Alice, Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll SMU SR 2-1
ISEA public meeting 12.30- 14
Raewyn Turner 284 2:00pm
Pick Up Sticks SMU SR 2-3
Vicki Smith 406 3:00pm
Locating Media SMU SR 3-1
Andrea Polli 21 3:30pm
Ground Truth: Weather and Climate Observation and Embodied Experience in
Antartica SMU SR 2-2
Zita Joyce 511 4:30pm
Radio-location in Aotearoa/NZ SMU SR 1-3
7.30pm Closing Performances: Venzha + House of Natural Fiber; Choy Ka
Fai / Theatreworks; Zulkifle Mahmod | Singapore Management University Li Ka
Shing Library Concourse
30 July
Caroline McCaw 39 9:30am
Visualizing New Zealand: A Web of Sites SMU SR 2-1
Lev Manovich 7pm
How to Track Global Digital Culture LASALLE College of the Arts
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>>>Filter Magazine Launch<<<
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) invites you to the launch of its special ISEA edition of Filter magazine, focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations between the arts and sciences. Filter will be launched by ANAT Board Director Jasmin Stephens.
4.30pm, 30 July 2008
Science Centre Singapore
15 Science Centre Road, Singapore
>>>ANAT at ISEA<<<
>>> Executive Director Melinda Rackham is a member of the International Programming Committee for ISEA 2008 and will be speaking at the LEF@ISEA2008 Forum - At the Crossroads of Media Arts & Science and Technology: Education in the 21st Century - What is to be done?
10am - 1pm, 27 July 2008
Nanyang Technological University
School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore.
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_forums.html
>>> art research science Program Manager Vicki Sowry is presenting Way to Go: The Impact of Process on Artists' Residencies in Science and Research Settings. The panel will present the findings of the Artsactive think-tank being held in Perth, Western Australia immediately prior to ISEA2008. Both sessions will interrogate the issues impacting upon the success and sustainability of art/science residency programs now and into the future, including: residency models and methodologies, contracting, IP and copyright, partnerships and ethics.
2pm - 4pm, 26 July 2008
Singapore Management University,
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_panels.html
>>> Board Director Hugh Davies is presenting Physical Facebook And User Generated Art, which will discuss the social and creative implications of Map Me, a tactile version of social networking pages. Map-Me brings virtuality back into reality, making the act of networking, the connections and the people appear in 'real' time and space. Following the talk, the audience will be invited to participate in a Map Me event in order for them to experience the work first hand in its physical platform.
http://analogueartmap.blogspot.com/
>>>ANAT Members at ISEA - Funded by ANAT's Professional Development Travel Grant<<<
>>>Priscilla Bracks (QLD)
Formally trained in Photography and now incorporating this with mediums including new media, illustration and installation, Priscilla explores the interplay between human nature, society, popular cultures and the environment we inhabit. Her new illuminated and luscious work Charmed (2007, commissioned by Experimenta), combines illustrations/animations with sculptural installation forms designed in collaboration with Gavin Sade and Matt Dwyer as part of the Experimenta Play ++ Exhibition.
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/exhibitions/pe_experimentaplay.html
>>>Narayana Takacs (VIC)
A conceptual digital artist with a strong interest in critical theory, Narayana will be presenting a paper on the 'exctasy of hyperrealism' (sic) analysing the temporal qualities of digital media, during the Reality Jam Symposium. Narayana's practice has developed into performative media installations and digital abstraction with particular interest in notions of digital and post digital aesthetics.
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_programme.html
>>>Narinda Reeders (VIC)
Through her many works including i love squid and I love my phone (2008), Help Your Self (2007) and White Collar Undone (2006), Narida directly explores the influence of new technologies in our social lives and the increasingly blurred line between public and private. Her work, The Shy Picture (2005), an intoxicating and cheeky peak into a parallel gallery space world, will be exhibited at ISEA as a part of the Experimenta Play++ Exhibition. The Play ++ Exhibition will showcase recent Australian media artworks that respond to the gallery visitor through playful and innovative interfaces involving touch, movement, sound, shadow, and pressure.
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/exhibitions/pe_experimentaplay.html
>>>Margaret Seymour (NSW)
Incorporating a diverse range of media including sculptural installation, 3D computer graphics, video and sound Margaret's work combines new media with older lens based technologies. Working with simple ways of exploring the ideas of the real and the virtual - the virtual both in its contemporary sense and also as imagination and memory, Margaret has been invited to give an artist presentation at the ISEA conference which will include a short paper entitled "Reality Jam: the uncanny space of CCTV-based video art". As part of the presentation, Margaret will also show video documentation of two of her recent works, The Mirrored Room and Dis/appear.
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_programme.html
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Hi!
ActiveLayers recently received this email from Grand Uncle, which he
has asked us to forward on to you. CALLING HOME part 2 is now in
full swing, check it out and find Grand Uncle's broadcasts on http://
www.activelayers.net/callinghome2.html
Your participation will feed the 3rd part of CALLING HOME which will
be performed during 080808 UpStage Festival....
Cheers,
ActiveLayers
liz bryce, james cunningham, suzon fuks, cherry truluck
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Dear fans,
I have been busy here on my back deck, taking calls from all over the
world. It seems my broadcast for ActiveLayers at their "Calling
Home" event recently has made me something of a celebrity! Since
ActiveLayers have asked me to stay in touch and come back to perform
with them at the 080808 Upstage Festival (www.upstage.org.nz <http://
www.upstage.org.nz/> ), I thought I'd better keep broadcasting and
gathering as much information as I can until then!
Those of you who caught "Calling Home" will remember Esme - her
sister, Gisele, came to "Calling Home" to look for her. Last week I
had two very mysterious calls whilst I was putting together my latest
RADIO FAQ broadcast, which - I am excited to say - seem to give us
some clues about these strange sisters.
So, check out the broadcast - a recording of which has been posted on
the activelayers website, keep up with the latest - who knows what
else we'll find out? Have a listen and e-mail with your thoughts,
suggestions or music requests - but remember, it's all about Hendrix!
http://www.activelayers.net/~activela/callinghome/uncle.html
Till next time
Grand Uncle
radioFAQ(a)gmail.com
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Newsletter 07.21.2008
Share Festival 2009
Guest Curator and Inscription Share Prize 2009
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Share Festival announces the guest curator for the 2009's edition: Andy Cameron.
Share Festival 2009, at his fifth edition, will be in Turin from 24th till 29th of march 2009.
Also this year the hearth of the festival will be the Share Prize 2009.
Inscription since 15th of june till the 30th of september 2008 at http://www.toshare.it/eng/share-prize.
The main requisite for participating in the competition is to create a work in which digital technology is applied as a language of creative expression. There is no limitation to shape and format, combinations with analogical technologies and/or any other material (eg computer animation / visual effects, digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema, audiovisual performance, etc.).
A short list of no more than six finalists will be announced within November 2008.
The award candidates are invited to participate in the 5th edition of Share Festival in Torino that will be from 24th till 29th march 2009.
The six competitors, chosen from all the participants, will exhibit the work they have entered in the competition, during the Festival.
A Jury will award a prize of Euro 2,500 to the work (published or not) that best represents experimentation of arts and new technologies.
The jury is:
Andy Cameron (creative director department Interactive Design Fabrica) - president of the jury
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin)
Emma Quinn (curator at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Ernesto Ferrrero (president Accademia delle Belle Arti, Torino)
Rosina Gomez-Baez (director Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon)
Share Festival is produced by Associazione culturale The Sharing, artistic direction by Simona Lodi and general direction Chiara Garibaldi.
Curator: Luca Barbeni - General coordination: Chiara Ciociola.
Secretary at Associazione The Sharing in Torino
