[spectre] Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau Newsletter

[Thomas Dumke]

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workshop realtime & presence - actual informations
1. public events
2. workshop information
3. participants
4. workshop abstract
5. microscope session =96 information

with kind regards
dorothea kupsch


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1. public events in the Festspielhaus Hellerau
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Friday, July 19, 2002, 8 pm
Saturday, July 27, 2002, 8 pm
presentations of projects in their current work stadium.
Admission free!

Friday, July 26, 2002, 9 pm
microscope session consisting of the live act PERSON
(Spezialmaterial, Z=FCrich) and of microscope visuals (Dresden)

Festspielhaus Hellerau
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56
01109 Dresden


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2. workshop information
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Realtime & Presence =96 Composition of Virtual Environments

Festspielhaus Hellerau, July 14 to 28, 2002

Organiser:
City of Dresden, Culture Office, in cooperation with
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.

Patrons:
European Commission/Framework programme =93Culture 2000=93
Staatsministerium f=FCr Wissenschaft und Kunst (county ministry
of arts and sciences)
Kulturstiftung Sachsen (culture foundation)

Cooperation:
Ars Electronica Center Linz
V2_Organisation Rotterdam

Project manager:
Dr Klaus Nicolai

Sponsors:
Infineon Technologies
CREATIVE LIGHTING
adVIS
Synthax

There is new art! It directly connects reality and virtuality,
body and environment, movement, sound, visuals and space:
Realtime & Presence. Movement becomes sound, sound becomes
visual, visuals become light, light becomes language...
The workshop participants, artists, dancers, composers,
programmers, and scienctists, cooperate interdisciplinarily to
create computer fabricated virtual audio-visual architectures.
These are transformed by the bodily movements of visitors or
performance artists into singular audio-visual processes.
The development of sensitive virtual environments as a basis of
interactive installations and performances will also be
furthered in the coming years in the Hellerau laboratory which
will be built by the Trans-Media-Akademie. The project
=93Realtime & Presence=94 is part of the EU grant scheme =93Culture
2000=94 and it is the first project of the scheme realised under
the overall charge of a Saxon institution.
Selected results of the work of about thirty participants of
the workshop will be presented during the following festivals:
Ars Electronica Festival Linz September 07 to 12, 2002;
CYNETart_02realtime November 06 to 10, 2002;
Dutch Electronic Art Festival Rotterdam February 25 to M=E4rz 05,
2003

During the workshop, there will be public presentations of
projects in their current work stadium in the Festspielhaus
Hellerau
on Friday, July 19, 2002, 8 pm and
on Saturday, July 27, 2002, 8 pm.
Admission free!

A microscope session consisting of the live act PERSON
(Spezialmaterial, Z=FCrich) and of microscope visuals (Dresden)
will be
on Friday, July 26, 2002, 9 pm in the Festspielhaus Hellerau

Further Information:  www.t-m-a.de; www.body-bytes.de
Press/Management:  Klaus Nicolai nicolai@body-bytes.de; 0177-82
495 82
Project Assistant:  Thomas Dumke dumke@body-bytes.de; 0173-94
929 81


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3. participants
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Frieder Wei=DF, Robert Wechsler (Palindrome IMPG, N=FCrnberg)
Dominik Rinnhofer
Hartmut Dorschner, Jo Siamon Salich (blueLAB, Dresden)
Dominik Rinnhofer (HfG Karlsruhe)
Joseph Butch Rovan (University of North Texas)
Reinhold Bidner, Georg Hobmeier (Future Lab AEC Linz)
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag/Werner Neff (Berlin)/J=F6rg Eberhardt
Bertrand Merlier/J.-M. Duchenne (Universit=E9 Lyon II)
Support (EyeCon): Frieder Wei=DF/Dominik Rinnhofer
Friedrich von B=F6rries, Tobias Neumann (rude architecture,
Berlin)
Christian Graupner, Nils Peters (HUMATIC=AE, Berlin)
Christian Ziegler (ZKM Karlsruhe)
Mischa Eberli, Tobias Peier, Gil Nigg (tenteki/Z=FCrich)
Support (EyeCon): Frieder Wei=DF/Dominik Rinnhofer
Johannes Birringer (University of Ohio)
Sher Doruff (Waag Society, Amsterdam)
Orm Finnendahl (Berlin)
Ayse Orhorn (T=FCrkei)
Michael Edgerton (Berlin), Rebecca Uhlig (Berlin)
Detlef G=FCnther (twosuns, Berlin)
Martin Soldner, Angelica Schmitt (N=FCrnberg)


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4. workshop abstract
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Realtime & Presence =96
Festspielhaus Hellerau turns into lab for computer-based
experience of human body

>From July 14 to 28, 2002, the Festspielhaus Hellerau will turn
into a huge and singular laboratory. A team of more than thirty
media artists, composers, architects, choreographers, dancers,
information scientists, technicians, philosophers and
researchers in the field of cultural studies is going to
investigate new aspects of human action in virtual
environments, using practical experiments for new insights. The
workshop =93Realtime & Presence=94 is part of the EU project titled
alike which is organised under the overall charge of the City
of Dresden in cooperation with the Trans-Media-Akademie
Hellerau e.V., the Ars Electronica Center Linz, and the
V2_Organisation in Rotterdam. Since April, the participants of
the workshop have been communicating via the internet forum for
digital cultures =93netzspannung.org=94 which is provided for
selected artistic projects by MARS Exploratory Media Lab at the
Fraunhofer Institute of Media Communication Bonn.

Here, the highly explosive question as to the nature of the
presence of human being, of human life in the here and now is
raised. And this questioning corresponds with the possibility
of a general access to extremely fast computers and their
networking: The patterns of traditionalistic lingering in the
past or fictional projection into the future have definitively
come into crisis. The backward glances as well as those forward
have lost their idealised innocence just as the consumption of
pictures, projections, and TV broadcasts. Modern digital
information technologies enable us to operate in real-time. It
is to decide whether this techno-medial real-time overruns,
dissolves, and occupies the human here and now or whether it
leads (or lures) us into a new human awareness of being, or, as
it is, of presence.

In order to investigate this question, competent participants
from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Austria,
Turkey, and the US will be operating with different sensors
which build a bridge between actual human movements in real
space and virtually configured audio-visual architectures. In
these artistically designed virtual environments, the camera =96
the machine of objectification, visual generation, and
observation in the 20th century =96 is imbued with the culturally
new function of a sensor which scans complex bodily movements.
Due to the connection of camera images and virtual sound
architectures, the movements can be experienced somewhat like a
mirror image in dynamic sound events.

The use of the camera as an interface between the human body
and its qualities of movement and expression perceptible
audio-visually and in real-time is at the same time a direct
connection to the worldwide noted investigations of the human
body and its movements which were undertaken in Dresden at the
beginning of the 20th century. Be it Emile Jaques-Dalcroze,
Gret Palucca or Mary Wigman, the overall aim, then and today,
is a changed awareness of the human body and with it a changed
awareness of living presence in space and time. In this
context, the workshop sees itself as a consistent continuation
of the founding idea of the Festspielhaus Hellerau embedded in
the issues of current artistic, scientific, and technical
developments.


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5. microscope session =96 information
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microscope session =96 from PERSON to you
act:
PERSON (live) SPEZIALMATERIAL - Z=FCrich
dj-ing:
Toby Vader =96 TENTEKI =96 Z=FCrich
Cio =96 SPEZIALMATERIAL - Z=FCrich
vj-ing:
microscope visuals - Dresden

date: 26.07.02
start: 21 Uhr
admission charge: voluntary contribution
location: Festspielhaus Dresden Hellerau
There will be a microscope session during the international
workshop =93Realtime & Presence=94. We are happy to present the
Z=FCrich label SPEZIALMATERIAL, who will perform the music.
The =93PERSON=94 project is performed by Mischa Eberli together
with Dominik Brun from the new SPEZIALMATERIAL label. The
musical publications range from abstract sound art to medium
phase/Autechre/electronic. Dodgy beat structures are fractured
by complex soundscapes.
They are supported visually by the microscope guys from
Dresden. microscope is a group of young people working with the
generation of visuals from sounds.

Links:
SPEZIAL MATERIAL
http://www.spezialmaterial.ch
microscope
http://www.body-bytes.de/g/microscope/mc_set.htm

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