Call to Participate!
Dear friends,
This Friday, December 11 at 6pm PST I will premiere my latest dance-tech piece, “Fragment 3.” I am writing to invite you all to participate in my performance by uploading material of your own to CiTu’s “The Art Collider (TAC),” which is an interactive networking system that I will use throughout my performance.
Please find instructions for easy ways to connect via Connect and Participate site. I would recommend “Live Camera” if you want to input live video, or “Flowmixer” to input prerecorded and/or mixed material. Then, you can simultaneously connect to other footage from the system by opening up links from other live projects. TAC is a fairly new project that is still in the final development stages, but the system seems to be working quite well. I will project a sampling of any material in the network throughout my performance.
Please find a description of my project below and I look forward to seeing you on the network!
“Fragment 3″ is the third fragment in a process-based series that choreographer Ashley Ferro-Murray has been working on since Fall 2008.
Exploring the space between digital spectrality and digital saturation, this piece moves through various networks as it leads an audience through various iterations of digital choreographies. Wireless accelerometers used throughout the choreographic process inspire the conceptual context of this piece. These sensors are deleted are not worn in performance to explore the body in movement as it exhibits a digital tone in the absence of digital technology. In contrast to the spectral presence of the sensors, the performance space itself is saturated with digital interface. A live video feed of the real-time performance will be input into French digital installation artist Maurice Benayoun’s online network for artistic collaboration, The Art Collider (TAC). Simultaneously, Ferro-Murray projects real-time images from other artists using TAC.
In association with BCNM (Berkeley Center for New Media).
All the best,
Ashley
mixing
I just had a skype conversation with Robin Gareus from Citu CiTu research center (Création Interactive Transdisciplinaire Universitaire) Universités Paris 1 and Paris 8. We worked on uploading some of my videos and connecting a live video feed to TAC and were successful at all attempts! This program is wonderful so far. Easy to connect with and easy to upload video for live mixing. Working with technology in my work often makes it incredibly difficult to put quick performances together or painlessly try things out. I think that this tool will be a wonderful rehearsal model to say the least. In addition I am hoping that I can use this tool to demonstrate my process to colleagues in a quick way. Anywhere that I have my computer and internet I will be able to set up a completely interactive performance system. Furthermore, I am energized and excited for the show I have coming up on December 11. I can’t wait to connect with TAC and see what happens.
The Art Collider
Maurice Benayoun has been in residence at the San Francisco Art Institute for the kick-off of his new project, The Art Collider (TAC). After attending the final workshop this evening and learning a bit more about this new digital art collaborative network I have decided to enter the viral network of art creation with my next project. I am composing a third fragment (the first being my labrun performance at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008 and the second being my performance at the Milk Bar this past August 2009) that will be performed this December 11, 2009 representing the Berkeley Center for New Media at the CITRIS Gala at UC Berkeley.
Keep an eye on my project wiki for information! In short, here’s a brief and rough description of the project…
The conceptual context of this piece is based on accelerometer sensors. I have used wireless accelerometers in rehearsals to inspire and create the choreography. These sensors will not be worn in performance in hopes of demonstrating a spectral digital presence. I am working lately to explore the possibility for a digital tone without digital technology, so hope to explore this concept more by presenting this choreographic material.
Using a live camera feed I will input real-time performance information into The Art Collider (TAC). I will simultaneously take visual images from the collider that will be projected in the performance space. The dancers will respond to these images live. A second projection will display the visual representation, or “monitor,” of the interaction within the larger networked TAC.
