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Experience performance art of the future as music,
video and computer programming comes together for a unique internet-based
concert.
Liam Wells and Tom Simmons of n0media have been
bringing digital artists together to work in a series of monthly
performances called WebJams since June 2003.
These performances have taken place in local and national venues,
connected by internet technologies.
The artist collaborations that contribute to the WebJams are then
relayed live on the group's website to an international audience.
Following a six-week residency of the Decentred
improvisation exhibition at the Norwich Gallery earlier this year,
n0media have now curated two multimedia performances and a global
web conference to take place at the Norwich Arts Centre in July.
Decentred performance at Norwich Gallery |
Tom Simmons is the project's co-programmer.
"Following the success of the original Decentred
exhibition, the Norwich Arts Centre (NAC) commissioned us to produce
two further multi-media performances for the web.
"It's a great opportunity to showcase some
of the new developments and contributions from a network of performers
that are part of a global community linked through the internet,"
he said.
The two performance events at the NAC will feature
digital multi-media improvisations by artists, musicians, writers
and programmers.
The global web conference will bring these practitioners
and theorists together to discuss topical on networked multimedia
performance.
Liam Well of n0media said the event is an opportunity
for local people to have first-hand experience of the potential
uses of the internet.
"It's an opportunity for people who live in
Norfolk to take part in a cutting-edge digital art event,"
he said.
"It's the chance for people to experience
the web being used in a new way and to contribute to the increasing
body of opinion surrounding internet use," he added.
Decentred events at Norwich Arts Centre
Distributed Network Performance
Monday 12 July, 2004 - 8pm
Norwich Arts Centre Auditorium
Free Entry
The creation of a local network to allow a group
of improvisers to share video, sound and performance data with each
other in a unique way.
Using customised instruments and performance interfaces
players develop shared streams of information in a sequence of solo
and group performances.
Audio/visual results will be mixed together and
presented to the arts centre audience and on the internet.
decentred | discourse 01
Thursday 22 July, 2004 - 2pm
Norwich Arts Centre Café Bar
Free Entry
Webjam06: Live puppetry - Claire Gomm, Anita
Shukla & n0media |
decentred | discourse 01
will be the first in a series of global web conferences which will
bring performers, theorists and programmers together from all over
the world to debate topical issues relating to networked multimedia
performance.
Using internet technologies we will connect with
people in Canada, the USA, Europe and across the UK to discuss a
number of issues encountered in the original decentred | distributed
improvisation exhibition in the Norwich Gallery, March & April 2004.
Remote Distributed Network Performance
Thursday 22 July, 2004 - 8pm
Norwich Arts Centre Auditorium
Free Entry
On the evening of Thursday 22nd July 2004 Decentred
will host a remote distributed network performance from Norwich
Arts Centre.
Musicians, video and media artists from Kingston
(Canada), Den Haag (Netherlands), London, Newcastle upon Tyne and
Norwich will collide in a specially curated internet domain to perform
a distributed improvisation.
Audio and video streams generated by these performers
will be shared across the web and developed in the different remote
locations at which they arrive.
All of the material produced during this performance
will be collected in Norwich where it will be mixed and presented
to a local audience, and on the internet by n0media.
Individual performers will include: Matt Rogalsky
(Canada) Anne Wellmer (Den Haag) Bennett Hogg & the International
Centre for Music Studies (Newcastle upon Tyne) John Bowers & Nick
Melia (Norwich) n0media.
More information including archives of other decentred
performances and topics for debate visit the Decentred website at
http://webjam.nsad.ac.uk/decentred
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