Digital Performance

Special Performance Weekend

Saturday, 4 August - Monday, 6 August
Art Gallery digital performances and site-specific installations are presented at the University of California, San Diego.
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		J. Walt Adamczyk Invited Artist California, USA Autocosm 2007 This piece is a continuation of the ongoing Autocosm project, in which the artist creates artificial worlds in solo live performances. An "autocosm" is a self-contained personal world, apart from the world we all share. In this case, it is a world of growth and evolution, of life and transformation.
		Mariela Cádiz, Kent Clelland, Denis Lelong Paris, France e*scapes Taking live cinema to a new level, the Cadiz/Clelland/Lelong trio performs live electronic music to live remixed footage and vice versa. By combining contemporary dance music structures and sounds with traditional electro-acoustic music techniques, and by deconstructing the common use of nature documentary footage and exploring its cinematic qualities, the trio's live mixing thrives on mesmerizing, forceful, and unexpected relationships.
		Maja Cerar, Liubo Borissov Columbia University Invited Artists New York, USA Collaborators: Liubo Borissov, Maja Cerar Autopoiesis/Mimesis Autopoiesis is a work that imagines realities and is, in part, a humorous document of the discussions between the two authors about the beginning of the universe. It is followed and complemented by Mimesis, a more serious exploration of the ancient tension between imperfect reality and ideal form as furthered by art's mimicry.
		Kooj Chuhan Invited Artist Manchester, United Kingdom Collaborators: Tang Lin, Aidan Jolly, Jilah Bakhshayesh, Miselo Kunda, Hafiza Mohamed, and others What If I'm Not Real Three masked figures on rafts at sea appear in each of three screens arranged as a circular triptych: an official, a migrant parent, and a child. The anxious official denies the parent access to safe land and community while engaging in lucrative military games. The conclusion poses an inevitable consequence of current conflicts. Exhale Exhale: local streets, global waters, bloodstained papers. This is an electronic publication covering five years of video, music, and electronic art engaging with asylum and migration in a new world order, by Virtual Migrants.
		Joreg Linz, Austria joreg (at) www.org Collaborators: Dietmar Bruckmayr, Michael Strohmann, Joreg Diessl, Diane Preyer, Lars Oeschler, Michael Höpfel imago In imago, a piece for solo vocalist about multimedial representation, the singer is reduced to face and voice, and stylized as a triptych: his real head flanked left and right by three-dimensional clones. He relinquishes himself to the point of self-abnegation. His digital portraits begin to develop lives of their own.
		Takashi Kawashima UCLA Design | Media Arts California, USA takashi (at) takashikawashima.com Collaborators: Togo Kida, Yoshimasa Niwa, Togo Kida, Yoshimasa Niwa Takashi's Seasons A sequential live shadow-puppet/video performance of interpretations of the four seasons. Working in precarious unison, the shadows of the puppets are synchronized with the animation, creating a unique live-action performance. Animation and sound are composited with shadows in real time, and the artist produces "motion pictures" via a combination of seasonal sounds, live shadow-puppet manipulation, and projection of shadow-like animation sequences.
		Hyung Min Lee Soongsil University Seoul, South Korea bongisin@ssu.ac.kr Collaborators: The Band (Hyung Min Lee, Woo Ram Son, Jae Young Kim) Bibigi (Theremin Based on Computer-Vision Technology) In this music scoring and sequencing device, pitch, timbre, and loudness are computed based on the transformed images' hue, saturation, and intensity.
		Steve Mann University of Toronto Ontario, Canada mann (at) eecg.toronto.edu Collaborators: James Fung, Raymond Lo, Chris Aimone, Mir Adnan Ali, Sadek Ali CyborGLOGGER Performance of Globaleyesation
		Michael Masucci 18th Street Arts Center California, USA mmasucci (at) eztvmedia.com Collaborators: Choregrapher: Donna Sternberg Digital Artists: Michael Masucci, Kate Johnson, EZTV Dancers: Alheli Montano, Vincent Hederman, Samantha Hazan, Stephanie Reilly RAGE TO KNOW This piece utilizes concepts from quantum mechanics and string theory, and attempts to illustrate through dance some of the more complex theories concerning multi-dimensionality, time displacement, and the warping of space.
		Hiroshi Matoba, Yasushi Matoba, Hiroyo Hattori, Nanako Heisho Shizuoka University of Art and Culture Shizuoka, Japan matoba (at) suac.ac.jp Collaborators: Natsumi Tahara, Yoshimi Horie, Satomi Hori, Yuko Takeda, Umika Obata Performing Arts for the Future Mobile Generation These two performance works predict new styles of play that children will enjoy with future mobile phones. One is made from six units of wireless displays based on LCD technology. The other is based on three units of wireless LED projectors.
		Pauline Oliveros Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York, USA paulino (at) deeplistening.org Collaborators: Curtis Bahn, Jonas Braasch, Chris Chafe, Tomie Hahn, Soundwire Ensemble, Tintinnabulate Ensemble, Dan Valente, Bart Woodstrup Dynamic Spaces This project explores the relationships within an acoustic and electronic performing ensemble for improvised music in virtual environments with deliberately varying characteristics. Variations in acoustics provide a new dynamic parameter of music in addition to harmony, melody, and rhythm. The performance is enhanced by dynamic visual elements with interwoven artistic images and views of the performers in a shared virtual space.
		Maurizio Seracini Invited Artist Walking Into a Leonardo Masterpiece
		Xiaohua Sun, Ping Jin, Lei Lihong, Nan Zhang Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts, USA Xhsun (at) mit.edu A Rhyme of the Tang Dynasty A performance that uses interactive audio/visual techniques to enhance the aesthetic effect of Chinese traditional dance. Max/MSP/Jitter generate real-time music and graphics.
		Jeffrey Treviño and Ross Karre University of California, San Diego California, USA jeffrey.trevino (at) gmail.com Collaborators: Ross Karre, percussionist, videographer, performer; Jeffrey Treviño, composer and sound engineer Substitute Judgment + Metal Catalogue This piece explores the synchronization and hybridization of media to create a unified and balanced work of art. Jeffrey Treviño created Substitute Judgment as an autonomous solo multi-percussion work, inspired by his readings of philosophical inquiries into the ethics of Alzheimer's Disease patients' legal status as decision makers. Ross Karre created Metal Catalogue, a synchronized video response to Treviño's work, from still photographs of decaying metal farm equipment on a 150 year-old ranch (the T-Lazy-7) in Aspen, Colorado.