WHAT: Mixed Reality Performance in Second Life and "Real Life", Technesexual
WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas WHEN: Sunday, 6pm, September 6th, 2009 WHERE: Cal State Long Beach at GLAMFA, map here: http://www.greaterlamfa.com/info.html On *September 6th* at 6pm we’ll be doing a new performance called Technesexual <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157621943139937/> which we just performed in Bogota, Colombia at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Technesexual is part of Mixed Relations <http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations> and involves a mixed reality performance using biometrics and live audio that responds to our movements in order to explore relationality. Upcoming performances include Tijuana at CECUT on Oct 4th, San Francisco at Arse Elektronika, and Montreal at Artivistic 2009. Also, Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas will be showing the video of Slapshock <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157620312879150/> in the exhibition of GLAMFA. On Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7pm, Mehrmand and Cardenas will be speaking at a round table about these works as well as a pervious work, Becoming Dragon, as part of the CSULB Visiting Artist Lecture series. Technesexual involves Mehrmand and Cardenas kissing in physical and virtual space, while biometric sensors monitor their heartbeats, allowing the audience in both spaces to hear their live heartbeats, blurring the lines between the two spaces. Slapshock is a performance using an Arduino, a Freeduino and a Transdermal Electro Nerve Stimulation (TENS) unit in which each performer slaps themselves, which in turn causes the other performer to receive a painful electric shock. The performance continues as long as the performers can tolerate the pain. More info at the GLAMFA website. <http://www.greaterlamfa.com> Links: Slapshock: photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157620312879150/ Technsexual: photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157621943139937/ Mixed Relations Project description: A series of performance and workshops that explore how relations between people change in mixed realities, using the body as an instrument, with biometric sensors to create live audio and activate avatars in Second Life. http://bang.calit2.net/tts/2009/05/01/mixed-relations-won-the-ucira-emerging-fields-award/ http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations This project is being supported by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego. Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade <http://transreal.org> is a transgender artist, theorist and trickster. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at UCSD. She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab <http://experimentalgamelab.net> at CRCA <http://crca.ucsd.edu> and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2 <http://calit2.net>. Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at Transreal.org <http://transreal.org>. Micha holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University. Micha recently joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator and collective member. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and many other places. Micha has received grants from UCIRA, calit2 and Ars Virtua and her work has been written about in publications including the LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, .dpi magazine and Rolling Stone Italy. Elle Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, photography, sound and installation within her works. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin and San Diego. -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B _______________________________________________ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn