Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-23 Thread Rodney Berry
Atau, thanks for pointing to the Peter Weibel's article, *Chronocracy*. I found a pdf of ithttp://www.peter-weibel.at/images/stories/pdf/2000/0672_CHRONOCRACY.pdffor anyone who'd like to read it. Rodney rodberry.net ___ empyre forum

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-23 Thread J.G. Kircz
Hi Folks,\ It came to my attention that the join.htm page is not working. That way the listmnagement will go wrong, cheers Joost kircz - ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments and sedimentation

2011-10-23 Thread Johannes Birringer
In the last few days, posts contributed by you all have made the initial contact improvisation originating in a transcultural 'choreolab' (evoked and described by Michael Weiss in the first week, and expanded by some of the physical workshop's participants) inevitably more complicated and

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-22 Thread Gordana Novakovic
to respond to Johannes: 'a work's affective power, its ritual effficacy and alchemy (Gordana?), its Artaudian rather than its political (Brechtian) sense?' Both? In experiencing interactive works participants non-experts (and often experts as well), seems to report only about their sensual,

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-22 Thread Atau Tanaka
I was hoping to catch on butoh and performance from the first week, since I'm better equipped to talk about gigs than about galleries. But it's interesting what the installation discussion has triggered off. Embodiment, synaesthesia, interaction, or crappiness of SGI-ness of it, we're talking

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-21 Thread Johannes Birringer
Atau writes, ...would like to bring the visceral aspect of biofeedback performance to an installation without the hassle of wiring up every gallery visitor. Here, sound, and the physicalisation of sound has helped me create enveloping environments that (might) suspend time for the visitor.

Re: [-empyre-] installation / enveloping environments

2011-10-21 Thread Rodney Berry
following on to Johannes and Atau's posts... microwave ovens are interactive. gratuitous interactivity might pose barriers to other nice words like: engagement, enthrallment (or is that just 'thrall' ?), or fugue? perhaps speed is a factor in media art's growing up. in the golden age of media