Please circulate this RFCP to those who might have interest in creative collaboration and utilizing the AG for artistic endeavors.
Thanks, Jimmy ---------------------------- Another Language Performing Arts Company and The University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Request for Participation Another Language Performing Arts Company and the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing is soliciting requests for participation in our fourth InterPlay performance Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek, directed by Jimmy Miklavcic, to be performed March 31 - April 2, 2006. InterPlay is a multimedia, multi-artist, telematic, and collaborative art form that is performed and transmitted over Internet 2 utilizing Access Grid technology. Invited national and international institutions, artists, scientists and technologists collaborate and participate with Another Language in the InterPlay form. Project Description Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek is an exploration into the tenuous devotion that we have towards the inundating wave of digital information and non-experiential knowledge. Packet Creek depicts the Internet with its flow of disassembled pieces of data that course throughout the world like schools of spawning salmon. Dancing on the Banks is our ritualistic gyrations that we express as we create, disseminate, search, acquire, believe in and hope for this electronic epistemological knowledge. Using the metaphor of fluid motion and dynamics we will portray the immense amount of this non-experiential knowledge and the influence that it has on us. The expansive range between truth and fiction or frivolity and importance are just some areas of creative investigation and artistic expression that are encouraged for this project. Submission Description Submissions must be a brief description of how you, or your group, interpret the concept of Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek. Include the creative concept, how it will be investigated and the technology that will be utilized for the project. Each site should have a site coordinator to organize all logistics at the local site and be the main liaison to the project director. A list of participating artists, scientists and technologists needs to be included. It is important that all sites fulfill the minimum requirements specified in the InterPlay Requirements listed below. Proposals should be sent via e-mail to Jimmy Miklavcic (j...@chpc.utah.edu<mailto:j...@chpc.utah.edu>) before January 15, 2006. Another Language Another Language Performing Arts Company, with Artistic Director Beth Miklavcic and Executive Director Jimmy Miklavcic, is an interdisciplinary company that is devoted to the creative merging of art and technology. It's most recent InterPlay, Loose Minds in a Box, premiered on April 16-18, 2005 (Salt Lake City, UT), was selected to perform at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies - Access Grid on August 3-4, 2005 (Los Angeles, CA) and was invited to perform at Supercomputing Global 2005 on November 17, 2005 (Seattle, WA). For more information about InterPlay and Another Language, go to http://www.anotherlanguage.org. University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing The University of Utah CHPC, the host site, in partnership with Another Language, provides the network infrastructure and computing facilities that make the InterPlay process possible. We have a gigabit Ethernet backbone and house two Access Grid nodes. We are Internet 2 members and are connected to the Abilene network. InterPlay Requirements Description of ArtGrid ArtGrid, established in 2003, is an informal consortium of institutions, artists, scientists and technologists that wish to investigate the artistic potential of Access Grid technology. For more information, go to http://artgrid.chpc.utah.edu. Description of InterPlay InterPlay, under the direction of Jimmy Miklavcic, is a multimedia, multi-artist, telematic, collaborative art form that is performed and transmitted over Internet 2. Invited national and international institutions, artists, scientists and technologists collaborate and participate with Another Language in the InterPlay form. Another Language has been researching the technology of the interplay art form for over ten years and has been performing in this format for four of those ten years. As we further develop this process, it continues to define the artistic nature of Another Language. Proposals for Participation Requests for proposals are solicited based on an idea initiated by Another Language (see above). A site coordinator must present the site's proposal or proposals to Another Language and meet the specified technical requirements before acceptance into the into the project. The site coordinator is the lead person at each site that is responsible for the coordination of all aspects of the proposal and its execution. Expectations of Site Participants Each site coordinator is expected to meet for at least one hour per week with the other site coordinators and participants to discuss ideas, plan rehearsals and performances, and test all necessary technology for the project. Additional rehearsals for sites that are sharing certain technologies or performance ideas will also be needed. Copyright video and audio releases of contributions to the InterPlay process must be submitted and signed by all participants prior to beginning work on the designated project. Minimum Requirements for Participation Minimum Technical Requirements for Participation include the following systems. · For weekly meetings, a laptop computer with web camera and headset microphone for single user participants. For two or more participants, an echo-canceling microphone (i.e. ClearOne AccuMic) is needed. · For performances, a PC workstation with two display ports, two video-capture PCI cards or two Firewire ports and audio card. · For "back stage", a standalone system or laptop for the stage manager. · A video projector, two video cameras (Mini DV or better), microphone and sound system. · High speed, multicast enabled, network infrastructure (100 Mb/s) connected to Internet 2. Minimum technical support and production requirements include. · Local network support. · Local systems support. · AG Node operator. · 2 Camera operators. · Stage manager. · Audio engineer. Minimum rehearsal and performance requirements include. · Individual sites must present a sketch performance of their idea to the project director and all participants. · All participants must rehearse once a week for at least one hour in addition to the minimum meeting commitment. · Stage manager must have a stand-alone system or laptop for back channel communication. Time-Line of testing, rehearsing and performance. · Technology tests and site setup completed three weeks prior to performance. · Rehearsals with all participants three times, two weeks prior to performance. · Full tech and dress rehearsal four times during the week of the performance. Although each site might have their portion of the performance polished and ready, the rehearsals during this week are essential for the director and main video mixer at the host site to work with all video streams so that the main composition can be developed. Constant improvements in technology and infrastructure. · For 2006, we will focus on MPEG-4, DVTS and possible hardware codecs. · Improve audio transport. -- Jimmy Miklavcic Multimedia Specialist j...@chpc.utah.edu<mailto:j...@chpc.utah.edu> UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CTR FOR HIGH PERFORM COMPUTING 155 SOUTH 1452 EAST RM 405 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112-0190 Office: 801.585.9335 Fax: 801.585.5366 http://www.chpc.utah.edu/~jhm<http://www.chpc.utah.edu/%7Ejhm> http://www.anotherlanguage.org
