New Media Scotland and the Institute of Contemporary Arts present: Beverley Hood - trans-locale
Live and online performance: 19:30 hrs BST, Friday, 3 May 2002 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London To experience the live performance go to: http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4322 To experience the online performance go to: http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale trans-locale explores the transitory nature of interaction and examines the potential of movement as a physical and virtual activity. The work is an intervention within the environment of online video conferencing, a vast network of users connecting to conferences with varied themes, levels of experience and membership criteria. Within this still relatively new technology, there are already certain standards which have evolved, particularly in how users present themselves, generally staring blankly at the computer screen. In stark contrast to this trans-locale throws into this virtual environment perhaps one of the most inherently physical activities, dance, and within that one of the most stereotypically passionate and intimate of dances, the Tango. The work broadcasts two dancers from a live performance space onto the online video conferencing reflectors. Here they weave another level of 'dance'. A computer will automate the dancers movement around the Internet, connecting to a conference for a set period before disconnecting and connecting to the next. In this way the dancers will leap from server to server, country to country, temporarily visible to those connected to each of the selected conference reflectors. Within the live space the viewer will observe the dancers, within the same physical space and also witness their broadcast image, the dancers bridging the gap for the viewer between the live space and online environment. trans-locale is a New Media Scotland commission in partnership with Stills and New Moves International. The London performance is part of a tour organised by New Media Scotland which has so far taken place in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Tallinn, Estonia. For further information on touring trans-locale please contact New Media Scotland at the address below. -------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================== This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body. ========================================================
