"Nothing Happens" Live Now! Call for Participation Nurit Bar-Shai, with Rich Miller, Yishay Schwerd, Zach Lieberman and John Schimmel http://turbulence.org/Works/nothingHappens/ OK Center for Contemporary Art: CyberArts 2007 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria September 6 - October 14, 2007
"Nothing Happens" is a networked online performance in which the viewers work together to make a series of objects tip over. The performance consists of three acts, which are centered on staged environments - a high shelf, a deserted corner, and a cluttered tabletop. Each scene contains a central protagonist, respectively: a cardboard box, a clear pint glass full of water, and a wooden chair. In all three acts, web-enabled physical devices controlled by the viewer's clicks make these objects tip over. In addition, each change is recorded as a snapshot-image, creating not only an archive of the work, but a collective creative result: a stop-motion-animation sequence, in which viewers can browse through the entire history of the performance both during it and after its conclusion. Nothing Happens received a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in the Hybrid Art category. "Nothing Happens - a performance in three acts" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from The Greenwall Foundation. Additional support was provided by the OK Center Linz, the Israeli Cultural Foreign Ministry, ITP/NYU and 3rd Ward. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
