The dancing robot is amazing!
On 25 October 2013 11:01, ruth catlow <[email protected]> wrote: > For any Netbehaviourists with access to West London- this is certainly > one to drop everything for. > > It would be worth it just for Paul Granjon- if you don't believe me check > this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0aoxC18JgM > > : ) > Ruth > > > Dear Friends and Colleagues > > I hope you can join us at Watermans from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd > November for our Digital Art & Performance Weekender exploring directions > and collaborations in performance, dance, sound, technology and more! > > You can find the full programme at this link and below: > > http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/digital-art--performance-weekender.aspx > > Please note, there are free tickets for the Friday New Work Sharing for > students/universities on a first come, first served basis. Let me know if > you would like to reserve. > > All the best > Irini > > > *PERFORMANCES* > > *Addictive TV > Media Remix Set, Friday 1 Nov, Bar 21.45 FREE > Orchestra of Samples, Premiere Saturday 2 Nov, Theatre 20.00, £10 > (includes ticket for Hidden Fields by dS) > *Electronic duo and audio/video artists Addictive TV will present two > different shows. As well as bringing their dynamic audiovisual media remix > set to Watermans, weâre proud to present the World premiere of their new > project âOrchestra of Samplesâ - an ambitious AV delight based on > sampling recording sessions the duo filmed with more than 100 musicians > around the world, fusing all manner of styles and instruments. > www.addictive.tv > > > *Best of Z Lab live! Paul Granjon > Friday 1 November, Bar 20.00 FREE > *Granjon's performances combine raw entertainment involving > computer-controlled devices and home-made musical instruments with thoughts > about humans, animals and technology. The performance kit, which fits in a > large suitcase, will feature amongst other things a robotic bird, Mofo the > disco dancing robot, and the latest development of a sustainably powered > performance machine. > www.zprod.org > > > *NEW WORK SHARING: Friday 1 Nov, Theatre 17.00-19.30, £5 > *This event will bring together a group of artists and performers to > present and share new work and ideas, including Bodies of Planned > Obsolescence &Waste Circuits by Dani Ploeger exploring digital performance > and the global politics of e-waste, Chisato Minamimuraâs findings on how > technology can enhance the experience of deaf audiences, > light/organ/unloaded by Francis Marion Moseley Wilson, HUMAN by Haein Song > and more. > > > *Hidden Fields, dS > Saturday 2 November, Theatre 21.30, £10 (includes ticket for Addictive > TVâS Orchestra of Samples) > *Multi-award winning digital dance performance Hidden Fields is a > high-impact and accessible show using rigorous methods from theoretical > physics and state-of-the-art computing interpreting dancers as energy > fields whose movement creates ripples and waves in an invisible sea of > energy. ds and Hidden Fields are supported by the University of Bristol, > Arts Council England, the Watershed (Bristol), the Pervasive Media Studio > (Bristol), NVIDIA, and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research > Council). > http://danceroom-spec.com > > > *The Witches Cauldron, **RIFT* > *Friday 1 & Saturday 2 November, **Terrace, **FREE* > Serving a mixture of hot drinks, intrigue and magic 'The Witches Cauldron' > is an immersive portal, a tear in time and space, the last watering house > on the border of fact and fiction. > > > *DMT > Saturday 2 Nov, Bar 19.00 FREE > *DMT is Marco Donnarumma, Christos Michalakos, and Atau Tanaka, a trio of > visceral electronic musicians that interface corporeal gesture and physical > gesture with pulsing electronic noise. Donnarumma plays the Xth Sense > biosphysical muscle contraction sensor system to sonify the performer's > body. Tanaka runs granular synthesis algorithms on the iPhone, and > Michalakos plays the Augmented Drum-Kit, a bespoke electroacoustic > instrument based on the acoustic drum-kit. Together they create a wall of > sound that is live technological thrill. >  > > *Motèl Mari > Saturday 2 Nov, Bar 18.30 FREE > *Motèl Mari are João Orecchia, Mpumelelo Mcata and Tshepang Ramoba, > from Johannesburg. They play songs with guitars and banjos and synthesizers > and noise and drums. At Watermans they will stage a site specific > performance on homemade circuits, feedback loops and pedals. > www.motelmari.com, www.joaoorecchia.com > > > *LIVECODELAB > Saturday 2 Nov, Bar 18.00 FREE > *In this 10-minute piece Davide Della Casa and Guy John will delight the > audience with mesmerising code-generated visuals and sounds using the > LiveCodeLab online live-coding software, where short snippets of code turn > on-the fly in fantastic images and tunes. > > > *Firefly - a game of dark intentions, Pollie Barden and Chloe Varelidi > Saturday 2 Nov, Parking 17.00-20.00 FREE > *Play in the DARK!! > A tagging game that explores temporal memory, and exploits the balance of > collaboration and competition. The action takes place at night. > www.fireflygame.com > > > *Children's Theatre: **Half Moon presents* > *Misunderstood Monsters & site-specific digital game > Sunday 3 Nov, Theatre 15.00 £6.50 > *Saint Georgie, a professional monster catcher and his faithful sidekick, > Squeezy, are on their most dangerous mission yet. When earth is threatened > by tiny Scoodlefug aliens, Georgie is forced to question who the real bad > guys are and may just need the audience to come to the rescue! > www.halfmoon.org.uk > > > > *INSTALLATIONS & OTHER EVENTS > * > *Falling into place > Gretchen Schiller, Jonathan McCree & Helen Paris. Produced by Philippa > Barr > Friday 1 & Saturday 2 Nov, Studio 1 from 13.00 > Sunday 3 Nov, Studio 1 13.00 â 17.00 > FREE, booking required                  >                 > *An intimate 15âminute guided sound and video installation, where > participants are invited to touch, catch and hold the traces of place with > different custom designed audiovisual furniture environments. Supported by > Université Stendhal-Grenoble, Brunel University and the FranceâStanford > Grant. > www.gretchen-schiller.org > >  > *enter13 - Aisyah Ajib, Pradeep Balasubramanian, Kabir Kanabar, Radha > Mistry, Mitra Saboury, Ayesha Singh, Bindi Vora, Rebecca Vafiadis with > Nadia Ahdout, Seulbi Lee and Krishnan Vijayaraghavan > 31 October 2013 â 5 January 2014, Gallery, FREE > *Watermans' annual exhibition showcasing the emerging talent in the field > of digital art, design and media production.  This year's exhibition > includes innovative work ranging from interactive installation, film, > architecture and environments, photography and sculpture. >  > > *Cave of Sounds - Tim Murray-Browne with Borja Alexandre, Dom Aversano, > Sus Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Panagiotis Tigas, > Kacper Ziemianin > Friday 1 â Saturday 2 Nov, Bar from 12.00, FREE > Sunday 3 Nov, Bar 12.00 â 17.00, FREE > *Experiment and play in an interactive sound installation through a > circle of networked instruments, and discover the connections that form > between you and others when you create music together. Created through > Sound and Music's Embedded Composer in Residence programme with the Music > Hackspace. With support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts > Council England. > http://caveofsounds.com > >  > *Soundmirrors - Rob Olins with soundtrack by Douglas Benford > Wednesday 23 October â Saturday 23 November, Riverside, FREE > *An environment of sound illusions, Soundmirrors comprises a series of > acoustic mirrors and speakers that are arranged in such a way as to create > a soundscape through which the audience can navigate. Douglas Benford has > created a soundtrack of local Brentford environs - urban and natural - > specifically designed to work with this installation. > www.robolins.com, douglasbenford.org.uk > > > *Unfoldings - Mike Blow > Friday 1 â Sunday 3 Nov, around the building, FREE > *Unfoldings explores the relationship between sound art and physical > objects. The show considers ways in which we co-perceive the audible and > the visible and how forms and details unfold in time. > http://www.evolutionaryart.co.uk/ > > > *Psychasthenia 2 - Psychasthenia Studio (Joyce Rudinsky and Victoria > Szabo) > Friday 1 â Sunday 3 Nov, Studio 2, FREE > *Interactive artwork that explores the culture of psychological diagnosis > & treatment within the context of a highly mediated consumer culture that > often produces the ills it purports to treat. In this game engine based > piece we ask how might we conceptualize our inner lives as a game in which > lived experience is understood as a series of "levels" to be achieved, > playing on the recent media popularity of "gamification" as a life > strategy. > http://psychasthenia-studio.com/psychasthenia2.html > > > *LIVE-CODING WORKSHOP > No programming experience required > Saturday 2 Nov, Bar 16.00 & 17.00 sessions, FREE > *Live-coding is the most expressive and fun form of programming, and > LiveCodeLab prides itself to be the zero-set-up, most accessible and the > most fun-looking live coding software in town. > Bring your laptop with a modern browser and after a brief tutorial, you'll > learn how to create fantastic visuals and catchy rhythms. > http://www.sketchpatch.net/livecodelab/index.html > > > *INTERZONE THEATRE: Chronomotive, Joel Cahen > Friday 1 â Sunday 3 Nov, around Watermans, **FREE* > *Please see signs for starting point > *Requires smartphone running the free Android or iPhone app Interzone > Theatre and a pair of closed-cup headphones. > A rare disorder enables the protagonist to experience the place s/he is > in, in a different time. But when Past and Future events start to mix up, > the Present becomes a luxury. > Interzone Theatre is a portal to a parallel reality, unveiling a layer of > narrative that is superimposed on the streets, waterways, parks and > interior spaces of the city. In this exploratory theatrical experience, the > city itself is the mise-en-scène, and passersby are unwitting extras in an > intricate psychogeographic journey. App powered by Mobile Explorer. > www.interzonetheatre.com >  > > *JUPITER STAR AXIS video, La Horrox > Additional sound mix: Joel Cahen > Friday 1 â Saturday 2 Nov, Cinema, FREE > *A celestial film which shows an unborn foetus of the artist moving > within his amniotic world mapped by a constellation of stars.  Each  star > plays a part of a sonic composition, when its co-ordinates are changed by > the movements of the foetus. Comprised from manipulated recordings of the > artistâs baby afterbirth, the composition uses surround sound and is > heard as if from the perspective of the foetus. > www.lahorrox.com > > > > -- > Irini Papadimitriou > Head of New Media Arts Development > Watermans > 40 High Street > Brentford > TW8 0DS >  > Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 > Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 >  > www.watermans.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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