better than, i'd say! :) On 12/12/14 4:45 27PM, michael szpakowski wrote: > Just ordered this too! Almost like it's Christmas! > m. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:22 AM > *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Press Release and Launch CyPosium - the book > > > CyPosium - the book, Press Release + Launch December 12, 7PM. > Platform, Munich and online. > > > > *New Book Explores Live Performance on the Internet* > > /A new book exploring the field of cyberformance - live performance > events that connect remote participants via the internet - offers a > variety of perspectives on this multi-disciplinary live art form. / > > /*CyPosium - the book*/presents selected material from the CyPosium, a > one-day online symposium organised in October 2012 to discuss > cyberformance. Artists from a range of backgrounds have experimented > in this field for as long as they have had access to the internet, and > the CyPosium sought to remember and celebrate some of this ephemeral > and pioneering work. > The 12-hour event consisted of online presentations and facilitated > discussions, and attracted an audience from around the world who > engaged in a lively, vibrant real-time conversation. /*CyPosium - the > book*/continues and expands on this discussion by presenting texts, > chat log excerpts, discussion transcripts, edited email conversations, > creative chat excerpt essays and illustrations from the event, along > with responses to the event. > This book will be of interest to practitioners, students and > researchers of digital and online arts. While its focus is live > performance, the contributors hail from a wide range of practice both > online and offline, and their writing illustrates the hybrid nature of > contemporary arts involving digital technologies. Music, dance, > poetry, sound art and the visual arts all feature, as well as > entertainment and social practices such as computer games, virtual > worlds and online dating. Common themes that emerged during the > CyPosium are also present in the book, such as the changing role of > the audience; intimacy in the online environment; and mortality. This > breadth of form and content reflects the ever-increasing ubiquity of > the internet and digital technologies in our daily lives as well as > our arts practices. > Edited by *Annie Abrahams* and *Helen Varley Jamieson*, the > contributors are *Adriene Jenik*, *Alan Sondheim*, *Alberto Vazquez*, > *Annie Abrahams*, *Auriea Harvey* and *Michaël Samyn*, *Cherry > Truluck*, *Clara Gomes*, *Helen Varley Jamieson*, *James Cunningham*, > *Joseph DeLappe*, *Liz Bryce*, *Maria Chatzichristodoulou*, *Maja > Delak* and *Luka Princ(ic(*, *Miljana Peric'*, *Rob Myers*, *Roger > Mills*, *Ruth Catlow*, *Stephen A. Schrum* and *Suzon Fuks*. > /*CyPosium - the book*/is published by Link Editions, in partnership > with La Panacée, Montpellier, as part of "Open", a series of > catalogues, essay collections and pamphlets co-published with partner > institutions./**/It//is available as a print-on-demand paperback, > e-book and downloadable PDF. > *Order your copy via Lulu or Amazon:*linkeditions.tumblr.com/cyposium > <http://linkeditions.tumblr.com/cyposium> > *Read the ebook: > *issuu.com/linkeditions/docs/abrahams_jamieson_cyposium_the_book > <http://issuu.com/linkeditions/docs/abrahams_jamieson_cyposium_the_book> > *Downloadable PDF:* > www.linkartcenter.eu/public/editions/Abrahams_Jamieson_Cyposium_the_book_Link_Editions_2014.pdf > <http://www.linkartcenter.eu/public/editions/Abrahams_Jamieson_Cyposium_the_book_Link_Editions_2014.pdf> > > *For further information contact*: > Helen Varley Jamieson ( [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> ) and / or Annie Abrahams ( > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *We are very happy to be able to invite you to the > Launch* of /*CyPosium -- the book*/, with online performative readings. > Friday 12 December, 7PM. > Gastatelier, PLATFORM > Kistlerhofstr. 70 > Haus 60 > 3. Stock > 81379 München > > and *online* from 7.45 PM. www.cyposium.net <http://www.cyposium.net/> > (more information and a link just before the start of the event) > > in the frame of an evening of networked performance > <https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/cyposium-the-book-launch/> > and exhibition tour of the exhibition */Net Work/* > <https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/net-work-platform-munich/> > organised by *Gretta Louw*. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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