Trampoline presents FIRST PLAY BERLIN a Programme of Live Media Art: FIRST PLAY BERLIN features international art projects that combine technology, performance, interaction and installation. Giving media art a human interface, FIRST PLAY BERLIN explores audience interaction beyond a mouse-click with performers who use new technology for their art.
With often game-like structures, these works make the viewer into a player and offer a perspective onto our everyday world outside of the mundane. Leaving the stage back at the theatre, they make use of locative media such as mobile phones, PDAs and location aware devices which enable them to get out onto the streets, embedding the work into the real, physical urban environment while simultaneously connecting to remote places and virtual spaces via the networks our cities are pervaded by. FPB explores how the perception of our reality has changed with the digital age of networks. A space is more than one space; the virtual has inextricably entered the realm of the real and what we find is an inseparable mix. FPB set out to explore the makeup of this mixed reality. Opening night - TRAMPOLINE Event Thursday 12.10.06 from 20h - 1h Borders blur. Space dissolves. Reality becomes fiction. Human and machine tease and torture each other. Remote choreographers show us how to walk. Remote cameras show us how were watched. Paradoxes meet panoramas. Cities collide. Tokyo and Vienna. Rome and Berlin. Nottingham and London. Welcome to the in-between space. The point of transition. Trampoline. Trampoline Platform for New Media Art 12.10.06 / 20h 1h / Hebbel am Ufer HAU2, Berlin Trampoline, the platform for new media art, opens FIRST PLAY BERLIN and brings together 30 artists to explore the theme of mixed reality from different perspectives. Fusing video, installation and live performance, Trampoline offers a packed evening of media art entertainment to celebrate the launch of the FIRST PLAY BERLIN artworks. The finale will be a live concert by Heidi Mortenson. For detailed Trampoline Programme go to http://www.trampoline-berlin.de/index.php?page=&docId=6 FIRST PLAY BERLIN is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, British Council, Hebbel am Ufer and supported by Radiator Festival for New Technology Art through Arts Council England. www.trampoline-berlin.de -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/