Hi, The following abstract is for an artist presentation that is intended to be worked into a paper after the symposium. The abstract hits several important points of contemporary practice, intersecting as it does the internet in a significant way. Collaborators on the project include Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith, Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, Suzon Fuks (Brisbane), James Cunningham (Brisbane) and Miljana Peric (Mexico based Serbian).
[START] Pierre Levy's notion of collective intelligence provides not only an alternative model for thinking about the world, but an alternative model for thinking itself; a model that is increasingly apparent in the contemporary world, particularly in the densely interconnected, layered and cross-pollinating networks of the internet. The SCANZ theme of Interconnections and attendant topics that we have been invited to explore can be approached from this paradigm of collective intelligence, and the collaborative cyberformance platform UpStage provides the perfect hybrid medium within which to situate this ontologically multifluous discourse. The proposed presentation will be an enactment of collective intelligence: remote intelligences at geographically dispersed locations will expound on the ideas postulated within the SCANZ themes, generating a dynamic ideography which the on-site presenter will deliver in real time to the symposium audience. The complex hybrid methodology of the remote intelligences will simultaneously construct and deconstruct itself, generating a vibrant, even ticklish, indeterminate exploration of the interwoven hypotheses and resulting in perhaps surprising synchronicities and juxtapositions as well as illuminated banalities and flashes of incomprehensibility. This apparent chaos will be underpinned with hybrid integrated indigenous knowledge systems and beliefs, in an (arguably vain) attempt to embody, or even anthropomorphise, a vision of truly synthesised, if preposterous, collective intelligence. All will unfold upon, within and beyond the hypersurfaces of the UpStage platform, the presenter's present body and the remote intelligences' projected absent presences. The contributing intelligences will tap the deep pool of global intelligence, from the philosophers Pierre Levy, Richard Barbrook, Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille, to artist-theorists such as John Cage, Antoinette LaFarge, Marlena Corcoran, Gabriella Giannachi and many others. Concocted by a gaggle of idiosyncratic post-structural theory sluts, and in the spirit of Einstein's notion of loose opportunism, the potential exists for both supporting and contradictory concepts to culminate in an exhilarating collision. [END] This I have to see... The SCANZ residency takes place from January 25th to February 9th 2009; the symposium is on February 7th and 8th. The exhibitions open on February 7th 2009. Apologies for cross posting. +=+ Ian M Clothier and Trudy Lane Intercreate Research Centre intercreate.org Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Technology Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki www.witt.ac.nz New Plymouth, New Zealand South Pacific Ocean P= +64 6 757 3100 x8895 F= +64 6 757 3232 E= [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communication - including any attachments - may contain legally privileged information, and is confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you should delete the communication and contact the sender immediately. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not read, copy, disseminate, distribute or otherwise use or disclose any part of this communication, or any information on matters or persons to which it refers. WITT reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications sent through its network. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
