Hi, sorry this has taken me a week or so to dig up, and even longer to manage to get the ADA list to remember me? but here are a few details of some quite early remote practices involving both located experience and digital media, to contribute towards ideas at Electrosmog, the Korawiki and distributed art practice in Aotearoa I look forward to joining conversations! I have added that while I conceived and organised these events, they were always involving a large community of artists and organisers, and it would be hard to list all the artists that were involved. There were also many institutions and galleries that were supportive. It is interesting in retrospect, to consider the artistic uses of technology that at the time were so new that they were pretty unreliable. In particular I remember Emily Buttle's early picnic performances live from Amsterdam, using webcams, which were designed specifically for the slow screen refresh rates (ie costume and character changes could occur in the time it took for the screen to refresh), and the malfunctioning audio aspect of streaming video at the Picnic International Party, where a game of scrabble became the communicating device from the UK. Participants in the UK could hear us in NZ but could only spell messages back.
Tasman Tea Party, March 1998 Conceived and organized by Caro McCaw. Collaboration between Caro McCaw at The Honeymoon Suite Art Project Space, Dunedin NZ, with Honor Harger and Adam Hyde at Radioqualia Canberra AUS, and Jane Curtis at LOUD, Australian Youth Media Festival, at The Pod Newcastle AUS. The Trans Tasman Tea Party was an interactive, collaborative multimedia event simultaneously celebrated in three locations across the Tasman in March 1998 The event encouraged ‘zine-making cut-up and conversation/ online chatting with internet radio simultaneous event across the Tasman and across the net, involving audience participation in activities in three locations. *The Picnic*, October 14, 2000 Conceived and organized by Caro McCaw. *The Picnic* was a multimedia simultaneous series of performances and installations throughout 4 locations in New Zealand (Wellingtion, Christchurch, Dunedin and Port Chalmers), with corresponding digital events including a website, PicnicMUSH text environment and live webcast performance from Amsterdam. Over 70 artists and performers were involved in the initial event attracting several hundred participants for a period of 4 hours. Works and people were connected through a website, webcast video and a MUD,as well as on site conversation. *The Picnic International Party* October 4, 2002 Conceived and organized by Caro McCaw. This event celebrated the launch of the CDROM/book project documenting the events of the earlier Picnic event. *The Picnic International Party* connected artists and performers in three international locations Newcastle-Gateshead, (United Kingdom) / Amsterdam (Netherlands) / Dunedin, (New Zealand) during a four hour event on 4 October 2002. The event connected performers and audiences through streaming video, a website and a text-based MUSH. Testing 1…2…3… March 2004 Conceived and organized by Caro McCaw. Testing 1…2…3… was a public artwork event in three Dunedin inner city locations with live text messaging reviews. Unlike the earlier picnic events, visitors could physically walk to each of the three locations, and send and receive text message reviews throughout the period of the event. The event began in the Octagon, in the centre of town, where visitors registered their cell phone numbers, and received a free picnic lunch. During the event registered participants sent and received reviews of local performances and events. I have other examples of work more recently that involve people using digital media to connect in creative ways, but I think these works relate specifically to these themes of remote-immobility? anyway, some for the archive! caro Academic Leader Communication Design Otago Polytechnic School of Design ______________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scrubbed for your protection by SMX. For more information visit http://smx.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
