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Cover of the Connected! LiveArt publication
Camera-phone image from the Crash performance by Crew
IN 2006
P e r f o r m a n c e , M e d i a S t u d i o a n d D e b a t e
M o r e t h a n t h e f i r s t C o n n e c t e d ! P r o g r a m , C o n n e c t e d 2 f o c u s e s o n b r i d g i n g t h e g a p b e t w e e n t h e r e s e a r c h i n g o f n e w c o m m u n i c a t i o n t e c h n o l o g i e s i n t h e v i s u a l a r t s a n d t h e w a y i n w h i c h m e d i a t h e o r e t i c i a n s d e a l w i t h t h i s s u b j e c t . T h e p r o g r a m i n c l u d e s c o n t r i b u t i o n s b y a r t i s t s , a c a d e m i c s a n d j o u r n a l i s t s . I t h a s b e e n d i v i d e d i n t o P e r f o r m a n c e , M e d i a S t u d i o a n d D e b a t e . E a c h t h e m e r e p r e s e n t s a b r o a d l y b a s e d c o n t e x t o f a r t , l e a r n i n g o r p h i l o s o p h y . T h e e m p h a s i s i s o n t h e p h y s i c a l p r o c e s s o f c o l l a b o r a t i o n b y m e a n s o f n e t w o r k s i n t h e c r e a t i v e p r o c e s s . C u l t u r a l b o u n d a r i e s a r e t r a n s c e n d e d b y n e t w o r k e d i n t e r n a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s .
A n a t o m i c a l T h e a t r e R e v i s i t e d ( April, 2006 )
T h e D u t c h m e d i a t h e o r e t i c i a n M a a i k e B l e e c k e r , w h o w o r k s a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f A m s t e r d a m 's S c h o o l f o r C u l t u r a l A n a l y s i s , e x a m i n e d t h e r e l a t i o n s b e t w e e n t h e t h e a t r e , t h e b o d y a n d a n a t o m y . F o r h e r r e s e a r c h , s h e c o - o r d i n a t ed a s e r i e s c o n s i s t i n g o f a c o n f e r e n c e , a w o r k s h o p , a p u b l i c a t i o n a n d p e r f o r m a n c e s . A n i n s t a l l a t i o n called 'Crash', b y t h e t h e a t r e g r o u p C rew from Belgium , was s h o w n a t t h e W a a g , w h i c h f o c u s e s o n t h e a t r e a n d a n a t o m y . An interview with Eric Joris, artistic leader of Crew, was published in Waag Society Magazine (in the May issue).
An excerpt from the article: "Developing the performances and installations now involves a team of scientists, theatre makers and in the future a network of international partners. The plan is that these partners will be both permanent consumers of the performances and their co-producers. Experiences will be exchanged and developed for the Crew performances, and the results can then be applied to other processes. Joris is also thinking in terms of telematics: a step towards the networked, international performances that are currently being researched and developed in the Connected program."
I - m a p w o r k s h o p and performance (April-September, 2006)
I - m a p wa s o u r y e a r - l o n g E u r o p e a n p r o j e c t r e a l i s e d i n c o - o p e r a t i o n w i t h p a r t n e r s f r o m G r e e c e , B u l g a r i a a n d G e r m a n y . I t i s s u p p o r t e d b y C u l t u r e 2 0 0 0 , t h e E u r o p e a n C o m m i s s i o n 's c u l t u r a l p r o g r a m . I n t e n s i v e w o r k s h o p s resulted i n a p e r f o r m a n c e on 14 September 2006 w h e r e a r t i s t s a n d t e c h n i c i a n s / p r o g r a m m e r s f r o m t h e f o u r p a r t i c i p a t i n g o r g a n i s a t i o n s worked t o g e t h e r . T h i s p r o j e c t p r o v i d e d a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o i n v e s t i g a t e t h e c i r c u m s t a n c e s i n w h i c h i m p r o v i s e d l i v e p e r f o r m a n c e s c a n c o m b i n e , a s p r o d u c e d b y p e o p l e f r o m d i f f e r e n t d i s c i p l i n e s a n d c u l t u r e s . T h e c o n s i d e r a b l e p e r i o d t h a t was t a k en t o d e v e l o p t h e c o n c e p t a n d t o a c q u i r e t h e n e c e s s a r y s k i l l s were i n t e g r a l p a r t s o f t h e f i n a l p r o d u c t : t h e n e t w o r k e d p e r f o r m a n c e that was h e l d o n 1 4 S e p t e m b e r 2006 . To view the results, you can download the performance in three parts:
IN 2005
Anatomic
The last of a series of informal jam sessions entitled Anatomic, focused on initiating and involving a local Amsterdam public and young media artists in online, collaborative media interaction, was held on 16 January 2005.
To watch the stream of this event: go here (installed mp4-player necessary).
Connected publication
Connected! LiveArt is an illustrated Connected publication, describing all projects and events within the programme, published September 2005. It acts as a catalogue at the end of the 2-year running programme. It can be downloaded as a pdf:
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