In|Formation Year - Interaction
Site: University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mills College; Stanford University
The programming for Interaction will comprise the following components:
- Tele-Immersion Dance Performance, The Reception
- Symposium on Interaction in cyberspace
- An In|Formation Year public lecture by Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Politics of Presence
- Digital Humanities Fellowships
Interaction Partners
- University of California, Berkeley
- Stanford University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Stanford Humanities Lab
- Stanford Humanities Center
- Stanford University Libraries (SUL)
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
- Department of Computer Science, UIUC
- Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Mills College
- Mills College
Tele-Immersion Dance Performance & Symposium > The Resonance Project presents: The Reception > December 8, 6 PM > Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
CITRIS will webcast live the entire event from both the tele-immersion lab and the HMMB lobby area, in Windows Media Format, beginning at 5:30 PM US Pacific Standard Time, Friday, December 8th.
From Lobby: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast
From TI lab: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/livecast
Windows PC users will be able to view the streams using Windows Media Player.
Mac OS X users should download Flip4Mac's free Windows Media Components for Quicktime (http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm) in order to view the webcasts using the Quicktime player.
Mac OS X & Linux users can also download the free VLC media player from VideoLAN, available from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The Reception is a cross-disciplinary performance event utilizing tele-immersion technology and dance choreography in a live theatrical environment. Using 48 cameras located at UC Berkeley and 10 cameras located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the tele-immersion software will capture images of the performers, and in semi-real time, reconstruct and display the data in 3D creating a new form of bi-located remote presence. This information will be used to create dances and imagery, which resonate between virtual and real worlds, demonstrating new possibilities for visual, tactile, kinesthetic and proprioceptive communication. Following the performance there will be an informal symposium to address questions raised by the performance and provide a vehicle for critical response to the work.
The Resonance Project is a team of choreographers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating 3-D presence/co-presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance. Unique to the project is the use of a "performance as research" model, within which scientists and artists collaborate to explore a re-visioning of cyber culture and corporeal presence.
The participants in the Resonance Project include the tele-immersion lab at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley and the tele-immersion lab within the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Other participants include The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, the Dance Department and Intermedia Program at Mills College , and the Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley. The Directors of the project are: Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley, Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Lisa Wymore, UC Berkeley, Renata Sheppard, UIUC Dance Department, and Katherine Mezur, Mills College. The symposium will be led by the Directors and Edmund Campion, UC Berkeley.
Public Lecture & Digital Humanities Fellowships> The Presence project: The Politics of Presence > Lynn Hershman Leeson > November 30, 2006
Stanford University will be participating in the HASTAC Interaction session via a special event in Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), the popular online 3-D environment. The Stanford Humanities Lab (http://shl.stanford.edu) owns a Second Life “island,” where they conduct their interdisciplinary, digitally-inflected research. In this special, invitation-only interaction, the SHL, in collaboration with artist Lynn Hershman, will preview work from one of their ongoing projects, Life to the Second Power (L2). The theme will be “Regenerative Presence: Remixing the Archives of Lynn Hershman Leeson.” This Second Life interaction will be recorded from the perspective of one online avatar at the preview, and will be archived on the HASTAC website afterwards as a digital video. Secondary viewers will also gather in groups at Stanford, Duke, and the U.K. to watch the proceedings live onscreen, and to discussion the presentation afterwards. At Duke, viewers will gather in the John Hope Franklin Center at 3pm EST in room 240 (see http://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7510 for location).
The L2 project will re-animate the existing archive of artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, now physically housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Hershman Leeson has been an award-winning media artist for more than 30 years. Her rich body of work includes feature films such as Conceiving Ada and Teknolust , experimental video, photography and drawings, interactive real-time projects, performances, and installations. She works in overlapping genres that explore questions of identity, presence, and the human body in relation to technology. She is a pioneer in interactive computer and net-based media arts and has won numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Her work has appeared at Sundance, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many other venues around the world. Hershman Leeson is Professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis, and is A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. The Henry Art Gallery of Seattle recently curated Hershmanlandia, a major international museum retrospective of her work that will tour in 2006-08.
L2 will go to the next step, building a living archive of Hershman's work inside the 3D online world Second Life. Converting the archive into a digital format of hybrid genre will allow users of the content to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for this material. This project will use mixed reality and media convergence across multiple channels, through which users will be invited to participate in a deeper exploration, investigation and contemplation of both the nature of archives and the context for documentation of contemporary art.
For more information about the ongoing Life to the Second Power (L2) project, visit http://shl.stanford.edu/research/lifetosecondpower.html. For more information about Hershman Leeson,visit http://www.lynnhershman.com. To view the video archive of the Second Life event, visit the HASTAC website at http://www.hastac.org and log in under the Interaction event after December 7, 2006.
Site: University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mills College; Stanford University
The programming for Interaction will comprise the following components:
- Tele-Immersion Dance Performance, The Reception
- Symposium on Interaction in cyberspace
- An In|Formation Year public lecture by Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Politics of Presence
- Digital Humanities Fellowships
Interaction Partners
- University of California, Berkeley
- Stanford University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Stanford Humanities Lab
- Stanford Humanities Center
- Stanford University Libraries (SUL)
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
- Department of Computer Science, UIUC
- Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Mills College
- Mills College
Tele-Immersion Dance Performance & Symposium > The Resonance Project presents: The Reception > December 8, 6 PM > Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
CITRIS will webcast live the entire event from both the tele-immersion lab and the HMMB lobby area, in Windows Media Format, beginning at 5:30 PM US Pacific Standard Time, Friday, December 8th.
From Lobby: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast
From TI lab: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/livecast
Windows PC users will be able to view the streams using Windows Media Player.
Mac OS X users should download Flip4Mac's free Windows Media Components for Quicktime (http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm) in order to view the webcasts using the Quicktime player.
Mac OS X & Linux users can also download the free VLC media player from VideoLAN, available from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The Reception is a cross-disciplinary performance event utilizing tele-immersion technology and dance choreography in a live theatrical environment. Using 48 cameras located at UC Berkeley and 10 cameras located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the tele-immersion software will capture images of the performers, and in semi-real time, reconstruct and display the data in 3D creating a new form of bi-located remote presence. This information will be used to create dances and imagery, which resonate between virtual and real worlds, demonstrating new possibilities for visual, tactile, kinesthetic and proprioceptive communication. Following the performance there will be an informal symposium to address questions raised by the performance and provide a vehicle for critical response to the work.
The Resonance Project is a team of choreographers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating 3-D presence/co-presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance. Unique to the project is the use of a "performance as research" model, within which scientists and artists collaborate to explore a re-visioning of cyber culture and corporeal presence.
The participants in the Resonance Project include the tele-immersion lab at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley and the tele-immersion lab within the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Other participants include The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, the Dance Department and Intermedia Program at Mills College , and the Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley. The Directors of the project are: Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley, Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Lisa Wymore, UC Berkeley, Renata Sheppard, UIUC Dance Department, and Katherine Mezur, Mills College. The symposium will be led by the Directors and Edmund Campion, UC Berkeley.
Public Lecture & Digital Humanities Fellowships> The Presence project: The Politics of Presence > Lynn Hershman Leeson > November 30, 2006
Stanford University will be participating in the HASTAC Interaction session via a special event in Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), the popular online 3-D environment. The Stanford Humanities Lab (http://shl.stanford.edu) owns a Second Life “island,” where they conduct their interdisciplinary, digitally-inflected research. In this special, invitation-only interaction, the SHL, in collaboration with artist Lynn Hershman, will preview work from one of their ongoing projects, Life to the Second Power (L2). The theme will be “Regenerative Presence: Remixing the Archives of Lynn Hershman Leeson.” This Second Life interaction will be recorded from the perspective of one online avatar at the preview, and will be archived on the HASTAC website afterwards as a digital video. Secondary viewers will also gather in groups at Stanford, Duke, and the U.K. to watch the proceedings live onscreen, and to discussion the presentation afterwards. At Duke, viewers will gather in the John Hope Franklin Center at 3pm EST in room 240 (see http://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7510 for location).
The L2 project will re-animate the existing archive of artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, now physically housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Hershman Leeson has been an award-winning media artist for more than 30 years. Her rich body of work includes feature films such as Conceiving Ada and Teknolust , experimental video, photography and drawings, interactive real-time projects, performances, and installations. She works in overlapping genres that explore questions of identity, presence, and the human body in relation to technology. She is a pioneer in interactive computer and net-based media arts and has won numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Her work has appeared at Sundance, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many other venues around the world. Hershman Leeson is Professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis, and is A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. The Henry Art Gallery of Seattle recently curated Hershmanlandia, a major international museum retrospective of her work that will tour in 2006-08.
L2 will go to the next step, building a living archive of Hershman's work inside the 3D online world Second Life. Converting the archive into a digital format of hybrid genre will allow users of the content to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for this material. This project will use mixed reality and media convergence across multiple channels, through which users will be invited to participate in a deeper exploration, investigation and contemplation of both the nature of archives and the context for documentation of contemporary art.
For more information about the ongoing Life to the Second Power (L2) project, visit http://shl.stanford.edu/research/lifetosecondpower.html. For more information about Hershman Leeson,visit http://www.lynnhershman.com. To view the video archive of the Second Life event, visit the HASTAC website at http://www.hastac.org and log in under the Interaction event after December 7, 2006.
