Breaking Solitude [Season Two]: a series of 6 Net performances presents imaginary friend - amie imaginaire a performance by Aya Karpinska :: November 12, 2007; 8 PM GMT+1 (Paris local time).

imaginary friend - amie imaginaire is a webcam adaption for lala. “In this performance piece, I use my childhood doll as an interface for engaging with text projected on a screen. The language is inspired by the relationship between a child and her doll or imaginary friend. A recursive algorithm is used to fill the space of the screen with pre-written verses, which appear in random order. The doll is fitted with an accelerometer, a sensor that can detect position in space and speed of movement. As the doll is moved, the way text appears on the screen changes.”

Only 30 places available, please don’t connect too late - and don’t forget to register on the site if you didn’t do that yet.

Aya Karpinska is a digital media artist and interaction designer. She creates interactive experiences through installation art, digital text, sound, and game design (but not all at the same time). Aya is the 2006 recipient of the Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing; she splits her time between Providence and New York City.

In this series Annie Abrahams and panoplie.org propose Web-meetings of about 20 minutes long using chat and streaming to experiment new ways of being together. Each meeting starts with a performance of an artist. The entrance of the web-salon is limited to 30 people. People registered on the site of panoplie (it is free) can take part in the chat (English or French) and will have priority over the others, which can nevertheless assist as “voyeurs” within the limit of the places available. Breaking solitude is a project of Annie Abrahams and panoplie.org.