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SPACE :: April 26, 2008; 7:30 pm :: Monkeytown 58N 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY :: $5/door $10/minimum.

This show will feature new and experimental works in dance, music, and video art. Each artist/team came up with a work based on meditations on the word “SPACE.” The artists with works being shown are:

Nina Barnett & Robyn Nesbitt, Jessica Feldman, David Jensenius, Hiram Navarrete, Jessica Noe & Kate March, Blithe Riley, Kathleen Stanard, Carl Testa.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Upgrade! Boston: Seth Riskin :: April 17, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: North 181 - entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. [Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line “E”].

Seth Riskin is an artist, researcher and teacher of light. A former U. S. national champion gymnast, Riskin brings his physical ability to his Light Dance art. In silent, space-defining performances, Riskin’s precise movements articulate light effects that extend from his body. Continue reading

Ursula Endlicher invites you to dance html with her and Nancy Agabian, Robert Appelton, Laura Meyers on Saturday. Join them in Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #1 - www.yahoo.com :: April 5, 2008; 5:30 pm :: Performance Mix Festival at LMCC’s Swing Space, Seaport, New York (210 Front Street corner Beekman).

Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006-2008) is a live performance series, which utilizes Web code as choreography. In these performances Endlicher embodies the “character” of a Website - this time she has a cast of performers joining her! - and performs its html code, which is fed in from the Web “on the fly”. Continue reading

From Yukihiko Yoshida: Avant-garde-like “Super-flat”, Web 2.0 media dance performance tool in Archidemo by Gekitora Gackt from “inetdance Japan”. Gekitora intends “Dance-performance that can be appreciated from any angle 360 degrees”, and does various experiments in Archidemo.

Gekitora choreographs both dancers and avatars. It is fantastic experience for him to choreograph avatars, because artist can share only pure movement of motion with many users in Internet. Now, A series of four dances can be tested with the dance-pad. A free body expression act is done in the weightless space. Those expressions reminds users of the space suit of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Continue reading

The International Dance Party, an installation by Niklas Roy and Adad Hannah, is a complete plug ‘n’ play party in a box. Equipped with radar sensing technology, the system can sense activity nearby and quickly transform from an idle box into a psychedelic light and laser dance machine with a 600W sound system that will make the room bounce with excitement. The machine even taunts its audience with ambience with a built-in smoke machine that spews fog onto the dance floor. When everyone has left the room, the machine quickly transforms back to its static state and waits quietly for the next party to start. Watch the video. [blogged by Jonah Brucker-Cohen on Coin-Operated]

MILLENNIUM FILM - Personal Cinema Program - Winter Series 2008: Alan Sondheim :: March 15, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Film Workshop, Inc. 66 East 4th St. New York, NY.

CUTTING THE EDGE. Alan Sondheim, Azure Carter, Sandy Baldwin and Gary Manes have been working for the past several months at the Virtual Environments Laboratory, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Sondheim will be presenting the results of that research, which involves avatars, human modeling, phenomenology of virtual lives, choreography, motion capture, and a host of other issues. Continue reading

Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes) - interactive dance performance from Dans Sans Joux :: March 14, 2008; 7:45 pm :: Watermans Theatre, 40 High Street, Brentford, London.

Suna no Onna, adapted from Hiroshi Teshigahara’s mysterious 1960s cult movie, is a dance installation that merges virtual and real images of a life of existential entrapment in an inhospitable habitat. The ominous sand dunes of Teshigahara’s desert are transformed into virtual realities that shape the unconscious ground where the Woman (Katsura Isobe) meets a scientist-foreigner who stumbles into her life to become a captive. Continue reading

[Image from Winners versus Losers by Mart Kangro and Christina Ciupke] e wie estland [e for estonia] :: March 29 - April 6, 2008 :: Performance Art, Contemporary Dance, and New Media Festival in the ZKM_Cube and ZKM_Media Theater.

In 2008, the Republic of Estonia will celebrate its ninetieth anniversary. As part of the festivities, the government, together with the embassy in Berlin, is organizing an event series called e wie estland in Baden-Württemberg from January to June 2008. A dance and new media lab headed by the Estonian choreographer Taavet Jansen will be set up in cooperation with the ZKM | Karlsruhe and will enable a one-week studio collaboration. Public performances will offer a multifaceted insight into the state of the art of choreography and media art in Estonia. Festival program here.

[Image 3: ZeroG SkyDancers poster by DC Spensley] Fibreculture Journal: Issue 11 - Digital Arts and Culture Conference (Perth): “[…]The eleven papers presented here from the perthDAC (Digital Arts and Culture) 2007 conference offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on the future of digital media art and culture, speculating on recent trends and developments, presenting research outcomes, describing works in progress, or documenting histories and challenging existing paradigms of digital media use, creation and perception. Continue reading