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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:10:47 +0930 From: Australian Network for Art and Technology <anat@anat.org.au> You are invited to attend: FUSION the first in a series of three collaborative interactive telepresence events The live manifestation of the first FUSION event will take place at: College of Fine Arts, Selwyn Street, Paddington, Sydney, AUSTRALIA June 9 and 10 : from 6-11pm; June 12 from 6-10am Medien Faculty, Bauhaus University, Weimar, GERMANY June 9 & 10 9.00-14.00; June 11, 22.00 - 02.00 and online at http://www.uni-weimar.de/~fusion FUSION'99 is the first in a series collaborative interactive telepresence events which explore the current break down of definitions, dualisms and geographical boundaries on the internet. The theme focuses on the fusions occurring between the artificial, the organic and the virtual through the collapses and interactions of "Cyberspace". Next week, the Medien Facultity of the Bauhaus University Weimar, The Australian Network for Art and Technology and The College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney will host Fusion '99, an experimental event from point to point over the Net. The event which features the work of 12 Artists and Computer Scientists from Germany and Australia, attempts to push the boundaries of cyberspace past simple e-mail and net-surfing. By using the latest real- time technologies and collaborative techniques, the artists in Australia and those of Germany pair up to test new levels of interactivity, conceptual collaboration and virtual space. The work ranges from live audio streaming and installation, to video manipulation, to the use of various available net softwares which have yet to be utilised creativity such as Net Meeting or Hotline Chats, WWW sites and VRML possibilities and finally to the concepts of telepresence performance. It promises to break new ground, furthering collaborative techniques between educational institutions, inventing new programs for net communication as well as expanding current applications for use by creative artist and students. Participating artists will question and re-define old definitions of space, nature, evolution, identity and artistic authorship. Jill Scott, the initiator of this project says "The intention is to hold a series of FUSION events over time, which will form a body of researched results to assist with the development of protocols for telepresence events, defend the sponsorship of more online collaborative techniques between educational institutions, and simultaneously test applications for industry standards by creative artists and students." The projects being initiated from Sydney are: Live Audio Streams: A stream of work by composers who modify and manipulate sounds from Sydney, developed and produced by Damian Castaldi and Scott Horscroft and including works by Sigma editions; Digiplasma, a highly charged gap devoid of content emersed within an infinite electr magnetic spectrum parading as message by Brad Miller, Collectorscope is an interactive animation device for capturing images off the web and animating them., by John Hughes; Web based projects, Carrier, the domain of a www based infectious java agent which navigates the user through immersive visual and aural landscapes of viral symbiosis b y Melinda Rackham and Notes Towards A Place , a space for text and audio that encourages contributions by users into a VRML environment. Emanating from Weimar are: What's Cooking In The Realm? A network surveillance installation, transporting old folklore into the next millennium, by Sue Machert; Transonator a parallel interactive sound installation, by Andreas Krach and Johannes Sienknecht; Schlaglichter a series of media ideas about emergence using Net-meeting and Mac Morph software by Marion Meyer.; |a|s|c|v|i|d|, ASCII video client/servers by Andreas Schiffler and Bernd Diemer; Future Bodies (Stage 1), an interactive script writing research project to determine the future of three virtual characters with genetic modifications and multiple identities, by Jill Scott; Virtual Cuts, a performance and a mixture between the real and the virtual, by Ulla Marguard; as well as soundworks from SeaM-Studio fur elktroakustiche Musik in Weimar: Soundtracks, by Pablo Aura-Langer, Holger Haessermann, Hyo-Sung-Kim, Anne Koenig, Su-Young Park, Jae-Hi Uh; Impromptu a live improvisation by Peter Lan, and soundfillers by Ludger Kisters. For further information & interviews contact: In Australia: Amanda McDonald Crowley, Director, ANAT 0419 829 313; amanda@anat.org.au In Germany: Professor Dr Jill Scott, Bauhaus University jscott@access.ch FUSION is proudly supported in Australia by: the Australian Network for Art and Technology; the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council; the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales; and Metro Screen Ltd; and in Gemany by: the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and Deutsche Telekom AG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE DESK OF THE AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY anat@anat.org.au postal address: PO Box 8029 Hindley Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia web address: http://www.anat.org.au/ ph: +61 (0)8-8231-9037 fax: +61 (0)8-8211-7323 Director: Amanda McDonald Crowley (tel: 0419 829 313) Administration and Information Officer: Anne Robertson Administration Assistant: Samara Mitchell Web and Technical Officer: Martin Thompson Memberships: $A12 (unwaged), $A25 (waged), $A50 (institutions) ANAT receives support from The Australia Council, http://www.ozco.gov.au the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress