Performance, Installation and Immersion
Presented by FuturePerfect and CPR- Center for Performance Research
Sunday, October 25, 1:30-3:30pm
FREE
In conjunction with the opening of Kurt Hentschlager's New York City premiere of ZEE, an audiovisual immersive environment, FuturePerfect, CPR, 3LD Art & Technology Center, and P.S. 122 invite you to a panel on Performance, Installation, and Immersion.
More than any other concept, "immersion" has become one of the most taken-for-granted expressions in writings on technology, and increasingly used to describe a vast array of different media, creative processes, and ways of audience engagement. From video games and 3D cinema, to new counterinsurgency strategies for simulating theaters of war; from realistic touch feedback medical training systems, to the aesthetics of site specific performance and installation. They all share the same desired effect: collapsing the gap between viewer and work, image and reality, inside and outside. Five distinguished panelists will show and discuss their work in relationship to these and others issues.
Participants include: Kevin Cunningham (Director, 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group), Kurt Hentschlager (Artist, Austria/US), Kora Van den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens (Workspace Unlimited, Artist Collective Belgium/Canada), Allen Feldman (Associate Professor, Anthropology, NYU), and others to be announced. Discussants include Vallejo Gantner (PS122), Morgan von Prelle Pecelli (PS122), Jonah Bokaer (CPR), Wayne Ashley (FuturePerfect), and others.
ZEE is presented by FuturePerfect and P.S. 122 and produced by FuturePerfect and 3LD Art and Technology Center. The ZEE experience takes place at 3LD from October 28 - November 15. For more information about tickets please visit: http://www.futureperfectfestival.org/
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Kevin Cunningham is a writer, director, designer, producer, inventor and entrepreneur based in New York City. He is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of 3-Legged Dog and led the construction, fundraising and development of the 3LD Art & Technology Center, the company's new home in Lower Manhattan. He is the author, designer and director of many multidisciplinary artworks. He is the winner of the 2007 American Theater Wing Hewes Design Award for his work on Losing Something at 3LD.
Kurt Hentschlager creates performances and environments that grapple with notions of the sublime. Trained as fine artist, he began to exhibit his work in 1983, building surreal machineobjects, and then video works, computer animation and sound. Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively as a part of the duo Granular-Synthesis.
Kora Van den Bulke and Thomas Soetens founded Workspace Unlimited in 2002. Working together with a large team of collaborators, Van den Bulcke and Soetens explore the creative potential of multiplayer game technology in relation to digital art architecture, and performance. The collective focuses mainly on immersive environments, experience design, hybrid space, information architecture and networks. Their virtual environments are site-specific installations connected to different media centers in Europe and North America.
Allen Feldman is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic field research in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the AIDs affected homeless in New York City. He is Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. He has published extensively on visual culture and violence, the political anthropology of the body and the senses, and the archeology of media. His forthcoming books are titled The Politics of the Insensible: War, Violence and Terror as Dead Memory, (Duke), and Tracks on the Anthropological Machine: Animality and Inhumanization (Duke).
ABOUT FUTURE PERFECT
ZEE is the inaugural event of FuturePerfect, a new initiative that researches and presents hybrid performance practices, media forms, and artistic ideas that continue to emerge as computer technologies and electronic networks mature and become inseparable from contemporary culture. In particular focus is the future of live performance and related visual culture. FuturePerfect 2011, a performance festival and exhibition, is slated for New York City during Spring 2011. Wayne Ashley is FuturePerfect's founding artistic director, the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM.
Contact: info@futureperfectfestival.org
CPR's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, as well as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
