Friday, July 3, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] ethnic cyborg

hello

it is not so easy to understand cyborg with ethnic add ons, but it
will be an object in the cyberspace concept and partly ethnic too...
now, in this direction i would like to mention a possible project of
mine. or rather that i will be involved at april 2010 and
it will be entitled -concertethno-. and it will be a multi media event
the electronic music composition will be based on ethnic sounds
a nd a percentage of the new visuals will represent ethnic glocalities

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:08 PM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> yasminers
>
> re examples of cyborg related art work here is the work of marce li
> antunez roca in zero gravity
> wearing his exoskeleton
>
> in the zero gravity project he interacted with a virtual creature in
> cyberspace
> while he was floating in zero gravity
>
> re the "ethnic" nature of his work; it is interesting how his work in
> zero gravity
> grows out of his work in spanish radical street theater= it is very
> politically
> situated and grows out of a long tradition of spanish agit prop
>
> roger
>
> http://www.marceliantunez.com/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=33
>
> Using the Space Station as a metaphor, Marcel.lÌ Ant·nez Roca has
> developed a hybrid show alternating performance, concert and lecture.
> It is structured in different modules. During the show Ant·nez wears
> his Dreskeleton (an exoskeletal body interface) and with it he
> samples, activates and modulates sounds as well as controlling the
> films projected on two screens.
> In the first module he presents some of the mechanical aspects
> characteristic of his work such as the Fleshbots, the Dreskeletons,
> the Biometries and the Systematurgy.
> The second module takes us through recurrent images in his work.
> The third module reveals the end result of the process of preparation
> for the Dedalus project in Star City in the Russian Federation as well
> as the micro performances that were carried out during periods of
> microgravity provided by the parabolas. In these micro performances we
> witness the Requiem bodybot experiment and the interaction between the
> dreskeleton, the softbot and the interactive films.
> The last module presents the Transpermia theory and at this point the
> performance becomes more like a conference. Ant·nez proposes a new
> landscape for a Utopia called Transpermia. He describes some of his
> prototypes organized in 4 sections:
> 1 Interface: new devices with which to perceive the world and take part in
> it
> 2 Robots: machines as metaphors for life
> 3 Fleeting Identities: transitory states of personality as a setting
> for new experiences and knowledge
> 4 New Creations: models of activity in the Transpermia Utopia
>
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