[UCI-CalIT2] Presents Hybrid Speaker Presentation on Experimental Performance Spaces

Mon May 3 22:14:09 PDT 2004

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Cal-(IT)2 Irvine division Media Arts layer presents Hybrid Speaker
Series

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"Resistance is Fertile, Gesture and Agency

in the Field of Responsive Media"

featuring

Sha Xin Wei

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Thursday, May 6, 2004

3pm

McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

UC Irvine

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Abstract

Can the emerging technologies of performance sustain notions and
practices of embodiment and materiality that do not reduce to
linguistics, semiotics, or information theory?

In particular, I pose the question: How do our notions of gesture and
agency mutate in the presence of real-time, dynamically varying
computational media? I refract this question through the experiences of
building and playing in responsive spaces such as TGarden, txOom, and
experiments conducted at the Topological Media Lab which I've
established at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

We have built these experimental performance spaces by combining sensor
technology, real-time systems and computational media with the mise en
scene of experimental theater and musical performance. Such responsive
media spaces, both in their construction and the experiences that they
sustain, call into question linguistic and informatic models of gesture
and may open new ways to understand gesture and agency as embodied
experience.

http://sponge.org/projects/m3_tg_intro.html

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments served
following the presentation. Further information, (949) 824-6900.

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Shellie Nazarenus

Communications Mgr.

Cal-(IT)2 UC Irvine division=20

416 Engineering Tower

Irvine, CA 92697-2800

office: (949) 824-9622 cell: (949) 533-2564 fax: (949) 824-8197

www.calit2.net

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0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Abstract</span></font></p>

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0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can the emerging technologies of performance sustain =
notions
and practices of embodiment and materiality that do not reduce to =
linguistics,
semiotics, or information theory?</span></font></p>

In particular, I pose the question: How do our =
notions of
gesture and agency mutate in the presence of real-time, dynamically =
varying
computational media? I refract this question through the experiences of
building and playing in responsive spaces such as TGarden, txOom, and
experiments conducted at the Topological Media Lab which I&#8217;ve =
established
at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

We have built these experimental performance spaces =
by
combining sensor technology, real-time systems and computational media =
with the
mise en scene of experimental theater and musical performance. Such =
responsive
media spaces, both in their construction and the experiences that they =
sustain,
call into question linguistic and informatic models of gesture and may =
open new
ways to understand gesture and agency as embodied =
experience.

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:
0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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This event is free and open to the public. Light
refreshments served following the presentation. Further information, =
(949)
824-6900.

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
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  font-family:Arial'>Cal-</span></font><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span
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</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>416 Engineering Tower</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;
  font-family:Arial'>Irvine</span></font><font size=3D1 =
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  face=3DArial><span =
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  size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'>92697-2800</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>office: (949) 824-9622 cell: (949) 533-2564 fax: =
(949)
824-8197</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>www.calit2.net</span></font></p>

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