[UCI-Calit2] TeleMotions Concert This Weekend at Calit2

[Shellie Nazarenus]

TeleMotions: A Networked Intermedia Concert

Saturday, April 16 @ 8:00 p.m. & Sunday, April 17 @ 2:00 p.m. 

Calit2 Building Auditorium, UC Irvine
 
FREE ADMISSION -- PUBLIC IS WELCOME!

In recent years, UC faculty have been leading new developments into 
telepresence performance, not only by implementing newly emerging 
Internet tools that enable high-quality audio and video connections 
among remote locations, but also by creating new artistic works that 
explore the potentials of this new medium. Extending upon that 
history, this concert features new music composed and peformed by Mark 
Dresser (bass), Myra Melford (piano) and CTSA Music Professor Michael 
Dessen (trombone), performed in a visual environment created by 
Victoria Petrovich (scenic design) and CTSA Dance Professor John 
Crawford (telematic video).

With live audiences at both sites, Dresser and Melford will be 
performing in San Diego at the Calit2 Theatre within Petrovich's 
immersive stage design, while Dessen will be performing in the Calit2 
Auditorium at UC Irvine where Crawford will also be integrating live 
video into both performance spaces. The performances take advantage of 
a dedicated, high-bandwidth network between the Irvine and San Diego 
buildings of the California Institute for Telecommunications and 
Information Technology, a leading research unit based at the 
University of California.

Telemotions culminates two years of collaboration by the core artists 
along with an extensive support crew of UC staff researchers and 
graduate students who specialize in video, audio, design and computer 
networking. One year ago in spring 2010, the same artistic team 
presented a large-scale telematic concert titled Jazz Telemotions. 
Since then, they have developed all new music and visual design while 
also refining their use of networking technologies in workshops 
throughout the year. With music that explores both rhythmic grooves 
and the tactile subtleties of sound, along with integrated scenic 
design and real-time video, these performances promise to be 
unprecedented in scope and unique contributions to the newly emerging 
field of telepresence performance.

For more information, contact Mark Dresser <mdresser at ucsd.edu>

Supported by the California Institute for Telecommunications and 
Information Technology (Calit2), the Center for Research in Computing 
and the Arts (CRCA), the University of California Institute for 
Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the Department of Dance and Department 
of Music at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School for the Arts, and the 
Department of Music at UC San Diego.