January 15, 2007
Turbulence Commission: "html_butoh" by Ursula Endlicher
http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh
[Needs Flash Player; high speed Internet connection (DSL/Cable or better);
speakers on; Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, Opera 9.10+, Netscape 8.0+, and Safari
2.0+.]

"html_butoh" questions the way information is indexed on the Web; it enacts
the "Global Top 500" websites and is choreographed by their real-time HTML
structure. Small video clips show participants translating the
"functionality" of each HTML tag into movement. The URLs, and therefore the
"stage," changes every 3:28 minutes, running through 500 websites within a
twenty-four hour cycle. "html_butoh" runs on the html-movement-library, an
open-for-participation video clip database. In Butoh--a Japanese dance
technique--the dancer "becomes" an image through her movements, which
parallels to how a web browser scans through HTML and displays its content.
By submitting to the html-movement-library every participant instantly
becomes part of the "html_butoh" performance.

"html_butoh" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation.

BIOGRAPHY

Ursula Endlicher was born in Vienna, Austria and has lived and worked as a
"multiple-media" artist in New York since 1993. Her work resides at the
intersection of Internet art, performance and multi-media installation. She
focuses, with a critical and yet humorous eye, on the underlying structures
of the Web, questioning online identity while often anthropomorphizing and
enacting the Web, and bringing the Web into a "physical" realm via
alternative human-machine communication interfaces. Endlicher has been shown
internationally, including "artport," Whitney Museum, New York and "Illegal
Machines" at Art Athena, Greece. Recently she participated in "No body on
this line", a research lab at Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria. Endlicher
initiated a discussion and web conference about "Curating net art" with
Mobile-Studios.org in 2006. She has lectured about her work in the US and
Europe.

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UPGRADE! BOSTON: ShiftSpace and OPENSTUDIO
A panel discussion with Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer (ShiftSpace) and Kyle
Buza + Brent Fitzgerald + Amber Frid-Jimenez + Takashi Okamoto (OPENSTUDIO);
moderated by kanarinka.
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/01_11Shift.html

WHEN: January 11, 7 pm
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to
Central Square and walk 1 block.

ShiftSpace provides a transparent social layer above any website. It is an
open source (and free software) platform that enables users to comment, add
to, and modify websites. ShiftSpace allows users to experience the web as a
continuous public space rather than a collection of isolated and
privately-controlled islands. Through ShiftSpace artists, developers, poets,
activists and others can freely meet, play, create art, debate protest and
enjoy the full potential of their online freedom.

OPENSTUDIO is web + art + community + economics. It is an open ended
experiment that couples a very simple drawing tool with an economy of
artists, curators, collectors, dealers and viewers. Members can create and
modify drawings, set prices and licenses, exchange and exhibit work, view
financial records, and commission one another. Grounded in economic reality,
OPENSTUDIO is a declaration of several ideals: transparency, community, and
cooperation. It asserts that through collaborative effort, creativity and
intelligence can bring about positive change.

Artists' Biographies:
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/01_11Shift.html

UP NEXT

<< Deb Todd Wheeler and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg >>

February 15, 2007 at 7 pm.

Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by
Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently
active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging
network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to
bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get
involved, please email jo@turbulence.org.

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UPGRADE! BOSTON: Turbulence New England Initiative II Artist Talks:
Brooke A. Knight, Mobius and John Snavely
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/12_14NEII.html

WHEN: December 14, 7 pm
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to
Central Square and walk 1 block.

< Turbulence New England Initiative II >
http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html

Turbulence.org's competition for networked, hybrid projects awarded three
commissions: "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight, "Variations VII: FishNet"
by Mobius, and "WhoWhatWhenAir" by John Snavely. The projects will be
exhibited at Art Interactive from December 8 through January 14. Jurors of
the competition were Julian Bleecker, Michelle Thursz, and Helen Thorington.
Turbulence NE Initiative II is supported by Art Interactive, the LEF
Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

"Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
http://turbulence.org/Works/cell_tagging

The mobile phone occupies a space that is both connecting and distancing.
Seemingly ubiquitous, it has become an increasingly powerful tool,
functioning as a phone, PDA, browser, and camera. With "Cell Tagging" it
becomes a remote control that allows users to dial, draw, and speak. Cell
phone users "graffiti" the sound-space around them, making every place their
own.

"Variations VII: FishNet" by Mobius
http://turbulence.org/works/FishNet

In "Variations VII: FishNet," the primary component is an autonomous
networked space in which users "fish" among myriad live audio/visual
internet feeds. Sources include air traffic controllers, police and fire
departments, horse races, and webcams. The project will also make use of
live, distributed input from cell phones. FishNet is inspired by John Cage's
Variations VII, a pioneering "art and engineering" performance event from
1966.

"WhoWhatWhenAir" by John Snavely

An interactive, kinetic sculpture that users can communicate with via a
bicycle pump. Next to this direct interaction, a web-based, distant
interaction connects the digital with the physical. Coordinated efforts
produce unexpected structural choreographies.

UP NEXT

<< Upgrade! Boston: ShiftSpace and OPENSTUDIO >>

January 11, 2007; 7 pm.

Panel discussion with Mushon Zer-Aviv and Dan Phiffer (ShiftSpace) and
members of MIT's OPENSTUDIO project. http://shiftspace.org/
http://openstudio.media.mit.edu/

Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by
Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently
active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging
network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to
bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get
involved, please email jo@turbulence.org.

If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email
with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade

November 27, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Variations VII: FishNet" by Mobius Artists Group
http://turbulence.org/works/FishNet
Needs Real Audio, Quicktime and Windows Media Player plugins; speakers on;
high speed (DSL/Cable or better) internet connection recommended.

In "Variations VII: FishNet," the primary component is an autonomous network
space in which the listener/visitor will "fish" among a myriad of live
audio/visual internet feeds. These will include sources such as air traffic
controllers, police and fire departments, horse races, and webcams. The
project will also make use of live, distributed input from cell phones. The
outcome will be an environment built by the team of artists, but freely
explored by visitors to the virtual and live sites. The artists will provide
the resources for a distributed audience to create its own experience of
synchronicity. FishNet is inspired by John Cage's Variations VII, a
pioneering "art and engineering" performance event from 1966.

"Variations VII: FishNet" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing
Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made
possible with funding from the LEF Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

MARGARET BELLAFIORE uses personal imagery to create installation and
performance. She has been experimenting with a series of drawings, inspired
by John Cage, that use chance operations to decide composition, color, brush
width, etc. She has participated in artist exchanges in Macedonia and
Croatia, 1996, 1999, 2000. Her most recent performance, Mobius International
Festival 2006, explores her conflict with the war in Iraq. She has a degree
in Biology from St. Johns Universiy as well as the Diploma and Fifth Year
Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Bellafiore has been
a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 1992.

LAWRENCE JOHNSON works in a variety of time-based and interactive media,
often centered around language. These works range from intricate multimedia
performances with computer-generated sounds and animations to simple texts
read out loud. He has taught for 37 years at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, where he pioneered the use of computers in art-making in 1978. He
has been a member of Mobius Artists Group for 13 years, where among other
things, he has collaborated on realizations of many works of John Cage.

DAVID MILLER has been a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 1980. He
has worked in a variety of media, including spoken word/sound poetry, sound
art and experimental theater. Since the mid-1990s he has specialized in
realizing some of the more theatrically-oriented works of John Cage. At
present, he is beginning to develop performance works based on close
observation of the mundane details of everyday life.

Trombone explorer TOM PLSEK has been stretching trombones and our concepts
of them for years. His compositions include pieces for ensembles and solo
trombone that often incorporate improvisation, technology, and performance
art. He has performed with such artists as Phill Niblock, the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company, Marjorie Morgan, and the Outsider Quartet. Plsek
is a member of the Mobius Artists Group and Chair of the Brass Department at
Berklee College of Music in Boston. The Gu series, a monthly performance
series created with Marjorie Morgan and based on one of the hexagrams from
the I Ching, was selected by the Boston Globe as one of the top ten 2002
dance events in Boston. He is featured on several recording including
"Firehouse Futurities," 1999: Rastascan Records (BRD038) and Tautology
(005); and "Jump or Die; 21 Braxton Compositions 1992," Music and Arts
(CD-843).

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade