<nettime-ann> Somatic Death, Soma Life :: curated by Jameson Wallace

Somatic Death, Soma Life

Lumen Eclipse : Jan - March Showcase

Presented by Lumen Eclipse on two flat panel displays in Harvard Square from January 2009 to March 2009, and 24-hours a day on http://LumenEclipse.com

Curated by Jameson Wallace, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Sponsored by the Motion Graphics Festival. http://MGFest.com

At the moment of separation of the body from the brain, our ability to differentiate thought from prosthetic breaks down. Our body extends as far as our effect, far beyond our ability to see it happen. Both the threat and promise of virtualization is that its nature will have a form of dance more appropriate to us than what we now call "human."

Feature Artist:

+ Alan Sondheim, http://alansondheim.org/

Context Artists:

+ Jean-Paul Frenay (Belgium)

+ Shantell Martin (Japan)

+ Addictive TV (UK)

+ Three Legged Legs & N.A.S.A. (US)

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Somatic Death, Soma Life

PermaLink:

http://www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/indexJan_10.html

Artist Information:

Featured Artist: Alan Sondheim, http://alansondheim.org/

Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he lives with his partner, Azure Carter, in Brooklyn NY. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University in English. A new-media artist, writer, musician, and theorist, he has exhibited, performed and lectured internationally.

Sondheim recently ended a solo installation and nine-month residency at the Odyssey exhibition space in the virtual world, Second Life. He has been involved in online avatar performance with Sandy Baldwin for live audiences in Paris, London, Basel, Portland OR, and Providence RI. Sondheim also collaborates with Myk Freedman, lap steel, and Azure Carter, with whom he is opening the season for Dance New Amsterdam in Manhattan this January.

Piece 1: Water Slope, Water Flow, Water Dance, Water Hands

Videography: Alan Sondheim, performer: Azure Carter
Deconstructed dancework from Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch
Mountains, UTAH, 2009

USA - 2009

Piece 2: Two Guys VEL

Created at the Virtual Environments Laboratory, West Virginia University, using altered motion capture equipment. Mocap performers: David Bello, Azure Carter, 2006

USA - 2006

Piece 3: Duet Avatar Grange

Videography: Alan Sondheim, performers: Foofwa d\'Imobilite, Maud Liardon

Human simulation of altered avatar motion capture performance, Alpine Grange in Switzerland, 2006

USA - 2006

Piece 4: noOne

Alan Sondheim: installation, performance, videography
Second life avatar dance/performance in active environment, created for the UMove dance film festival (one of six finalists/winners), 2009

USA - 2009

+ Jean-Paul Frenay, http://www.frenayjp.be/

Artificial Paradise

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

Production : Condor
Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay
Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli
3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8

Belgium - 2009

+ Shantell Martin, http://www.shantellmartin.com/

Hidden Ora

I ask a person to stand in front of a large projector screen for four minutes each, while I capture their moving Hidden Ora. To do this I connect my computer to the projector, open up the drawing software, plug in my Wacom tablet, paint the background black, and then I’m ready to go.

Music soundispatch.com/mmf/
Edited lightrhythmvisuals.com
Location super-deluxe.com
Released on lightrhythmvisuals.com

USA - 2008

+ Addictive TV, http://www.addictive.com/

Sims 3 Remix

Following Addictive TV’s recent Hollywood movie remixes including Slumdog Millionaire, Fast & Furious and the blockbuster movie version of Max Payne, the hugely successful computer game; Electronic Arts, the world’s leading independent developer and publisher of video games, have asked the London based audiovisual artists to remix the much anticipated Sims 3 game for its June 2nd release.

USA - 2009

+ Three Legged Legs & N.A.S.A.

Gifted

N.A.S.A. created an album that, at its core, was about the merging of cultures and collaboration between different peoples. The ultimate goal was to have it be as much about the art it inspired as the music itself. With Three Legged Legs setting the video to the track, “Gifted”, one is taken on a journey through a Martian landscape and psychedelia, featuring Kanye West, Santigold and Lykke Li.

additional_credits:
Record Label: Spectrophonic; Director and Post Production: Three Legged Legs; Production Company: Green Dot Films; Managing Director: Rick Fishbein; Executive Producers: Darren Foldes and Rich Pring; Post Production: Creative Directors: Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt and Reza Rasoli; Design and Animation: Mark Kulakoff, Dylan Spears and Michael Tavarez; Squeak E. Clean Productions Creative Director: Syd Garon; Squeak E. Clean Productions Executive Producer: Susan Applegate.

USA - 2009