Syndicate: Beverley Hood - translocale

[Chris Byrne <chris@cryptic.demon.co.uk>]

New Media Scotland presents:

Beverley Hood - translocale


Live performance:  6.30 - 8.00pm GMT, 14 February 2001
National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow

Online performance and information at:  http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale


translocale explores the transitory nature of interaction and examines the
potential of movement as a physical and virtual activity.

The work is an intervention within the environment of online video
conferencing, a vast network of users connecting to conferences with varied
themes, levels of experience and membership criteria. Within this still
relatively new technology, there are already certain standards which have
evolved, particularly in how users present themselves, generally staring
blankly at the computer screen.

In stark contrast to this translocale throws into this virtual environment
perhaps one of the most inherently physical activities, dance, and within
that one of the most stereotypically passionate and intimate of dances, the
Tango. The work broadcasts two dancers from a live performance space onto
the online video conferencing reflectors. Here they weave another level of
'dance'. A computer will automate the dancers movement around the Internet,
connecting to a conference for a set period before disconnecting and
connecting to the next.

In this way the dancers will leap from server to server, country to
country, temporarily visible to those connected to each of the selected
conference reflectors. Within the live space the viewer will observe the
dancers, within the same physical space and also witness their broadcast
image, the dancers bridging the gap for the viewer between the live space
and online environment.

This work is a New Media Scotland commission in partnership with Stills and
New Moves International.

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