Syndicate: Beverley Hood - trans-locale

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

New Media Scotland presents:

Beverley Hood - trans-locale

Live performance: Sunday 18 March 2001, 19.30-21.00 GMT
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

To view the performance online and for further information visit:
http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale

Installation version features in the group show 'Blue Skies', at Stills
23 March - 28 April


A second chance to see trans-locale, which 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 trans-locale 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.

The performance takes place in three 20-minute blocks with intervals of
approximately 10 minutes between each block. Admission to the live event is
free but places are limited so please RSVP to Stills: info@stills.org.

To view the performance online you will need a recent version of CU-SeeMe
software: http://www.cuseeme.com

N.B. This performance may contain sexually explicit material

trans-locale is a New Media Scotland commission in partnership with Stills
and New Moves International. The work is funded by the Scottish Arts
Council's National Lottery Fund.


For further information contact:

New Media Scotland
PO Box 25065
Glasgow G1 5YP

Tel: 0141 564 3010  	   Fax: 0141 564 3011
info@mediascot.org   http://www.mediascot.org


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