Syndicate: TRIAD INVITATION

[Marikki Hakola <marikki@magnusborg.fi>]

Dear Colleague,

You are most warmly welcome to experience the TRIAD NetDance performance
and Internet broadcast on Friday June 6th at http://triad.kiasma.fng.fi.
TRIAD project is part of the opening program of the new KIASMA Museum of
Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland.

sincerely yours

Marikki Hakola

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TRIAD

TRIAD is a multimedia art work to be seen on the Internet. It looks at the
aesthetic and semiotic connections between dance, moving picture, music and
the hypermedia from viewpoints of three different cultures.

TRIAD is an international co-production. Responsible for the concept,
direction and the visual planning is the media artist Marikki Hakola from
Finland. The choreographers and dancers are Akeno from Japan and Molissa
Fenley from USA. Music is composed and played by Otná Eahket band with
Antti Hytti, Jouni Takamäki and Tom Nekljudow.

TRIAD NetDance

TRIAD NetDance is a live, interactive dance performance between Helsinki,
Tokyo and New York, and Internet broadcast at http://triad.kiasma.fng.fi on
5th of June, 1998 starting at 9 am in New York, 2 pm in London, 4 pm in
Helsinki, 10 pm in Tokyo.

TRIAD NetDance takes place simultaneously on three stages in three
different countries. Dancer, choreographer Molissa Fenley is going to dance
in New York, at Dance Theater Workshop and butoh dancer, choreographer
Akeno at the VTV studio in Tokyo.

Otná Eahket band shall play at the Kiasma theatre. The real time moving
picture signals from New York and Tokyo are also combined there, mixed with
the electronic backgrounds and sent out directly to the Internet. The three
locations of this performance combine to a virtual stage and art work,
which can be experienced on the Internet.

The programs needed for experiencing the live broadcast: Netscape 4.0 and
RealPlayer. Duration of the performance will be approx. 90 minutes.

TRIAD HyperDance

TRIAD HyperDance is an interactive web site on the Internet at
http://triad.kiasma.fng.fi from 10th June, 1998 to 31th December,1999.

TRIAD HyperDance is an interactive art work on the net, containing a dance
work as hypervideo. TRIAD HyperDance is based on the recording of NetDance.
In the HyperDance, the basics of the choreography and the visual planning
are built to a hypermedia installation format.

With the HyperDance, the TRIAD project expands into three dimensions. In
the HyperDance, the viewer can freely move from one virtual space to
another, and has a possibility to combine the choreographic and audiovisual
elements as she/he wishes. The audience is also invited to share their
views on the bulletin board of the TRIAD website.

Required programs: Netscape 4.0 and RealPlayer. TRIAD HyperDance is an
updating website, which can be seen on the Kiasma server between the 10th
of June 1998 and the 31st of December 1999.

Production

The producer in charge of the TRIAD project is the Kroma Productions Ltd.,
a production company for audiovisual and multimedia art, located at the
Magnusborg Studios in Porvoo, Finland. Co-producers are Tomoe Shizune &
Hakutobo in Tokyo, Japan and Joseph Di Mattia in New York, USA.

For further information, please contact:
media artist Marikki Hakola, e-mail [marikki@magnusborg.fi]
producer Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen, e-mail [skh@magnusborg.fi]
intendent of the Kiasma Museum Perttu Rastas, e-mail [perttu.rastas@fng.fi]

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Ms. Marikki Hakola
media artist, director, researcher, executive producer
Kroma Productions Ltd.
Magnusborg Studios 06100 Porvoo FINLAND
tel. int. 358+(0)19+585900 gsm 358+(0)40+5464165
telefax 358+(0)19+585901
e-mail marikki@magnusborg.fi
http://www.magnusborg.fi