Live Art Practices with Blast Theory en Matthew Fuller / Graham Harwood

[Marieke Istha]

> 50% beeld evening
Tuesday August 27
Live Art Practices with Blast Theory en Matthew Fuller / Graham Harwood
Door open 20.00 hour
Start 20.30 hour

The evening Live Art Practices will look at the emergence of mobile devices
and wireless networks as cultural spaces. The English multimedia performance
group Blast Theory and Matthew Fuller / Graham Harwood, who developed
TextFM, show that more and more the public gets involved in performances,
sometimes even unexpected. The differences and similarities between the two
approaches will become clear during their discussions. The public gets a
change to (anonymously) interact.

Entrance €  3,- ( students € 2,-)
Reservations +31 (0)20 6237101 or  info at montevideo.nl
<mailto:info at montevideo.nl>

Blast Theory is a group of four artists based in London who make live events
for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street.  The group's work confronts a
media saturated world in which popular culture rules. It uses video and
computers to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information
that envelops us. The work is a fast cutting collage of images and actions,
often appropriated from elsewhere.
Founded on a belief in collective work and an openness about creativity
Blast Theory collaborates with a wide range of creative people: from DJs to
dancers, from CDROM designers to pop promo directors.
<http://www.blasttheory.co.uk>

Text FM is a program which uses the sms possibilities of cellphones to turn
text into speech. The spoken messages are transmitted at specific urban
locations. The project is an initiative of Graham Harwood and Matthew
Fuller, and has been developed further during the artist in residency of
Harwood at Waag
Society, Amsterdam. Harwood is member of the London based multimedia artist
group Mongrel. His
cd-rom project Rehearsal of Memory is part of the permanent collection of
Centre Pompidou. In 2000, Harwood was the first web artist to receive a
commission by Tate Britain for a digital artwork.
<http://www.scotoma.org/cgi-bin/textfm/textfm.pl>

Marieke Istha
Communication

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31 (0)20 6244423
E istha at montevideo.nl
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