Ballettikka Internettikka 2: final report

[intima]

Report about the realization of the project:

Ballettikka Internettikka - Part Two | ballet.net
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet/ballet_2/www/index.html


1. NEWS

I. Stromajer and B. Zorman are safely back home, after they 
realized the illegal net performance entitled "Ballettikka Internettikka -
 Part Two | ballet.net" in Bolshoi Theatre.


2. EVENT

Ballettikka Internettikka: Part Two - ballet.net took place in The 
Bolshoi Theatre on the International Bolshoi Day on March 28th 
2002. On that day The Bolshoi Theatre Group performed the opera 
by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tzars Bride" on the main stage.


3. REPORT

First it was unknown how the ballet.net.dancer - I.S. and the 
ballet.net.composer B.Z. are going to enter The Bolshoi Theatre on 
that day, but they were preparing 3 different options/plans to do it. 
All options were illegal.

(no go) Option N.1: JamesBond
- tickets for the The Tzars Bride were bought in advance. Both 
artists wanted to enter Bolshoi using the main entrance for the 
audience & dance at the Bolshoi's toilet (at 20:00 GMT+3, one hour 
after the opera started on the main stage).
FAILED: the security guards discovered laptops, mobile phones, 
cameras etc in artist's bags. I.S. and B.Z. decided to leave the 
building at 18:44 GMT+3 (no sanctions were taken against them and 
the security stuff was very kind).

(GO!) Option N.2: ARTinvasion
- at 19:49 GMT+3 both artists re-entered The Bolshoi Theatre via 
small window in the left wing of the building and performed the 
ballet.net action in the abandoned part of the cellar. They 
successfully left the building at 20:17 GMT+3.

(no go) Option N.3:
- to give US Dollars to the doorkeeper at the staff-entrance and to 
enter the building using the instrument of payola was not used.

All three options included emergency escapes from the building.

This illegal action was carefully studied as an invasion. Watches 
were synchronized and all the details were prepared. Artists used hi-
tech mobile and wireless equipment for invasion and live 
broadcasting (portable computers, mini digital camera, MP3 audio 
systems, mobile WAP telephones etc). Laptop and MiniDV cam, 
together with Webcam32 (version 6.0) software were used for 
visual signal broadcasting (running over Intima Virtual Base FTP 
server). Another laptop and MP3 player with online interface 
SHOUTcast (version 1.8.3/win32), was used for live sound 
broadcasting (running over Beitthron FTP server). Russian GSM 
mobile phone operator MTS/RUS (Mobile Telesystems 2, GSM 
900) was used for mobile internet connection. 


4. LIVE BROADCASTING

Live broadcasting of this illegal ballet.net performance started on 
March 28th 2002 at 20:00 GMT+3, Moscow time (18:00 Paris time 
CET - Central European Time; 12:00 New York time), and lasted 
exactly 11 minutes (until 20:11 GMT+3 local Moscow time). It was 
available at Ballettikka Internettikka website plus at TV.INTIMA. 
Project was publicly announced in advance (also in Russia). 


5. MOTIVATION

"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the 
landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we 
shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." (W. Churchill)


6. DATA

produced by:
intima | virtual base
http://www.intima.org
2002
Beitthron
http://www.ljudmila.org/beitthron

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www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/oppera
www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet
www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/cam
www.bolshoi.ru

ballet performed by Igor Stromajer
original music composed & performed by Brane Zorman - MC Brane

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final report posted by intima | virtual base