Ballettikka Internettikka in Bolshoi

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Ballettikka Internettikka - Part Two | ballet.net
by intima | virtual base and Beitthron
March 28th, 2002 - 20:00 GMT+3
The Bolshoi Theatre / live internet broadcasting

http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet

ballet.net.dancer: Igor Stromajer - intima | virtual base
ballet.net.composer: MC Brane - Brane Zorman / Beitthron

"Stromajer dances ballet.net in Bolshoi, while MC Brane conducts 
MP3 orchestra!"


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1. DECISION

I. Stromajer and B. Zorman decided to perform the ballet in the 
TOP place for ballet / location: The Bolshoi Theatre

Ballettikka Internettikka: Part Two - ballet.net is going to take place in 
The Bolshoi Theatre on the International Bolshoi Day on March 28th 
2002, exactly one year after Ballettikka Internetttikka: Part One - 
net.ballet. On Thursday, March 28th 2002 (19:00 Moscow time), 
The Bolshoi Theatre Group is going to perform the following opera 
(on the main stage): The Tzars Bride - An opera in four acts 
(Composer - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Libretto - N.Rimsky-
Korsakov and I.Tyumenev, after L.Mey's drama; Conductor - Boris 
Khaikin).

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2. OPERATION

It is 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 are preparing 3 different options/plans to do it. All 
options are illegal.

Option N.1: JamesBond
- tickets for the The Tzars Bride are already bought. Both artists are 
going 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 starts on the main stage).

Option N.2: ARTinvasion
- if the Option N.1 fails (if the security guards are going to discover 
laptops, mobile phones, cameras etc), artists are going to enter The 
Bolshoi Theatre via small window in the left wing of the building to 
perform the ballet.net action in the abandoned part of the cellar.

Option N.3: US Dollars
- there is a third option which could be used: to give US Dollars to 
the doorkeeper at the staff-entrance and to enter the building using 
the instrument of payola.

All three options includes emergency escapes from the building.

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

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3. LIVE BROADCASTING

Whatever entering / invasion tactic will be chosen, the live 
broadcasting of this illegal ballet.net performance is going to start 
on March 28th 2002 at 20:00 GMT+3, Moscow time (18:00 Paris 
time CET - Central European Time; 12:00 New York time), +/- 10 
minutes (depends on security and internet circumstances on the 
ground) and will last 10 to 15 minutes (until 20:15 GMT+3 local 
Moscow time). It will be available at this website plus at TV.INTIMA. 
Project is publicly announced in advance (also in Russia). 

We shall never surrender...

Good luck! 

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produced by:
intima | virtual base
http://www.intima.org
2002
Beitthron
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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4. HISTORY

Ballettikka Internettikka - Part One | net.ballet
Internet, March 28th 2001 at 19:00 GMT+1

1st prize at the Media Forum (CyberMovie - Festival of Internet art 
projects associated with new forms of screen shows on the web) in 
the frame of XXIII Moscow International Film Festival; Moscow, 
Russia - June 2001 - for the net art project Ballettikka Internettikka | 
Part One - net.ballet (jury: Kathy Rae Huffman - USA/UK, Eric 
Kluitenberg - The Netherlands, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits - Latvia, 
Andrey Velikanov - Russia, Roman Leibov - Russia) 

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