Invitation Killerclub

[Jeff Mann]

Waag Society / voor Oude en Nieuwe Media
Waag Society / for Old and New Media

KILLER (APPLICATION IS PEOPLE) CLUB
presents: Artist Talk - LiveForm: Telekinetics
4 september 2002	8 pm

Invitation

At the Killer Club of September 4th, Canadian artists Jeff Mann and 
Michelle Teran will speak about the Liveform: Telekinetics project, 
produced at InterAccess electronic media art centre in Toronto, in 
collaboration with the Waag Society.

The dinner table as physical platform for networked media supported live 
video streams, tele-robotic talking fish, gourmet cooking, Keystroke 
media mixing, wine-pouring machines, telematic toasts, party games, and 
a magic show; linking two dining rooms and thirty dinner guests across 
the ocean in a mediated mechatronic middle-space for social interaction 
and game-playing.

This test-pilot project inaugurated the newly-renovated media, 
electronics, and telecommunications lab at InterAccess. It culminated 
last April in the Telematic Dinner Party, a live art lab collaboration 
with the Waag's Sensing Presence project.

Mann and Teran will present documentation of the project, and discuss 
their experiences in developing live collaborative situations and 
experiments in networked media and kinetic art.


In the coming year Michelle Teran is artist in residence at Waag 
Society. She is a Canadian multimedia artist who's interested in the 
combination of live and on line performances with audience 
participation. In recent years she participated in several experimental 
performances in which KeyStroke was being used, in traditional settings 
as well as in clubsettings with on line jamming. Michelle Teran will 
work in close cooperation with the KeyStroke team as a performer, 
user/betatester and author of the manual of KeyStroke.

Jeff Mann is an artist known for his work in telecommunications art and 
  electronics interface for installation and performance. He founded 
Toronto's Art & Robotics Group at InterAccess, and has taught at the 
Ontario College of Art and Ryerson University. He is based in Amsterdam 
for the summer/fall of 2002, where he has been researching further 
applications of sensors and electrokinetics in the Sensing/KeyStroke lab 
of STEIM.


KILLERCLUB
Location:	Waag / Theatrum Anatomicum
Curtain up: 8pm
Admission: 	Free
Booking: 	floor at waag.org (Floor van Spaendonck)
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Waag Society / voor Oude en Nieuwe Media
Waag Society / for Old and New Media

Nieuwmarkt 4 - 1012 CR Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Tel (+) 20 557 98 98 / Fax (+) 20 557 98 80
URL http://www.waag.org
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