Performing Digital Spaces

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'You Literally Got Me Into KAWS Fam': What Game-Playing Teens Think About the Artist's New Project on Fortnite | Artnet News

Gamers who are unable see the London exhibition in person welcome the initiative, hoping to see more partnerships between gaming and art.

But the technological twists have apparently failed to please the critics. The Evening Standard’s Ben Luke said the show is “unspeakably awful” and “soul-crushingly boring,” giving it just one star. “I have no idea why the Serpentine has got involved with this,” bemoaned Eddy Frankel, who also gave the show one star in Time Out. “I want to be immersed in KAWS about as much as I want to be immersed in a vat of pus […] It has no concepts, no emotions, no beauty and absolutely no point.” And the Telegraph’s Alastair Smart calls the show a “lost KAWS.”

“I would say it’s pretty awesome,” Max Kipiniak, a 17-year-old Brooklyn-based high school student, told Artnet News.

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Micha Wertheim heeft eindelijk zijn voorstelling zonder publiek

CABARET Niemand anders Micha Wertheim Live gestreamd vanuit het Oude Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, 10 februari 2021

aan alles merk je dat ‘Niemand anders’, een livestream mét publieksinteractie, gespeeld vanuit een lege schouwburg, het product is van een kenner van het conceptuele genre.    

Mede dankzij de technische mogelijkheden van het gebruikte platform PanoptiCam weet hij een aantal typisch Wertheimiaanse slimmigheidjes in te bouwen, die stuk voor stuk te leuk zijn om weg te geven. Door regelmatig te schakelen tussen verschillende laptops en achtergronden blijft de voorstelling ook dynamisch.    

Zoals altijd schuwt Wertheim de scherpe kritiek niet. Vilein wijst hij zijn theatercollega’s erop dat livestreams de situatie waarin we nu leven eigenlijk ontkennen. De essentie van theater is immers het live fysiek aanwezig zijn in één ruimte, om elkaar zo aan te steken met gelach of andere emoties. Een mooi staaltje ‘de pot verwijt de ketel’, zou je zeggen, behalve dat Wertheim de problematiek van het niet fysiek samen kunnen komen heel expliciet thematiseert en daarmee dus juist níet ontkent.    

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So what is “the metaverse,” exactly?

Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux?

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The Digital Weird parodies the format of an online scavenger hunt. Visitors are asked to find hyperlinks within each work to progress through a sequence of carefully placed videos, stills, texts and games. These works are disseminated across a number of platforms, websites, and other methods of communication; supplanted into subcultured social scenes, added into niche video platforms, appearing as links into the esotericism of Reddit debates, and bogus landmarks within the Google map matrix. Nothing is what it seems, and nothing is given context of artist name or exhibition title. Using nonsense usernames and phoney accounts, the embedded works exist in a chain of discovery but can equally be stumbled upon by unsuspecting viewers at random.

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Daito Manabe - 'discrete figures’ -

ELEVENPLAY×Rhizomatiks Research×Kyle McDonald

‘discrete figures’ explores the interrelationships between the performing arts and mathematics, giving rise to mathematical entities that engage with the bodies of human dancers onstage.

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Stéphane LOUIS-ALEXIS-BOREL - Stream City          

This design fiction envisions a urban space based on the idea of transience and transient ownership. Transience refers to what is mobile, transitory, and ephemeral, and so are the characteristics which define Stream city. This place aims to provoke an experience: to detach oneself from things and to live temporarily according to anarchistic values, such as an attitude of collaboration between inhabitants. They use water proof Stream Coats during their journey and Stream Jets to glide the air and the city's magnetic fluxes. inhabitants are free to bind mobile and temporary relationships with the city infrastructures.      

http://www.slab.life/stream      

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Skawennati Makes Space for Indigenous Representation and Sovereignty in the Virtual World of Second Life

AbTec Island is an online community space, where Second Life users can hang out and talk. But it’s also a place where visions of Indigenous histories and futures coexist.

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Sam Lavigne - Zoom Escaper

Zoom Escaper is a tool to help you escape Zoom meetings and other videoconferencing scenarios. It allows you to self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others.

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Het raster als rigide danspartner in intrigerende coronakunst

Installatie/performance: Via Instagram kun je meekijken met dansers van de Fontys Dance Academy die bewegen binnen de beperking van een gigantisch stalen raster van Rita McBride. Intiem, herkenbaar én vervreemdend.

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Dream is a live performance set in a virtual midsummer forest. Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it will give you a unique opportunity to directly influence the live performance, from wherever you are in the world.

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the technician who modeled and developed project codemiko controls the virtual streamer with an xsens motion capture suit.

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Ruimte Om Te Raken

Last Wednesday we kicked off with something great, an online event, with a live experience: Project Touchscreen. In times when keeping distance is vital, it is important to stay connected. That’s why a...

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Tomorrowland Around the World

In July, the first edition of Tomorrowland Around the World, the digital festival, took place. Attendance cost €20 for the weekend or €12 for a day ticket, and more than 1 million people tuned in and had a good time. The organization also shared how the event was produced:

Tomorrowland has built four different large green screen studios in Belgium, the USA, Brazil, and Australia. More than 60 artists recorded their performances in those studios.

So real people were involved and did their performance, and almost everything else was digital.

The digital 3D environment of Tomorrowland Around the World has 10 times more polygons and lights compared to a modern computer game. There are more than 750 virtual lamps per stage, all drawn by hand. […] In addition, special effects, spectacular fireworks, impressive laser shows and realistic crowd and sound effects were added to the DJ performances.

They also needed all the qualities of a great TV crew:

On top of the 6 4K Ultra HD cameras, a number of virtual cameras were created per stage, allowing the director to choose up to 38 cameras during the recordings.

via Monique van Dusseldorp

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OurSpace - WhyNot, James Bryan Graves & Klasien van de Zandschulp. 

OurSpace is a participatory performance that zooms in on the virtual and the physical space between people, their online and offline identity and social encounters.

The audience is guided by an artificial chatbot on WhatsApp. This artificial companion is sharing stories and responding with assignments that translates online social habits into physical movements. These storylines can vary from simple actions “If you think somebody looks interesting, tap this person on the shoulder” to more intimate actions “Who would you like to date? Stroke that person on the left cheek”.

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For Play

A digital foreplay

Moniker - For Play

For Play is a first of its kind 'digital foreplay'. With For Play we allow all humans to play with each other in a sensual way. When entering the site feeldforplay.com you become an orb and get thrown into a virtual space together with a few other wobbly soft orbs. If you look carefully you will see a reflection of yourself on the skin of the orb.

Then the tickling starts. Move around and start bumping into other soft curious orb souls. Tap to tease, make sounds and bounce. Your orb will flirt, touch, hug, tickle, squeeze and poke... We call For Play a safe, digital foreplay experience.

https://feeldforplay.com/

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Toronto's hottest club is online - NOW Magazine

Club Quarantine, a queer party created by four DJs and creatives in the city, is the perfect socially distant collective nightlife experience and people all over the world are tuning in

Club Quarantine

Club Q is an exhilarating virtual space unlike anything I’ve ever experienced on the internet. The first night I joined, Max Mohenu and Myst Milano were the guest DJs along with resident DJ Casey MQ, they make up local club music collective Raven’s Vision. Drag queen Vanity Bontemps gave a pop-heavy performance of Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and Doja Cat from her living room.

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Above all else, the party feels profoundly accessible – more so than most IRL clubs in the city.

“People were posting comments on the chat saying this is the first time that they can be online and be connected to the club, in their own way,” says MQ.

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Somebody - Miranda July

www.somebodyapp.com

About Somebody            When you send your friend a message through Somebody, it goes — not to your friend — but to the Somebody user nearest your friend. This person (likely a stranger) delivers the message verbally, acting as your stand-in. The most high-tech part of Somebody is not in the phone, it’s in the users who dare to deliver a message to a stranger.  Half-app / half-human, Somebody is a far-reaching public art project that incites performance and twists our love of avatars and outsourcing — every relationship becomes a three-way. The antithesis of the utilitarian efficiency that tech promises, here, finally, is an app that makes us nervous, giddy, and alert to the people around us.