Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman
www.intima.org/bi/ins
C3K44XE, Hamburg, Amsterdam, 29 May 2010
Category: Art Works
[non-art works]
Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation
Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation
Telematic performance with 6 performers
May 29th 2010 8.30 pm
NIMk – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, 29 May 2010
(C3K44XE, Amsterdam, Hamburg)
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
(Internet Ballet)
www.intima.org/bi/ins
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman
Saturday, 29 May 2010 at 22:00 (Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris Local Time)
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Live Internet Broadcast
– authors and performers: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
– theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst
– live sound (manipulated and performed) by MC Brane Vs BeitThron
– live video edited by Igor Štromajer
Co-produced by the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Nederlands Instituut Voor Mediakunst), Amsterdam (www.nimk.nl), Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts (www.intima.org) and Cona Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (www.cona.si), May 2010.
Ballettikka Internettikka is a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies. After invading the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (2002), La Scala in Milan (2004), the National Theatre in Belgrade (2005), Volksbühne in Berlin (2006), the City Hall and Lippo Centre in Hong Kong (2007), a construction site in Seoul (2008), the Norwegian island Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean (2008), the Japanese island Minami Torishima in the Pacific Ocean (2009) and other institutions, places and their concepts. Štromajer and Zorman are now preparing a new Internet ballet – Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, performing and broadcasting live from the coded location C3K44XE in Hamburg. The live event will be broadcast to the public at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, and on the Internet at:
www.intima.org/bi/ins
In the Port of Hamburg, at the micro location C3K44XE, Stromajer and Zorman will release two micro robotic bugs: two artificial autonomous robotic toy insects (based on the HexBug Alpha and HexBug Bravo platforms), equipped with mechanical and electronic sensors and with two wireless waterproof night vision micro spy-cameras, let loose to commit a parallel suicide (the third, invisible micro robotic bug, equipped with the same camera, will observe the situation from a distance).
Both of the robotic bugs are programmed only to commit suicide – at the same time (with up to +/- 5 seconds time tolerance) – but not how to do it. Their intelligent decision-making electronic system will allow them to select the method of their simultaneous death.
Visitors of the Performmikka Internettikka event in Amsterdam and visitors on-line will be able to monitor the robotic bugs’ path to death, and their final decision.
How will the robotic insects decide? Autonomously or politically?
PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA
nimk.nl/eng/calendar/performmikka-internettikka
29 May 2010
The Netherlands Media Art Institute / Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)
doors open 20:00, program begins 20:30
Entrance 5,- (students 3,50)
Please make reservations
An evening with internet/teleperformances by Annie Abrahams, Christophe Bruno, Constant Dullaart, Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman, focused on the relations between contemporary performance practice and the internet.
With performances by:
Annie Abrahams, Huis Clos : No Exit – On Translation (20:00)
Christophe Bruno, Human Browser
Constant Dullaart, Arranged online moments
Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka (22:00)
Performmikka Internettikka focuses on recent new possibilities surrounding tele- or internet performance. With the increased speed of internet connections in recent years and the omnipresence of the net, it has not only provided these media artists with inspiration, but also with a platform and a medium. In their work the participating artists respond in various ways to the technical possibilities and limitations of the internet, and to the implications the medium has for content. How does a simultaneous and collective performance being carried out at different places around the world look? What does the delay and distance contribute to the chances and limitations? How does an audience deal with viewing a live ‘event’ with illegal recorded images that are being made at that moment somewhere else in the world? In addition, the artists respond with irony to the Internet as a source of entertainment, and as a capitalist instrument. In short, what does the internet contribute to contemporary performance art practice in terms of inspiration, mediation and as a platform?
BI Insecttikka Photos
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
Internet Ballet
www.intima.org/bi/ins
Authors: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
Theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst
Sound manipulated and performed live by MC Brane Vs BeitThron
Video edited and manipulated live by Igor Štromajer
Performed live from Hamburg, Germany. Live Internet Broadcast to the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
29 May 2010, 22:00
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka is a part of the Performmikka Internettikka event, curated by Petra Heck.
Co-produced by Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (www.nimk.nl); Intima Virtual Base (www.intima.org), Cona Institute, Ljubljana (www.cona.si).
+ see also: BI Insecttikka Test
The robo-bug and the wireless mini-cam / their size, compared to a standard AA battery.
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Details of the remodeled robo-bugs Hexbug Alpha and Hexbug Bravo:
APT NM
BI Insecttikka Test
Testing two new autonomous robotic toy bugs/insects (guerrilla intruders / silent invaders) with mechanical and magnetic sensors, equipped with wireless micro camera. Possible result: Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, May 2010, Amsterdam.
For Action’s Sake
“For Action’s Sake”
at the Santa Fe Complex; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Manipulated Image #11: First Year Anniversary Celebration
15 video artists from 10 countries | Online performances from Hamburg and Sweden | Performances by 12 local artists
Friday, March 12, 2010; 6:30pm – 11pm
Tickets: $10 (includes food and reception)
Read more: manipulatedimage.com/MI11.html
+ Download the PDF catalogue of the event (1 MB)
Education Through Art Practices
The Education Through Art Practices project establishes different forms of work and thought. Rethinking the status of education, especially its role within artistic creation, is today crucial, since we often notice that artistic creation is product-oriented and that it does not allow any space for research nor, consequently, learning through research. In order to create new forms and establish the conditions for different thought, we need to encourage research and establish situations that allow an open, but critical debate. A network of experts in various fields potentially makes possible the creation of a platform as a testing ground for thought, creation, questioning one’s own position and “the value of an artwork” and, last but not least, an opportunity to create new forms and approaches to artistic creation.
Bojana Kunst and Igor Štromajer
INTIMATE PROTOCOLS
1 March 2010, CD, M3/M4
2 and 3 March 2010, CD, M3/M4
3.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Technological procedures today directly affect our bodies and the ways we experience closeness and intimacy. We will create a situation for a networked performance in which we will focus especially on the connection between technology and emotions, desire and connectivity. We can say we live in the time of the decline of discursive protocols and the increase of material ones. Instead of discursive negotiations, we perform technical procedures that immediately influence THE way we experience proximity, closeness and intimacy.
intima.org · Igor Štromajer 