The Ballettikka Internettikka robots.
(Photo: Dejan Habicht)
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?
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.

Ballettikka Internettikka (Internet Ballet / Aeronauttikka by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman) on the cover of Pasatiempo – The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture, March 12-18, 2010 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
MUZZIKK Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka
Performed live by Brane Zorman vs BeitThroN and Matjaž Drevenšek – MadSax; ARZENAL DEPO 2K9, Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 December 2009
Long (20 min) version of the original soundtrack (video by !gor Stromajer), composed for the Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka – Internet Ballet, Minami Torishima, Japan, 23 November 2009 (by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman)
TV Kultura news about Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka
by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (from the 2nd minute on)
Moscow, Russia, 25 November 2009
Ballettikka Internettikka: Nipponnikka
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka on the Japanese island Minami Torishima, 23 November 2009, at sunrise
+ alternative: BI Nipponnikka YouTube Video
# Balletikka Internettkka Nipponnikka: FLICKR Photos
– authors and performers: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
– theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst
– live music by Brane Zorman Vs BeitThron (saxophone: Matjaž Drevenšek)
– live video editing: Igor Štromajer
Live Internet Broadcast (Iridium satellite data connection) from Minami Torishima Island, Japan, Pacific Ocean on Monday, 23 November 2009 at 06:04 GMT/UTC+9
= Sunday, 22 November 2009 at 22:04 Berlin Time
= Sunday, 22 November 2009 at 16:04 New York Time
+ convert time in Japan
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Performed action: At the same time that two Suns simultaneously rise from the Pacific Ocean, two robots walk/dive into the ocean, dancing an early morning Internet Ballet at the easternmost point of Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun (Twin Suns + Twin Robots).
Island: Minami Torishima, Japan
Reference: Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka
– Wikipedia: Minami Torishima
– Minami Torishima local time
Timezone: JST (Japan Standard Time), GMT/UTC+9
– Weather forecast for Minami Torishima

Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka – Seawater Training 01
First wet/seawater training for the new Ballettikka Internettikka live action on the Japan’s easternmost island (Minami Torishima), which is going to be performed on 23 November 2009.
