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February 28, 2005

Adaptable Girl Performance Collective

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global_interface workshop series

New Media comes to University of California at Riverside in a series of workshops on new media practice.

They purpose that "this critical collaboration across the disciplines of the academy mirrors the global interface itself. Mark Poster outlines how digital technologies like the Internet can traverse the limits of traditional communication models, such as print and broadcast, as follows:

1) Enabling many-to-many communications;
2) Enabling simultaneous reception, alteration, redistribution of cultural objects;
3) Dislocating communicative action from the posts of the nation;
4) Providing instantaneous global contact;
5) Inserting the modern/late modern subject into a networked information machine apparatus.

Humanity is no longer constituted by clearly bounded subjects, but instead begins to function more like a network, in which individuals act "as a point in a circuit." The global interface serves as the site where this transformation occurs."

Singing G4s Song: Digital-on-Human Performance Practice in Late Capitalism: Monday, February 28, 2005, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Arts Building 166 (Performance Lab)UC Riverside.

Description: The merging of virtual and real audio spaces through the
proliferation of digital tools has dramatically impacted praxis for a number
of artistic genres. This performance/lecture brings together musicians and
dancers in an improvisational installation that explores the extension of
live performance through digital processing. Featuring music, dance and
video, the work will also deploy a number of digital performers, including
programmed audio improvisers (in max), digital cameras, even an iPod. The
performers will discuss the installation and the broader impact that digital
technologies have had on their own artistic practice.

Adaptable Girl Performers:

Ramie Becker is a Ph.D student in Dance History and Theory.
Renee Coulombe is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition.
Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves is first year MFA student in Creative
writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.
Isabel Valverde, a choreographer/performer and researcher, recently
completed her Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory at UC Riverside, and is
presently pursuing a postdoctoral program at UC Irvine.
Elizabeth Venable is a Ph.D. student in the Dance Department.

Sponsor: Mellon Workshop
Contact: global_interface@hotmail.com

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Posted by michelle at February 28, 2005 04:18 AM

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