Redefining Virtuality: Incipient Movement and The Virtual Matter of Embodiment

 

http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/virtual-venues-concerts-nyu-and-berkeley

http://tdps.berkeley.edu/productions-events/lectures-events/

http://zlabucb.blogspot.com.es/p/virtual-venues-symposium.html

http://embodied.uci.edu/virtual-venues


Virtual Venues Symposium: Exploring Materiality and Gesture Within Live Streaming Events

Symposium, Workshops, and Performances

November 9 and 10, 2012
Z-Lab, UC Berkeley and Embodied Media and Technology Lab, UC Irvine

Synopsis:
The Virtual Venues Symposium involves a series of dance performances, talks, and demonstrations connecting UC Irvine and UC Berkeley using high-speed computer networks. Featuring a team of collaborating artists and technologists from both campuses, this project positions the University of California as an early adopter of telepresence research and performance. Utilizing high-performance networks, which allow for robust audio-visual environments to be shared by multiple distributed users interacting in real time, Virtual Venues connects multiple sites and participants to stimulate new collaborative practices that are interactive and spontaneous. Public performances are scheduled for November 9, 2012 - see schedule below.
http://embodied.uci.edu/virtual-venues
* See website for more details.

Schedule:

Friday, November 9th
On the Berkeley Campus: All events take place in Z-Lab (Zellerbach Room 170)
5:30pm Reception - Appetizers and Wine
5:30-6:00pm Interactive Demonstration Between UC Irvine and UC Berkeley
6:00-6:45pm Four Bi-Located Performances between UC Irvine and UC Berkeley
6:45-7:15pm Talk by Jaime del Val (Media artist) from Madrid
7:15-8:00pm UC Irvine Streaming Performances in Real Time to UC Berkeley
8:00-9:00pm Roundtable Discussion and Responses

Saturday, November 10th
On the Berkeley Campus: All events take place in Z-Lab (Zellerbach Room 170)
11:00am Installation by Inter-media artist Renee Rhodes (Bay Area)
12-1:30pm Talks and Showing of Work by Participants - Brown Bag Lunch
1:30-2:00pm Open Work Session
2:00-3:00pm Local Performances at UC Irvine Streamed to UC Berkeley

 

The presentation will seek to introduce a new ontology of movement founded on two principles: incipiency (virtuality) and relationality (affects). It will seek to reposition the term virtuality in its philosphycal background as equivalent of potentiality, and connect it to an ontology of reality as field of forces in motion, in which movement is always potencial, anticipatory, never fully actualised: therefore virtual. The virtuality of movement, its incipiency, is the real, whereby actualisations are never complete, since movement has always degrees of virtuality and incipience, movement is always exceeding its actualisations. This inverts the traditional accounts of real vs. artificial, of physical vs. non physical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Virtual Venues Symposium involves a series of dance performances, talks, and demonstrations connecting UC Irvine and UC Berkeley using high-speed computer networks. Featuring a team of collaborating artists and technologists from both campuses, this project positions the University of California as an early adopter of telepresence research and performance. Utilizing high-performance networks, which allow for robust audio-visual environments to be shared by multiple distributed users interacting in real time, Virtual Venues connects multiple sites and participants to stimulate new collaborative practices that are interactive and spontaneous. Public performances are scheduled for November 9, 2012 - see schedule below.
http://embodied.uci.edu/virtual-venues