Issue 02 | Dance and Code | Flee immediately!

In order of appearance:

Renee Carmichael - Care to dance? The cues commence here.

Renee Carmichael is an artist, coder, designer and writer whose work often explores technology and the relationship between structure (code), content and design. She has written and produced work around themes such as The Dance Epidemic of 1518 (Come to Feet, SPACE Permaculture Residency, London), the website's relationship to print (An Homage to the Death of Print, or-bits.com, online exhibition/book), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and technology (Eavesdropping, film), code poetry (ccthenr workshop series) and singing IBM anthems and code (011 Chant to Them, Hello World! exhibition, L’atelier-KSR, Berlin). She graduated from Goldsmiths College in London with a Masters in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice and has worked recently as a Researcher and Interaction Designer in the Hybrid Publishing Lab at Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany. She is founding editor of the experimental platform Flee Immediately!

Act 1 - Warm-up:

Eleni Papazoglou - Hello Frame

Originally from Athens, Greece. Recently graduated from Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Currently lives and works in South London.

Freya Field-Donovan - Two Dances, New York City: 1935, 2015

Freya Field-Donovan is a PhD candidate at University College London.

Hamish MacPherson - A Movement Ontology Game

Hamish MacPherson is a choreographer who makes performances, choreographic environments, workshops, games, writings, images and other things. Often relating to the embodied aspects of politics and philosophy.

Samantha Harvey - iSurrender

Currently studying MA Photography at Central Saint Martins, Samantha Harvey uses video and audio to reflect upon the mind's relationship to the body. Her practice questions whether it is possible to emulate non-physical sensations that remain unseen. Taking inspiration from science fiction, philosophy, and quantum leap theory, Samantha’s works seek to investigate the affect that occurs when mental sensations become visible through the physicality of the self. Recent and upcoming screenings and exhibitions include ADAF: Athens 12th Digital Arts Festival, REFUGEE! at North East Hill University, India and None Of The Above at La Casa Amarilla, Spain.

Act 2 - Body and Code:

Liat Berdugo - Unpatentable Multi-touch Aerobics

Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Her work strives to create an expanded, thoughtful consideration for new media and digital culture. Berdugo has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder of World Wide West, co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, and Net Art and Special Programs Curator for Israel’s Print Screen Festival. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, and HZ Journal. Berdugo is currently an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. More at liatberdugo.com.

Phoebe Osborne - Unpatentable Multi-touch Aerobics

Phoebe Osborne is a movement and performance based artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

Joana Chicau - Curtain Down

I am a communication designer, currently following an investigation of possible connections between – and coexistence of – choreography/ performance and graphic design. In my work I experiment with both analogue and digital media tools and environments, from print to the screen display. The computer screen carries a very particular mode of spectatorship. I am interested in the relationship between the user and the visual system he/she encounters, and to challenge the tensions between stasis and the ability to move, materiality and immateriality, and the different perceptual experiences that may arise from the act of viewing and interacting with it.

In my work I experiment with open source graphic tools, and experimental forms of publishing. Most recently, I have started with live coding performances, following a combination of choreographic concepts with programming languages, mostly web-based, such as javascript.

Besides my freelance work, I am completing a Media Design Master at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, in which I am writing a thesis on a hybrid methodology that makes invisible forces (elements of choreography) appear as physical manifestations in design, in an assemblage of compositional and methodological matters .

For an extended version / p2p conversations: joanabcq@gmail.com

Holger Heissmeyer - Say Instructions

On the crossroads of technology, social behavior and personal experience, I long for poetic glitches. Central to my work are invisible processes, feedback loops, time, failure and ambiguous desires. In playful interventions, I explore how rules shape experiences and how the rigidity of code shapes people. Born 1978 in Heidelberg (Germany), I grew up on the countryside and spent my time with a computer and a single parent. I studied physics, psychology and arts and live in Berlin.

Benoît Maubrey - Audio Ballerinas

Benoît Maubrey is the director and founder of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes. Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment. In his non-mobile sculptural work he frequently uses former public (disguarded) monuments and recycles them using modern technology and electronics. Recycled and “found” electronics as his artistic medium. Since 1982 he has been conceiving and creating interactive sculptures in public spaces. In most cases the sculptures interact with their environment: quite often they function as “Speakers Corner” where the public can express themselves “live”.

Verena Hermann - Pogo as Warfare

I am a London, UK based media practitioner, writer and aspiring intellectual. My curiosity led to an eclectic output of video, sound and installation works.

Eri Kassnel - Patterns

Eri Kassnel was born 1973 in Timişoara/ Romania and immigrated with her family 1979 to Germany. From 1996 to 1999 she lived in Nyköping/ Sweden. 2003 she graduated from University of the Arts in Bern/ Switzerland. Since 2010 she works near Munich/ Germany as a freelance artist in the field of photography, video and sound. She is also engaged in education as an art communicator and a teacher in animation, Comic- and Manga-Art. 2013 she was awarded for her book-object “home is somewhere else”. Since 2013 she is represented in different international art exhibitions, such as X-Border-Biennial in Rovaniemi/ Finland, OPEN ART in Örebro/ Sweden and VideoGUD-Festival in Gävleborg/ Sweden.

Nicholas Lawrence - John Cage - 2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance (4e6963686f6c6173204c617772656e6365 Remix)

Nicholas Lawrence /'nɪkələs 'lɒrəns/ A somewhat amphibolous creature, this self-proclaimed chimera of romantic formalism is often to be found lurking in the fractures and fissures cleft by linguistic ligatures.

Lai Yi Ohlsen - 100 Scores

Lai Yi Ohlsen holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Minor in Art History from ASU. She works within arts administration and engineering management to support her creative processes within movement and technology. Her current process is inspired by algorithmic tendencies of the dance floor where you can often find her spinning, hands up, no end in sight.

Act 3 - Darkness:

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau - LOOPS

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau creates sculptures, drawings, performances and films. His work addresses abject materials, negative affective states, and the ambiguities of language and objects.

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau was an Associate of Open School East, 2014. He runs The Bad Vibes Club, which is a research project into Morbid Ethics, collaborates with Ben Jeans Houghton as the ARKA group and along with Ross Jardine, runs Radio Anti. He lives and works in London and is represented by Space in Between.

Cliff Hammett - Spallanzani Watches the Walker

Cliff Hammett is a technological meddler and artistic tinkerer. His work investigates phenomena such as measure, indeterminacy and bodily contingency through the production of strange devices, games, workshops, walks, diagrams and texts. He is a graduate of the MA Digital Culture programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Matt Lewis - Can You Feel It? Dancing Through Scores

Matt Lewis is a musician and sound-artist based in London. Key areas of interest include the politics of sound, Foley, urbanism, notation and alternative methods of media distribution. His work is most often focused on particular physical sites, or around particular social issues, such as regeneration, disability and urban planning. A strong participatory and educational aspect to his work exists as an important counterpoint to his practice.

Matt has collaborated with dancers and choreographers, written music for film and theatre, produced a wide variety of sound installations, worked in performance art groups and is a member of the group From Honey to Ashes. Matt is a co-founder of the group Call & Response, who are the UK’s only dedicated independent sound art space and specialists in the production and curation of multi-channel sound exhibitions and performances.

He has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in countries including Austria, Brazil, Portugal, Serbia and the USA, in festivals and venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, Café Oto, The Roundhouse, Diapason NYC, MK Gallery and Centro Cultural Sao Paulo. Commissions include Clandestine Airs with Resonance FM and VOID, no such thing as empty space, in collaboration with deafblind charity Sense, Where is the Rustling Wood? part of Metal Culture’s Harvest 15 with Studio Orta and Music for Hearing Aids as part of Unannounced Acts of Publicness in Kings Cross. From 2012-13 he was a Cocheme Fellow with AIR at Central St Martins. Matt holds a PhD in Music from Goldsmiths and is currently a resident artist at Metal.

Lisa Erb - The Container

Lisa Erb, *1981, artist & investigator (ICT/STEM/STS), working on meta-theory and metaforms of relation and form trajectories, relational extensions and next-order ontologies under the new paradigm (dynamic complex, non-linear, non-local, post-distinct), advancing a "BigPicture" of involved spheres under holistic perspective beyond technosciences, non-racist maths, cybernetics, physics, queer_theory+pheminism, futurism, GLoCal structures, unitary theory, EL, TOE & G.U.T., doing ontology-/ space-/ and meta-modelling, level and sphere compositions.
Some activities: Interface Politics Conference, Barcelona; Words & [ ] Conference, Montreal 2016; FILE Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo 2014; creator of “1st Fresh Future Theory Festival” 2011; residency Robert Wilson ́s Watermill Center, Hamptons|NY 2009.

Angelina Voskopoulos - Exogenesis

Born in Athens, Greece on 14th May 1981. I am a graduate (BA with Distinction) in Fine Arts and Technology, and I also have a Masters degree in Digital Arts (University of the Arts London). I am teaching Art and New Media at Athens cultural center . I am also the course leader in Digital Arts at iversity (platform for open massive online courses). More over, I am working on my own videos, as well as sculptures made from polyester. I am also the Co founder and video artist/director of the ‘state of flux’ dance group.In 2010, I was one of the Representative artists in European meeting of young artists, of the European network for town twinning, congress hall National Center of scientific research ‘Democritus’, Athens cultural center. I have shown my work in many art festivals and exhibition spaces worldwide(Greece, Italy, Canada, Sweden, London, USA, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Bulgaria, Morocco).

Act 4 - Culture Out:

Susannah E. Haslam - Towards an ethics of intimacy.

Susannah E. Haslam is a research practitioner in the expanded field of art. Her current doctoral work explores the relationally and the contemporary instrumentalisation of knowledge in/and art and its organisation. Broadly her other research interests are in the contemporary conditions and notions of knowledge, work, community, intimacy, technology and space in relation to art – its world and its matrix of discourse – through a written, organisational and dialogical practice.

Emilie Giles - Under and Over

Emilie Giles is an artist, producer and educator, her work spanning creative technology, crafting and pervasive gaming. She is Head of Outreach and Participation at Codasign, an education company which teaches people how to be creative with open source tools in museums and art galleries. Emilie is also a Ph.D. student at The Open University exploring how eTextiles can be used as interactive tools for blind and visually impaired people. Her research is a follow on from working there as a consultant exploring how tactile touch based technologies can be used by blind and visually impaired people in cultural environments. Her academic profile can be found here.

Stephan Groß - Euro Beats

Stephan Groß (*1979 in Höxter, Germany) studied visual arts and mathematics at the university of Bremen with early computer artist Frieder Nake among others. His films have been shown at the ZKM Karlsruhe, FACT Liverpool, at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg, the K3 Film Festival Villach and in the national museums and galleries of several countries. Groß lives and works in Berlin.

Maru Mushtrieva - An Invitation

b. Yakutia, Russia / based in Berlin, Germany. I have a background as an editor, researcher and writer. My creative work, which follows on from these foundations, centres on text and the ways in which it can be loaded, instrumentalised and reconfigured, exploring the tension between oral and written texts, poetry and reportage, draft and master-copy. Primarily working with sound and moving image, I'm interested in putting text into dialectical relation with other media (sound effects, moving/still pictures, graphic representation of text) and consciously extending and narrowing its capacities.

Act 4 - Cool Down:

Oona Doyle - Feeling Cold

Oona Doyle is a curator and poet based in Paris. She graduated with an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College in 2014 and now works for Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

Feeling Cold (in London home) is part of a series of poems entitled Soft Metal that function as micro-exhibitions. For each exhibition-poem, artworks are featured through the use of hyperlinks.

Thanks and Acknowledgements

This issue is up and dancing thanks to the following people for their support through the Kickstarter campaign, but also mentally and emotionally (and sometimes practically too) :

aliba
Alexander Fuchs
Amal Khalaf
Amy Alexander
Anila Ladwa
Ashley Fent
anon
Bakri
Barbara Carmichael
Brendan Howell
Claudio Brangold
Cliff
Debra Hodous
Dr Mike Blow
Eirik Sördal
Emilie
Esther Samuels-Davis
Eva
Fools Paradise
Gareth Foote
Helen Kearney
Jaana Davidjants
Japricorn
jeanadrian
Jeremy Hale
Julian Brangold
Justine Boussard
JFP
Kate
Line RJ
Lucy A. Sames
Lynn Carmichael
Marcos
Marit
Marc
Mark
Matt Lewis
Mauro Brangold
Megha Ralapti
Mora
Plateau Print
Peter & Katrina Barone (In honor of our Favorite Cousin Renee)
Robin Carmichael
Russ Preuit
Sandra di Stasio
Sarah Jury
Vincent Van Uffelen
Zequi
& many, many more.

1. The cues commence here.

Cuer: Renee Carmichael

The browser is the stage, the design the dance floor, the music the rhythms between the codes, browsers, designs, bodies and movements. We are the performers. Constraints are in place, but each dance may be a bit different and each stage (browser) allows for certain possibilities (and errors). The issue is accessed through the temporality of performing (and improvising) it.

Care to dance?

1. Choose a stage of your choice (highly recommended: Chrome).
2. Click the title above and we can get to know each other before dancing.
3. Get your scroll fingers ready.
Do you scroll-right this way:

or this way:

4. Click on the video of your scroll direction.
5.Do your first move: Zoom in (cmd +, ctrl +, win +, etc.)
6. Follow the rest of the cues. To open the dance pieces click on the titles. Practice makes perfect. Merde!