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Fwd: Upgrade 2.0 @ NFF//A day of artist talks on audio and interactivity

----- Forwarded message from Kate Armstrong <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:31:58 -0700
 From: Kate Armstrong <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We're really excited to announce a special Upgrade event that will take
place 12 - 7:30pm on Sunday, October 24th in connection with the New
Forms Festival. Upgrade 2.0 @ NFF is a day of artists talks on audio and
interactivity at the New Forms Media Society Open Studios. The event is
free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

Curated by Malcolm Levy and Kate Armstrong, Upgrade 2.0 @ New Forms will
feature Vitamins For You, In The Nursery, Sue Costabile, Ben Nevile,
Matt Roberts, Nathan Wolek, NomIg, and artists from Reverie: Noise City
including Jean Routhier, Igor Santizo, Alberto Guedea, Elizabeth
Fischer, and Ken Roux.

>From 12 - 1 there will be A/V artist talks by In The Nursery, then at
1 Matt Roberts and Nathan Wolek of the Mobile Performance Group will
appear. From 2 - 3 Vitamins For You will give a talk, and from 3 - 4
there will be a workshop featuring Ben Nevile.

Starting at 4 pm, Jean Routhier, Igor Santizo, Alberto Guedea, Elizabeth
Fischer and Ken Roux will be present to talk about Reverie: Noise City,
a virtual urban landscape on the Web. Inside this city, an
ever-expanding group of international sound artists will build venues
for their work. Reverie: Noise City imagines an urban landscape that
includes a variety of poetic extrapolations on the types of regions that
exist in our cities - a merging of Sunset Boulevard, Lower Manhattan,
boat houses on the canal, the Surrey Landfill site, and a public
botanical garden of the future. The web interface for the project
consists of an abstracted grid. The contributing artists will locate
themselves within the grid and define the characteristics of their
environment and sound venue. Over time, the growing collection of audio
art venues will define a structure of neighbourhoods and communities in
which artists plan time-based events and engage other inhabitants in
collaboration and exchange.

The project title comes from a novel entitled "The Artificial Kid", by
Bruce Sterling. The protagonist in this story (the Kid) is the focal
point of a futuristic reality TV show. He moves around in a disjointed
urban landscape - traveling from regions of neglect, violence and
industrial decay to the mansions of wealth and power. The book is both a
comment on our contemporary North American urban phenomenon and an
exploration of virtuality. Sterling puts forth the idea that at some
point when you take on or wear a virtual personality it becomes a real
personality. To a degree, the actor who plays a long-standing role
becomes the character and the distinction between real and virtual
breaks down. The project also refers to William Gibson's "Walled City"
and other non-fictional on-line virtual communities (MUDs, chat groups,
networked gaming groups, BLOGS, etc.). "Walled City" exists as a
distributed network game that requires continuous human interaction to
keep it alive and functioning. The players adopt a persona and take
responsibility for maintaining different parts of the city. These parts
are then passed from player to player as the participants log-in and out
of the game. In a similar fashion, Reverie: Noise City imagines a city
that is activated purely through the ongoing activities and exchanges of
sound-artists.

Talks and discussion will start at 12 and run all afternoon at Open
Studios. A reception featuring audio performances will begin at 6 pm.

Schedule: 12 - 7:30 pm
12 - 1 PM: A/V artist talks by In The Nursery
1 - 2 PM: Matt Roberts and Nathan Wolek of the Mobile Performance Group
2 - 3 PM: Vitamins for You
3 - 4 PM: Workshop featuring Ben Nevile
4 - 5 PM: Jean Routhier, Igor Santizo, Alberto Guedea, Elizabeth
Fischer, and Ken Roux from Reverie: Noise City
6 - 7:30 PM: Reception and Performance

Sunday, October 24th from 12 - 7:30 pm
New Forms Media Society Open Studios
252 East 1st Avenue
Vancouver, Canada

Free Admission

See you there!

Kate Armstrong

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Kate Armstrong
http://katearmstrong.com
http://specialairplane.org
Upgrade Vancouver:
http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/index.html
Upgrade NYC: http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/theupgrade/
Upgrade Montreal:  http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca/


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