By Birgit Bachler & Inge Hoonte
Developed as part of 11:11:11 UpStage, a web-based venue for online performance
Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time: 10:00 – 22:00 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute, Large Project Room
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
This event is open for public and admission is free
UpStage is a venue for online performance events (Flash plug-in required). This year’s edition, 11:11:11, features people creating work on the web through drawings, photos, moving image, video, scripted movements with animations, etc.
IS THIS ON? projects a virtual apartment into a desktop computer, which are both displayed on the UpStage platform. Functioning like a dual-boot computer, the Proprietary family lives alongside the Open Source family. The script is inspired by conflicts between Apple, Windows and Linux. The characters bring to light various aspects of computing, such as communication issues between operating systems and their users, and the challenges one can face while interacting with, switching between, and working within these systems. The performance illustrates how the members of these groups communicate and seek connection in their differences and similarities through scripting, programs, software and analog means.
As such, little people appear to “live” inside the computer, as if operating tasks for you whenever you open a document, write an email, search for a file, etc. Some moments, physical becomes digital; body parts moving from the webcam onto the website. Other times, digital becomes physical, for example when part of an avatar’s body seems to materialize on screen.
Workshops! COME PLAY!
Come to one of our workshops to make your own avatars and props to operate on the website/stage! This way you will be able to interact with people who are present in the room, as well as visible on the screen through a live feed. Come join the fun! See schedule below.
TIME SCHEDULE
10:00-10:30 coffee tea COOKIES welcome
10.30-11:00 introduction UpStage
11:00-11:20 IS THIS ON? [1]
11:20-11:30 small break
11:30-13-30 WORKSHOP 1
13:30-14:15 lunch break
14:15-14:30 set-up Is This On? [2]
14:30-14:50 IS THIS ON? [2]
14:50-15:00 small break
15:00-18:00 WORKSHOP 2
18:00-19:00 break, preparation, mingling
19:00-19:30 set-up IS THIS ON? [3]
19:30-19:50 IS THIS ON? [3]
after eight beer & wine