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>Mobius Presents "Interface," an evening of interactive computer music,
>video and dance performance by Curtis Bahn, Dan Trueman, Perry Cook, Tomie
>Hahn, Monica Mugan and Erin Seymour. The performers will play abstracted
>musical instruments affixed with sensors to drive multi-media computer
>performance systems combining video, live sound processing, and
>spherical-speaker-array sound systems. A special performance by dancer
>Tomie Hahn will premiere SSpeaPer: a new wireless interactive dance system
>by Bahn where gestural information from Tomie Hahn's performance is sent
>by radio to an interactive computer music system, sounds from the computer
>are then radio-ed back to small speakers mounted on Hahn's body while she
>dances.
** Please, please don't take my comments personally because I am a
colleague and have done this very thing myself - but I want to use this PR
as an example of one of the problems that we (Artechnologists...) are
facing. Nowhere does this PR give me any clue as to content or the ideas
driving this work. I only get description about what kind of gadgets are
being used. The reader then comes to this performance I guess because they
are interested in those gadgets (want to see how they work, want these
people to impress me with their newness, want to compare my interactive
systems to theirs etc.) and not because there is an idea there that
intrigues them. I'm just saying that we hype ourselves with this kind of PR
and I think we should all get better on how we describe our work. I think
it is necessary to include the new and edge-pushing and interactive and
live-processing and alla that in one's PR but I think it's more important
to express it from one's creative impulses and not from the techniques
used. For me it puts the focus in the wrong place. If the techniques used
ARE the creative impulse, fine but did the work evolve into something more
than an expose of the techniques? If so, talk about that in your PR or talk
to your publicist and teach them how to write it better. It's also possible
that you wrote this PR from the POV of the technology just for this list.
Still, we are artists here too. Again, this is really not personal, I hope
it is a constructive critique and I hope you can hear my point of view.
Of course - best of luck with your performance.
Dawn
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Dawn Stoppiello / Artistic Co-Director / Troika Ranch / troika@artswire.org
http://www.troikaranch.org
321 Graham Avenue #4R Brooklyn, NY 11211 +1.718.218.6775
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