hi Bruno been following your contributions to the list with interest - I finally got some dosh to make a piece - all these years after the Digital Dance stuff in Leeds - (i'm the bald guy from the group that projected on the ceiling) anyone else on this list in the Yorkshire region(UK) or North England also welcome - "HELLO WORLD" (& other monospaced fonts) "The computer has turned us all into typists - even the dancers." For those old enough to have programmed their own random poetry generator in the days of the ZX Spectrum computer, this event should bring back happy memories of green-screen gibberish. While for the rest of us, there should be plenty going on to keep us in our seats for a full 45 minutes. Combining dance, text, electronic audio and image projection, ondoloop Ltd attempts to re-create the inner workings of a poet's mind in their new multimedia performance event "Hello World (& other monospaced fonts)". Using a giant QWERTY keyboard and a range of electronic devices, two dancers (Amy Johnson and Tara Hodgson) will perform the part of the little men inside the poet's head to a backdrop of images created by Hungarian video artist Andrea Schneemeier and sounds by Hull-based electronic music duo Albert & Geoffrey. The dancers' movements over the keyboard will trigger computer-generated texts that will be projected in the same space using wordlists and sentence structures compiled by poet Bill Griffiths from Seaham, County Durham. Local poet Brian Connell will be providing the sound of the poet's voice. This event takes place in two 45 min parts within the Live Arts Space of the Ferens Art Gallery, Victoria Square, Hull on Saturday 24th November 2001. Part one will be performed at 3 pm and part two at 7 pm. Funded by Yorkshire Arts through the Regional Arts Lottery Programme and Kingston upon Hull City Council with additional support from the facilities house LUMEN in Leeds. Contact: ondoloop@briang.dabsol.co.uk
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