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Free Particle Schedule

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Web-J Live Performance at the Wits Art Museum

18th Sept, 19:00, Wits Art Museum, Cnr Bertha (ext Jan Smuts) & Jorissen Street, Braamfontien

Following the Free Particle  workshops with Anne Roquigny,  Anne Roquigny and South African Media Artists who participated in the workshops will present a WJ’s performance at the Wits Art Museum.  Find other details on partcipating artists and previous performances on the Web-J project site.

WJ-S is a software and a flexible public device for web performances allowing WJs (webjays, artists, curators, web addicts, web mutants) to play live with online text, sound and visuals.  WJs take the control of a multi-screen environment and surf at distance in different browser windows simultaneously. WJ-S is a visible and collective experience of the surf.

The idea of the WJ-S project is to disrupt this tendency by offering a public surf where the feeling of being immersed in the flow and the pleasure of browsing are shifted to a live performance environment. Individual and collaborative online productions (in different geographical sites) become collective events (to which an audience is invited).

Following the steps of DJs and VJs, the WJs (weejays, webjays, webjockeys, etc.) directly draw their sources from the Web and mix the network flow in real time. – big space of creation – numerous possibilities:

The WJ-S productions can take the following forms : performances, demos, presentations of projects, parties, workshops and conferences.

 

FORUM 1

Digital Industries Forum by Digital Africa of the French Institute in Paris, represented by Imaginarium.

Continuous States: Technology and Culture in Africa, collaborative & industry perspectives

20th September, 18:00 – Sci-Bono,  Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown

Laurent Tricant, Imaginarium – Lille

Roland Assilevi, Ker Thoissane – Dakar

Karen Dermineur, Digital Afrique -Dakar

Gavin Olivier, Digital Fabric – Johannesburg

Pippa Tshabalala, Independent – Johannesburg

Belinda Lewis, Praekelt Consulting – Johannesburg

Chair: Christo Doherty

 

FORUM 2

Latent Energy: The Role of Art and Technology and it’s Cross-Development

21st September, 18:00 – Live for Joburg Radio, Makwapheni (Stevenson Gallery) 62 Juta Street, Braamfontien

Rangoata Hlasane – Kelaketla, Johannesburg

Anne Roquigny, Ososphere – Strausbourg

Maia Grotepass – Wits Digital Arts, Cape Town

Mitch Said – Wits Digital Arts, Johannesburg

Debbie Rodgers – Praekelt Consulting, Johannesburg

Mocka Janse van Veuren – University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg

Chair: Tegan Bristow

 

TALK: On Art Games

26th September: 18:30 – Sci Bono, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown

Hanli Geyser & Michael De Jager on  South African Art Games: Where, What and Why.

TALK: Stefanus Radermeyer

Sci-Bono Talk to a Scientist Series

27th September, 18:30 – Sci-Bono, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown

Stefanus Radermeyer on Geometry in Nature

Anne Roquigny Web-J Workshops

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Artist in Residence Anne Roquigny: Two Day Workshop

Outcome Live Web-J Performance at Wits Art Museum

17 & 18 Sept, Wits Digital Arts Division, Cnr Station & Jorrissen, Braamfontien

The workshops  are an extension of the Free Particle artists in residence at Wits University, Digital Arts Division Seminar Room.  RSVP essential to marie@ifas.org.za

Duration: 2 days    //     Coordination: Anne Roquigny

Participants: students, media artists, people interested in netbased projects ( limit 5).

 Workshop schedule:

Day 1

Presentation of the project with its theoretical, aesthetic, artistic goals within the context of contemporary creation.

Presentation of the wj/software and its potential (negative connotation- means that it has the chance to become something good in the future).

Presentation of the wj/software and the the different contexts in which it can be used.

Teaching how to master the software.

 Day 2

Selection of the websites for the performance.

In order to look for the websites for the elaboration of the WJ-S playlist , it is advised that the participants bring they own computers or that the organiser provides computers for the all the participants for the documentation.

Selection of the first websites for the playlist.

Test of the websites on the wj/software for final performance.

 

 

Digital Interaction Workshops

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Workshop 1:  Saturday 22nd Sept 

Sensors and Actuators in Artistic Practice: Focus on Performance, Set Design and Installation Art Practice

Roland Assilevi, Ker Thoissane, Dakar

Workshop will develop an installation or performance driven outcome using either physical sensors or an sms reception mode.  Participants will be given the tools to work with and have developed an interactive environment by the end of the day.

10:00 – 16:00, Sci-Bono, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown

RSVP essential: marie@ifas.org.za

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Workshop 2: Sunday 23rd Sept

XBox Kinect Sensor for Artists

Tegan Bristow & Maia Grotepass, Wits Digital Arts, Johannesburg

Workshop will show the in and outs, limits and possibilities of the XBox Kinect as as a body and skeletal tracking sensor. Some basic programming knowledge would be good but not essential. By the end of the day a full interactive encounter will be developed as the workshop outcome.

10:00 – 16:00, Sci-Bono, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown

Kinect Workshop Sept 2012 on Prezi

 

Artists in Residence

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Free Particle is hosting a collaborative Artists in a residency exchange with Ososphere.  Anne Roquigny from France and Maia Grotepass from Cape Town.

Anne Roquigny: Artist in Residence (Ososphere)

French media arts curator, has specialised during the last 15 years in the production and curating of hybrid digital projects related to sound, visual arts, networks and the internet. After 3 years (1995-98) devising and organising the cultural events programs of the Web Bar, an internet café/art gallery in Paris, in 1999 she joined the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, one of the first French new media centres, where she worked as artistic co-ordinator and curator of the international Urban Multimedia Arts festivals, then as co-director of the venue with Pierre Bongiovanni.  From 2002 to 2004, Anne was in charge of the general co-ordination of the preliminary project for a future Digital Arts Center in Paris, dedicated to digital production and to electronic music, at la Gaité Lyrique.

Anne is now developing the web performances project WJ-S http://www.wj-s.org  and co-coordinating in parallel Peter Sinclair and Jérôme Joy Locus Sonus http://www.locusonus.org a research lab specialising in audio art and its relation to space and networked audio systems.

 

Maia Grotepass: Artist in Residence (Wits Digital Arts)

Maia Grotepass is an Engineer become Artist. Grotepass completed her MA Dissertation with the Digital Arts Division earlier this year, after a undergraduate degree and career in Engineering. Grotepass wrote on the process of generating and documenting code as an artist, comparing the differences between coding as an engineer and the coding as a creative and artistic process. In her exhibition Maia developed 4 interactive artworks that express that address coding as a creative practice, all works use the XBox Kinect as the primary interactive mechanism.

“I use software to express an interpretation of the world around me, the software code and systems I work with everyday.”