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Anne-Marie Schleiner at Postmasters Gallery

September 2, 2004; 7:00 pm;
Postmasters Gallery - 459 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
OUT

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September 2004

The evening took place at Postmasters Gallery wrapping up five days of activities.

The gallery operated as a physical node of an ad-hock public broadcasting system of online, real-time protest performances, alternative news actions, a transatlatic, multimedia protest jam during the Republican National Convention, from August 29 to September 2. Read On »

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Andreas Angelidakis

January 29, 2003; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Chelsea

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January 2003

Andreas is an architect whose work addresses you and your avatar.  He makes buildings and places for real people and their machines

Andreas Angelidakis showed some of his work that engages a 3-D Internet such as Neen World, Mirrorsite series, Invisible Home, and My Anchorage.  He also showed physical spaces that have been or are about to be constructed, such as Tetris Mountain for Lev Manovich’s Soft Cinema, Electronic Orphanage, Teleport Diner and Pause.

The first project reviewed was Chelsea, which was a collaboration with Miltos Manetas. Chelsea was a 3-D world of art and architecture created in Active Worlds. It was the first experiment in building an online community. Chelsea suffered a digital demolition when the host forgot to pay for the yearly service and all fifty buildings were erased from the server. Read On »

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Diane Ludin

July 27, 2000; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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July 2000

Diane Ludin presented her ongoing hybrid netcast and real-time performance project.

idrunners: re_flesh the body is commissioned for the Franklin Furnace’s “Future of the Present 2000″ series. idrunners is collaboration between Ludin, Francesca DiRimini (Adelaide, Australia) and Agnese Trocchi (Rome, Italy).

Via submitted and streaming text, images, audio and video, each artist creates what Ludin refers to as “lo-fi” avatars; “Efemera” (Ludin), “Discordia” (Trocchi), and “Liquid Nation” (Da Rimini) generate the project’s content through the forwarding of content and in the process, translate these characters through a series of performances.

The resulting website, generates a “Metrophage” and is produced by Ludin as the compendium of this ongoing project that focuses on “the ways in which various media/informatic/industrial realms are dominantly female.”