Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:28:11 -0500 (EST)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Stelarc: Live on the Web (fwd)


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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 12:52:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Edward M Wesp <edwesp-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
To: ecl.grad-AT-alpha1.csd.uwm.edu
Subject: Stelarc: Live on the Web


CHECK THIS OUT TOMORROW (FRIDAY NOV. 10TH).
LIVE!!!  INTERNATIONALLY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB!

The URL: http://www.telepolis.lu/live/stelarc


The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for Twentieth Century Studies 
will be the only US participant.  See below.  We are on the Web live at 11:00am 
(Central).

Below is the program for the event.  Enjoy.

		See you on the Web, 

		Kathleen Woodward, Carol Tennessen, and Nigel Rothfels

FRACTAL FLESH

SPLIT BODY : VOLTAGE-IN / VOLTAGE-OUT

AN INTERNET BODY UPLOAD PERFORMANCE

http://www.telepolis.lu/live/stelarc  



STELARC



Six remote sites will access and activate the body in Luxembourg using
modem-linked MACs to a Multiple Muscle Stimulation system.  PictureTel -
ISDN connections provide visual feedback.  People in Paris, Amsterdam,
Hamburg, Helsinki, Vienna, Milwaukee and Toronto will choreograph the
body's movements at TELEPOLIS, interactively participating and
constructing the performance, which will be uploaded to the Internet. The
Web site will allow monitoring and updating of the visual events between
the the remote sites and Luxemburg. 



With the Third Hand attached, it becomes a split body - on the LHS <left
hand side> voltage in, generates involuntary limb motion; on the RHS
<right hand side> voltage out (using electrodes on the abdominal and leg
muscles) actuates the robotic Third Hand.  Sensors on the arms, head and
left leg allow the body to become the video switcher, and video mixer,
structurally connecting motion with image.  Involuntary motions from the
body will also generate sampled body signals and sounds. 



Performance Schedule



Friday November 10, 1995    

18.00   Center for 20th Century Studies, Univ. of Wisconson at Milwaukee, USA, 

	Kathleen Woodward, Director

	Site coordinator:  Nigel Rothfels	

19.00	TELEPOLIS  exhibition audience

20.00	DOORS of PERCEPTION, Amsterdam, Netherlands

	Josephine Grieve and Geke van Dijk, site coordinators

21.00	TELEPOLIS exhibition audience

23.00	The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, 
	Canada, Derrick de Kerckhove, Director, Graham Smith, site coordinator.



Saturday November 11, 1995.

15.00	Public NetBase, Vienna, Austria  at The Depot, Messepalast

	Konrad Becker, Director, Marie Ringer, site coordinator 

16.00	TELEPOLIS exhibition audience

17.00	Kunsthaus Hamburg, Deutschland and Mike Hentz, UniverCity TV

	Malcolm Dow, site coordiator

18.00   TELEPOLIS audience

19.00	Media Lab at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland

	Kari Hintikka, site coordinator 

20.00	Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

	Christian Vanderborght, UniversCity TV, site coordinator



TELEPOLIS GRAND FINALE

22.00	CYBERSPACE PARTY: Electronic Ambient Music

	Live concerts and Djs with: Robert Gorl, ex DAF, Disko B, Muenchen, Dj
	Telstar.  Ultraschall Ambient Area, Muenchen, Dj Christian Vogel, Melle
	Plateaux, Tresor, Brighton UK.  Dj Matt Consume, The Bos, Brighton UK; 
	visuals Mediamorph, Berlin. 





The Performance of FRACTAL FLESH, at Telepolis:



Stelarc, Conceptual design and performance  

Jens Heise, Technical director

Kathy Rae Huffman, Remote performance site coordinator

Francois Altwies, Equipment organization

Nico Mack, Video installation

Curd Duca, Sound installation

Thomas Schoenherr, Communications

Oliver Frommel, Telepolis webmaster 

Keisuke Oki, html programming

Michael Diedrichs, D. Design+Partners, Luxembourg, graphics layout and design 

Additionally:  the numerous Performance Assistants and the Telepolis staff.  



FRACTAL FLESH Software design:  



Tele-Stimbod application allows Remote Sites to control Stelarc's Stimbod 

software and Stimbox hardware for FRACTAL FLESH.



The Stimbod application was originally written by Troy Innocent of Empire

Ridge, Melbourne. It was modified to include the remote modem access and

communications component by Gary Zebington of Merlin Integrated Media, 

Sydney, who designed the Stelarc Web Site:  http://www.merlin.com.au/Stelarc



FRACTAL FLESH Acknowledgements:



Luxembourg Telecom

Armin Medosch, Telepolis manager, conception and design,

Sam De Silva and Jeffrey Cook, Merlin Integrated Media., Sydney.

Helga Castellinos, Goethe Institut, Luxemburg.

Thomas Schoenherr, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxemburg.

Stephan Iglhaut and Florian Roetzer, Telepolis conception and design, 

Media Lab Munich, and Siemens Kullturprogramm.





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