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LiveForm:Telekinetics creates experiences in transgeographic temporary performance zones, centred around wireless Internet access points that are now ubiquitous in the urban landscape. No longer tied to a terminal screen and keyboard, nomadic groups pack mobile feasts of sensors, antennas, robotics, food, and music, and head out on the town. Networked telepresence picnic parties unfold in vacant lots, roadsides, cafés, alleyways, bars, and hotel lobbies - wherever bandwidth is plentiful and security guards scarce. The events are not meant as entertainment for an audience, but as experimental and collaborative acts of creativity, research and development of new social forms, and interventions in public space.
For ISEA 2006, artists Jeff Mann and Michelle Teran propose their "LiveForm:Telekinetics" project. The project will be presented as a series of mobile interventions in public urban space, within range of the WiFi hotspots near the main Festival Area, over the course of the festival.
In addition, if possible, we would like to present a documentary installation within the main exhibit hall, which would consist of video footage of the events, plus an interactive display of the telekinetic objects when they are not being used during an event.
LF:TK project was funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $12.3 million in media arts throughout Canada. Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada qui a investi 12,3 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts médiatiques à travers le Canada. URLs LF:TK Documentary Video
http://www.lftk.org/Website/movs/lftk_dance.mov
LF:TK Website and Wiki
http://www.lftk.org/
Connected! book, see pg. 8-15
http://connected.waag.org/images/connected-screen.pdf
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