[NetBehaviour] 'Frugal Strategies', lesser satisfactions

Tue May 30 14:03:31 CEST 2023

Thanks to all who responded to my post, recently, I was very happy to hear
from you. (And was sorry to see I confused being quiet with being quite).
Suzon, I just reviewed
the short film you were instrumental in creating, on a kind of recent
history (before Zoom came a popular meeting space during the pandemic) of
networked performance; and I appreciate your reference to your own
performance "Be Like Body–Obsolete".

Please share more how you understand somatic alarms, and measures to deal
with our crisis?

I watched an excerpt of your beautiful project,  "Be Like Body–Obsolete" (
https://vimeo.com/704400497O, where you seem trapped or enclosed by a
graveyard of computers/motherboards/screens who may now drift off like
space debris; though at the end of the excerpt you still seem caught in a
box (and then the zoom participants/observers appear on screen for a yoga
breathing ritual). Having participated also with Annie Abrahams'  "Distant
Feelings" and "Distant Movement" performances, which I quite liked at the
time, I now feel more quietly resigned, quite turned off by Zoom and screen
meetings – a dysfunctional space in my mind, and black screens won't help
me to love it either.

I really did enjoy hearing a women's voice speak in Farsi, asking - "now,
human, tell us with your artificial intelligence / what color is mature
satisfaction?"
The texts written by your co-performers (all women) tend to be wonderfully
ironic, and sarcastic, did I get that right? (and Stelarc may have been an
"outside eye", if he could still see?).

Have you all heard the term "black-boxing", that we are being blackboxed?
I wonder.

warm regards
Johannes Birringer

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On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 2:57 PM Suzon Fuks via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Thanks Johannes for sharing your reflection about ISEA and network
> performance. I think covid time has triggered some 'somatic' alarms, at
> least for some people who were already into network performance beforehand.
> I also turned into my local community, my neighbourhood much more and
> questioned the impact of technology on humanity, through my network
> performance "Be Like Body–Obsolete".
>
> Two things I found interesting to experiment with in terms of tools, were:
> - the Zoom breakout rooms which allowed immediate possibility for
> strangers (in small numbers) to interact and have more intimacy than if
> they would be in a theatre,
> - to remove the visuals for a while (black screen), to attract the
> attention to the auditive aspect to create an imaginary space for all
>
> sending love,
>
>
>
> Suzon
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>> Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 15:17:04 +0200
>> From: Johannes Birringer <johannesbirringer1 at gmail.com>
>> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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>> dear all,
>> greetings, and sorry for having been quite for quite a while, adjusting to
>> a few things after moving to the countryside.
>> For those of you who've heard of ISEA or attended the annual ISEA events,
>> well this year, it's held in the lovely city of Paris.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> I decided not to attend the whole spectacle anymore, as it overwhelmed,
>> irritated me last year in Barcelona. Some friends from Greece formed a
>> panel, which took place yesterday and I participated virtually. Our panel
>> was held at the Forum des Images and titled: "Networked Collaborative
>> Performance: Frugal Strategies and Cultural Impact of Technology."  If
>> you're interested in my 3-minute provocation (we were eight people and
>> given very little time), I include the link to the video*.
>> The overall approach of our panel was to raise questions and stimulate
>> discussion of the frugal (i am not quite happy to speak of innovation
>> here):
>>
>> "As open-source software and human-machine-interaction hardware become
>> more
>> accessible, more culturally diverse groups put them to artistic uses.
>> However, collaboration across cultural and disciplinary borders poses a
>> host of problems not just of technical but also of cultural communication.
>> In this context, the proposed panel investigates the impact of internet
>> collaboration with live coding and other live interaction technologies on
>> culture and the new kinds of art forms that arise from it, especially
>> under
>> the perspective of frugal innovation, i.e. the combination of technical
>> skills, DIY economy of means and an intuitive approach to technology. The
>> premise that this panel ultimately intends to raise as a challenge, is
>> that
>> such work requires a global approach on the technical, organizational,
>> social and cultural aspects in order to be sustainable..."
>>
>> * https://youtu.be/gBBYoPLQnqU
>>
>> regards
>> Johannes Birringer
>> Interaktionslabor
>> http://interaktionslabor.de
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>> From: Annie Abrahams <bram.org at gmail.com>
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>> thanks Johannes!
>>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 3:18?PM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>> > dear all,
>> > greetings, and sorry for having been quite for quite a while, adjusting
>> to
>> > a few things after moving to the countryside.
>> > For those of you who've heard of ISEA or attended the annual ISEA
>> events,
>> > well this year, it's held in the lovely city of Paris.
>> >
>> > [image: image.png]
>> >
>> > I decided not to attend the whole spectacle anymore, as it overwhelmed,
>> > irritated me last year in Barcelona. Some friends from Greece formed a
>> > panel, which took place yesterday and I participated virtually. Our
>> panel
>> > was held at the Forum des Images and titled: "Networked Collaborative
>> > Performance: Frugal Strategies and Cultural Impact of Technology."  If
>> > you're interested in my 3-minute provocation (we were eight people and
>> > given very little time), I include the link to the video*.
>> > The overall approach of our panel was to raise questions and stimulate
>> > discussion of the frugal (i am not quite happy to speak of innovation
>> here):
>> >
>> > "As open-source software and human-machine-interaction hardware become
>> > more accessible, more culturally diverse groups put them to artistic
>> uses.
>> > However, collaboration across cultural and disciplinary borders poses a
>> > host of problems not just of technical but also of cultural
>> communication.
>> > In this context, the proposed panel investigates the impact of internet
>> > collaboration with live coding and other live interaction technologies
>> on
>> > culture and the new kinds of art forms that arise from it, especially
>> under
>> > the perspective of frugal innovation, i.e. the combination of technical
>> > skills, DIY economy of means and an intuitive approach to technology.
>> The
>> > premise that this panel ultimately intends to raise as a challenge, is
>> that
>> > such work requires a global approach on the technical, organizational,
>> > social and cultural aspects in order to be sustainable..."
>> >
>> > * https://youtu.be/gBBYoPLQnqU
>> >
>> > regards
>> > Johannes Birringer
>> > Interaktionslabor
>> > http://interaktionslabor.de
>> >
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>> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at gmail.com>
>> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>>         <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] 'Frugal Strategies'
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>> Thank you for this, so many intersecting worlds, phenomena, gravity and
>> what passes for natural. I tend to work in disturbed landscapes as well,
>> running into the practico-inert (if I remember correctly); in a sense all
>> work today is (necessarily) concerned with impediment.
>>
>> Opening towards meditation, again thank you -
>>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 9:16?AM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>> > dear all,
>> > greetings, and sorry for having been quite for quite a while, adjusting
>> to
>> > a few things after moving to the countryside.
>> > For those of you who've heard of ISEA or attended the annual ISEA
>> events,
>> > well this year, it's held in the lovely city of Paris.
>> >
>> > [image: image.png]
>> >
>> > I decided not to attend the whole spectacle anymore, as it overwhelmed,
>> > irritated me last year in Barcelona. Some friends from Greece formed a
>> > panel, which took place yesterday and I participated virtually. Our
>> panel
>> > was held at the Forum des Images and titled: "Networked Collaborative
>> > Performance: Frugal Strategies and Cultural Impact of Technology."  If
>> > you're interested in my 3-minute provocation (we were eight people and
>> > given very little time), I include the link to the video*.
>> > The overall approach of our panel was to raise questions and stimulate
>> > discussion of the frugal (i am not quite happy to speak of innovation
>> here):
>> >
>> > "As open-source software and human-machine-interaction hardware become
>> > more accessible, more culturally diverse groups put them to artistic
>> uses.
>> > However, collaboration across cultural and disciplinary borders poses a
>> > host of problems not just of technical but also of cultural
>> communication.
>> > In this context, the proposed panel investigates the impact of internet
>> > collaboration with live coding and other live interaction technologies
>> on
>> > culture and the new kinds of art forms that arise from it, especially
>> under
>> > the perspective of frugal innovation, i.e. the combination of technical
>> > skills, DIY economy of means and an intuitive approach to technology.
>> The
>> > premise that this panel ultimately intends to raise as a challenge, is
>> that
>> > such work requires a global approach on the technical, organizational,
>> > social and cultural aspects in order to be sustainable..."
>> >
>> > * https://youtu.be/gBBYoPLQnqU
>> >
>> > regards
>> > Johannes Birringer
>> > Interaktionslabor
>> > http://interaktionslabor.de
>> >
>> >
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