More information regarding ordering will be available soon from Greyscale Press.

Current structure proposal:
Data from mailing lists, Wiki, chat logs and image archive are sorted according to performers. There could also be paths to navigate through the book according to sets of keywords like: science, tech, or sex…

Aether9 products since 1933:

Two members of the aether9 group (Manuel and Audrey) will be working with Ludivine Loiseau and Pierre Marchand, on a book that will visualize the past years of activity of the Aether9 project.

Some images (arrival at Constant Variable, first work session)…

Without defining documenting as a set of rules, but drawing a trajectory for the possibilities of documenting as complementary to the practice, an example can be presented. Being interested in the creative process, the collective Aether9 explores the possibilities of realtime manipulation and transmission of audio and video. Geographically located in different points of the globe, the collective’s members maintain communication and perform exclusively via the Internet. Documentation of their Skype meetings that happen during preparation and during the performance took the shape of (so far) two books published by Greyscale Press. (…) Through this process of documentation, Aether9 provides non-descriptive layers of the performances which help understand them beyond their results, based on the interaction between artists during the process of development and final presentation.

Source: http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/ephemeral-audiovisual-realtime-practices-analysis-possibilities-its-documentation

Several browser manufacturers (Google, Mozilla, Opera) are currently exploring methods to bring two-way multimedia capacity to web-browsers. The technical name for this technology is WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication).

Here is a quick overview of current initiatives that look promising:

Ericsson Labs
“an experiment around real-time voice and video communication built on WebKitGTK+”
While being part of the WebRTC working groups, technicians at Ericsson Labs have implemented their own experimental prototype. It is running in “a modified version of WebKit”, under Ubuntu:
https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-real-time-communication/

Quote: “Ericsson Labs offers web developers the opportunity to download a modified WebKit library that allows for experimentation with real-time audiovisual communication in a web browser using the JavaScript APIs proposed by the WhatWG . The modified WebKit library, in turn, relies on the Gstreamer multimedia framework (part of the required Ubuntu 11.04 platform) to carry out the media processing (streaming, coding, RTP, etc.).”
First release: March 2010

Mozilla Rainbow
“Rainbow is an early prototype that provides video and audio capture capabilities to web pages. It is currently distributed as a highly experimental Firefox addon.”
Major update, August 2011:
“we’re happy to announce that we will be working with the WebRTC group on JavaScript APIs that let web developers build real-time voice and video applications. (…) As the project matures, and after the many UI and technology issues have been worked out, we would also like to integrate this feature into Firefox. It is a little early to tell when that will happen, but we want to do it as soon as possible!”
https://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/
https://github.com/mozilla/rainbow
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-rainbow/
First release: October 2010

The WebRTC initiative
An open-source effort, started by Google in June 2011, that provides many of the low-level platform APIs required to build support for real-time communication into browsers.
http://www.webrtc.org/

Standards and specifications:
WhatWG: Web Real-Time Communication APIs
W3C : WebRTC Working Group Charter
W3C : WebRTC 1.0 Working Draft
IETF: IETF Working Group

Mailing lists:
public-webrtc at w3.org
rtcweb at ietf.org

Dates: 12, 14 November 2010

Initimacy over Distance : networked broadcasting tools and scenarios.

This workshop is remotely facilitated by Nancy Mauro-Flude and locally by Audrey
Samson. It explores networked communication and related technologies through
the elaboration and enactment of a networked performance using PureData signal
processing language (Pd) and the Internet as a performance platform.

Artists: gatekeeper (ideacritik), sister0 (performed by Nancy Mauro-Flude in Tasmania)

This follows first experiments with mobile streaming carried out by the Aether team in October 2009 during their Berlin residency, and on March 26th during a performance in the frame of Pixelache festival.

The streaming is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. CEST (GMT+2) and will last approximately until 7 p.m.

The transmission will include live footage of the “Celestial Hopscotch”, a scenographic happening that will be carried out on the outskirts of Art Basel by French artist and zerographer Frank Ancel (at approximately 5 p.m.).

Quoting Franck Ancel: “At the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1900, Loïe Fuller danced under the flag of its electricity pavilion. [I offer] the chance for everyone to design their own virtual Pavilion, to “dance” on the ground of world cities, a hopscotch grid already present on five continents where the land becomes zero and the sky infinite.” A first Celestial Hopscotch grid has been drawn on May 19 in rue de l’Exposition, Paris. The final one will be performed in Shanghai, just before the closing of the 2010 World Fair.

For more info, check the event’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100175690028339

Some tech info

The transmission team in basel will be using the following hardware:

• Asus EEE 1000H netbook
• Huawei Mobile Broadband E1762 USB stick (with a Swisscom prepay plan)
• Aiptek Trio VGA+ USB webcam

The same setup has produced those lovely video fragments during the Pixelache perfo in March.

More info will be posted here soon!

A presentation about the conceptual and technical developments resulting from a residency at agence TOPO.

Exploration of landscape possibilities of telematic performance as well as aether9′s new PD Patch and Wiimote control options.

Update: A screen capture (of remote aether9 members projected during the presentation) recorded by Cym has been published:

Duration: 34 min.

see WII interface with pd patch on small screen … mobile setup all systems go… except for the internet connection (next step). we have all interface info and controls visible on tiny screen – chris says even a full fledged GUI and self-destruct mechanism.
(its all really really alpha stage – dont try this at home ;)