The wireless building of a mass mind, controlling aether9 agents …amongst Berliners unaware.
Aether9 presents an interpretation of Fritz Lang’s Doktor Mabuse streaming from a taxi speeding through Berlin.

Location:
rupert goldsworthy gallery
alexandrinenstraße 4
10969 berlin-kreuzberg
+49 15115841288
www.rupertgoldsworthy.com

On-site coordination: Paula Vélez

Maratón de improvisación visual remoto. AETHER9 , aceptó unirse a este ejercicio de improvisación y experimentación durante las 5 horas que durará el JAM.

Este ejercicio de improvisación visual en streaming contará con la participación de por lo menos 14 video artistas que transmitirán desde lugares remotos en vivo (estando simultáneamente 8 artistas alternándose).

Una pantalla subdividida en 9 fragmentos , cada uno recibe la señal de algun lugar distinto en simultánea, interactuando entre si. La pantalla ubicada en el centro corresponderá a la transmisión que haremos desde Medellín, el JAM en curso con el audio correspondiente.

La señal video vendrá desde : Amsterdam, Mumbay (India), Berlin, Ginebra, Honkamäki (una colina de pinos en Finlandia), Yorba Linda (California), New York, Bruselas, Teheran, Colorado, Beirut, Split (Croacia en simultánea con la clausura del Festival VIDEOVORTEX )

«The first thing to realize about the (a)ether(9) is its absolute
continuity. A deep sea fish has probably no means of
apprehending the existence of water; it is too uniformly
immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the
ether.”
Sir Oliver Lodge, Ether and Reality.

http://1904.cc/aether/img/schema/aether9_schema03.jpg

Video credits:
chloé cramer: voice, acting, camera, mise en scène
manuel schmalstieg: tech wizardry, mise en scène
boris kish: voice, acting, camera, mise en scène

Kindly supported by Pro Helvetia Delhi.

Links:
CeC Festival: http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/
Report: http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/cec09rep.htm
Images: http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/cec09pix.htm

Performance in the frame of the Beirut Street Festival. The performance was visible both online and on location (Hamra Street, in the center of Beirut).

Æther9 @ Hamra Street, Beirut
Date: Sunday September 28th 2008
Location: Hamra street, on the outdoor screen of el medina theater.
–Title: When antennas convert love in space
–> Participants:
Laure Deselys, Samir Youssef, Joe Elias, Zoe Judell ( Beirut )
Judy Nylon ( New york )
Manuel Schmalstieg ( Geneva )
Boris Kish ( Brussels )
Audrey Samson ( Rotterdam )
Paula Vélez Bravo ( Medellin )
Christiaan Cruz ( Los Angeles )

Click for a set of photos.

The live sound was performed in Beirut, featuring Joe Elias
playing oud and the voice of Samir Youssef.

Here we are today, we love to stay together upon the roof, alone with these thin things, to stay and to try talking to them or about them; they say rain falls down, so does the deer of holly Christmas, and if you wanted to see the moon, its rays will visit you from up there. Here we are today, we look at silent communities, silent although their massive quantity, we look at a glooming society which didn’t hide a secret, which didn’t say a word about its secrets.

During the previous years, it was enough for you to see toward what direction antennas were fixed to find out the programs that are being watched by the families. Then, here we are today, we wonder what do these things look like. Do they look like the pieces of rail-ways in Beirut? Or like the white line that the transporter ship traced it in the sea? Do they look like the white old buses of the bus station? Will they go back to transmit and work again?

We don’t know, but somehow, we feel them strongly, and we are lucky, lucky because we can visit them or visit their locations, that’s what you cannot do anymore in many cities of U.S.A or Europe after the crisis of 11 September 2001, we visit them as if we are visiting something that we possessed for a long time, just to feel their shadows, these forests of flying birds in the countries of migrant wind.

We will catch up the train of development. But let us know well that there’s some real common in between this dialogue in here and other dialogues around the planet. Speak the Korean language honey, speak the spanish, I cannot remember anymore the difference and the pictures, speak and know that from the ether to the antenna to the television to the eye, there is an upside-down stairs that gods wander it continuously; But let us know also that we feel respectful and thankful to the recent fact of useless antennas.
Respectfulness and thankfulness to him for mooring the old ways of love in the only harbor of human being”.

Aether9. Beirut-Medellin. Pasaporte

Notes:

Fourth iteration of the “Little Red Riding Hood” adaptation, premiered in April 2008 at Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. Then at Mapping Festival (Suisse), and Tenderpixel Gallery (London).

SUMMARY:The Little Red Riding Hood tale fragmented for a twenty first century mind, one that detects a storyline from multi-sourced information streams, part cubist, part 3D chess, but coherently set in human, ancient, primordial mind.

Wolf, an “anyman”, seeks a role-playing Little Red Riding Hood among cyber sex chat girls. A journey into the psychological landscape of the classical tale, a cipher of Aging, Sex, Death, Desire, Violence, Secrecy, Beauty and Decay.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:
Performers (on location at Perte de Signal, Montréal): Audrey Samson (set-up, coordination)Sofian Audry (acting)

Performers (remote): Christiaan Cruz (California, USA; video transmission)
Chloé Cramer (Florennes, Belgium; chat coordination)
Boris Kish (Geneva, CH; webcam transmission)
Manuel Schmalstieg (Geneva, CH; sound transmission)
Judy Nylon (New York, USA; dollhouse, video transmission)
Paula Vèlez (Paris, FR; wolf, video transmission); Maria Hermelin (Paris, FR; video assistant)

www.perte-de-signal.org

Here a link to watch a bit of video.

www.cave12.org/~aether/archive/2008.08.1 6_perteDeSignal/v…

Documents:
Performance factsheet – includes location info, list of participants, etc.
Performance materials – raw archive files.

AETHER jam session (mini-workshop), with remote and on location participans:
Paula Vélez, Workshop and transmission; Audrey Samson, transmision from Rotterdam; Lucy and The League of Imaginary Scientists, transmission from Los Angeles.; Manuel Schmalstieg, transmission from Geneve, Suiza. Boris Kish (script Geneva).

The League of imaginary scientist partcipated this time.
You can get a look here:

[flickr video=2481424118 show_info=true w=240 h=136]

AETHER workshop jam. Lucy Diving Mask1

AETHER LRRH PERFORMANCE. Inspired in Little Red Riding Hood story, the group of aethernautes did performe again, this time transmitting live, a free interpretation of this famous and original story by Charles Perrault. The performance toked place in Alianza Francesa, as part of Festival de la Imagen. This transmision have been also watched from others computers around the net in the link normally use by AETHER to transmit.

AETHER team in Colombia with the audience at the Festival was:

Live location at Manizales: Paula Vélez. (sound streaming, cámara), the wolf: Gregorio Gómez. (a.k.a gladkazuka. music performance), Camera and transmision assistant: Natalia Valencia

Remote AETHER performers were: Christiaan Cruz, (shadow puppeteer, Yorba Linda, California); Audrey Samson (webcam orchestration, Rotterdam transmission); Judy Nylon (New York, transmission and doll house). Chloé Cramer (Script, transmission from Brussels); Laure De Selys (Transmission);  Boris Kish (Script, Geneva transmission); Manuel Schmalstieg (Programming, Geneva transmission), The League of Imaginary Scientist. (FlipBook program, Los Angeles)

download audio by Gladkazuka (Manizales Fest): CLIC../

Notes:
This performance occurred in the frame of the “Stream on You” event, curated by Nathalie Fougeras and produced by iMAL.

Documents:
Performance factsheet – includes location info, list of participants, etc.
Performance materials – raw archive files.

Adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s 1976 TV play “Ghost Trio”.

On-location team in Novi Sad:
Luka Princic (sound mix)
Cym: (coordination, setup)

Performers (remote):
Christiaan Cruz (Yorba Linda, USA; video, acting; frame #2)
Laure de Selys (Brussels, BE; concept, directing; frame #5)
Boris Kish (Brussels, BE; directing; frame #5)
Richard Milan (Brussels, BE; acting; frame #5)
Chloé Cramer (Brussels, BE; concept, live text; frames #1 and #3)
Manuel Schmalstieg (Geneva, CH; html code, acting; frame #4)
Paula Vélez (Medellin, CO; directing; frame #6)
Juan Guillermo Caicedo (Medellin, CO; acting (man); frame #6)
Pedro Hermelin (Medellin, CO; acting (kid); frame #6)
Nathalie Fougeras (Brussels, BE; video; frames #7-8-9)

Live audio:
Judy Nylon (New York, USA)
Jonathan Goldstein (New York, USA)

Assistants (remote):
Anna Popek (Geneva, CH; frame #4)
Viviana Palacio (Medellin, CO; frame #6)

Links:
http://www.videomedeja.org/