PERFORMANCE

NETWORK
Subtle Technologies Performance Night
Curated by: Willy Le Maitre
Date: Friday 12th, 2009
Time: 8pm
Location: Innis Town Hall
Price: $15 minimum donation (pay at the door)
Performance free with purchase of Full Festival Pass

Performances
• Performance demonstration of War Mail by Jeremy Bailey
• A networked performance by Second Front
• The Pauline Oliveros / Ione / Chris Chafe trio in networked performance
• Ukiyo - Moveable World by Johannes Birringer
• Mess - Alan Sondheim

In this World 2.0, the distant and out of time are those not on the network. Those not connected by the myriad of standards, protocols, interfaces and soft spots are from World 1.0. Seemingly, with more degrees removed from our mutual separation, we are unified by a network that,
paradoxically, joins us and separates us. There is a quality of transparency to World 2.0 that make a users criticism difficult to recognize online. What is placed on the Internet is usurped by it; the network is a medium that absorbs all expression as its own. As users of this world we know that dialogue is constant and criticism is part of a basic reflection. When seen from within the network, this can become invisible to us. The arena of performance has the potential to look at the network sideways, to provide a context to see a figure emerge from the dense field we’re enmeshed in.