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Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
18-7-2020 4:00 PM
End Date
18-7-2020 4:30 PM
Abstract
Breathe the Machine
interspecies morph edition featuring a video conference and solo or synched blow-ins
Teresa Carmody Dengke Chen Matt Roberts Terri Witek
The FaaS were future-oriented. Every day, they contemplated the question: what kind of ancestor will you be?
A collaborative group composed of a prose writer, new media artist, 3-D animator, and poet enter your personal computers and suggest that in this particularly viral moment, individual breaths + machines may be the closest we get to community touch. An animated video conference offers the project's conceptual framework, including questions about invasive species and intimacy in this new world where we stand masked and apart, not quite meeting another’s onscreen eyes. Participants in Breathe the Machine will each breathe into their own computer mics to both create onscreen reactions and change an animated world. Each transformation will become part of a larger story built from the computers’ individual data. At a designated moment in the conference, we'll combine breaths in a synched group Blow-In.
Their conceiving mind quit avoiding their body; their body, they realized, had already FaaD.
Donna Haraway is just one theorist who argues that as we acquire more mechanical parts, and as technology takes on increasingly human functions, we are already participants in interspecies interactions; a fact made disturbingly clear and re-capitalized by the unseen transmissions of a global pandemic. Breathe the Machine challenges us to think of screens as partners in new, combinatory narratives that converge technology and the human into uneasy, resilient allies. Each breath, then, can become a cross-species touch, an interactive installation, an archive, a fiction, a world and a landscape. A prompt.
This is how we morph.
Project website: https://btm19.weebly.com/
To participate in this event, download and open the app, then blow onto your computer’s microphone. Using this app, we will meet at a specific time to participate in a live streamed event. The app, instructions, and story of the FaaS can be found on our project website.
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Breathe the Machine
Breathe the Machine
interspecies morph edition featuring a video conference and solo or synched blow-ins
Teresa Carmody Dengke Chen Matt Roberts Terri Witek
The FaaS were future-oriented. Every day, they contemplated the question: what kind of ancestor will you be?
A collaborative group composed of a prose writer, new media artist, 3-D animator, and poet enter your personal computers and suggest that in this particularly viral moment, individual breaths + machines may be the closest we get to community touch. An animated video conference offers the project's conceptual framework, including questions about invasive species and intimacy in this new world where we stand masked and apart, not quite meeting another’s onscreen eyes. Participants in Breathe the Machine will each breathe into their own computer mics to both create onscreen reactions and change an animated world. Each transformation will become part of a larger story built from the computers’ individual data. At a designated moment in the conference, we'll combine breaths in a synched group Blow-In.
Their conceiving mind quit avoiding their body; their body, they realized, had already FaaD.
Donna Haraway is just one theorist who argues that as we acquire more mechanical parts, and as technology takes on increasingly human functions, we are already participants in interspecies interactions; a fact made disturbingly clear and re-capitalized by the unseen transmissions of a global pandemic. Breathe the Machine challenges us to think of screens as partners in new, combinatory narratives that converge technology and the human into uneasy, resilient allies. Each breath, then, can become a cross-species touch, an interactive installation, an archive, a fiction, a world and a landscape. A prompt.
This is how we morph.
Project website: https://btm19.weebly.com/
To participate in this event, download and open the app, then blow onto your computer’s microphone. Using this app, we will meet at a specific time to participate in a live streamed event. The app, instructions, and story of the FaaS can be found on our project website.
Bio
Matt Roberts is a new media artist whose work has been featured internationally and nationally, including shows in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Scotland, Taiwan, and nationally in New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. His work has been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, TVE Brazil and he was awarded the Transitio Award by the International Transitio_MX Festival in Mexico City. He currently lives in Florida and is an Associate Professor of Digital Art at Stetson University. http://mattroberts.info/
Terri Witek is the author of 6 books of poems, most recently The Rape Kit (2018), winner of the Slope Editions Prize judged by Dawn Lundy Martin. She has collaborated with visual artists throughout her career: works with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) include gallery shows, video, performance and site-specific projects featured internationally in New York, Seoul, Miami, Lisbon, Chania, Crete and Rio de Janeiro. Collaborations with new media artist Matt Roberts often use augmented reality technology for smart phones to poetically map cities (Glasgow, Vancouver, Miami, Lisbon and Orlando). She holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University and with Lopes team-teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in the MFA of the Americas. https://terriwitek.com/
Dengke Chen is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Arts, Stetson University, Florida. His practice concentrates on new media art, 3D animation, computer games, and comic art. Unlike the single narrative storytelling techniques used in traditional animations to amuse and entertain audiences, Chen's animations have nonlinear narratives that engage viewers to critically reflect on social and ethical issues. https://www.chendengke.com/
Teresa Carmody is the author of Maison Femme: a fiction (2015) and Requiem (2005). Her work has appeared in The Collagist, Big Fiction, Two Serious Ladies, St. Petersburg Review, Faultline, Entropy, and more. Carmody is co-founding editor of Les Figues Press, an imprint of LARB Books in Los Angeles, and director of Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. Her novel, The Reconception of Marie, is forthcoming in 2020. https://www.teresacarmody.com/