-- Absolute zero describes a theoretical system that neither emits nor absorbs beauty. The Absolute zero temperature is known to be 0 K (-273.15 C). It is the point at which particles have a minimum energy, determined by quantum mechanical effects, which is called the zero-point energy. Absolute zero is defined as precisely 0 K on the Kelvin scale, which is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale, and -273.15 C on the Celsius scale. Absolute zero is also precisely equivalent to 0 R on the Rankine scale, and -459.67 F on the Fahrenheit scale.
-- A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of beauty. A perfect vacuum with a pressure of absolute zero is a philosophical and artistic concept that has never been observed in practice so far (with no hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter at 0 fPa/Torr). The beauty of a vacuum is measured in relation to how closely it approaches a perfect -absolute zero- vacuum.
# Martina Ruhsam and Vlado G. Repnik performing about Igor Stromajer
"Breaking Solitude" "Second Season": a series of 6 Net performances between October 29, 2007 and January 28, 2008:
In this series Annie Abrahams and panoplie.org propose Web-meetings of about 20 minutes long using chat and streaming to experiment new ways of being together. Each meeting starts with a performance of an artist. The entrance of the web-salon is limited to 30 people. People registered on the site of panoplie (it is free) can take part in the chat (English or French) and will have priority over the others, which can nevertheless assist as "voyeurs" within the limit of the places available.
"Breaking solitude" is a project of Annie Abrahams (www.bram.org) and panoplie.org.
The artists invited in the second season of "Breaking Solitude" are: Florian Fernandez, Aya Karpinska, Igor Stromajer, Anne-James Chaton, MTAA and Helen Varley Jamieson.
* 29 10 2007 20h: Florian Fernandez
- lives in Marseille in France
Fernand is not the anagram of Florian. If one makes Florian with Fernand that gives: a dolphin.
cuicuirock.free.fr/index.php/2006/03/09/13--elemant-phan-
www.radiolist.org/index.php?cat=5&paged=2
www.arborescence.org/article549.html
* 12 11 2007 20h: Aya Karpinska
- New York, Providence
technekai.com
is a digital media artist and interaction designer. She creates interactive experiences through installation art, digital text, sound, and game design (but not all at the same time). Aya is the 2006 recipient of the Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing; she splits her time between Providence and New York City.
* 26 11 2007 20h: Igor Stromajer
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.intima.org/7012
Igor Stromajer was born in Slovenia in 1967. He graduated at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives in Ljubljana, works and exhibits worldwide. Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator. He researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech guerrilla strategies. His most known works are Oppera Internettikka and Ballettikka Internettikka (1997-2007).
* 10 12 2007 20h: Anne-James Chaton
- France
aj.chaton.free.fr
Anne-James Chaton is poet sound. He is 35 years old and lives in Montpellier, France. He directed several reviews (Derivation, The Incredible New Justine's Adventures ...) and published five books, three works of poetry to editions Al Dante and two essays with the editions Sens & Tonka. He gave a hundred readings in France and abroad and organized a great number of events around sound poetry in Besancon, Lyon, Paris, Montpellier (PC-Poésies contemporaines, Sonorités).
* 14 01 2008 20h: MTAA
- New York
www.mteww.com
Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for public art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel.
* 28 01 2008 20h Helen Varley Jamieson
- NZ / Australia
www.creative-catalyst.com
Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist. She is currently undertaking a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland, investigating her practice of cyberformance. She is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe, Avatar Body Collision, and has collaborated in and contributed to various other online art projects.
