# performed live from Hong Kong for the Tele-Plateau, CYNETart, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden, Germany, 17 November 2007 at 10 PM GMT+1 (Central European Time) -- project/festival.
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Ballettikka Internettikka is an ongoing artistic study of the internet guerrilla performance. After invading The Bolsh.oi Theatre in Moscow (March 2002), La S.cala in Milan (November 2004), The National Theatre in Belgrade (October 2005), Volksbühne Berlin (July 2006) and others, Stromajer and Zorman furtively performed a new internet ballet -- Ballettikka Internettikka: Stattikka -- as a part of the Tele-Plateau - Performative Installation in Hellerau, Dresden, broadcasting live from the roof of the targeted skyscraper in Hong Kong (Lippo Centre 2), in front of the densed cityscape, using a sad and lonely commercial Silverlit R/C Robot Program-a-BOT, dancing an Almost Static But Still Transitive Net Ballet for 30 minutes in an apparently stagnant Hong Kong dawn.
Lippo Centre
89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong HK China
Finished: 1988
Floor Count: 48
Building Uses: office
Structural Types: highrise
Architectural Style: late-modernist
Materials: glass
Height (Taller Tower N.2): 186.0 m
# source: skyscraperpage.com
Action Timetable / Hong Kong, 17 November 2007 / GMT+1 (Dresden Local Time):
21:05 Final equipment check before entering the elevator of the Lippo Centre 2 building 21:15 Turning on the computers, camera and other equipment 21:30 Taking the elevator up to the 48th floor 21:40 Exiting the elevator and climbing the set of stairs to the roof 21:50 Establishing wireless internet connection (wLAN) and positioning the robot and the camera 21:59 (= 04:59 GMT/UTC+8) Starting live internet broadcast and the almost static but still transitive internet ballet
22:30 (= 05:30 GMT/UTC+8) Terminating almost static but still transitive internet ballet and live internet broadcast 22:32 Terminating wireless internet connection (wLAN) and securing the robot and the camera 22:40 Descending the stairs and entering the elevator on the 48th floor 22:41 Taking the elevator down to the 1st floor (lobby) 22:51 Exiting the elevator and the Lippo Centre 2 building 23:00 Securing the material and turning off the computers, camera and other equipment
Dancing a wireless internet ballet on the roof of the skyscraper in Hong Kong represented a big conceptual and strategic challenge to the Intima Virtual Base and all the collaborators, therefore, the preparations have been taken seriously, safety measures have been calculated, and the previous experiences have been very welcome.
The robot often cries. Why shouldn't you?
Very special thanks to Johannes Birringer, Thomas Dumke, Klaus Nicolai, Irena Pivka and Sven/parmon.
"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
(W. Churchill)
International Network Telematic Environments (INTELE)
The INTELE project's objective is to interlink all the previous activities of the TMA and its partners in an efficient way, and to build a transnational network to connect telematically the public interactive locations (world culture virtual spaces) based on camera-motion-sensing system EyeCon (Frieder Weiß) and to expand them transcontinentally.
It implies:
- both artistic use and technical and constructional extension of the Interactive Pavilion in the city centre of Dresden
- further temporary and particularly efficient connection of the Interactive Pavilion with similar configured locations in Europe like St. Petersburg and Stockholm
- artistic experiments and use of (networked) virtual environments (interactive image-sound spaces) for multidisciplinary installations and interactive stages
- holding workshops, trainee programs, artistic presentations and performances
- and permanent project/network development, fundraising and building up of corresponding infrastructure.
# Ballettikka Internettikka: Stattikka at TMA Helerau, Dresden, Germany
Tele-Plateaus as performative test at the CYNETart_07 encounter within the INTELE project
Supported by Dresden Innovation Fund for Art and Media Technology (DIF), this year's festival CYNETart_07encounter will be integrated into a long-term artistic experiment and research process. The performative installation Tele-Plateaus explores and links various earthly and "electronic" virtual space-time situations. The first complex realization of the Tele-Plateaus project is going to be conducted in Hellerau and at other places of the world from 16th to 18th November 2007 as a public transnational/transcontinental installation for virtual image-sound interaction between the visitors of CYNETart and other networked places. The Tele-Plateau in Hellerau provides a platform for experimental artistic performances. In the Great Hall Hellerau, the main location of that transnational/transcontinental event, actions at other places that will be telepresent in real time will be integrated into multidimensional installation Tele-Plateaus as audiovisual processes.
Spanning goals of the INTELE project
- testing and advancement of physically perceivable world citizenship based on horizontal linking potential of the internet technologies
- creation of historically new public spaces as communal places of global presence (Global-Community-Locations)
- transnational and transcontinental encounter of different cultures, lifestyles, ways of perception and artistic concepts
- establishing of interconnections between corporally presence, telepresence and "avapresence" within interactive network and game environments (e.g. Second Life)
- research and creation of exemplary interactive "stages" of a 21st century "theater" allowing new relations between corporeality and virtuality (Tele-Stage-Project)
- transdisciplinary application, testing and development of new technologies for creation of multiperspective, relational and nonlinear possibilities of communication, perception and interaction as a prerequisite for consciously and actively lived world citizenship
- relativization of totalitarianism, dualism and (national/ethic/individual) egocentrism and underlying linear-causal thought patterns as well
Contact:
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.
Dr. Klaus Nicolai, TMA/DIF director
Thomas Dumke, CYNETart projekt manager
