[Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "IN Network" by Michael Mandiberg and Julia Steinmetz

[Jo-Anne Green]

March 1, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "IN Network" by Michael Mandiberg and Julia Steinmetz
http://turbulence.org/works/innetwork
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"IN Network" is an extended cell phone life-art performance about 
distance, communication, intimacy, telepresence, and living together 
while apart. Faced with the prospect of a long-distance relationship 
when Michael moved from Los Angeles to New York in August 2004, the two 
artists got their frequent flyer numbers handy, and switched both of 
their cell phones to a provider with free "IN Network" service.

Michael and Julia started out having regular conversations and sending 
cameraphone pictures back and forth. However, when they switched to 
using hands-free microphones they began using their phones differently; 
they started doing things together at the same time, 3000 miles apart, 
via cellular connection--driving to/from work, eating dinner, giving 
lectures to students, going for walks, having cocktails, reading books 
in silence, falling asleep and waking up.

During the month of March the artists will present this cell-phone 
life-art performance via a photo moblog and podcasts of their phone 
conversations. There will also be several live audio webcasts of the 
artists sleeping together on their cellphones. All of their text and 
picture messages will be routed through the "IN Network" website. If 
you'd prefer, you can have installments of the performance sent directly 
to you via the Podcast.

"IN Network" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, (aka 
Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with 
funding from the Jerome Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

MICHAEL MANDIBERG is a new media artist who uses the internet, video and 
performance to explore subjectivity, labor, and commerce. His projects 
include "Bush Poll," a statistical survey of the 170 George Bushes in 
the United States, 2004; and "The Exchange Program," a collaborative 
performance, 2002. Mandiberg has exhibited at Ars Electronica Center, 
Linz, Austria; ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; Transmediale Festival, Berlin; 
and C-Level, Los Angeles. His work has been reviewed in The New York 
Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Berliner Zeitung, and Wired. Mandiberg 
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Culture, at the 
College of Staten Island/CUNY.

JULIA STEINMETZ is a founding member and co-director of the Toxic 
Titties, a Los Angeles based collective working in performance, video, 
photography, and new media. Their work has been performed at the Museum 
On Contemporary Art, Seattle; REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall; 
Out Fest Film Festival Los Angeles, LA; "Intersectional Feminisms" 
conference at UC Riverside, CA; and Edith Russ Site for New Media, 
Oldenberg, Germany. Titties have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, 
Mexico City's La Reforma, and Black Book Magazine. Their performance 
documents and design work have appeared in "Gendered Geographies," and 
"SITE, Schinitt Austellungsraum."

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org

-- 
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
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Networked_Performance Blog and Conference: http://turbulence.org/blog
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