hypermap

Jochem:
Pavla Nesverova’s research is concerned with the visualization of organ music. In a way it’s related to what we try to do. She’s experimenting with archiving music, making partitudes in other ways then the standard ones that are available. Why she is doing this is not clear to me yet. Is it a way of communicating music without sound? Is it a way to store music? Will it serve as illustration?

Jochem
She made the poster for today actually:

Now she is working on an animation she will play together with the music in a church in two weeks. The visuals should be an organism reflecting the fluidity of the music. I miss the music by the way, she should play us some of her music! How would the poster sound?

Jochem:
What a bizarre timing: she will now play some music! Would be great to get an extract for in this play. I would like to play it to you, My Tent, because you are not here. I could try to record some of it…

June 7th, Duitse Kerk in The Hague.

Jochem:
Koen Geurts will speak about social engagement in media and design. How do you do this visually? The culture of images is different around the world.

He went to Kurdistan to research the local visual culture. The word is important in this culture. The hierarchical position of the written text is thus higher then that of the image. Starting with comparing local and global newspapers he begins a discussion with the local editors and graphic designers (which are most of the time autodidact).

I suddenly realize that I do have to prepare something for after the lectures. What will I do after the lectures? Or is the text I’m writing enough? Where is the interaction? By now Bruno and his Tent, as well as Ola have left the theatre. Not sure what they are doing.

Maybe I should just continue reading out loud like I did in the introduction. But in this crowded foyer I’m not sure if I can make myself audible.

Maybe I could ask the visitors about the four subjects of today: science, new media, social engagement and humour. Where lies their interest?

Visit poll: http://micropoll.com/t/KEuErZB1Ho

Jochem alone, he left My Tent in the foyer
A ‘prettig gestoorde’ hoogleraar. Great! I like that. His name is Pieter Jonker and he will speak about robotics. And augmenting reality (http://arlab.nl/)

listening

Jochem:
How could we use this information for Hypermap? He shows an image of our brains and tells the difference between us and other apes. Robots are closer to paramecium then to apes.

Stelling: websites verworden 4d audio-visuele tags in de virtuele ruimte rondom ons.

There is a lot of interesting information for me, especially in relation to the research of Joris Weijdom. He has the thesis that artists (and the open source community) are those that could improve robotics and AR. They could rethink how to work with the material (like learing the specifics of iron and plastics, instead of using it like wood).

But still I feel lost here. I feel like I cannot focus on the content of the lectures, because I’m struggeling with the context I’m working here. Where is My Tent to reflect?

My Tent:
You didn’t mention Ola’s performance, and Eric’s input

Jochem:
I know, but is was an improvisation, wasn’t it?

My Tent:
I know, but do they?

Jochem:
Hypermap is made possible because we could work with the concept of Ola Maciejewska unforgettable existents and beacause of the visualisation by Erc Schrijver.

Jochem:
Reclame -> Reclame-ontwerpen -> grafisch en typografisch ontwerpen -> grafisch ontwerpen.

My Tent:
Is this documenting for you?

Jochem:
Diversity in graphic design.

My Tent:
…

Jochem: makes a photo using photo booth
I have never done that before. I start doing new things around you my dear Tent.

My Tent:
Ssst!

Jochem:
He makes jokes about Hogescholen (He calls it pseudo art academies) in favor of Kunstacademies. Although he doesn’t see it as humour. Isn’t this a bit ‘preken voor eigen parochie’?

It’s nice that after my remark to you someone asks a question about the collaboration between disciplines, to introduce autonomous artists to designers and vice versa.

Dutch Design Award Show 2009 by Studio Dumbar – Introduction from Studio Dumbar on Vimeo.

both still listening

Jochem:
Talking about new media. We’re using it

My Tent:
Please!

Jochem:
I have to think of this book by Viktor Pelevin in which he uses a chatbox as the location of events. A virtual location to explore (Visual entertainer… Nothing visual for me: I only just noticed that I cannot see what he is showing. I guess it’s Obama and his staff watching the capturing of Bin Laden on a laptop. ) A virtual location to explore the myth of Theseus and the Minotaurus.

My Tent:
Science, new media, humour and engagement.

Jochem:
A story in four themes and again I cannot see the photographs. Cabaret in a school for graphic design is an effect of modernism. But why?

My Tent:
Moet je niet nog even poepen?

Jochem:
Are you talking to me?

My Tent:
No, a guy said it to the presenter.

My Tent:
Concentrate now. Graphic design, cabaret. Zeebelt.

Jochem:
An afternoon in four parts?

My Tent
He is quite fast, I’m not a fast typer.

Jochem:
Speeches of 15 minutes with an ‘eierwekker’. Judith makes a joke out of it. Nice (I guess it’s Judith anyway). Reminds me of the graduation of a friend…

My Tent:
Focus!

Jochem:
My appologies. Maybe I should just listen?

Both are listening

Jochem:
Okay. We made it. We are in. I hope we are not in the way. And that we can get on stage without me damaging my laptop.

My Tent:
We will try.

Jochem:
You are hot! I feel like I’m in a sauna. Maybe it’s the nerves.

My Tent:
I’m sorry. I’m made of cheap Chinese fabric.

Jochem:
That went alright, didn’t it?

My Tent:
But he is translating it now…

Jochem:
…

My Tent:
Finally you made it. You are there. We are being filmed now. Did you know?

Jochem:
Yes I noticed. I start to be a little excited and anxious. We will have to introduce us later. Maybe I can prepare… Hey what are you doing?

My Tent:
That wasn’t me. It is you that is moving me!

Jochem:
Anyway. I want to prepare an introduction. Shit. They’re opening the doors in 10 minutes. I have to stop iTunes and concentrate! People are getting in. They are curious. What are they doing here, they wonder.

My Tent:

Don’t they? I see them drinking red wine already.

Jochem: preparing his speech
Hello eveybody. Welcome in Zeebelt. I was asked to introduce me and my fellows. Danslab a… How do they describe themselves again?

My Tent: copy-pastes from our dropbox

Danslab is a research initiative for artistic development and exchange in contemporary choreography and dance. It’s the artists that create a program of researches, exchange activities and presentations. The program links individual researches to the field and explores broader artistic topics concerning the development of contemporary dance. It also develops an open source for artistic knowledge by documenting, archiving and sharing processes and insights. Danslab creates an arena where transparent communication, reflection, mutual support and new models of collaboration are encouraged. www.danslab.nl
BIT, an initiative of dance dramaturges, researches, discusses and questions aspects of dance dramaturgy in order to deepen its practice. Although dance dramaturges usually don’t work together with other dramaturges, we created a place with BIT to gather and share our experiences. We meet to exchange, to develop and to deepen the craft of dance dramaturgy. www.bit-dansdramaturgie.nl

Jochem:
Hypermap is a lab for the remembering, combining and forgetting of (embodied) knowledge. Camillo’s “Theatre of Memory” transforms ‘scholars into spectators’, so argues Camillo in L’idea del Teatro. He imagined a theatre in its ‘original sense’ – as a place in which a spectacle unfolds. This aspect of Camillo’s idea inspired BIT and Danslab to create an interactive installation concerning memory and knowledge: Hypermap. Hypermap is an installation of the multiple that functions as an ‘external representation’ of a shared memory of knowledge – the one of that specific moment; a memory that can be perceived and which feeds off the input of the visitors who themselves become participants.