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June 2012
Proposals deadline
The deadline for submitting papers to the Cyposium is 15 June 2012. Following the deadline, there will be a period of 3-4 weeks during which time the organisers will meet online to discuss the proposals, and contact submitters if anything needs clarifying.
Find out more »October 2012
Cyposium: cyberformance symposium
The CyPosium will be held on Friday 12 October, in online platforms. Since the participants will be located all over the world, the times will be different for everyone (and for some people, it will begin on Thursday 11th or end on Saturday 13th). A detailed schedule will be published closer to the event.
Find out more »Beyond (spectacle) Episode I
Annie Abrahams & Igor Stromajer Marionettes / Scripting Reality / On Manipulation / Txt Theater / Public Collaboration Dynamics This time again, Igor and Annie will be online together (Igor in Frankfurt or Hamburg and Annie in Paris) and won't do anything on their own initiative. They need text from the public to be able to act. (via computers and smart phones). We will be the marionettes to be put into (e)motion via the text written in two chat windows.…
Find out more »November 2012
Huis Clos / No Exit
With Annie Abrahams, Ruth Catlow, Ursula Endlicher, Nicolas Frespech and Igor Stromajer. Remediating the Social ELMCIP conference Edinburgh College of Art Three days long 5 artist will prepare and do a performance every day. They will use an interface that allows them to collaborate remotely. The images and sounds of their webcams are combined into a single video projection. From a distance, they share a space of expression and responsibility, a playground, a laboratory. More information.
Find out more »December 2012
121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance
arking a turning point in what has become an annual event, 121212 is the last year that we can use this date format, and also this year we hope to see the launch of a new engine for the UpStage platform, DownStage, extending the possibilities of what we can do. We have opened up the festival to artists creating cyberformance in platforms other than UpStage, as there are now many other interesting platforms, and this has resulted in an excellent…
Find out more »March 2013
World Water Day Symposium 2013
22 March 2013 - World Water Day Symposium 2013 will consists of a programme of online performances, presentations, workshops and panels in the Waterwheel Tap. A call for proposals is out to artists, scientists, activists & practitioners - and can be found here INFO & GUIDELINES | INFORMACIÓN Y DIRECTRICES | INFOS & DIRECTIVES DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 6 FEBRUARY 2013 Documentation of the 2012 World Water Day events can be found: program, presentations, performances, posters, inaugural session, review. For more information and to get involved, write to…
Find out more »Live Cyberformance Manifesto Writing
a performance using piratepad: http://piratepad.net/kyryJZxb6y a live session of rewriting Helen Varley Jamieson's Cyberformance Manifesto come along if you'd like to participate or just watch it live Tuesday 26 March 9pm CET (find your local time here) Initiated by Helen Varley Jamieson, Annie Abrahams and Clara Gomes
Find out more »April 2013
Remote Encounters
Remote Encounters: Connecting bodies, collapsing spaces and temporal ubiquity in networked performance, a two-day international conference with performance evening, aims to explore the use of networks as a means to enhance or create a wide variety of performance arts. How do networks as a site for performance provide opportunities for us as artists and performers? In particular how can we remotely collaborate, merge geographically separate places and times, reconfigure the space of performance and the relationship between artist and audience?…
Find out more »December 2014
Launch: CyPosium – the book
CyPosium – the book will be launched on 12 December with an event taking place in Munich and online. Book contributors and organisers of the CyPosium will read excerpts from their various locations around the world. To join the event online: this link will be live 15 minutes before showtime. The event will take place at 20:00 CET (find your local time here) online and at PLATFORM, Munich, following a guided tour by Gretta Louw of the exhibition Net Work. The launch is…
Find out more »February 2015
Transmediale Presentation
Ruth Catlow and Helen Varley Jamieson presenting "CyPosium - the book" at Transmediale 2015. CyPosium - the book was presented at Transmediale 2015, with a repeat of the launch performance. This cyberformance, delivered by some of the book's contributors and CyPosium organisers, features reading of excerpts from the book along with improvised visuals including webcam imagery and live drawing. The presentation took place online and in the Foyer at Transmediale, from 2-3pm on Sunday 1 February 2015. You can read the text of the…
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