GMT Schudule of Events so far (these are the public event times): January 16 - Western Front [Vancouver] open to the public from 11 pm to 2 am (Jan 17th) as part of the setup and test exchanges. January 17 - Radio Kinesonus [Tokyo] starts at 2 pm --> - Kunstradio [Vienna] on site starts at 3 pm --> - Studio XX [Montreal] starts at 10 pm --> January 18 - Western Front [Vancouver] limousine journey with Art starts at 1 am - Daniel Jolliffe and Matthew Lewis [Columbus, Ohio] start at 1 am - Video Pool [Winnipeg] starts at 1 am - Western Front [Vancouver] party starts at 3 am (the limo arrives) January 18 - Western Front [Vancouver] brunch and panel discussion at 8 pm, radio jam at 10 pm - Kunstradio [Vienna] on air from 10:05 pm to 10:45 pm Avatar [Quebec], Toy Satellite [Melbourne], artengine [Ottawa] - exact times to be determined. ---------------------------------------------------- Art's Birthday - January 17th 2004 - http://artsbirthday.net "Art's Birthday" is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners - working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art. For the upcoming Art's Birthday (January 17th 2004), the Western Front has invited artists to join in a simultaneous birthday bash. From January 16th through to the 18th participating artists will use sensors, software, and robotics to join in the creation of activated social spaces that respond to data flow from one site to another. Based on ideas developed during the Scrambled_Bites (http://scrambled.aaeol.ca) residency, data collected at each location (using various sensors) will be broadcast on the Internet using the Scrambled_Bites message server. ---------------------------------------------------- "Kunstradio" in Vienna (GMT plus 1 hour) CYBERIFICA! Kunstradio celebrates Art's Birthday 2004 with remote controlled thrills and spills in all possible media. January 17, 4 pm CET - open end happy birthday party on site: Radiokulturhaus, Argentinierstr. 30A, A-1040 Vienna Performances and installations eagerly awaiting telepresences and hoping desperately to be able to interfere or at least be (ab)used at other party-nodes .. a Cocktail Robot and other remotely controllable servants ready to take over .. Birthday Toasts .. Happy memories: recycling old gadgets and former birthday presents. January 18, 11:05 - 11:45 pm CET on air: OE 1 Kunstradio (FM, SW) and Radio 1476 (MW) - chilling out with Western Front. on line: http://kunstradio.at - live data, audio and video merrily going down the stream(s). alien productions (http://alien.mur.at), Billy Roisz (http://gnu.klingt.org), dieb13 (http://dieb13.klingt.org), Machfeld (http://www.machfeld.net/), Martin Krusche with The Long Distance Howl (http://www.van.at/howl/), Pure (http://pure.test.at), Monochrom (http://www.monochrom.at), Robert Adrian (http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian) and others. ---------------------------------------------------- "Avatar" in Quebec city (GMT minus 5 hours) As an electronic translator of the data that will come through Scrambled_Bites, Avatar will develop a multi-relay device that will trigger a series of commercial audio birthday cards. We will create a sort of card orchestra. We will also enable ourself to modify the output of this birthday card orchestra. Also a curious/custom instrument called BéBé will be performing by itself .. The result will be streamed. David Michaud, Steeve Lebrasseur, Emile Morin and BéBé. ---------------------------------------------------- "Studio XX" in Montreal (GMT minus 5 hours) 338, Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1E8 January 17, starting at 5 pm EST :: Eat Your Cake and Data Too :: Studio XX invites artists to "have their cake and data too." Some hot gals from Montréal's art community will be baking and donating their cakes to the event. Artists will engage with the cakes and various birthday activities to create experiments in audio, visual, and performance art that generate or respond to data. A suite for forks and plates (mixing and processing sounds created by forks and plates) .. a Mastication Station (sounds of chewing, swallowing, digestion, etc, processed or not) .. a one-candle-power station where remote activity causes candles to extinguish .. of course there are many possibilities around the singing of 'happy birthday/ bonne fête'. Kathy Kennedy, Jake Moore, MXXR collective, Katarina Soukup, Tagny Duff, Victoria Stanton, Caroline Martel, Anna Friz, Christine Redfern, and MK. http://www.studioxx.org/e/programming/events.php ---------------------------------------------------- "artengine" in Ottawa (GMT minus 5 hours) January 17 - artengine will celebrate Arts Birthday by investing the mercury lounge bar in Ottawa. remixer - A web interface to control a Puredata sound patch (thxs to Olaf Matthes for his extras). Shake and stir into an unpredictable blend. "the wisest thing ever said" - "what is art" - Messages recorded live and entered online on those two questions. Coasters equipped with speakers speak back the sentences and make little waves in patrons' drinks. Pop corn data visualizer - Grains of pop corn fall into a pop corn maker in a quantity decided by one of the data streams, a motion detection patch counts the streams exiting the pocporn maker and encodes them into another feed we can send out. The pocorn is served to the bar staff and patrons. (We will be using Ken Campbell's usb adc). Cell Quake - Visitors can control a customized Quake level through their cell phones. Martin Berthelot, Ross Birdwise, Steven Bruni, Ken Campbell, Alexandre Castonguay, Shaun Elie, Jamie Gaudette, Jacinthe Goulet, Darsha Hewitt Margit Hideg, Lindsay Mensen, Sharon Kuiper, Nathan Lyle, Craig Mainprize Christina Moore, Shawn Smith, Louise Puishan Tsui, Zainub Verjee and Stephanie White. http://fluxkit.net http://artengine.ca/arts_birthday ---------------------------------------------------- "at Ohio State U" (GMT minus 5 hours) Daniel Jolliffe and Matthew Lewis January 17, 8pm - We'll be hosting an Art's Birthday Party/opening on the Oval. "Live from Columbus" Live from Columbus Ohio, the demographically average capital of the American midwest, Matt Lewis and Daniel Jolliffe will connect during darkness to the Art's Birthday Scrambler network. The location of our event is the inside of a building on the Oval, a green space smack dab in the middle of the second largest university in the United States. For the inside of the building, we will place multiple video projectors to produce images visible form the outside at night. The Oval's evening foot traffic will discover a building that has become a data (re)mapping birthday cake. These in-the-window projections, controlled by MAX and Jitter, will represent visually the activity of our international collaborators, the positions of GPS satellites over the campus, and the activity of local participants on the Oval through motion tracking. http://www.finearts.uvic.ca/~jolliffe http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~mlewis ---------------------------------------------------- "Video Pool" in Winnipeg (GMT minus 6 hours) Video Pool studios 300-100 Arthur St. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Janaury 17th, 7pm CT - Art's Birthday Party will be paired with Video Pool's 20th Anniversary for a double knockout punch of a celebration of art! A potluck dinner party, everyone brings a dish .. BYOS (bring your own sound) .. there's going to be a sonic buffet .. costume wearing recommended .. sledge hammer hits will be collected .. transfered via the network to a mechanisim which eventually crushes a cake in Vancouver .. Glitter Blaster .. net work activity mixes colorful martiniis which are chilled as they are routed through ice sculpture into glass .. Noise makers, buffet table plate spinners, kinetic others? .. all activated by Scrambled Bites network activity. main organizers, Ken Gregory, Shawna Dempsey, and more! http://www.videopool.org http://www.cheapmeat.net ---------------------------------------------------- "Western Front" in Vancouver (GMT minus 8 hours) 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1S1 January 16, open to the public from 3 pm to 6 pm PST - a day for informal exchanges and test connections between remote participants. January 17th will focus on celebration starting with a wired limousine trip delivering Art to the Western Front. Arrival at 7 pm PST, celebration continues until midnight. January 18th, noon to 3:30 pm PST - a late breakfast panel discussion followed by an afternoon performance jam (at 2 pm PST) with artists in the studio at Kunstradio in Vienna. Cake crushing machine .. remote sledge hammer .. network activity sprits glitter into air .. auto crepe cooker .. lovely designs of coloured icing tracing the limousine's route .. motion detectors .. sound level meters .. photosensors on the walls measuring shadow as people move through the space .. a ghostly MIDI piano that plays improvisations on "Happy Birthday" in response to cake candle lights around the world .. a motorized etchasketch. Diana Burgoyne, Sandra Wintner, Matt Smith, Artist Run Limousine, David Floren, Grant Gregson, Hank Bull, Cease Wyss. Margaret Dragu, Absolute Value of Noise, Michael Ondem, Ron Tran, Derk Wolmuth, Laura Kozak, Rina Liddle. http://front.bc.ca http://aaeol.ca ---------------------------------------------------- "Radio Kinesonus" in Tokyo (GMT plus 9 hours) organized by Tetsuo Kogawa January 17, 11 pm Tokyo Time - Radio Kinesonus plan to have a special streaming night to celebrate Art's Birthday. We plan to link several personal/group sites of the net and telephone to our streaming. Also several in-person guests will show their live performance at Goethe Gallery Tokyo where Radio Kinesonus is located. 11 - 11:05 pm Soundscape and voices from Tokyo by all members 11:05-11:20 pm Sound performance by Hiroshi Hasegawa 11:20-14:30 pm Telephone reactions by Jacques Foschia (Brussels) to our shortwave pulses from Tokyo 11:30 - 11:45 pm Sound-mix by Kenji Maehara 11:45 - midnight Radio art performance by Tetsuo Kogawa http://anarchy.k2.tku.ac.jp/kinesonus/ rtspp://autonomia.k2.tku.ac.jp/encoder/kinesonus.rm ---------------------------------------------------- "Toy Satellite" in Melbourne (GMT plus 11 hours) y a r t s t h d a b i r a b i y a r t r s t h d a r t s b i r t h d a y d y a r t r a b i s t h January 17 - || generative interpretations of "good morning to all" It is alleged that the much contested 1935 copyright registration of the song "Happy Birthday", originated with the melody, "Good Morning to All" published in 1893 and is public domain by US Statute. The only difference between the two pieces is the first note which is split to accommodate the two syllables in the word hap-py. Other than this, the two pieces are melodically identical, suggesting that the only element of the melody that does not fall into the public domain is the second note in Happy Birthday. As a dedication to public domain cultural works Toy Satellite will perform generative interpretations of "Good Morning To All" with a resampling of the original text. The performance will also entail the triggering of video pieces by the generative music processor, projecting within a suitable space in which a party celebrating the birth of art will take place. Random inclusion of video from the performance space will be scattered throughout the work. Andrew Garton, Justina Curtis, Grant McHerron, Rod Garton. This project would not be possible without the support of SSEYO Ltd http://toysatellite.org ----------------------------------------------------