[mf2012] moving forest- release - going out this friday

harwood g.harwood at gold.ac.uk
Wed Jun 6 11:46:51 CEST 2012


It only works in a small vicinity - not much different to the spark
across a car's alternator - unless he has amplified it

H

 

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:32 +0100, Matthew Fuller wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> Good to hear from you.  Does it *have* to interfere with the communications 
> as opposed to, for instance, rebroadcast them in a modified form?
> I'm not sure it's necessarily useful to have Chelsea's networks disrupted. 
> A walk a couple of blocks further down Millbank might be more suitable 
> however, though I think you'd want to be careful in such an open context.
> am happy to talk about this f2f.
> best,
> matthew
> 
> 
> --On 6 June 2012 10:14:03 +0100 Tom Keene <tom at theanthillsocial.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> >
> > I've a quick proposal for the insurgency - I'm in the early stages of a
> > project working with a voice recognition system and have a mobile
> > platform (a small hand cart) with a primitive broad frequency (spark gap)
> > transmitter. The system receives radio transmissions which it
> > automatically interprets, then responds to with the transmission of a
> > signal that interferes with all wireless communications within a short
> > range. As I said, i'm in the early stages, but it would be great to work
> > with these elements in a live environment.
> >
> >
> > Tom
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> > On 5 Jun 2012, at 16:39, shu lea cheang wrote:
> >
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> > dear forest
> >
> >
> > we are trying to gather more sign on of project proposals for insurgency
> > act (act 4)
> > and during the prelude. We are reworking the website...
> > here is a release that goes out friday... want to pass on here first.
> > and do let us know if you want to propose a project to be included.
> > or later during the prelude, we will prepare a website where you can
> > upload
> > your activities....
> >
> >
> > very soon
> > sl
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> >
> > MOVING FOREST
> > 2012 London
> > presented by
> > AKA the CASTLE
> >
> > A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art
> > opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of
> > disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a
> > one-day coda of debate.
> >
> > http://www.movingforest.net
> > now at movingforest.net
> >
> > Moving Forest expands the last 12 minute of Kurosawa's adaptation of
> > Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'Throne of Blood' (1957), into a sonic performance
> > saga with a prelude of 12 days, a durational performance of 6 acts in 12
> > hours and a closing Coda for the sake of argument.
> >
> > First presented at Transmediale.08. Berlin 2008, Moving Forest London
> > maps an imaginary castle and a camouflaged forest revolt onto the
> > hyper-playground of the London metropolis on the eve of Olympics 2012.
> > Presented by a temporarily assembled troupe AKA the castle, Moving Forest
> > brings together diverse visual/sonic/electronic/digital/ performance
> > artists along with writers, walkers, coders, hackers, mobile agents,
> > twitters, networkers and the general public to realize a contemporary
> > version of a classic play.  Making use of all media, the acts elaborate
> > operatic manoeuvres into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its
> > contemporaneous political manifestations. The camouflage tree branches of
> > Birnam Wood are electronically updated with contemporary forms of stealth
> > and insurrection. Armed with signals and slogans, the Moving Forest
> > forces an entry into the Castle.  A final merging of forest and castle
> > occurs during a moment of downfall, jubilation and loss.
> >
> > June 22 - July 3 ,  12 day prelude (London citywide and on the net - see
> > http://www.movingforest.net/ for details)
> >
> > July 4,   6 acts 12 hour performance
> > [act0 - omen]  9-11am (Furtherfield, Finsbury Park)
> > [act1 - remorse]  11am-1pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act2- betrayal]  1pm-3pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act3- overthrow]  3pm-5pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act4 - insurgency] 5pm-8pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act5 - eternal return] 8pm-9pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
> >
> > July 5, 12 - 6pm , workshop/coda (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of
> > Art)
> >
> > Moving Forest 2012 London
> > AKA the castle (in formation)
> >
> > With:
> > The Militant City (Isaac Marrero-Guillamón), MzTEK, labofii (John
> > Jordan), street training (Lottie Child), Paper Tiger(Omar El-Khairy),
> > Marc Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The Hexists, Laura
> > Oldfield Ford, Marco Donnarumma , Linda Dement, Valentina Vuksic, Olsen
> > Wolf, Kaffe Matthews, xname, Ewa Justka, Anat Ben-David, Bioni samp,
> > Vasco Alves, Graham Harwood, Clifford Hammett, Alexandra Sofie Joensson,
> > AUDiNT (Toby Heys and Steve Goodman).
> >
> > Organized by
> > TAKE2030 (Ilze Black and Shu Lea Cheang)
> > Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural studies, Goldsmiths College)
> > Graham Harwood (MA Interactive Media, Goldsmiths College)
> > Rachel Baker (irational.org)
> >
> > Moving Forest workshop/coda
> > organized by
> > David Garcia , Dean of CCW Graduate School
> > Matthew Fuller, Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College,
> > Josephine Berry Slater, editor of Mute magazine
> > John Cunningham, 56A InfoShop
> >
> > Organization associates:
> > Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
> > Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
> > Furtherfield
> > SPACE
> > Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London
> > Wimbledon College of Art
> > Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
> >
> > Main location addresses:
> >
> > Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ
> >
> > Parade Ground and Triangle Gallery, Chelsea School of Art & Design,
> > Millbank, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > Tom Keene    m. 07930 573 944
> >
> >     e. tom at theanthillsocial.co.uk    w. www.theanthillsocial.co.uk
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