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WebJam 09

Norwich Gallery, St Georges Street, Norwich, UK December 2005

Live Sound/ Visual Performances featuring

Phil Archer
Andre Bosman
Laura Cannell
Shigeto Wada
Tonesucker
Hermits' Squeal
BabyGrand
Hoofus
Dan Tombs
Tom Simmons
Liam Wells

Directions/ Gallery Info at http://www.norwichgallery.co.uk

Distributed Improvisation Monday 7th February 2005 8pm GMT University of East Anglia Music Studio, Concert Room

Live improvisation connecting sonic artists, musicians and visual artists sited at University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), International Centre for Music Studies (Newcastle, UK), Kingston (Canada) & Dublin Institute of Technology (Dublin, Ireland) in a series of realtime audio/ visual networked performances.

The webcast can be accessed live between 8pm & 9.30pm GMT from this webpage. This page will be updated for the live event at 7.30 GMT.

Performers include; Phil Archer, John Ayers, Andre Bosman, John Bowers, Laura Cannell, Nick Melia, Matt Rogalsky, Alex Sanders, Will Scrimshaw, Tom Simmons, Shigeto Wada and Liam Wells.

The event features four improvisations, each utilising specially created local or remote networks, sharing realtime audio/visual & performance data between performers in spatially remote locations. For more information click here>>

July 2004 - 2 nights of decentred performances from Norwich Arts Centre, including a remorly linked discussion forum. Details TBC...

decentred | distributed improvisation

17.3.04 - 17.4.04/ Norwich Gallery

The decentred website is no longer webcasting live, archives of all 20 performances are now online in quicktime format. Visit decentred at http://www.n0media.net/decentred/

Original Press Release

For decentred | distributed improvisation we will transform the Norwich Gallery into the hub of a networked space within which we will explore a series of decentralised performances. We will install a digital system in the gallery that will facilitate the transfer and transformation of data streams between a number of remote and local partners.

Interpreted material significances will be shared throughout the network at the physical spaces used by our partners and ourselves.

The project builds on research we have undertaken into the transformation of material significances within performances based in digital systems. This project will allow our partners and us to extend our understandings of decentralised performance and to explore the transformation of a gallery space through remote partnership.

The Norwich Gallery will be open to the public for the whole duration of the project.

An opening performance will occur on Wednesday 17 March 2004 at 7pm featuring n0media, 2bitTV, Phil Archer, Andre Bosman and Shigeto Wada.

During the first week of the project we will install and test the digital apparatus in the Norwich Gallery. During this period, and throughout the project, material output will be presented using a number of environmentally installed loudspeakers, digital projectors and screens. Informative material output (at data level) will be stored in buffers and used within an automation of the installed system. The digital system in the Norwich Gallery will filter and archive data throughout the project.

In week two we will work with the Aim Higher organisation and students from the City of Norwich School, Earlham High School and Notre Dame School, Norwich.

A focus of artistic activity will occur in week three with a number of one night stands during which four of our partners will join us for one-night decentralised performances using the installed digital system and the Norwich Gallery as the hub of creative activity. Performances will connect Norwich Gallery with Anne Wellmer at Wesleyan University (US), Matt Rogalsky at Montreal University (CANADA) and feature local performances from Matthew Noel-Tod and Amy Cunningham.

Week four will feature work relating to improvised animation, video and sound by performers including n0media, Matt Reeve, John Boursnell, Holly Rumble and Mark Wickham.

In week five researchers related to the electroacoustic music studios at the University of East Anglia will install sound related objects in the Norwich Gallery. Stef Edwards, Jon Manton and John Bowers will perform with these objects throughout the week.

The exhibition will close with a three-day residency featuring research relating to improvisation from the International Centre for Music Studies and the Department of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Additional events will be programmed throughout the six-week project as the project develops.

Programme/ information/ community is on the decentred project website here

decentred is supported by n0media, Norwich Gallery, Arts Council England, Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich City Council & Aim Higher