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The dates

London Thursday 12 and Friday 13 August 2004, 2130h
Project Market, Silwex House, Quaker Street, London E1 6SN
Underground: Liverpool Street
Doors open 2030h, bar by Max Montana
Tickets £5.00 book online now!
Information: 020 7241 4446

Helsinki Saturday 21 August 2004, 2100h
ISEA 2004, Kiasma Stage, information www.isea2004.net

The show

Taking a hint from Italo Calvino’s story A King Listens, Myriorama unfolds the world of one whose environment is all ears and all eyes; one for whom every whisper and rumour is heard distinctly, for whom every movement is watched and logged.

Today, equipment designed for a paranoid king has become the plaything of the people, part of our everyday gadgetry and woven in the fabric of the city.

For this production, ambientTV.NET and kondition pluriel have repurposed location-aware mobile devices, motion sensors and audio-visual transmissions to fashion a responsive performance space that both extends beyond, and is concentrated in the venue itself.

The protagonist at the centre of Myriorama tracks his subjects, agents and avatars as they move through the city. The one in the place of the king watches, commands and interprets a mediated world, a domain of data, a screen of projected subjectiv ities in which inside and outside are entwined.

A range of cross-disciplinary practices and interests converge in the collaboration between ambientTV.NET and kondition pluriel. For London-based ambientTV.NET (artistic directors: Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel), the techniques and effects of data transmission provide theme, medium, and performative space for projects spanning installation and performance, through documentary, dance, and gastronomy, to real-time sound and video composition. kondition pluriel was formed in 2000 in Montreal out of the collaboration between dancer-choreographer Marie-Claude Poulin and media-artist Martin Kusch. Their contemporary dance pieces, performative installations and responsive environments explore the possibilities of interaction and transformation between the physical environment and gesture and the electron- ically mediated re-presentations of movement and space. Both companies highlight models of networked and collaborative practice.

The background

Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel talk about Myriorama in the context of ambientTV.NET
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A review of Triptychon by ambientTV.NET: one of the prototypes for Myriorama
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