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These are photos from the video of Senses Places’ second performance and participatory environment at the UpStage festival on 12.12.2012, 5 to 6 pm (GMT/PT) and 13.12.2012, 3 am (GMT+9/JP).
Performers: Kae Ishimoto (JP), Isabel Valverde, Ana Moura, robot NAO (PT), and avatars in Second Life.
Stream machinima by Sca Shilova for UpStage Festival Livestream channel
HERE the link for the video
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/844901/events/1720827/videos/7760012
Note: the performance starts at minute 31. the participatory dance environment starts at around minute 51.
and for the UpStage Festival site
Enjoy and please comment or give feedback. We will very much appreciate even the most arch critique 
Screenshot from the Workshop in Lisbon taken from Second Life
Here the link for the Livestream video recording of the Workshop at Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
Livestream recording of Global Underscore at Second Life site, gathering 2 avatars and 4 screens from GU sites around the world
Link to the Livestream the 3 videos during the 4 hours activity
Watch live streaming video from beverde at livestream.com
We were enthusiastic from the challenging experience, particularly for the slow net connection at the Chichester site. Still we were able to gather in the GU Second Life site 3 other sites from Brasil, Berlin, and … will confirm this later.
Anyway, the good news is that next year 2013 we are continuing the Global Underscore in SL and it will happen in Lisbon, where Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas at the occasion will give a workshop on the Underscore Practice
More info and Links soon.
About the Global Underscore Satellite @ Second Life
The Global Underscore virtual Satellite @ Second Life, MUVE, enables participants and audience members from remote places, including Global Underscore sites, to gather and expand the possibilities for embodied connections. Towards a greater consciousness through listening, sharing, and improvising through the practice, the Satellite @ Second life expands our encounters and interactions through virtualization in images and as avatars. Senses Places project will host this virtual Global Underscore Satellite at its virtual site at Koru Island, and the Senses Places’ team will organize the activity and participate on June 23, 2:30 – 6:30 pm (GMT/WET) 6:30 – 10:30 am (SLT/PST).
The Second Life 3d platform is owned by Linden Labs company (2003) and its population/inhabitants, the avatars, have multiple interests, ranging from business and shopping, dating, explorations, education and artistic practice, to name but a few. At this multi-user 3d application participants animate an avatar and interact with others and the environment in multiple ways. The modalities of human-avatar interaction include chat, appearance, gesture, voice, and movement of the body, in space, and in relation to other avatars and objects.
Within SL, it is possible to simultaneously display a number of browser windows, like multiple video broadcasts. In this way we will gather the different Global Underscore streams in a shared virtual site. If this includes your site, you would be able to see and interact with/through the image of yourself in that environment, with the people in your site, and with virtual figures and images of people at other sites. The SL Satellite will also have a GU channel and will stream also in SL during the practice: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gus2012-secondlife.
The idea is to truly expand (rather than substitute) our bodies taking advantage of the possibilities of dance somatics and digitally enabled embodied mediation and virtualization. Adapting interfaces to our bodies, instead of the other way around, will contribute to expanding our sensory-perceptive capacities to connect in multiple combined ways with the many Global Underscore sites, satellites, for the first time including avatar participants and audience members.
The Underscore’s approach is rooted on group and contact improvisation, integrating related somatic practices, such as, Tai Chi, release and alignment, BMC, and Alexander, among others. These practices enable us to be grounded and follow our bodies’ sensory perceptions while also expanding through our images and avatars to connect with others via remotely connected improvisation. SL opens amazing interactive possibilities for creative communities of practice such as CI. Trough an encompassing connection, including an emphasis on somatic and technological mediations multiple physical-virtual vessels of communication will open among the participants and the shared environments, contributing to generating a novel integrated globality.
In order to visit and participate in the Global Underscore Satellite @ Second Life you or someone at your Underscore site needs to take some time to familiarize yourself with the Second Life interface. Here are our recommended steps:
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/233/233/3005
You can also go to any other location of your choice, or simply login without choosing a place. You will be teleported to a welcome site where avatar hosts wait to help you
5. Get accustomed to the interface: the avatar and the 3d environment. It is not difficult, but it will require some practice depending on your computer interface and videogame skills and literacy. This will enable you to observe, interact, and improvise with other avatars and video stream images of other GU sites projected on to screens/browser windows.
a) learn to use the arrow keys to move the avatar in space
b) learn to use the chat window, voice, and animations to communicate
c) learn about the menus and Inventory
d) learn how to edit the avatar appearance
e) learn to operate the camera view point
f) learn to interact with objects in the environment
g) learn how to teleport
6. At the GU site at Senses Places/Koru Island we will share animations for your avatar to improvise with. You can play animating your avatar with them, including changing, accumulating, looping, and moving in space. The ideal is that you can make your avatar to dance without preventing you from dancing.
7. If you are at a GU site streaming a channel, you will be able to see your channel in SL along with the other streams. Simply copy and paste your site’s channel URL link onto one of the screens available at the site as server windows.
8. Watch, experiment, improvise!
Global Underscore Links:
Screen shot from event video excerpt
Link to video excerpt: http://www.livestream.com/beverde/video?clipId=pla_7a15d64c-bc9e-42d8-9335-273298824fc9&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
SENSES PLACES /LUGARES SENTIDOS
January 15, 2012
5-8pm (GMT)
Mixed Reality Participatory Performance Environment at the closing of 3 months of virtual permanence @ InterACT! Virtual Interactive Artshow Second Life LEA4
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/52/145/301
Physical-Virtual Performance by CILxJAM – Contacto Improvisação Lisboa Jam
@ Auditório BMOR, Biblioteca Municipal Orlando Ribeiro, Telheiras,
Lisboa, Portugal
@ INTERACT! LEA4′s Festival de Arte Interactiva Virtual
Second Life > 15 Outubro a 15 Janeiro.
Curated by Lori Landay (Berklee University; USA)
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/19/7/21
Screen shot from event video excerpt
Direcção Artística: Isabel Valverde (Lisboa, PT)
Ambiente Interactivo: Todd Cochrane (Wellington, NZ) + Isabel Valverde + Keiji Mitsubuchi (Tóquio, JP)
Performance: CILxJAM (PT) and maybe Jun Makime e Yumi Sagara (JP) and others throughout the world appearing as video images and avatars
Música: maybe APROXIMATE (PT)
Equipa Técnica: Técnico do auditório, Isabel Valverde, Inês D’Almey (Lisboa, PT)
Coordenação: Isabel Valverde, Ana Rocha (PT)
Português
Nesta última performance participativa de realidade mista no contexto do InterACT! com a CILxJam, vamos ter uma última oportunidade experimentarmos e improvisarmos as interfaces de forma corporealizada a través do movimento dos entres os corpos físicos, imagens e avatares numa interacção de grupo. Começaremos por receber os participantes guiando-os na corporealização das interfaces: Livestream, Webcam and Nitendo’s Wii mote. Introduzindo os participantes com a relação com o seu corpos físicos e imagens através do Livestream e com avatars através da Webcam e da Wii mote, de modo a que possam po-las a funcionar na hora.
Seguidamente prosseguiremos para a jam performance participative propriamente dita numa perspectiva de Underscore, improvisando a conexão consciente com as muliplas possibilidades perceptivas deixando-as guiar as acções.
English
In this last participatory performance we will have the last chance to learn how to interact through your movement with your and other avatars. We will start by welcoming the physical and virtual participants, leading them to embodied interaction with the 3 types o interfaces: Livestream, Webcam and Nitendo’s Wii mote. Introducing them to the relation with their image through the livestream broadcast, and with the avatar through the webcam and wii mote.
Next we will improvise focusing on the grounding of the interaction with ourselves and others in the physical and virtual space, as physical, image or/and avatar bodies, becoming aware of the multiple perceptions shifting and progressing leading our connected actions/choices. Movement and contact/connection (physical and virtual) will start slow for allowing the awareness of sensing the micro events and interactions, multiple channels of local and remote communication.
Sobre Senses Places
Português
Senses Places/Lugares Sentidos é um ambiente participativo e de performance em realidade mista. Uma colaboração em dança-tecnologia gerando interfaces multimodais para o corpo inteiro canalizada para uma abordagem de dança somática transcultural. Senses Places stressa a consciência e integração perceptiva simultânea local-remota, em que os participantes e ambientes se encontram e envolvem cinestéticamente/sinestéticamente.
Que realidades corporealizadas e trocas culturais específicas emergem neste envolvimento multi-participativo? Ligados entre si e a avatars através das interfaces sugeridas: Livestream, webcam, Wii mote e, brevemente o Kinect, tudo depende da atitude dos participantes na experiência interactiva com os seus corpos físicos, mediações vídeo, animações dos avatars, e/ou alterações ambientais.
About Senses Places
English
Senses Places is a playful mixed reality performance environment for audience participation. An ongoing dance-technology collaboration generating whole body multimodal interfacings keen to a somatic cross-cultural approach; Senses Places stresses the awareness and integration of simultaneous perceptive, local-remote connections, where participants and environments meet and engage kinesthetic/synesthetically.
What emerging embodied realities and cultural specific exchanges will surface by the multi-participant varied involvement? Linked to avatars through the suggested interfaces: Livestream, webcam, Wiimote©, and soon Kinect©, it all depends on the participants’ attitude throughout the interactive experience through their own and each others’ physical bodies, video mediations, avatar moves, and/or environmental changes.
Apoio:
Biblioteca Municipal Orlando Ribeiro, PT
WelTec, Wellington Institute of Technology, NZ
IHSIS, Institute of Humane Studies and Intelligent Sciences, PT
IST/Taguspark, Oeiras, PT
DH, Digital Hollywood University, JP
Senses Places Blog: http://sensesplaces.wordpress.com/
Linden Endownment for the Arts Blog:
http://lindenarts.blogspot.com/2011/11/mixed-reality-participatory.html
CILxJAM Blog: http://contactoimprovisacaolxjam.blogspot.com/
email: cilxjam@gmail.com
blog: http://contactoimprovisacaolxjam.blogspot.com/
Yahoogroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cilxjam/
Subscribe: cilxjam-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Doação/Donation: 3-5 Euros
(No one will be turned away for lack of funds)
Apoio: Biblioteca Municipal Orlando Ribeiro
Pontos de Referência:
À saída do Metro Telheiras, “Colégio Alemão/Estrada de Telheiras”, seguir em frente pela Estrada de Telheiras até ao final. A biblioteca encontra-se do lado direito.
Do metro à biblioteca: cc de 5 minutos
Directions:
Coming out at Metro Telheiras, exit “Colégio Alemão/Estrada de Telheiras,” follow straight ahead until the end of Estrada de Telheiras. The Library is on the right, at 5 minutes from the metro station.
TODOS CONVIDADOS!!!
ALL INVITED!!!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.
