b>d>s • winter newsletter • 2009

In a topical world of blurred personal and public space and simultaneous local/global habitats lies the intricate place of virtual/physical orientation.

The performers mimic chosen identities – morphing between avatar, cyborg, humanoid, robot, using the electronic, the bionic, the digitronic.

Hyper-existence is all around them. In the interconnected, multi-nodal space of real and virtual, they need to be sharply connected and speedily responsive to “the others” – tele-intuition is learnt on the move.

In “DARE WE DO IT REAL-TIME?” virtual / physical boundaries are speedily dissolved so we can see, with humour and irony, the potential errors, glitches, thrills and magic moments that transpire.

“DARE WE DO IT REAL-TIME?” has been created as part of Post Me_New ID, a co-production between body>data>space (London, UK), CIANT (Prague, Czech Republic), TMA Hellerau (Dresden, Germany) and Kibla (Maribor, Slovenia) supported by the European Union within the Culture 2007 Programme. The presentation emerges from an interauthored group process involving 11 European artists specialising in performance, video, sound, virtual worlds and interaction. www.postme-newid.net

Ghislaine Boddington will be talking about the future of sound and light on the Future of Sound panel at Kinetica at 2pm on Sat 28th February.

For tickets and further info go to www.kinetica-artfair.com

Kinetica Art Fair 2009
Friday 27 February – Monday 2nd March 2009
P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

The Kinetica Art Fair will provide collectors, curators, museums and the public with a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading international galleries, artist’s collectives, curatorial groups and organisations specialising in kinetic, electronic and new media art.

With performances, panels, workshops and presentations of all types, this is the place to gather across 3 days to oversee this innovative sector in 2009. Come and visit b>d>s on our stand and say hello.

Tickets and detailed information available at website: www.kinetica-artfair.com

Virtual Physical Bodies
Catalogue from the body>data>space Virtual Physical Bodies exhibition (Centre Des Arts, Paris) containing essays and texts from well known artists such as Roy Ascott, Yacov Sharir, Maurice Benayoun, Susan Broadhurst as well as information about the exhibition which explored the virtual/physical body and public spaces.

Price: 25 euros
To order your copy email: accueilcda@cdarts.enghien95.fr

Releases for end of March 2009

Post Me_New ID Book and DVD
The final outputs from EU Culture 2007-13 project Post Me_New ID. This Book and DVD combo will have essays and reflections from many of the artists involved in the 18 month project and resulting from the Forum at CYNETart_08 in Dresden looking particularly at Multi-Identities and Networked Creation Processes in today’s world.

skintouchfeel DVD
An output of Ghislaine Boddington Artist Research Associateship with ResCen (Middlesex University) this DVD showing the skintouchfeel project in all its iterations from process through to product and examining the body within digital immersion.

The SCREAM ‘Media Screens as a medium for Communication' report by Bartlett, UCL, body>data>space and Art2Architecture (as part of Urban Buzz) looks at the development of Urban Screens and Media Walls. Contact us if you would like to receive a copy

Robots and Avatars
With their new representational forms in virtual and physical life, how will the 8 year old today work and play in 15 years time? A series of talks, workshops, educational events and a Forum planned for Spring Summer 2009 conceived and produced by body>data>space in collaboration with Soda, rehearsal.org and b.tween.

Bains Numerique #4 Festival
www.bainsnumeriques.com
body>data>space is producing a programme of events including a 'Freeze' for this Paris based digital arts festival 5-13th June 2009. Watch this space!

After nearly 18 months at our studio in Cremer Street, Shoreditch body>data>space will be moving on to pastures new. We are pleased to be moving to Vyner Street (lots of funky galleries and home to Vyner Street Festival amongst other things) to share a great new building with some fantastic architects and designers. So please update your details and if you are in the area please pop in for a cup of tea!

Maps: Streetmap Link / Google Map Link

As of 9th February 2009
A: body>data>space, First Floor, 1-5 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG
T: +44 (0) 20 8880 6768
E: interested@bodydataspace.net
W: www.bodydataspace.net

b>d>s Close Collaborators onwards:
Vesna Grandes - independent choreographer
Michael Takeo Magruder - Media Artist - Kings Visualisation Lab - www.takeo.org / www.kcl.ac.uk
Sasha Spasic - independent dance artist, project co-ordinator b>d>s

Ongoing partners:
Kinura - www.kinura.com
skaculture - skaculture.com/ska/

body>data>space is a design collective putting the body at the centre of digital interaction. We are based in East London and create unique events and installations for public environments and architectural builds. For more information and to sign up to our newsletter please contact interested@bodydataspace.net