In "Life: a User's Manual", the city of Utrecht is a game board, where every story, every piece stands on its own, but is part of an intricate jigsaw puzzle. Both public physical spaces and private interior spaces contain traces of fragmentary personal [hi]stories tied together by an invisible network of media. How people inhabit the hidden 'image spaces', discovered by a wireless surveillance camera scanner, while at the same time inhabiting physical outdoor spaces, was revealed through the daily practice of walking during the Impakt Festival 2003. The findings of Michelle Teran's walks have been arranged on a map of Utrecht's secret transmissions.
Impakt acknowledges the gracious support of De Waag Society for technical support in realizing this project.
The"Out of the Box" theme seeks to examine how technology and the Internet manifest themselves on the human level by asking such questions as; where do such on-line concepts as navigation, avatar, or algorithm find their place in the "real world" outside the computer? And, similarly, where can such physical activities as performance, protest, or love maintain their "real-ness" in a virtual environment? In short, we seek the point where real-life affects the Internet, and (more importantly) where the internet affects real-life.
'Out of the Box' was conceived by Derek Holzer for Impakt Online.
Michelle Teran (Canada) uses live media in performances and installations that address issues such as social networks, intimacy over distance, presence and the interplay between (media) spaces. Her work covers live installations, lectures, online performances and connected events, temporary artistic labs, telepresence, live art and video. She has presented in North America, Europe, Japan and in virtual space. In 2002-2003 she was artist-in-residence at Waag Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam.
http://www.ubermatic.org/misha
