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Hey, listen in... @ 10:00... in 16 minutes... >> free103point9: transmission arts >> http://www.free103point9.org >> FRIDAY: Damian Catera for Tremor_4 festival >> ((((( DAMIAN CATERA FOR TREMOR_4 ))))) >> >> Nov. 9, 2007: 10 p.m. - 10:45 p.m. >> on free103point9 Online Radio >> >> Damian Catera performs, "Strategies Against Communication: The Semiotics >> of The Headless Dachshund (for tremor_4 <Live.Doc> festival)." This >> 45-minute live, online sound performance is the latest in a series of >> pieces which explore and realign the relationship between the components >> of the linguistic sign: signifier and signified. More specifically, it >> functions as an examination of the dynamic relationship between text >> (content) and emotion (expression). It is my belief that our cognition of >> information and negotiation of meaning is largely based on the >> interdependence of these two elements. Poet GE Schwartz and performance >> artist Abbey Brace will be special guest vocalists. >> >> The text component of this performance piece is appropriated from an >> internet community discussion forum in Jersey City, New Jersey. The text >> is from a discussion thread about an unsubstantiated account of a >> dachshund, who's head was allegedly bitten off during an attack by an >> off-leash pitbull, and the subsequent neighborhood outrage over the >> rumored event. >> >> As in previous Strategies pieces, the appropriated text is cut up and >> randomly reassigned to one of a variety emotional states for recitation. >> For this version, the text fragments will be randomly aligned to the >> various synthetic voices of the Mac OS and will be recited by the >> computer itself. >> >> I find online discussion forums to be interesting on a variety of levels. >> At their best, they can be tools for community building and at their >> worst, they can be vehicles of mass hysteria and harassment. Participants >> in these communities create their own online identities as an extension >> of themselves, yet also construct the personalities of the other >> participants based on their own negotiations of signified and signifier. >> Participants my never actually meet but have created these very specific >> identity constructions of the people that they communicate with. >> >> Aside from the formal/ semiotic explorations of appropriated text, this >> piece implicitly functions as a critique of the inherent limitations of >> language and the internet as communication technologies. >> >> Tremor Live Arts, presents Tremor_4, a festival of performance art that >> will occur in the artist's present location. This year's version of the >> annual Tremor Live Arts Event, <Live.Doc>, will happen on the internet in >> the form of a gallery, online portal, program and archive. Tremor_4 will >> be a freestyle and open-source festival that depends on the cooperation >> of the participating artists to succeed. We invite your collaboration in >> the production of this shared event! The festival is divided into four >> arenas of activity; street art, art space, transmission and electronic >> arts, and missing link. No-media is restricted to a specific Arena of >> activity." - Damian Catera >> http://art.rutgers.edu/~catera/tremor4.html >> http://www.templeofmessages.com/tremor/ >> >> For more information see: >> http://www.free103point9.org/events/1781/ >