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>> 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/
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