Retrieving Humanity is a one of a kind interactive performance and installation that will bring live streaming video and audio from around the world to Santa Fe. This new concept of storytelling will allow the audience, by participation, to explore and express connections with their community and the world at large. Through the use of cutting-edge technology, including custom-made software, motion sensors, media streaming, computer networking, and DJ and VJ (video jockey) software, Retrieving Humanity pushes the boundaries of art, technology, and communication. This event will be held July 9, 2010 at Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
Retrieving Humanity will address the difference between viewing culture from the outside or engaging with it as a participant. The audience will be encouraged to explore these differing attitudes and test the traditional boundary between audience and performer by becoming a participant. Santa Fe Complex will be transformed into an immersive space with a promenade of six kiosks, each with unique video and audio from around the world. At the end of the promenade will be a large screen displaying a mix of this visual information.
Meet the Participants
The people who took part are:
Jason Goodyear , Santa Fe, NM. He is a media composer, musician, sound artist and educator who works with new music and communication technologies in both real and virtual exhibition and performance venues.
Beldan Sezen – Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Beldan is a freelance artist in Amsterdam, makes drawings, paintings, cartoons and directs short animation films which have been part of group and solo expositions in London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Wiesbaden.
Emeka Ogboh is a new media artist in Lagos, Nigeria. His art explores various structures in the human material and mental worlds along the line of hegemony, homogeneity, destabilization, chaos, uniformity, dogma, serenity and power.
Kamal Sabran is an artist, designer and researcher in Ipoh, Malaysia. His work stands at the intersection of art, science and technology. His paintings, video art, short films, sound art and installations have been shown at art spaces and festivals internationally.
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