This event will be livestreamed here:

https://youtu.be/2VzBkalSBSo

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Join our evening of live-streamed, multi-media performances, following a kaleidoscopic dramaturgy of complexity discourses as inspired by computational complexity theory gatherings.

We are presenting installations, site-specific artistic interventions and media experiments, featuring networked audio and video, dance and performances as we repopulate spaces - The Fields Institute and surroundings - forced to lie empty due to the pandemic. Respecting physical distance and new sanitation and safety rules can be challenging, but it can also open up new ideas and opportunities.

NOTE: DDL2 contributions to this event are sourced or inspired by their recent kaleidoscopic performance “Rattling the the Curve - Paradoxical ECODATA performances of A/I (artistic intelligence), and facial recognition of humans and trees

Virtual space/live streaming concept and design: DDL2 Antje Budde, Karyn McCallum and Don Sinclair

Virtual space and streaming pilot: Don Sinclair

1. Signing the Virus - Video (2 min.)

Collaborators: DDL2 Antje Budde, Felipe Cervera, Grace Whiskin

2. Niimi II - - Performance and outdoor video projection (15 min.)

(Nimii means in Anishinaabemowin: s/he dances)

Collaborators: DDL2 Candy Blair, Antje Budde, Jill Carter, Lars Crosby, Nina Czegledy, Dave Kemp

3. Oracle Jane (Scene 2) - A partial playreading on the politics of AI (30 min.)

Playwright: DDL2 Oracle

Collaborators: DDL2 Antje Budde, Frans Robinow, George Bwannika Seremba, Amy Wong and AI ethics consultant Vicki Zhang

4. Vriksha/Tree - Dance video and outdoor projection (8 min.)

Collaborators: DDL2 Antje Budde, Lars Crosby, Astad Deboo, Dave Kemp, Amit Kumar

5. Facial Recognition - Performing a Plate Camera from a Distance (3min.)

Collaborators: DDL2 Antje Budde, Jill Carter, Felipe Cervera, Nina Czegledy, Karyn McCallum, Lars Crosby, Martin Kulinna, Montgomery C. Martin, George Bwanika Seremba, Don Sinclair, Heike Sommer

6. Cutting Edge - Growing Data (6 min.)

DDL2 A performance by Antje Budde

7. "void * ambience”

Concept: Sensorium: The Centre for Digital Art and Technology, York University

Collaborators: Michael Palumbo, Ilze Briede [Kavi], Debashis Sinha, Joel Ong

Technical, artistic and coordination support: Roberta Buiani, Antje Budde, Don Sinclair, Dave Kemp and Stephen Morris

These three performances are part of Boundary-Crossings: Multiscalar Entanglements in Art, Science and Society, a public Outreach program supported by the Fiends Institute for Research in Mathematical Science. Boundary Crossings is a series exploring how the notion of boundaries can be transcended and dissolved in the arts and the humanities, the biological and the mathematical sciences, as well as human geography and political economy. Boundaries are used to establish delimitations among disciplines; to discriminate between the human and the non-human (body and technologies, body and bacteria); and to indicate physical and/or artificial boundaries, separating geographical areas and nation states. Our goal is to cross these boundaries by proposing new narratives to show how the distinctions, and the barriers that science, technology, society and the state have created can in fact be re-interpreted as porous and woven together.

This event is curated and produced by ArtSci Salon; Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared/ DDL2; Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, York University; and Ryerson University; it is supported by The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences