NYC EVENT: Eyebeam - SimpleTEXT: June 5th

SimpleTEXT lets you submit text messages from your phone or other mobile device and the audience controls the audiovisual performance...

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THIS EVENT IS FREE TO ALL

About SimpleTEXT:
SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops. SimpleTEXT focuses on dynamic input from participants as essential to the overall output. The performance creates a dialogue between participants who submit text messages which control the audiovisual output of the installation. These messages are first parsed according to a code that dictates how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer in order to create a compelling, collaborative audiovisual performance.

To date, SimpleTEXT has been shown 13 times in 9 countries across Europe and North America.

SimpleTEXT focuses on mobile devices and the web as a bridge between networked interfaces and public space. As mobile devices become more prolific, they also become separated by increased emphasis on individual use. The SimpleTEXT project looks beyond the screen and isolated usage of mobile devices to encourage collaborative use of input devices to both drive the visuals and audio output, inform each participant of each other's interaction, and allows people to actively participate in the performance while it happens.Our purpose with the performance is to create the possibility of large-scale interaction through anonymous collaboration, with immediate audio and visual feedback. SimpleTEXT encourages users to respond to one another's ideas and build upon the unexpected chains of ideas that may develop from their input..

SimpleTEXT is an example of an interactive piece that works well in crowded public spaces such as social and unruly atmospheres where heckling, irony, criticism, and sarcasm are common modes of communication. The project is a large-scale piece in terms of scale of audience interaction, where the communication between audience members is tangible and direct.

Support/Sponsors:
SimpleTEXT is created by Family Filter, a collaboration between Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Tim Redfern, and Duncan Murphy. It was originally funded by a commission from Low-Fi, an new media arts organization based in London, UK. This event is sponsored and hosted by EYEBEAM and The UpGrade.

Eyebeam: http://www.eyebeam.org
The Upgrade: http://www.theupgrade.net

LINKS:
About SimpleTEXT including video documentation: http://www.simpletext.info
SimpleTEXT video on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/kd9yw

Jonah Brucker-Cohen - http://www.coin-operated.com
Tim Redfern - http://www.eclectronics.org

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My friend Jonah sent me this info, seems to me that there's so much fun stuff going on in NYC now that I've left. *sigh*

* Below is information about the next SimpleTEXT peformance on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology (http://www.eyebeam.org)

This event is in conjunction with the Upgrade NYC http://www.eyebeam.org/upgrade/

Please forward to those who might be interested in attending the performance!

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SimpleTEXT
*a cell phone enabled interactive performance* by Family Filter
URL: http://www.simpletext.info

When:
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 (7:30 pm) - Beginning with a talk by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Performance at 8pm)

Bring your Cell phone and/or Wireless Laptop to contribute to the performance!

Where:
EYEBEAM
540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
Web Site: http://www.oboro.net
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/2qb28h