PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
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"Conductor #1: Getting In Touch With Chicken" is an interactive
performance and installation in which I will be placed inside of a box and
thereafter assume the role of *conductor*. Within this box I will perform
with hopes of attaining energy which may allow effective communication
with a chicken called *resistor*, placed into a second box approximately
10 meters away. The *resistor * will be privy to a telephone with a direct
line from and to the *conductor* , an answering machine, and a
video/CU-SEEME connection. As *conductor* I will be assisted by my own
telephone with direct line from and to the *resistor*, a video camera, and
a CU-SEEME connection. Participants called *batteries* both local and
remote, will utilize me as *medium* and/or *exorcist* for a ritual
involving perceptual boundaries, and possible transcendence of these
boundaries. World wide participants including those at PORT MIT will
participate via a total of 4 possible screens of interaction involving
CU-SEEME, Real Audio, and a World Wide Web Site. Integral components of
this ritual will be participants at PORT and other remote guests via
CU-SEEME connections. All participants will actively assume the role of
*batteries* . These groups are encouraged to communicate via CU-SEEME
CHAT. *Batteries* may dine upon prescribed meals of fried chicken and/or
scrambled eggs with hopes that their internalization of chicken may then
twist their tongues into energized and energizing forms that could
contribute to my optimum performance as *conductor* thus completion of the
circuit called *chicken*. Remote participants and viewers will be able to
observe all levels of interaction simultaneously via CU-SEEME windows;
the room view window called *circuit* , the *conductor* window, the
*resistor* window and all *battery* windows. Local participants and
viewers may navigate within the physical space of the *circuit* between
the boxes of *conductor* and *resistor*. and may engage two large screens
positioned at opposite ends of the physical space which detail online
interactions. There will be a total of four performances of "Conductor #1"
which will commence once each week for four weeks in conjunction with
PORT. During this time period the physical exhibition site and the
"Conductor #1" web site will remain intact and accessible via internet to
serve as a testament or *holy space* for both local and remote voyagers
seeking evidence of physical transcendence.
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PORT: Navigating Digital Culture