OPEN PLATFORM_8 - 08 November 2017 - Algomech Festival Opening Night

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - OPEN PLATFORM_8
AlgoMech 2017, Access Space Labs, Sheffield, UK

Wednesday, 08 November 2017, 6-8pm

Free but booking essential.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. returns as part of Algomech 2017 - Sheffield's Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement! Algomech Festival seeks to examine the complex relationship between technology, art and performance. The first edition in 2016 celebrated the resurgence of making in performance, this year we are contemplating an underlying theme of unmaking.

AlgoMech 2017 takes place in various locations around Sheffield, UK, from 08-12 November 2017. The festival features concerts, talks, workshops, installations and an algorithmic rave. Full programme here. 

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. is a micro event series that explores the digital with physical means by asking performers to present digital work without using anything digital. 

Five performers take up the challenge of re-thinking the digital with free interpretations that are 1 to 10 minutes in duration, about or related to digital technology and happening on some sort of platform.

'Technology without Technology' (TwT) performances are a creative, playfully serious strategy to negotiate the 'unknowable' of digital technology and the constant information overload in our contemporary world.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. originated at Access space in 2012 and is curated by Susanne Palzer.

OPEN PLATFORM_8 presenters/performers:

Dreams of a sleeping apple by Eddy Dreadnought
An immersive dream micro-workshop. Eddy will provide conditions and questions to enable the participants to explore what their computers dream about when in sleep mode.

Pattern Recognition by Rachael Hand
A light-hearted parlour game, evoking a digital non-native's struggles with an increasingly digital world. Struggles to grasp meaning and then retain it in memory will be enacted by volunteers from the audience. The winner will be the person with the most cards when the time is up.

A Typewriter Piece by Ryoko Akama
"I perform with a typewriter who performs with me who will make a performance by the typewriter who will instruct us all.”

howToNotDie(wT) by Sean Cotterill
"howToNotDie(wT) is a performance reflecting upon fantasies of technological disconnection in the context of a body with a chronic health condition, physically reliant on proprietary digital technologies for basic survival. Through performance I will discuss the technologies of my body and my personal processes of making/unmaking for survival, my deeply uncomfortable relationships with digital capitalism, and the ableist nature of contemporary 'disconnection' narratives."

Self Inverter by xname
A painting composes itself live, while the platform becomes a paradigm of cyclic instructions, loops, electronic impulses and the arcane symbology of Inverters. A speculative work addressing formal qualities of logic symbolism and their potential in investigating and rediscovering behaviour and the everyday, confronting the meaning of life with the mechanics of electronics.
The self, liberated, is finally projected onto the realm of the fantastic.

More information about OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. and previous events here.

The Facebook event is here.

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Access Space Labs

14-16 Fitzalan Spuare

Sheffield

S1 2AZ

MOBILE PLATFORM_1 30 March 2017, Hull - Performances

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull

We are roaming! For our first MOBILE PLATFORM event two performers, Jake Harries and Susanne Palzer, travelled from Sheffield to the UK City of Culture 2017 to perform alongside local performers/presenters in Hull. OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull was a collaboration between OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.  and B2Gat60.Hull.2016/2017: open events at Ground organised by Brian G. Gilson. #digitalnetworkwithphysicalneeds

Susanne Palzer - Doodle Doot Doot - Doot Doodle Do Doodoo/Taschenrechner

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Susanne Palzer

Doodle Doot Doot - Doot Doodle Do Doodoo is a subjective transcript for voice of digital sounds of Kraftwerk's 'Taschenrechner'. First transcribed from Kraftwerk, The Mix (German Version), 1991, for OPEN PLATFORM_1, 2012, and performed with an analogue calculator made by John X. Moseley.
















Jake Harries - Letters to the Lonely

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Jake Harries
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Jake Harries presented two love poems from his spam opus Letters to the Lonely. 

Mathias Tornvig - Inside Blender

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Mathias Tornvig
Photo: Susanne Palzer 

Mathias Tornvig from Denmark made use of two platforms, several props and finally climbed around the whole space to make us understand what it is like to be INSIDE Blender, a free and open source 3D creation suite.

Pelle Hjek - Turtle

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Pelle Hjek
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Pelle Hjek, also from Denmark, gave us a physical demonstration of Turtle. The Turtle System is a free educational program developed at the University of Oxford. Apparently "this sort of programming, and the results it produces, are easy to understand because they are so immediately visual" but those audience members with limited programming skills were confronted with a rather beautifully mysterious performance. 







Lou Hazelwood - The Rendering of Digital Memory

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Lou Hazelwood
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Lou Hazelwood presented another version of her timehopping reading performance compiled from snippets of overheard conversation: the temporality of memory and its fragility is now stored in many mainframes and we are reminded of moments in our lives not by our senses or our relationships with people but by algo-rhythmical data. Facebook reminds us in date order of our memories; the fluidity of experience lost to time.















Brian G Gilson - Title Yet To Be Confirmed

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Brian G Gilson
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Like at OPEN PLATFORM_7 in Sheffield Brian G Gilson engaged two members of the audience in his performance, presenting a different version of Title Yet To Be Confirmed.

MOBILE PLATFORM aims at 'building a digital network with physical means'. To achieve this we are collaborating with partner organisations interested in integrating with the platform based on our 'source code': the event format. If you are interested in hosting an event please get in touch here.

The FB event for MOBILE PLATFORM_1 can be found here.

MOBILE PLATFORM_1 30 March 2017 7-9pm at Ground, Hull

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull
B2Gat60.Hull.2016/2017 & OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(S)-TwT., Gound, Hull, UK

Thursday, 30 March 2017, 7-9pm

MOBILE PLATFORM! We are roaming!
At OPEN PLATFORM_7 Brian G Gilson brought his own platform from Hull to Sheffield. Now join us on 30 March 2017 at Ground for our first Hull-based event featuring two visiting performers from Sheffield alongside local performers/presenters! 
#digitalnetworkwithphysicalneeds

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull is a collaboration between OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.  and B2Gat60.Hull.2016/2017: open events at Ground organised by Brian G. Gilson.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. is a micro event that explores the digital with physical means by asking performers to present digital work without using anything digital. In a small, intimate space six performers/presenters take up the challenge of re-thinking the digital with free interpretations that are 1 to 10 minutes in duration, about or related to digital technology and happening on some sort of platform.

'Technology without Technology' (TwT) performances are a creative, playfully serious strategy to negotiate the 'unknowable' of digital technology and the constant information overload in our contemporary world.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. originated at Access Space, Sheffield, in 2012. Mobile Platform aims at 'building a digital network with physical means'. To achieve this we are collaborating with partner organisations interested in integrating with the platform based on our 'source code' (the event format). For OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull two performers will travel from Sheffield to Hull to perform alongside performers based in Hull.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT.B2Gat60.Hull  will present work by

Brian G Gilson
Jake Harries
Lou Hazelwood
Susanne Palzer
Pelle Hjek/Ground Collective
Mathias Tornvig/Ground Collective

More information about OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. and previous events here.

The Facebook event is here.

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@Open_Platform 

Ground

60 Beverley Road

Kingston upon Hull

HU3 1YE

OPEN PLATFORM_6 16 May 2015 @DoItAnyway2015 - OPEN CALL

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - TwT.doitanyway - OPEN CALL 
Do It Anyway Festival at Access Space, Sheffield, UK

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 6-9pm

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. returns this year as part of Do it Anyway International Digital Arts Festival @AccessSpace in May and we invite you to contribute to another unforgettable evening of digital randomness! 

Experiment, perform, express, dance, present, sing, rap, read, or just tell us about your digital project or work - but without using anything digital! You really know your stuff - then do it! You have never performed or presented before? Do it anyway! You think you know nothing about computers? Do it anyway! You struggle to switch off? Go on and do it anyway! Anything goes as long as it is about or related to digital technology, 1 to 10 minutes in duration and happening on some sort of platform. You can use the wooden platform provided (65x95cm) or make your own.

OPEN PLATFORM_6/RAP(s) - TwT.doitanyway is open to anyone interested in re-thinking the digital and not limited to artists or professional performers/presenters. 'Technology without Technolggy' (TwT) performances are a creative, playful strategy to negotiate the 'unknowable' of digital technology and the constant information overload in our contemporary world.

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. is a micro event that explores the digital with physical means by asking performers to present digital work without using anything digital. In a small, intimate space performers take up the challenge of re-thinking the digital with free interpretations that are 1 to 10 minutes in duration, about or related to digital technology and happening on some sort of platform.

Join the TwT.(Technology without Technology) network today and help us build an even bigger digital network with physical means!

Do It Anyway Festival 2015 will run from Friday, 15 May to Sunday, 17 May and will be the first Pixelache Network International Digital Arts Festival in the UK! As the UK hub of the network Access Space is bringing arts practice from across Northern Europe - with participating artists from Finland, France, Iceland, Norway and Latvia - to Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Over the weekend the festival will feature free digital arts performances and workshops. More info here.

To register or for further information please contact: 

Susanne or Jake 

Access Space

Unit 1, AVEC Building

3-7 Sidney Street

Sheffield

S1 5RG

More information about OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. and previous events here.

The Facebook event is here.

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TwT.network news

2014 has been a busy year so far and since OPEN PLATFORM_5 we have been engaged in many other projects and developments. We will be back with new editions of Technology without Technology next year - watch this space!


Susnhine Gray

The saddest news reached us in May when Sunshine Gray, sound artist, friend and OPEN PLATFORM collaborator and supporter passed away. To applaud her and honour her contribution to OPEN PLATFORM we are breaking our principle of not publishing video documentation: you can watch Sunshine's performance 'Body Sounds II/Audience' here. Jake Harries and Susanne Palzer will be staging a mini OPEN PLATFORM at Sunshine's Memorial Celebrations in Lincoln on Friday, 21 November.

Throughout her life Sunshine touched on the lives of an uncountable number of people with her work as a musician and sound artist and as an amazing person. She will be missed by everyone.


Technology with Technology

In July we, Alex McLean and Susanne Palzer, presented a preview of our new live coding experiment 'On-gaku' at Bloc Projects, Sheffield. In our second collaboration Alex was back to using his laptop rather than knitting needles ('Binary Transmission', Open Platform_4) while I performed 'On/Off' alongside his live coding with Tidal. However, this time we connected a pressure sensor to my platform so that Alex' screen was only projected while I was 'on'. As Alex worked with a wireless keyboard he had to cope with only seeing the code he was editing for fleeting moments. In joining our individual practices in this way our difficulty was more visible on both sides. In his case, he could not see his screen for most of the time and my physical exertion became clear.

Photo: Charlotte Morgan

Becoming code ... 
'On-gaku' at Bloc Projects
12 July 2014 

















Technology without Technology in unexpected places

In September I attended the very interesting Live Coding and Collaboration Symposium in Birmingham, organized by Live Code Research Network. Presentations were given by Tom Hall on live digital notation, Scott Wilson and Norah Lorway on live coding networked music, Alex McLean on collaboration, André Damião on streaming objects, Pam Burnard, Franziska Florak, Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron of the Sonic Pi research project, and Sang Won Lee on models of networked live coding. 

Photo: Susanne Palzer

Especially enjoyable for OPEN PLATFORM were the live sessions on live coding without computers - a playful and unexpected experience in the context of the symposium.

Alex McLeans' 'Reflections on live coding collaborations' can be found here.

Technology without Technology worldwide

OPEN PLATFORM has started a collection of #TwTworldwide. Look out for the hashtag on Twitter! Here is a recent gem: 

We look forward to seeing you at a rebooted OPEN PLATFORM event in 2015! 
Enjoy the randomness!