Mobile Awards
« Art(s) & Network(s) » 2013

Installation participative/participatieve installatieParticipative installation
Anne Roquigny (Fr) + James Hudson (De) → WJ-S

WJ-S is a software and a publicdevice of web performances. It allows to WJ-S (that is webjays, webjockeys, artists, curators, enthusiasts and web mutants) to play live with online contents. WJ-S is a shared and visible experience of web surfing. Users take control of the multi-screen device and surf simultaneously in different browser windows. The aim of this device is to adapt individual and collaborative processes online to physical locations (galleries, museums, conference rooms, exhibition halls, various public places).

Performance
Cie Le Clair Obscur (Fr) → @.2 : SleepingBeauty

The installation-performance @.2 :SleepingBeauty (created by Frédéric Deslias et Gaël L.) is part of the “@” process, a research/work in progress declining in many shapes and several modules (audiovisual shows, dance/digital arts, web-theater, performances, installations, workshops,…). Sleepingbeauty stages the performer Sandra Devaux, such a sleeping beauty in the era of Web 2.0, which gives us his body in a glass coffin. The capture of her neurological and biological data broadcastes all her intimate activity around us through visual and sound projections. We can send her messages in real time via her Facebook page (facebook.com/sndraltsleepinbeauty) that will be read by a synthetic voice. For every Facebook message sent, the computer sends us the emotional state of Sandra by way of response (heartbeat, sweat, brain wave…).

Emerging talents | Performance
Okus Dance Company (Be) → D-Compo 1.8

D-Compo (initiated by Manu Di Martino – Liège) is an exploratory, polymorphic and fragmentable field, about dance, photography, veejaying, stop motion, electronic music, interdisciplinary and web… The interlacing of these different disciplines which influence each other throughout the show constitutes the main body of this organic artwork.

Emerging talents | Performance/installation
Peter M. Friess (De) → Beautiful_Touch (2nd iteration – the feedback loop)
In collaboration with Maurice JJ Charles (Be)

An interdisciplinary performances environment is connected with a virtual audience beyond the physical space during the performance. Beautiful_Touch explores the “parallel universes”, “alternative realities” or “common inter-subjectivities”. The device invites the audience to a playful manipulation during this participative performance that combines screenings of images with variable geometry, sound improvisations (sax, vocals, electronics), an interactive and collaborative website, the use of small softwares of visual and sound creation on ipad and smartphone, mobile cameras and sensors.

Net art | spamm.be

Goûter Numérique

On the occasion of la quinzaine numérique, Transcultures launches the spamm.be platform (in partnership with spamm.fr – Super Art Modern Museum), a web space dedicated for new art forms that use the network as a creative material, accompanied by a critical corpus. A first selection of introductory works (co-curation: systaime, digital artist, founder of spamm.fr) is proposed at the Maison du Peuple. This didactic exhibition is framed by Jacques Urbanska (art-numeriques.info) with his matrix (which allows, through a series of web “windows” to aggregate and present automatically web content).