Art's Birthday global network streaming events on January 17th, noon - 6pm PST

During the daytime on January 17th, the Western Front will be open for those who want to listen or watch the remote streams from around the world, participate in streaming activities, and view the installations in the Grande Luxe.

noon - 1 pm PST   mix and remix with CHOWDOWN by Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse at Neutral Ground, Regina. The sounds of the fiddle and animals grazing mixed with various Art's Birthday streams.

12:30 - 1:30 pm PST   Connection with Society of Algorithm. "The formant synthesis piece" with Akihiro Kubota (Tokyo), Gívan Belá (born Guy van Belle, Praha), Isjtar (born Albert, Brussels), Western Front (Vancouver).

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm PST   Listening to remote streams from Kunstradio and Ars Acustica.

2:30 pm - 3 pm PST   Western Front streaming to satellite in Europe through Kunstradio, Ars Acustica, and the EBU.

3 pm - 4 pm PST   Listening to remote streams and installation viewing.

4:00 pm - 6 pm PST   Second Front online performance.

 

Second Front is a pioneering performance-art group in the popular online avatar world, Second Life. Second Front will be hosting a virtual decadent birthday bash for Art's Birthday. The working title for this live performance is "Binge/Purge". This performance will be projected into the main Luxe Hall to allow the Real World (RL) audience to also participate with them.

Confirmed Performance Participants: Wirxli Flimflam aka. Jeremy Owen Turner, Tea Chenille aka. Tanya Skuce, Man Michinaga aka. Patrick Lichty, Aliseiborg Zhaoying aka. Penny Leong Browne, Tran Spire aka. Doug Jarvis, Great Escape aka. Scott Kildall, Lizsolo Mathilde aka. Liz Pickard, and Gazira Babeli aka. CLASSIFIED.