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"A crash, triggered by an overly eager Internet user clicking away just that one time too much, switches the motor of the control system over to human impatience. There, where software and hardware interfaced, where language and metal embraced, where command lines and circuitry turned digital somersaults together, right there, the human behind the machine pushed himself right through and into it - and everything changed. Now computer time and human time intersect, the logic of the machine, now broken and infected by its physical surrounding, oozes out, while remote data structures take control of a whole theater space, reducing the flow of a once so lovely story, to an unpredictable series of 0s and 1s." |
| From the introduction to Far-Flung's future |
| FAR-FLUNG's future by Ursula Endlicher _____________________________________ |
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Far-Flung's future is a media-performance-installation which investigates different aspects in the relationship between humans and machines and is choreographed by real-time computer processes. Live-performed movement and computer generated video, lighting, sound and wind are influenced by the same data structures – weather conditions and time-of-day data from locations around the globe are changing the theater space from one moment to the next. The score of the performance is determined by the "system" and structured into random time units. A cast of computer functionalities turned human carry out their labors within unpredictable sequences – acts – of "on" and "off". PERFORMANCES: Far-Flung's future premiered on Friday, November 20, 2015 at WUK/Grosser Saal, in Vienna. CREATIVE TEAM: Artistic direction / Concept / Media / Stage & Scenography: Ursula Endlicher Light Installation: Thomas J. Jelinek Programming: Klaus Filip Set Production: Lee Day and Ernst Endlicher Sound: Szely CAST: Frans Poelstra Yuka Takahashi Mzamo Nondlwana Evandro Pedroni Ursula Endlicher Robert Appleton and Laura Meyers (Video Performances) Many thanks to the whole technical set-up team at WUK! Far-Flung's future has been produced for SOCIAL GLITCH, a two month event-series of exhibitions, sound works, and performances, curated by Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler und Max Thoman in cooperation with Bettina Kogler / WUK.performing.arts und kunstraum NIEDEROESTERREICH. Treating performance like software, Far-Flung's future is the second in an ongoing series and an "upgraded version" of Far-Flung follows function which was performed in 2013 at xMPL (Experimental Media Performance Lab) at the Contemporary Art Center at UC Irvine/CA. Far-Flung's future is realized with the generous support of the cultural section of the City of Vienna.  | |||||||||||||
