Development of a networked artistic practice out of confinement: six case studies
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
GP with advisory board
Checklist for tonight's (18h → 20h!) GP:
☑ Invite at least 1 external person (each one of us) to participate tonight as audience. Event Link:
https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/s/
☑ Don't forget to license your account with your MDW-Email (thanks Hanne!) so that you can be host, share your screen, use Prezi Video... etc.
Dear All, concerning the possibility to add you as hosts, you have to licence your account. Here is a description how to do it: https://www.mdw.ac.at/zid/zoom/
☑ The order of the different parts / length / links... can all be found in the Spreadsheet:
Lecture-Performance [timeline]
☐ If you want everybody to use a specific background during your part of the presentation, male sure you edit / add it here for everybody to download: Lecture-Performance | Zoom backgrounds
☐ I will be online before 20h, and reachable from 17h or so, in case we need to coordinate some bits. 😊
See you later!
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
CS4.3 Route Map (for a Lecture-Performance)
So here are the next steps leading to our Lecture-Performance on the 16th of June:
2nd June (18h 20h): General rehearsal (with the presence of the advisory board)
→ all of us should bring an additional person in!
16th June (18h): Vorbereitung
16th June (19h - 20h): Public event (Lecture-Performance)
To organise some parts that are more collaborative (I am thinking the game-show, for example) we can talk and coordinate via WhatsApp if necessary. For instance, I will contact @Kathi to produce the off-voice for the 'Introduction' and the 'Instructions' videos.
We could use this GoogleDoc to share and work on the performance 'scripts'. Nothing too fix or elaborated, but enough to have an overarching idea of what will be the topic of each part. (That will also help @Max figure out how to moderate from each exhibit to the next)
The order, duration, setup... of all different parts as we discussed today are on this spreadsheet. Feel free to edit/add elements if you need to!
We thought it would be nice for everybody to have the same background... and to change it in every exhibit to a different one. I made some dummy backgrounds in GoogleDrawings for you to edit (if it is your exhibit) and for everybody to download.
If you want to use Prezi to add some live infographics to your video, whoever the presenter is will have to have the Prezi Video app installed in his/her zoom account (this might have to be approved by the mdw admin if your zoom account is linked to the mdw, so test it out in advance!)
You may write me anytime if we need to coordinate different parts, etc. Also, if you want to include specific sound effects (laughter, music, etc.) at specific points of the performance and can't find a way to do it via zoom, just write me and we'll figure out 😉
Have a wonderful week and see you in June!
best,
Adrián
Friday, 14 May 2021
Case Study 4: "Zoomkeeping"
Dear all,
Last session was a blast, and we have so many ideas to pull from. Working in smaller groups is definitely an agile way to try many different things, and we might continue to do so next week (Wednesday 9:00h).
We used some functionalities from Prezi Video which give a nice touch to the presentation. If you care (pun intended) feel free to explore visual possibilities of prezi, or think of what cool visual effects we should include... that are meaningful for the purpose of our lecture-performance.
I think we could also incorporate some large interactivity (our audience will be too large to handle one-to-one, I suppose) using a pretty neat little app called Mentimeter. I will prepare some examples for the next session, but basically it allows us to poll people in real time and display their answers.
Last, but no less important:
We should provide an account of the project, besides the demonstration. That is, it would be best that the content is as cool as the presentation and for that reason we discussed last week the idea that everybody contributes a topic that you consider important / relevant.
If everybody has at least an idea of what they want to focus on, we could put together a route map next session that will make it much easier to plan the work ahead and to conceive a dramaturgy that makes sense for the overall 90' presentation. We should see it as an artwork, kind of a large composition made up of smaller movements.
I am very looking forward to our next session and wish you a nice weekend!
best,
Adrián
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
MDW Podcast | Zwischen Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: Künstlerische Forschung
Künstlerische Forschung vereint sinnliche Kunst mit fokussierter Wissenschaft – zwei verschiedene Welten, die durchaus etwas gemeinsam haben: Die Neugierde beispielsweise, oder die Freude am Experiment. Thomas Grill und Hanne Pilgrim forschen an der mdw in dieser Zone der Gemeinsamkeiten.
Hanne Pilgrim erklärt in dieser Folge, wie aus ihrer Tätigkeit als Professorin für Rhythmik das Projekt „social d[ist]ancing“ entstand. Thomas Grill, Lehrgangsleiter für elektroakustische und experimentelle Musik stellt das Forschungsprojekt „Rotting Sounds“ vor.
Künstlerische Forschung stand auch im Mittelpunkt der internationalen Konferenz der Society for Artistic Research, deren Gastgeberin die mdw Anfang April 2021 war. Die Konferenz findet in Kooperation mit der Akademie der Bildende Künste und der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien statt.
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
SoDA node v2
Please download and install as usual the latest version of the SoDA node app. Here are the download links:



