Author Archive

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  the [abc] experiment

  Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith, Paolo Grippa and others, 2001
  This project was an experiment in using the internet to bring remote performers into a theatre performance – not with web cams but using a graphical chat room & cartoonesque avatars.

  February 16th, 2002
  

• The Picnic

  CAROLINE McCAW and many others, 2000
  *The Picnic* was a multimedia simultaneous series of performances and installations by 70 artists and performers throughout 4 locations in New Zealand

  October 14th, 2000
  

• Tasman Tea Party

  CAROLINE McCAW, HONOR HARGER, ADAM HYDE, JANE CURTIS, 1998
  An interactive, collaborative multimedia event simultaneously celebrated in three locations across the Tasman in March 1998

  March 1st, 1998
  
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  BurnTime

  JULIA STOOPS (NZ coordinator), 1991
  A series of live simultaneous performances connected by telephone around the world. Using fax and phone, the work included a live jam and storytelling with participants in NZ and USA. Explored themes of environmental degredation.

  July 17th, 1991
  
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  Earthworks

  PHIL DADSON and others, 1971
  Each participant was required to make a report onto tape of data and impressions relevant to their position on earth, and instand in time, and take a dozen or so exposures of the location in which they performed. Both at an instant in time synchronised with other participant locations and coincident with the autumnal and spring equinoxes in northern and southern hemispheres.

  September 23rd, 1971