The cyberformance “Machine Divas” was presented on Thursday 23rd at 8pm European time (find your local time here). It was presented to a proximal audience at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna, and online.
what does a machine diva look like?
does she have a soul?
are her friends electric?
is she just after our robots?
does she control this machine?
would she make a good girlfriend?
does she have a tail?
This is the result of a week-long workshop as part of the IMA Salon, 16-23 July in Vienna. The workshop, led by Helen Varley Jamieson, is exploring the theme of “Machine Divas” through the medium of cyberformance – live online performance. The workshop participants and creators of the performance are Sara Schmidt, Julia Groeblacher and Eva Ursprung, with Suzon Fuks online and contributions from Marlena Corcoran, Annie Abrahams, Miljana Peric and Cym. Thanks to Regina Lercher, Elisabeth Schimina for organising the workshop; to Rainer Keck for technical support, coffee and chocolate; and to Kunstraum for letting us play in this great space.
The performance was followed by a discussion that was streamed via Ustream.
Machine Divas is an ongoing research and networking project initiated in 2007 by Eva Ursprung and Andrea Sodomka, to investigate woman artists using technology for their work in nowadays expanded “theater space“. More information.
machine diva
or marine beaver
lascivious she is
apparatus-operator-complex
virago if the machine is
or her
machine is the fetish/faitiche
she bears, she is the fetish/faitiche
she’s too electric. [electric blue.]
which is why she would make a good girlfriend,
if this category meant anything to her.
she translates happenings to sceneries.
interposition between world and being.
allegedly a map, turns into screens.
instead of introducing to a “world”, she disguises.
a robotian daffodil.
machine divas definitly do have tails. tails made of shiny blue metal.