"Nothing Happens" Live Now! Call for Participation

"Nothing Happens" Live Now! Call for Participation
Nurit Bar-Shai, with Rich Miller, Yishay Schwerd, Zach Lieberman and John
Schimmel
http://turbulence.org/Works/nothingHappens/
OK Center for Contemporary Art: CyberArts 2007
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
September 6 - October 14, 2007

"Nothing Happens" is a networked online performance in which the viewers
work together to make a series of objects tip over. The performance consists
of three acts, which are centered on staged environments - a high shelf, a
deserted corner, and a cluttered tabletop. Each scene contains a central
protagonist, respectively: a cardboard box, a clear pint glass full of
water, and a wooden chair. In all three acts, web-enabled physical devices
controlled by the viewer's clicks make these objects tip over. In addition,
each change is recorded as a snapshot-image, creating not only an archive of
the work, but a collective creative result: a stop-motion-animation
sequence, in which viewers can browse through the entire history of the
performance both during it and after its conclusion.

Nothing Happens received a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in the
Hybrid Art category.

"Nothing Happens - a performance in three acts" is a 2005 commission of New
Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web
site. It was made possible with funding from The Greenwall Foundation.
Additional support was provided by the OK Center Linz, the Israeli Cultural
Foreign Ministry, ITP/NYU and 3rd Ward.


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