2003 DAMPF
Pixelspaces 2003
The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s symposium entitled Pixelspaces—Sensory Environments–Immaterial Interfaces focuses on a field of concentration of the lab’s current work and simultaneously on an area in which the classical performing arts have of late displayed certain tendencies bringing them in closer proximity to leading edge media art. On the basis of current projects and concepts that can be subsumed within the thematic range defined in the symposium’s title—for example, Joachim Sauter’s work on the opera The Jew of Malta (Opera Biennale Munich), Klaus Obermaier’s Dave (Ars Electronica 2002) and installations like Justin Manor’s Key Grip—Pixelspaces 2003 will be scrutinizing artistic and technical production methods. In doing so, the symposium will also be looking into the question of the extent to which institutions in the traditional arts such as musical theater and dance are indicating their readiness to take into account the media-aesthetic implications of this development or are even capable of doing so.
Moreover, the current Culture 2000 project entitled “Dance and Media Performance Fusions” [DAMPF, see p. 301], an interdisciplinary project dealing with the (performance) stage as a sensory environment, makes available a forum in which theory formation and practical experimentation blend into real performances. Pixelspaces 2003 will complement them by providing basic research in the sense of relevant experience in artistic and technical practice.