BITBY.tv and Little Berlin KICKSTARTER LAUNCH PARTY!!!!
little berlin is excited to be a participant in Philly Tech Week (April 23-28th)
Philly Tech Week Signature Event 4.27.2012
little berlin will be an exhibitor during the Philly Tech Week Signature Event at Moore College of Art & Design. Members of little berlin will give virtual ‘gallery tours’ of our most recent group-curated exhibition titled FLASHFL00D which is embedded in ‘Dead Drops‘ all throughout the city. Digital artwork from the show will be displayed and the artists and curators will be on hand to share information and create context for this Philly-grown alternative curatorial project.
Low Lives 4: Networked Performance Festival 4.27 & 4.28.2012
Now in its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the world.
Join us for Philadelphia’s live event! Hosted by Jane Goodall and her newest BFF Donna Haraway, party down cyber-jungle style with Video Games, Tarot, Monkeys, Photo Booths, Food, and Beer! And at the height of the party around 11pm–leap across the Atlantic Ocean with Jane–to join the live performance with her Tanzanian lover–Superstar Scholar Dunstan Matungwa!
Friday 4.27.2012 8:30PM – 1AM right after the PTW Signature Event
****Bring your old techno junk to the party for grabbag surprises****
Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. More on LowLives.net
LOW LIVES 4 in Philadelphia
little berlin and Mascher Space are partnering to present Low Lives 4 in Philadelphia – for two days little berlin gallery will be connected via livestream to co-presenting spaces all over the world. Viewers are encouraged to come and go as you please, or tune-in online, performances start roughly every 20 minutes.
DATES:
Friday April 27: 8:30pm – 11:30pm EST
Saturday April 28: 3pm – 6pm EST
Two-day Admission: $10 General Public / $5 Artists
[RSVP on FACEBOOK]
LOCATION:
little berlin gallery at the Viking Mill
2430 Coral Street
Philadelphia 19125 [map]
L I V E P E R F O R M A N C E + P A R T Y
In addition to streaming performances from international presenting partners, little berlin gallery will host a live performance on one day of the festival which will be streamed out to the network of participating spaces.
Join us for Philadelphia’s live event! Hosted by Jane Goodall and her newest BFF Donna Haraway, party down cyber-jungle style with Video Games, Tarot, Monkeys, Photo Booths, Food, and Beer! And at the height of the party around 11pm–leap across the Atlantic Ocean with Jane–to join the live performance with her Tanzanian lover–Superstar Scholar Dunstan Matungwa!
Artists:
Dunstan Matungwa (Tanzania)
Britney Leigh Hines (Philadelphia)
Marcel W. Foster (Philadelphia)
Jane Goodall Speaks with a Native About Nature
Festival Day/Time TBD
Hyphen-Nation Arts joined forces with Marcel W. Foster and presented the “comic delight” (The Art Blog) of The Jane Goodall: Experience. Join Jane once again as she leaps across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of her friend, the interwebs, to live-stream a conversation about the beauty and future of Africa with Tanzanian Environmental Historian—Dunstan Matungwa for the Low Lives 4 Festival.
Artist Bios
Dunstan Matungwa is a researcher based at the National Institute for Medical Research– Mwanza Research Centre, Tanzania, where he is the Qualitative Research Coordinator for the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Project. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dar es Salaam with a B.A and M.A. in Sociology, and his dissertation examined imperial motives of Euro-American conservation initiatives within the coastal region of Tanzania.
Britney Leigh Hines is a director, performer, and cultural organizer. Following many years of theater training Britney rediscovered dance while attending Dickinson College, and ever since then she has incorporated movement into her creative process. Today, she is a founder and co-director of Hyphen-Nation Arts, an experimental theater company based in Philadelphia, PA, and Hybridge Arts Collective.
Marcel W. Foster worked as a researcher for the Jane Goodall Institute’s Research Center for five years—and is committed to promoting the performing arts as a tool to rigorously explore and understand human-animal behavior. He currently works as the Director of Research & Coworking for CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, Community Engagement Coordinator for Mascher Space Co-op, and will be curating/presenting Carbon Dance Theatre’s Science per Forms in October 2012.
Low Lives 4 is Co-Presented by Mascher Space: a home for new dance in Philadelphia
