PERFORMATIVITY

HIDRAZONE.COM are pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of the on-line
digital arts journal has gone live with the theme PERFORMATIVITY. This work
is also accessible via VODCAST - go to www.hidrazone.com for link.

Incorporating work that cuts across a number of disciplines, the 12 artworks
featured ask you to re examine the nature of performance in a post-digital
world.

International artists' work featured: LA based Anita Pontin playfully
eroticises a camera phone movie in Happy Slap, NYC based Sarah Oppenheimer
toys the performance of an art lecture audience, Swedish Interactive
Institute artists Geska Helena Andersson and Robert Brecevic examine sexual
identity in a series of public installations, UK digital artists Russell
Richards and Julian Konczak profile their computational installation of
pedestrian performance of Shibuya Crossing in Mass Production, The Institute
for Infinitely Small Things perform Corporate Commands, From France Philippe
Chollet creates an interactive tableau of Hardwar, India, Birth and Decay
invites the user to invoke the generative processes of nature, UK based
Boredomresearch investigate machines that perform artificial life, USA -
Carole Kim creates dance performances that reconfigure the relationship
between performer and audience. London based Igloo artists Ruth Gibson and
Bruno Martelli combine movement with the user interaction of a games engine,
Shea Craig creates database psychogeography of suburban America, Pia Lindman
creates work at MIT performing human and robot behaviour.

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and interactive arts. We seek to encourage practical and theoretical
research into a wide variety of digital art (new media art) such as net art,
interactive art, software art, digital painting, and computational video.
Our main goal is to provide a forum for encouraging aesthetic quality in
digital and interactive arts practice, as well as promoting critical
discourse and theoretical commentary in this emerging field.