Art's Birthday: Chironomy

Description:

Chironomy was an audio and video streaming project conceived by Miya Masaoka.

Interactivity, improvisation, gestural communication, and text were explored within the context of network culture, desire, expectation and alienation. The artists exploited disembodied sound sources, unpredictable visual and rhythmic time delays, unintended synchronicity, and other artifacts of streaming.

The work was performed by Miya Masaoka (koto, laptop, LaserKoto, video), François Houle (clarinet, laptop, electronics) and Giorgio Magnanensi (electronics) in the Grand Luxe Hall, and Klaus Filip (tube, lloopp software) and Burkhard Stangl (guitars, electronics) in Vienna via Kunsradio. 

Youth from the Sarah McLachlan School of Music performed a choreography of hand gestures that was recorded into a compilation and projected alongside the live feed from Vienna. 

Video documentation is available upon request.

Chironomy was programmed as part of a multi-day celebration of Art’s Birthday 2006. Both were a part of WIENCOUVER 2000, a series of projects focused on exchange and telematic art between artists in Vancouver and Vienna.