#ntwrkderive

#ntwkder Excellent. Thanks again for drifting with me. I’ll be in touch when I’m back in the studio

To sign up using twitter + mobile phone:

1) Create a twitter account.

2) Under Settings, pair your mobile phone with your twitter account.

3) If you are in Weimar, follow Buffalo.  If you are in Buffalo, follow Weimar.

4) Go to the profile page of the city you are following and click the phone icon to receive updates to your mobile phone.

To sign up using twitter + Echofon for iPhone:

1) Create a twitter account.

2) If you are in Weimar, follow Buffalo.  If you are in Buffalo, follow Weimar.

3) Download Echofon from the App Store. (free)

4) Install, add your twitter account and you are good to go.

5) For admins (if you are tweeting directly from ndb or ndw), remember to

To mention Weimar, use @ntwrkderivewmr To mention Buffalo: @ntwrkderivebuf   

hashtag: #ntwrkderive

Questions?

Jessica Thompson, jlt36@buffalo.edu, 1 (917) 355 3265

Media Architecture Colloquium
University at Buffalo | Bauhaus–Universität, Weimar

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Derive: 12:30 EST | 18:30 CET (please visit twitter for starting locations)

Presentation: 14:00 - 17:00 EST
University at Buffalo 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus

Networked Derive is a collaborative performance that takes place simultaneously between two geographically-separate locations. Using mobile phones, twitter feeds and a simple mapping system, performers in both locations engage in a series of geographical occupations that coincide with the movements through the other city. 

Participants follow a shared map that has one city per side. While the maps will be printed on the same scale, they will be placed slightly eskew. The derive starts when one team reports its location to the other. The other team uses a pushpin to mark the location of the first team on the first team’s map, and then turns the map over and travels to the spot indicated. The second team then reports their location to the first team, who will repeat the same process, leading them to a different site.  

The choreography of the piece will be created by the variations in the two maps, and the speed in which information is exchanged, and the piece will be documented by the patterns of holes that are created in the maps.