PROJECT LAUNCH / a work in progress 2009/10 b e a m - m e - up ONLINE ART MAGAZIN with art, field studies and essays about space. http://www.beam-me.net We invite you to THE NOWHERE DANCE A performance at Alan Sondheim's Second Life exhibition "The Accidental Artist" Alan Sondheim: "We'll teleport people into an installation which has been constructed over a period of eight months. It represents nothing of architecture, fantasy, or surrealism; it's a space unlike anything in the real world. It's difficult to move through, a field of alien processes which has a life of its own. Sandy Baldwin and I will dance through and around it - on the ground, in the air, and on the ocean floor. Part of the dance will be based on learning to move around; part will be based on adding to the clutter." To access the performance site read more on: http://www.beam-me.net/news Date of the performance: Wednesday, Feb 11 USA West Coast Time: 8 AM / US East Coast Time: 11 AM Europe MEZ/CET: 5 PM / GB: 4 PM Asia: Mumbai, Bangalore: 9.30 PM / Shanghai, Beijing: 12 PM / Tokio: 1 AM __________________________________________________________________ on the project b e a m - m e - up: Our understanding of space is changing for generations. In the digital age we use terms like Cyberspace, Globalization and World Wide Web, even though we have hardly understood the old electro-spaces like power supply systems, telephone and broadcasting. By means of audio-visual transportation we conquer new spaces, which present themselves as both picture space and space of action, place of signs and of real presences. With the online project beam me up we invite artists and authors from different countries to concern themselves with space concepts in the form of art contributions and essays. Artists (realised and promised contributions) Angela Bulloch, London / Abhishek Hazra, Bangalore / Samuel Herzog, Z*rich / Hu Jie Ming, Shanghai / Esther Hunziker, Basel / jodi.org, Dordrecht / Knowbotic Research, Z*rich / Agnes Meyer-Brandis, K*ln / Alan Sondheim, New York / Monica Studer & Christoph van den Berg, Basel / Carlo Zanni, Milano / Li Zhen Hua, Beijing / More artist's contributions will be uploaded during the coming months. Curators / Authors Sarah Cook, Newcastle / Estee Oarsed, Bangalore / Stefan Riekeles, Les Jardins des Pilotes, Berlin / Annette Schindler, Basel / Zhang Lansheng, Shanghai / NN. USA / Reinhard Storz, xcult.org (project director) / The guest curators are designated to each invite two to three artists and authors.) Other scientific authors: Martin Brauen, NY / Christina Vagt, Berlin