The Corona Improv Sessions is a series of intercultural, performative, audio-visual telematic jam sessions that began on March 20, 2020, and continued every Sunday during the global lockdown, between a group of co-located students and artists. The sessions became a vehicle for developing enduring artistic and personal connections, and creating new spaces at a moment of cultural and political retrenchment.
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
Credit: vog.photo
The group that emerged from these jams will perform in person – both in Linz and telematically. The performances at the Ars Electronica Festival will offer telematic improv sessions by a core group of performers together with pioneers of telematic performance and luminary guests.
Using a modular content toolbox specifically developed for the Ars performances incorporating real-time collaborations in digital performance and expanded screen practices, the participating artists explore the dynamics of co-located performativity. They embrace rather than resist latency, to produce a novel visual Musiking in which virtuosity is eschewed. Nonsynchronous performance thus creates emergent, aleatory musical and visual forms.
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) NTNU ARTEC (Art and Technology Task Force) Artist in Residence Program
University of Art and Design Linz, Department Visual Communication
Mediasoup low latency server and technical background provided by Oswald Berthold and Jetpack Cognition Lab.
The University of Craft, Action and Thought
ASVOF A Shaded View on Fashion
Maria Azucena Gutierrez Gonzalez, NTNU Oceans Research & Education Coordinator
Faculty of Engineering, NTNU for developmental work on Mariculture bioplastics used in the jam sessions as lighting effects.
Associate Professor Kaspar Lasn, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU for collaboration with Øyvind Brandtsegg and Alexandra Murray-Leslie: Exploring resonances and feedback in composite materials to develop new musical instruments used in the jam session.
Tina Frank, Alexandra Murray-Leslie, Anat Ben David, Thies Mynther, Panja Göbel, Catharine Cary, Diana Lindbjerg, Melissa E. Logan, Dinu Bodiciu, Krõõt Juurak, Cat Hope, Mari Bastashevski, Einar Grinde, Øyvind Brandtsegg, Atau Tanaka, Tina Havelock Stevens, Dong Zhou, Einar Grinde, Mikalsen & Marhaug, Nina Haarsaker, Junda Auguste Andriuskeviciute, Dunia Isabel Vazquez Juarez, Salma Mastour, Evelina Bartuseviciute, Håvard Gismerøy Ekker
