BNMI Co-Production Archives 'G'

RACOL

The Rural Advanced Community of Learners is a collaborative initiative to develop an advanced broadband asynchronous/synchronous distance education system. The essence of RACOL is the development of a model of teaching and learning that exploits the potential of broadband networks and advanced technological capabilities such as broadcast quality video, collaborative environments, and educational objects to create effective learning environments that address the needs of students in rural and remote school districts. This project worked to create science toys with aboriginal content, partnering with university students, high school teachers, and educational experts.

Co-producers: RACOL/CANARIE (University of Alberta, Canada), 2003-2004
Format: Curriculum Design, Interactive Games, Website, and Video

Radio in Trouble

At a time when the nature of radio is transforming and morphing into new minimal states, this project approached new audio forms (RealAudio streaming, live internet radio, etc.) to develop a series of internet radio programs/performances that interrogate ideas of distant and remote communications. “Radio in Trouble” was an examination of long distant sexual encounters of two men in constant transit – never static enough to meet physically, only ever connecting in virtual space. This project took the form of an in-studio residency at Cellular Pirate Radio90 at The Banff Centre, in coproduction with BNMI.

Co-producers: Jason Sweeney, Jayne Hayes (Yarraville, Australia), 2000
Format: Web-audio

Raumspeil Puzzle

This project is a collaboration between choreographer and video artist Gretchen Schiller and computer scientist and musician Scott Wilson. Initially inspired by Laban's “raumspielpuzzle”, a space game puzzle used as a tool for exploring generative movement. This team chose to investigate the concept using auditory feedback. The final product took two distinct sculptural shapes, each engaging a participant by responding sonically to their hand movements (quality, position, speed, frequency, consistency) in a relatively localized space. The project also included some interaction between the two sculptures/players and some complementary visual feedback.

Co-producers: Gretchen Schiller and Scott Wilson (Montrouge, France), 2002
Format: Audio Research

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a film based on a script written by Claudia Hart, derived from classical sources, interpreted in contemporary language and dealing with traditional notions of power and social relations. All of the roles in the narrative are performed by Claudia Hart. For each role, she wears heavy theatrical make-up in saturated primary colours. The narrator, also played by Hart, takes the form of a film noir angel, dressed in black, constantly smoking, speaking in a Brooklyn accent, sporting fluffy feathered wings, and commenting on the action in a pseudo-Freudian, Woody Allen style meta-narrative.

Co-producer: Claudia Hart (New York City, United States), 1998
Format: Video, Length: 19 minutes