Freeicecream.network is an experimental multimedia work exploring how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies.
As a hybrid virtual/physical network of human and non-human agents, the development of the piece is both influenced and guided by the emergent behaviors of the system’s inhabitants. Robots, sensors, performers and cameras around the space communicate with each other through a wireless network, leading to a distributed decision-making process that underlies the progression of events culminating in free ice cream.*
*Free ice cream included
Creator, Composer, Technologist: Martim Galvao
Co-creator, Director: Kate Bergstrom
Co-creator, Technologist; Miller Puckette
CATENA IS PRESENTED THROUGH COUNTERPULSE’S COMBUSTIBLE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
& THE IMPROVISING THE NET(WORK) RESIDENCY IN COLLABORATION WITH
ABOUT H0T CLUB
h0t club is a psychedelic consumer-driven company of artist technologists and music makers performing the internet and beyond. The collective features Kate Bergstrom, Martim Galvão, Alex Dupuis, Todd Anderson, Miller Puckette and Bryan Jacobs.
Kate Bergstrom, Martim Galvão and Miller Puckette will work with developers at Thoughtworks and the community of CounterPulse in San Francisco to develop and extend their performance work exploring entanglements with surveillance, systems infrastructures and the web.
Kate Bergstrom, Martim S. Galvão and Miller Puckette
Building bespoke performance systems and open source technologies with a mixture of vapor wave and agit prop aesthetics, h0t club compresses and compiles, through coding and new software platforms, guitar solos, Mozilla hubs, tubas of toothpaste, valerie bots and more in the original 3-D TECHNOLOGY, live performances and networks of Muzak-al culture jamming combatting dehumanization and corporate hegemony.
h0t club has been featured at Ars Nova, Culture Project NYC, Granoff Center for the Arts, San Diego Opera’s “Opera Hack”, Culture Hub at La Mama, Festival of Live Digital Art with HowlRound and more.
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