Technesexual Mixed Reality Performance Sunday, 6pm, Long Beach, CA

WHAT: Mixed Reality Performance in Second Life and "Real Life", Technesexual

WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas
WHEN: Sunday, 6pm, September 6th, 2009
WHERE: Cal State Long Beach at GLAMFA, map here:
http://www.greaterlamfa.com/info.html

On *September 6th* at 6pm we’ll be doing a new performance called
Technesexual
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157621943139937/> which we
just performed in Bogota, Colombia at the Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics. Technesexual is part of Mixed Relations
<http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations> and involves a mixed
reality performance using biometrics and live audio that responds to our
movements in order to explore relationality. Upcoming performances
include Tijuana at CECUT on Oct 4th, San Francisco at Arse Elektronika,
and Montreal at Artivistic 2009. Also, Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas
will be showing the video of Slapshock
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157620312879150/> in the
exhibition of GLAMFA.

On Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7pm, Mehrmand and Cardenas will be
speaking at a  round table about these works as well as a pervious work,
Becoming Dragon, as part of the CSULB Visiting Artist Lecture series.

Technesexual involves Mehrmand and Cardenas kissing in physical and
virtual space, while biometric sensors monitor their heartbeats,
allowing the audience in both spaces to hear their live heartbeats,
blurring the lines between the two spaces.