April 15, 2005
IN Network Sleep Webcast by Michael Mandiberg and Julia Steinmetz
http://turbulence.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/mandiberg.rm

From their bedtime at 11PM in Los Angeles, and 2AM in New York, until
they wake eight hours later, the artists Michael Mandiberg and Julia
Steinmetz will sleep together on the phone. Separated by three time
zones and 3000 miles, they curl up in the same sonic space. Connected
via cell phone, they will hear the sound of each other breathing,
tossing and turning, snoring, etc. This audio will be webcast in
real-time as they sleep.

IN Network Sleep Webcast Schedule:
Tuesday, April 15th, roughly 11PM PST to Wednesday, April 16th, roughly
7:30AM PST
Wednesday, April 16th, roughly 9PM PST to Thurs, April 17th, roughly
5:30AM PST
Tuesday, April 22nd, roughly 11PM PST to Wednesday, April 23rd, roughly
7:30AM PST
Wednesday, April 23rd, roughly 9PM PST to Thurs, April 24th, roughly
5:30AM PST

This sleep webcast is part of IN Network their month long extended cell
phone life-art performance about distance, communication, intimacy,
telepresence, and living together while apart. In August 2004 Michael
moved to New York; Julia remained in Los Angeles, postponing her move
until the end of April because of commitments to her job and her
collaborative art practice. Faced with most of a year apart, one of the
things they did was switch both of their cell phones to a provider with
free "IN Network" service.

Michael and Julia started out having normal conversations, giving each
other updates about their days, and sending cameraphone pictures back
and forth, etc. As they switched to using hands-free microphones, they
began using the phone differently. What began as a pragmatic attempt to
make their relationship last the separation through good communication,
turned into something less about communication and more about intimacy
and presence through technology, and sharing sonic-virtual space.

During the month of March the artists are presenting this cell-phone
life-art performance via a Photo Moblog and Podcast on Turbulence.org.
In addition to these webcasts, the IN Network site will host a Podcast
of recordings of their phone conversations, and all of their text and
picture messages.

IN Network Sleep Webcast:
http://turbulence.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/mandiberg.rm

Free Real Player (Required for webcast):
http://www.real.com

IN Network Website
http://turbulence.org/works/innetwork

IN Network Podcast (RSS 2.0 Feed)
http://turbulence.org/works/innetwork/mp3/rss.xml

Contact Info
juliasteinmetz -at- yahoo -dot- com
michael -at- mandiberg -dot- com

IN Network is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, (aka
Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation.

–
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
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