Ubicidade | Ubicity :: June 27-30, 2011; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm :: Electronic Computational Center – University of São Paulo, Avenida Professor Gualberto, 71, travessa, 3 Cidade Universitária, Butantã, São Paulo, Brazil.

Ubicity is a Telematic Art Project, proposed to stimulate conceptual, mediatic and aesthetic experimentation through streaming, videoconferencing and social media. Its main goal is to establish a structure that will enable artistic and cultural exchanges specially among research centers in Universities around the world. Ubicity, a word created through the conjunction of Ubiquity and City, is proposed to enhance Internet-based communication between artists and researchers of geographically distant places around the world.

Ubicity was initiated by COLABOR, a Research Center for Digital Languages, associated with the Interfaculty Graduate Program in Aesthetics and Art History [PGEHA] at the University of São Paulo [USP.], São Paulo, Brazil, coordinated by Professor Artur Matuck.

Ubicity will be a first event to inaugurate an ongoing telemedia research project entitled AMPLITERRA designed to investigate and to experiment with telemedia interconnections scheduled to occur between 2011 and 2014.

Teleactive research centers in different cities around the world are invited to introduce themselves to the AMPLITERRA network presenting their thematic proposals, their teams, available telemedia and Internet protocols. The São Paulo University Node [SPUN] is willing to be a first driving force for the constitution of this emerging network. Ideally however the AMPLITERRA network will be de-centered or multi-centered.

The Ubicity event will be held in four consecutive days, June 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th, 2011. Teletransmissions are now programmed to be exchanged specially between nodes in São Paulo (Brazil), Porto (Portugal) and Rijeka (Croatia). Further interconnections with other teleactive centers around the world will occur spontaneously as the event is publicized through social media and new connections are established.

UBICITY will consist of video-transmissions and interactive videoconferences scheduled along those four consecutive days. Both videoconferencing and streaming will be utilized to transmit and receive a series of performances, readings, texts, images and audio sequences. The content will be the result of performances, presentations and interactions produced by individuals or groups selected by curators in each node belonging to the network.

Interactions and videoconferences are scheduled to occur specially during the afternoons, from 01 to 04 pm (São Paulo time), every day from June 27 to 30. Morning’s sessions, scheduled to be held in the same days from 09 to 12 am, will be mainly devoted to testing connections, rehearsals and preparations.

We will be streaming some teleperformances but also operating thru videoconferencing with the Internet Protocol H323. Please consider to join us for an impromptu art conversation now or then. Let us know.