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HELLO WORLD (and other monospaced Fonts) - interesting phenomena #001 (Dancer as Poet)

For those old enough to have programmed their own random poetry generator in the days of the ZX Spectrum computer, this event should bring back happy memories of green-screen gibberish. While for the rest of us, there should be plenty going on to keep us in our seats for a full 45 minutes. Combining dance, text, electronic audio and image projection, ondoloop Ltd attempts to re-create the inner workings of a poet's mind in their new multimedia performance event "Hello World (& other monospaced fonts)". (Printing "Hello World" to the computer's screen is often the first thing a programmer does when learning a new computer language.)

Using a giant QWERTY keyboard and a range of electronic devices, two dancers (Amy Johnson and Tara Hodgson) will perform the part of the little men inside the poet's head to a backdrop of images created by Hungarian video artist Andrea Schneemeier and sounds created by Hull-based electronic music duo Albert & Geoffrey. The dancers' movements over the keyboard will trigger computer-generated texts that will be projected in the same space using wordlists and sentence structures compiled by poet Bill Griffiths from Seaham, County Durham. Local poet Brian Connell will be providing the sound of the poet's voice.

  
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This event takes place in two 45 min parts within the Live Arts Space of the Ferens Art Gallery, Victoria Square, Hull on Saturday 24th November 2001. Part one will be performed at 3 pm and part two at 7 pm. The group will be rehearsing in the Live Art Space between 9 am and 5 pm each weekday from Monday 19th November until Friday 23rd November.

• Dancers Amy and Tara both appeared earlier this year at Hull's Spring Street Theatre in the show "PIGS" devised by choreographer Lucy Cullingford.
  
• Bill Griffiths is also one of the founders of the Little Press Publications website to be found at Brian Connell is one of the Mutiny Poets from Hull and can be found performing with them at a range of venues throughout the year.
• Albert and Geoffrey have performed at a number of sites across the city in recent years, including the Adelphi, the Red Gallery and the roof of Kingston Rowing Club.
• This will be a first visit to Hull for Hungarian artist Andrea Schneemeier and we hope her time here will be a happy one. This visit results from links created between artists in Hull and Budapest as a consequence of the EMARE artists exchange programme of Hull Time Based Arts.
• Local filmmaker Jeff Hobbs is currently designing and building a giant QWERTY keyboard for us.
  

Funded by Yorkshire Arts through the Regional Arts Lottery Programme and Kingston upon Hull City Council with additional support from the LUMEN (facilities house) in Leeds.

12th November 2001

http://www.ondoloop.org/intphen/hello/publicity.html