This Trampoline event (as with the first), was to be compared by Ringmaster Dan and the Reactor (shit) Bear. However this time the bear would be in Berlin and would communicate with the Nottingham audience remotely using the live link. The first challenge faced by Reactor, putting the live link through its paces, was an elaborate experiment to teleport the Reactor (shit) Bear (which had accidentally turned up in Nottingham) over to Berlin.
Dr Günter
Haos and his assistant Beaker went about preparing
the teleporting apparatus which was installed in the Broadway Café
Bar. The reluctant bear was adorned with a rocket pack and a protective electrode
helmet. The bear was charged up to the point of explosion when, with a bang,
it disappeared at lightning speed out of the double doors at the front of
the cinema. In a matter of minutes it reappeared in the Berlin venue and waved
to the Nottingham audience via the live link – mission accomplished!
The bear now safely
deposited in Berlin, went on to introduce the night’s events, communicating
with Ringmaster Dan (left behind in Nottingham) using scrawled placards held
up to the web-camera (because of course bears cannot speak!)
The first
event to be announced was a series of films screened in the Café
Bar:
The Look of Love by Joanna Callaghan, Time Travel
by Akiko & Masako Takada and Stop Motion Studies by David
Crawford.
In the midst of these our old friend Egg Box Head made an
appearance to launch the Reactor Party’s 2005 Egg Box Appeal. Following
the success of last year’s appeal, where over 1,000,000 boxes were donated,
the Reactor Party hope to collect even more in the forthcoming months to assist
with preparations for Total Ghaos.
This was shortly follow by an introduction to German artist
Folke
Köbberling's
Bellystore (Tagesfialle) project. A week before the event, Reactor had received
a mysterious package, inside were instructions on how to build a Bellystore
and to start up in the business of selling resistors.
Reactor were inspired,
promptly building their own Bellystore and going about selling resistors to
the people of Nottingham. Folke Köbberling
was present at the Trampoline event in Berlin and was able to communicate
with the Bellystore operatives in Nottingham, via the live link, and question
them on the expansion of the Köbberling brand in the UK. Impressed with
booming business in Nottingham, Folke Köbberling
later previewed a rendition of her new company hymn to the Nottingham audience
via the live link.
Other highlights of the evening included the screening of the eagerly anticipated
second instalment of The Fairytale of Mandy. The sad tale
of the sweet girl (from the former Trampoline logo), corrupted by the evil
Reactorb and turned into a bear. Enslaved in the Trampoline office, Mandy
looked to her Fairy Codmother to release her from her suffering.
Later in the evening there was a chance for the Berlin team to experiment
with teleporting through the web-stream. Impressed with what Dr
Günter Haos
had achieved, and in many way in thanks for the gift of a large bear, Berlin
based performance group Plan B, proceeded to teleport a real
life carrot back to us in Nottingham. This time the experiment was not quite
so successful and the carrot arrived in Nottingham 1000% its original size
– carrot cake for everyone!
The final Café
Bar film
screening previewed Walk Adventure by San Francisco based,
Sugerpine, Daddy's Girl Mamma's Boy by Dan Hopkins and the
trance-tastic get-your-feet-moving Mothership by Christopher
Bennie.
As well as a jammed packed schedule in the Café Bar work was on dislay
in other places around the building: video
installations Please Stop and the singing lollypop-barbershop-quartet
by Alex Pearl in the foyer and stair well and Paul Steven’s Ferris
Wheel video loop in the box office area.
Tony Lopez installed his spectacular wall object now! installation in the link building. The device featured four interlinked VCRs playing from the same piece of tape, each linked to a split screen TV. The first VCR records a CCTV image of the viewer looking at the TV, this is then played four times in succession in the four different corners of the TV until the tape returns to the first VCR and is recorded over again.
In the
Mezz, two computers previewed five new web-based projects including:
The public launch of Ellie
Harrison’s new year-long project Swear
Box 2005. Viewers could see the tempestuous beginnings of a collection
of a year’s worth of swear words.
Alex Hetherington’s Glasgowland let you take a trip
around virtual Glasgow through a website inspired by the city's environments
and mythologies.
Prosthetic Interface Series by Andrew Bucksbarg, let you play with five nifty computer interfaces, demonstrating how great sounds and images can work together
Dimitrios Fotiou’s No More Questions presented simultaneously 25 web-cam portraits, when the mouse rolls over the different images snippets of dialog are revealed.
New York Skyline by Juliana Yamashita allowed viewers to observe an unexpected image of the New York skyline. Not a real representation but an image generated by data collected from Google searches of the street names.
Playing all night on loop in the Seminar room, was a showreel of the finest new films selected from open submission featuring: Joanna Callaghan, Sachiko Hayashi, Chara Lewis, Alex Pearl, Rafaël, Erica Scourti, Akiko & Masako Takada.
The showreel also feature premieres of three films from German artists selected from Trampoline Berlin’s Transmediale showreel including: Ulf Aminde, Susanne Hofer & Marianne Halter and Ralph Meiling.
