Con-Fusion'99

Fusion'99 is "the first in a series of three collaborative interactive telepresence events ..." They got us in the first sentence. Telepresence.

Then it all went horribly wrong. "... which explore the current break down of definitions, dualisms and geographical boundaries on the Internet. The theme focuses on the fusions occurring between the artificial, the organic and the virtual through the collapses and interactions of Cyberspace." An ISDN link-up then.

Yup, round-up, round-up, for a *live* video-conferencing session between the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Australia and Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany on June 9 & 10. You'll see things of magic, be absorbed by events that marvel, experience technology of tomorrow, pay through the nose to get in.

Yes, you will have the privilege of seeing people using the "latest real-time technologies and collaborative techniques, the artists in Australia and those of Germany pair up to test new levels of interactivity, conceptual collaboration and virtual space. The work ranges from live audio streaming and installation, to video manipulation, to the use of various available net software's which have yet to be utilised creativity such as Net Meeting or Hotline Chats, WWW sites and VRML possibilities and finally to the concepts of telepresence performance." There is three paragraphs more of this stuff, but we are still recovering from the "software's which have yet to be utilised creativity ... " comments. If anyone is in Australia or Germany, it might actually be worth going just to heckle the organisers in person for us.

http://www.uni-weimar.de/~fusion/

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