Bureau NetBallet by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Belgrade/Serbia, 2005 www.intima.org/bi/beo # Guerrilla Net Ballet Performance Thursday, Oct 13th 2005 at 9 PM GMT+1 (Berlin/Paris/Belgrade local time) Duration: 23 minutes Location: National Theatre in Belgrade (Narodno Pozoriste u Beogradu), Serbia # Latitude: 44.79345N, Longitude: 20.45340E, Terrain Elevation: 110 m Microlocation: Office of the Ballet Director (3rd Floor) www.intima.org/bi Live internet broadcasting of the guerrilla bureau ballet performance started on October 13th 2005 at 9 PM GMT+1 and lasted 23 minutes. Stromajer & Zorman have entered the office (brain center) of the National Theatre Ballet Director, where the hardest artistic decisions to run the institution are taking place. The artists have entered the building dressed as electricians, employes (Igormir Neutronovic and Branimir Protonovic) of an nonexisting Serbian electricity-service company Elektroda d.o.o., coming to fix the previously reported malfunction on the National Theatre's electrical system (with the help of an anonymous undercover rat-collaborator inside the theatre -- code name: Mirloslav). www.intima.org Artists used low-tech mobile and wireless equipment for the invasion and live broadcasting (portable computers, mini digital camera, MP3 audio systems, mobile WAP/GPRS telephones etc). A laptop and Logitech webcam, together with Webcam32 (version 6.0) software were used for broadcasting the video signal (running over Intima Virtual Base FTP server). Another laptop and MP3 player with online interface SHOUTcast (version 1.8.3/win32), were used for live sound broadcasting (running over Beitthron FTP server). A local Serbian GSM mobile phone operator (Mobtel) was used for GPRS mobile internet connection. The preparations have been taken serious, safety measures have been calculated, and the previous experience from the Bolsh.oi Theatre in Moscow and La S.cala in Milan has been very welcome. Note: The National Theatre in Belgrade did not voluntarily co-operate in the project, but was selected based on the conceptual strategy of the project. The management of the National Theatre is not a co-producer of this project and does not co-operate in the process of its realization. Bureau NetBallet Operators: Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman Bureau NetBallet Composer: MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System Theoretical Adviser: Bojana Kunst Co-produced by Intima Virtual Base (Ljubljana) and TkH - Centre for Performing Arts Theory and Practice (Belgrade) Curator: Ana Vujanovic (TkH) Executive Producer: Jelena Knezevic
