Ballettikka Internettikka: VolksNetBallet by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Berlin/Germany, July 9th 2006 www.intima.org/bi/vnb Guerrilla Net Ballet Performance: Ballettikka Internettikka: VolksNetBallet People's Internet Ballet furtively performed at -- and secretly broadcast (as six one-minute live streaming videos) from -- the Basement Toilet in Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg Square in Berlin, Germany Latitude: 52.31.36.84 N, Longitude: 13.24.43.02 E, Terrain Elevation: 41 m on Sunday, July 9th 2006 at 9 PM GMT+1 (Berlin/Paris local time) www.intima.org/bi "Stromajer and Zorman manipulated a semi-automatic flying cow and eleven robots dancing an internet ballet, MC Brane conducted an MP3 orchestra!" created, operated & realized by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman original music composed by MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst VolksNetBallet was broadcast in the form of six one-minute streaming videos, almost live, with only two minutes delay. It means that the visitors could see and hear in six steps what had just happened only two minutes earlier during the VolksNetBallet in Volksbühne Basement Toilet. All six videos were edited live in-camera, using only STOP and REC functions, then immediately converted to Real Media files using Real Producer, and finally, transferred to the server for viewing. Produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia, July 2006 / in collaboration with BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System, Ljubljana; and netart-Datenbank / Web.museum e.V. - Verein zur Archivierung und Dokumentation von Netzaktivitäten, Berlin www.intima.org Ballettikka Internettikka is an ongoing artistic study of the internet guerrilla performance. After invading The Bolsh.oi Theatre in Moscow (March 2002), La S.cala in Milan (November 2004) and The National Theatre in Belgrade (October 2005), Stromajer and Zorman performed a new guerrilla net ballet, this time in the men's toilet in the basement of Volksbühne Berlin. The artists utilized low-tech mobile and wireless equipment for the invasion and live broadcast: a public unprotected wireless internet connection point (wLAN), available for free at the Rosa-Luxemburg Square in Berlin (ID: Helmut22; signal strength in the basement of Volksbühne: 2/5), free RealProducer (version 11.0) and Live LE software for streaming video and audio live manipulation. Ballettikka Internettikka: VolksNetBallet took place on the very same evening and at the very same time as another huge people's festivity -- the final match of the World Soccer Cup 2006, which also took place in Germany. Project supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Very special thanks to: Sakrowski, Ute Fischer, Sven Holly Nullmeyer, Irena Pivka, Dejan Habicht, Jana Renée Wilcoxen, Nikolina Bujas-Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Aldo Milohnić, Aleksandra Globokar, Daniel Družeta. "We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." (W. Churchill)
