Portal: Word of Awe, 2001

Video & Interactive Website

Portal is an interactive net.dance created for the meta-project World of Awe. It follows a traveler passing through a portal that opens on 6th street in Manhattan to a parallel world called the Sunset/Sunrise. The work touches on the spatial and aesthetic relationship between virtual and physical spaces, as well as the relationship between user and digital content.

Co-creator & collaborator: Yael Kanarek
Choreographed & Performed by: Evann Siebens

Music: Yoav Gal
Performed by Sarah Rivkin

Video is 2 minutes long

RELATED LINKS
net.dance on Turbulence.org
Turbulence Interview with Helen Thorington
Description on Yael Kanarek’s Site World of Awe

Cinematic and kinetic, the traveler uses dance as her main mode of communication and means to travel between worlds. This ambiguity between the real and unreal is reflected in the work: analogue footage is mixed with digital resolutions as the figure moves from a New York City street to a square “womb” to a digitally created desert landscape. Traditional dance film techniques, as seen in kinesthetic editing and image creation are combined with interactive techniques and screen design.

Portal is a collaboration between media artist Yael Kanarek and dance filmmaker/choreographer Evann Siebens, with music by composer Yoav Gal and programming by Meeyoung Kim. It is a 2003 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Turbulence.org with a grant from the Greenwall Foundation.

FESITVALS + EXHIBITIONS

MAXXI / Rome’s National Museum of XXI Century Arts

NetSpace: Journey into Net Art
December 2007

Rome, Italy

EYEBEAM
Performance & Screening

New York, USA

September 2006

BIT BY BIT, CELL BY CELL
Music CD Released by Innova
September 2006

THE DRAWING CENTER
River to River Festival
New York, USA

September 2005

NETIZENS II / New Media Exhibition

Rome, Italy
December 2004

FILE:04 / New Media Festival

Sao Paulo, Brazil

November – December 2004
First Prize

CYNETart_04 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FUR MEDIAKUNST
Dresden, Germany

November 2004

VIDEO ZONE BIENNIAL

Tel Aviv, Israel

November 2004

NEW FORMS FESTIVAL
Vancouver, Canada.
October 2004

SENEF / Seoul Net & Film Festival

Seoul, Korea

May – September 2004

BITFORMS

Yael Kanarek exhibition

New York, USA
March – April 2004