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Manu Luksch, founder of ambientTV.NET, is a filmmaker who
works outside the frame. A key practitioner and theorist in digital
arts and online documentary, she was artistic director of the Munich
Media Lab (1995-97). In 1998, she co-founded Art Servers Unlimited,
the first conference to focus on the creation of independent internet
servers as both an arena, and form, of innovative net-based art.
While working on collaborative and self-initiated projects - such
as the wireless video link for Shobana Jevasingh Dance Company,
and Virtual Borders (a community film and internet-radio project
that spanned five south east Asian countries) - she has been elaborating
cross-platform performance/projection pieces that that draw together
distant geographical and disciplinary spaces. Recent productions
include The Spy School (ongoing since 2002) and the online road
movie Broadbandit Highway. Extending her exploration of network
architecture as a social technology, Manu is currently working on
the telematic performance piece flipflop and the live video channel
DEMOTV, both projects to explore and proliferate the community-built
and -maintained broadband wireless network in London. Her work has
been presented internationally at festivals and symposia including
Ars Electronica (Austria), VideoZone Tel Aviv, International Documentary
Film Festival Amsterdam, Acoustic Space Lab (Latvia), Edinburgh
TV Festival, and Liverpool Biennale.
Mukul is in-house sound artist at ambientTV.NET, where he
collaborates across media including film, theatre and the internet.
His work is concerned as much with the transmission of sound as
its creation; informed by his background in science and Indian music,
it plays along the borders between music and noise, rule-bound forms
and chance, and technology and tradition. He is currently working
on a film soundtrack, a music album in collabortion with Akha musician
Aju Jupoh, and a telematic theatre project that features capoeira,
spoken word, and live video manipulation.
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