Bloodbath – Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League #geekgirl

BLOODBATH http://bumpp.net/

Saturday 9 Oct  6.30pm – doors open 5.30pm Tickets through ticketek BLOODBATH is a collaborative distributed artwork by Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League. BLOODBATH features five artists – Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini and Sarah Waterson. At an all girl flat track   roller derby game, sensors on the helmets of players feed data to the five artworks, generating digital elaborations of the moves and   collisions on track.

All girl flat track roller derby is a raucous, irreverent game that usually results in minor injuries. It runs in bouts of 30 minutes, each bout being made up of 2 minute ‘jams’ in which one member of each team, the ‘jammer’, attempts to pass the pack and so score points.

For Bloodbath, the packs also have a virtual life, from robust wireless sensors (wiimotes) installed on the heads of players, collision, speed and rotational information is sent to a server and from there, on to data driven artworks. The artists are making their artworks live on site, in real-time, and these are projected as the game is played out.

Bloodbath builds on investigations into our human tendency towards, and attraction to, violence – these trajectories creating   technological  elaborations of our delighted riveted engagement in battle and its dynamics of attack, revenge, defence, collapse, victory, deceit and subterfuge. The artists will be working with digital manifestations of speeding flesh and programmed digital  activity. These works both follow and break the rules, embodying the generative repercussions of a fracas.

BLOODBATH http://bumpp.net/ Artists: Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini, Sarah Waterson Producers: Linda Dement, Kate Richards Original  idea: Linda Dement Technical development: Mr. Snow, House of Laudanum  Publicity: Deborah Turnbull, New Media Curation