The networked performance Is Starlight a Wifi Signal? shows a relationship between a body and the greater universe, generated through performers’ gestures, inscriptions and text. An expanded audience interacts with mobile devices via tweets with the hashtag #starlight which are embedded into the imagery.

A cosmogonic ritual, the traces of code, intertwined with translucent light, in which tendrils and elements are evoked in the telematic tableau vivant. The work explores how we deal with the tensions of ephemeral collaboration and physical separation as we negotiate relationships of presence filtered through networked objects via computer software and digital networks. Is Starlight a Wifi Signal? is a meditation it asks what it means to be human by giving a poetic account of how we automatically engage with ubiquitous transmissions. We have always navigated by the stars, and now as a species, we regularly and increasingly, habitually use networked communication systems (GSM, Bluetooth, Wifi, RFID, QR, AR, radio). These omnipresent transmissions and signals are a new kind of fictional species that exist with/in us.
What is happening on the level of the machine now information technologies are building new habitats, cosmographies and cosmologies?

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The piece involvedperformers and/ or participants from 2 locations Darwin and Tasmania in Australia streaming a live performance Via the Internet, which is broadcasted on 2 large screens in Sydney and Darwin.