STAPLR DisPerSion

Tuesday 9 February 2016
3:30 – 5:30 pm

William Denton (York University Libraries)
Doug Van Nort (School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
and the Students of DATT 3200 Performing Telepresence

Re-imagine the real-time streams emanating from, to and about York University Libraries in its physical and virtual homes. Featuring:

STAPLR

William Denton’s sonification of YUL reference desks (listen remotely at staplr.org)

and

Sound, Light and Text Instruments

created by Van Nort and students, that react to YUL reference data and to Twitter feeds (@yorkulibraries, @FrostLibrary, @Bronfmanlibrary, @ScottLibrary, @SteacieLibrary, @dispersion_lab)

Performed between all branches of York University Libraries (Bronfman, Frost, Maps, Scott, SMIL, Steacie) and the DisPerSion Lab by DATT students, using Twitter as their interface.

Experience the immersive version at the DisPerSion Lab (334 Centre for Fine Arts),

Watch/Listen to the virtual feed (video, audio, Twitter) at http://www.dispersionlab.org/http://www.dispersionlab.org/www.dispersionlab.org

Participate and help perform the piece by tweeting @dispersion_lab