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"A crash, triggered by an overly eager Internet user clicking away just that one
time too much, switches the motor of the control system over to human
impatience. There, where software and hardware interfaced, where language and
metal embraced, where command lines and circuitry turned digital somersaults
together, right there, the human behind the machine pushed himself right through
and into it - and everything changed. Now computer time and human time
intersect, the logic of the machine, now broken and infected by its physical
surrounding, oozes out, while remote data structures take control of a whole
theater space, reducing the flow of a once so lovely story, to an unpredictable
series of 0s and 1s."
From the introduction to Far-Flung's future

FAR-FLUNG's future
  by Ursula Endlicher
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Far-Flung's future is a media-performance-installation which investigates
different aspects in the relationship between humans and machines and is
choreographed by real-time computer processes. Live-performed movement and
computer generated video, lighting, sound and wind are influenced by the same
data structures – weather conditions and time-of-day data from locations around
the globe are changing the theater space from one moment to the next. The score
of the performance is determined by the "system" and structured into random time
units. A cast of computer functionalities turned human carry out their labors
within unpredictable sequences – acts – of "on" and "off".

PERFORMANCES:
Far-Flung's future premiered on Friday, November 20, 2015 at WUK/Grosser Saal,
in Vienna.

CREATIVE TEAM:
Artistic direction / Concept / Media / Stage & Scenography: Ursula Endlicher
Light Installation: Thomas J. Jelinek
Programming: Klaus Filip
Set Production: Lee Day and Ernst Endlicher
Sound: Szely

CAST:
Frans Poelstra
Yuka Takahashi
Mzamo Nondlwana
Evandro Pedroni
Ursula Endlicher
Robert Appleton and Laura Meyers (Video Performances)

Many thanks to the whole technical set-up team at WUK!

Far-Flung's future has been produced for SOCIAL GLITCH, a two month event-series
of exhibitions, sound works, and performances, curated by Sylvia Eckermann,
Gerald Nestler und Max Thoman in cooperation with Bettina Kogler /
WUK.performing.arts und kunstraum NIEDEROESTERREICH.

Treating performance like software, Far-Flung's future is the second in an
ongoing series and an "upgraded version" of Far-Flung follows function which was
performed in 2013 at xMPL (Experimental Media Performance Lab) at the
Contemporary Art Center at UC Irvine/CA.

Far-Flung's future is realized with the generous support of the cultural section
of the City of Vienna.