Date: Ongoing from April 1, 2015 through April 2, 2015. See details for exact dates and times.
Location: Bing Concert Hall
*WORLD PREMIERE* Co-created, Composed, and Performed by Ben Neill & Mikel Rouse Co-conceived by Ben Neill, Mikel Rouse & Bob McGrath Directed by Bob McGrath The Demo is a music-theater work based on Douglas Engelbart’s historic 1968 demonstration of early computer technology. The piece reimagines his demonstration as a technologically infused music and media event, a new form of hybrid performance, equal parts meditation, elegy, and fantasia, set simultaneously in the 1960s and today.“It was December 1968. An obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute stood before a hushed San Francisco crowd and blew every mind in the room. His 90-minute demo rolled out virtually all that would come to define modern computing: videoconferencing, hyperlinks, networked collaboration, digital text editing, and something called a ‘mouse.’”—Wired Magazine The Demo concludes our Live Context: Art + Ideas series, which begins with Haydn: Patronage & Enlightenment and continues with a performance by the Nile Project. More information on the series will be available in fall 2014.
Location: Bing Concert Hall
*WORLD PREMIERE* Co-created, Composed, and Performed by Ben Neill & Mikel Rouse Co-conceived by Ben Neill, Mikel Rouse & Bob McGrath Directed by Bob McGrath The Demo is a music-theater work based on Douglas Engelbart’s historic 1968 demonstration of early computer technology. The piece reimagines his demonstration as a technologically infused music and media event, a new form of hybrid performance, equal parts meditation, elegy, and fantasia, set simultaneously in the 1960s and today.“It was December 1968. An obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute stood before a hushed San Francisco crowd and blew every mind in the room. His 90-minute demo rolled out virtually all that would come to define modern computing: videoconferencing, hyperlinks, networked collaboration, digital text editing, and something called a ‘mouse.’”—Wired Magazine The Demo concludes our Live Context: Art + Ideas series, which begins with Haydn: Patronage & Enlightenment and continues with a performance by the Nile Project. More information on the series will be available in fall 2014.