[Text available only in English] Shu Lea Cheang, artist, conceptualist and filmmaker, has worked in the field of net-based installation, social interface, networked performance and film production. Her work traverses between hard and soft, sex and polities, fiction and reality, fantasia and earth-bound. Noted for BRANDON (1998-1999) , the first Guggenheim Museum web art commission and collection, she continues her work in several narrative streams. Locker Baby Project initiated in 2001 includes Baby Play (shown 2001 at NTT[ICC] Tokyo), Baby Love (shown 2005 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris) and Baby Work (yet to be realized). She made two feature films, Fresh Kill (1994) was premiered at Berlin film festival and included in Whitney Biennale 1995; I.K.U. (2000) was premiered at Sundance Film Festival and shown internationally in commercial cinema, museums and festivals. In 2007, she was commissioned a new media work Mobiopera by Sundance film festival New Frontier. In 2008, she launched a 12 hour mega-sonic performance Moving Forest with AKA the castle at Transmediale08 Berlin.

In 2009-2010, she co-organized woman live performers network

LaptopsRus.Me which toured 4 seasons in 5 European cities.

U.K.I. live performance LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM (70:00) At L.P.M. 2011

OPEN CALL for NOISE sound artists to join UKI live performance at Videntity (curated by Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka Warbear), of LPM, Live Performance Meeting (Location: Nuovo Cinema Aquila // ROMA - Date: third week end Of May- Day: Tba)

U.K.I. live performance invites local (Rome/Italy) and LPM participants of noise sound /free software genre to join us on a LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM viral trip!!! As a sequel to Shu Lea Cheang's cyberpunk cult movie I.K.U. , the replicants of U.K.I. trades sex for codes, code sexing code in noise blast out, a virus is born and multiplied to eventually infect a city! This 70 minute non-stop hyper-jam session is joined by Martin Howse (sound scheme / grand mix) and Diana Pornoterrorista (vocal).

We ask noise sound artists to plug in with own laptops/devices!!

We aim for orgasmic high as we set Rome under UKI viral attack!!

For more information:

Live Performers Meeting 2011, Rome

http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/

Videntity at LPM

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180302392010969

U.K.I. live performance LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM (70:00) At L.P.M. 2011

http://www.u-k-i.co/ [www.u-k-i.co%2F&h=0d51burAeYqj9_VUKz4RQN0r1cQ" target="_blank" class="text-truncate">https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u-k-i.co%2F&h=0d51burAeYqj9_VUKz4RQN0r1cQ>" rel="nofollow" target="_blank]

uki live performance - credits/synopsis/tech rider

http://www.mauvaiscontact.info/proposal/UKI-liveperformance-specs.pdf

viral patch performance excerpts (5:00)

http://vimeo.com/17478343

write to

Shu Lea Cheang

Shulea@earthlink.net

with your website/sample work