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Abstract

This paper explores concepts and practices of telematic performances, particularly through the lens of the project kompost*klang*küche*. It emphasizes spatial discontinuity within networked artistic collaborations, as opposed to immersive continuity.

Telematic performance formats utilize network technologies to facilitate low latency artistic endeavors across geographical divides, creating a complex interplay between local, remote, and intermediary spaces. In this context, we interpret spatial configurations from a phenomenological point of view as telematic SPACE in which technical components are in place in three spaces (local, remote and intermediary space) while practiced, embodied and inhabited in an anthropological space, where the overlay and dynamics of physical and virtual elements shape the experience of their inhabitants.

Our analysis delves into the place—the geometric configuration—of the specific telematic SPACE kompost*klang*küche*, examining the challenges of establishing telematic connections and their solutions. The consequences on signal routing and mixing lead to the embrace of aesthetics of failure.

Through the emergence of Glitch in the intermediary space the Internet transforms from medium to instrument and ultimately becomes the message.

Our examination extends to noise artifacts and signal corruption found within the extensive history of networked systems used for musical interaction. This investigation reveals that glitch phenomena are fundamentally integrated into configurations of networked and telematic performance formats.

Using theoretical approaches from the field of new materialism we contend that, within this conceptual framework of Glitch, technologies emerge as active participants that disrupt traditional notions of spatial continuity and transparency in telematic performance settings.

Thus in the telematic glitch SPACE of kompost*klang*küche*, telematic practices operate with the network, rather than over or in the network. From the perspective of new materialism, telematic SPACE shifts its focus from spatial configuration to a performative state, leading us to the proposition of the concept of telematic WORLDing. In these telematic WORLDings inhabitation is not limited to human users (performers, audience), but includes non-human agencies. Telematic WORLDing is a performing and becoming in a human-non-human entanglement.

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