Idris Goodwin: Instant Messages

Title:

Instant Messages

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Performers:



• Idris Goodwin

Symposium:

• ISEA2012: 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Artist Statement:

Hip Hop playwright, poet, essayist and performer Idris Goodwin is engaging Albuquerque teens in National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Voces program and Tricklock Company’s Manoa Project to create Instant Messages, a performance piece developed from evocative, inspiring and humorous conversations found on Twitter and social networking sites. He theatrically transforms and performs some of these “digital dialogues” together with student participants and members of Tricklock Company.

Category:

• Performance Art