Electronic Shamanism

Jackson 2bears & Ted Hiebert

Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
Toronto, Canada, January 23-February 28, 2009. Curated by MJ Kim
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Interactive Futures 05
Victoria, Canada, November 2005. Curated by Steve Gibson
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Strategies for Interactive Possession (Performance), 2009

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Electronic Shamanism

a Noxious Sector project

Electronic Shamanism is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jackson 2Bears and Ted Hiebert. Electronic Shamanism is conceived as an exploration of technological mediation and as a forum for imaginative self-fashioning. Project descriptions are included below.

Strategies for Interactive Possession
Jackson 2Bears & Ted Hiebert, 2009

Strategies for Interactive Possession is a study of split self-consciousness, using a two-channel model of subjectivity to provoke sensory disorientation through the application of technology and trance. The performance incorporates experimental sound and video, brainwaves, neurofeedback and self-hypnosis techniques to create a forum for the exploration of vertigo, sensory overload and possession as tools for interactive self-awareness.

Experimental Self-Hypnosis: Shapeshifting
Jackson 2Bears & Ted Hiebert, 2005

Experimental Self-Hypnosis: Shapeshifting is an interactive audio performance that uses researched self-hypnosis techniques and experimental sound composition to explore the notion of hypnotically augmented reality. Working collaboratively in order to maximize the effectiveness of this performance, the sounds of 2Bears, the script of Hiebert and the voice of Adams come together to offer the audience an opportunity to engage in the possibilities of imaginative self-fashioning. In this lies the suggestion that autopoetic self-possession offers one potential way of reconstituting selfhood and performative identity in an age of technological possession.