INTRODUCTION    Time's Up, in association with BIOMACHINES and r a d i o q u a l i a present: CLOSING THE LOOP 2000 a laboratory on sound & gameplay across networks Phase 1: 7 - 12 February Phase 2: 9 - 12 March Old Flour Mill, 13 Muundy Street, Port Adelaide, Australia Iris Cinema, Media Resource Centre, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide, Australia   Closing The Loop 2000 is an international research and performance project examining how sound, technology and gameplay can conspire to promote collaboration and inventiveness across networks. Closing the Loop 2000 is the second phase of the Closing the Loop series. 1998 saw a series of experiments under the moniker, CTL98, taking place at the Time's Up Laboratories in Linz, Austria. The year 2000 begins with a new series of experiments in the Time's Up outpost in Port Adelaide, South Australia. Closing the Loop 2000 is a project aimed at investigating the effectiveness of techniques for net based collaboration. The Loop involved is that between two or more active participants, their vectors of transmission aimed at one another, the loop involved leading to a collaborative process. The project is divided into two phases: PHASE 1: RESEARCH LABORATORY || SOCIAL LABORATORY 7 - 12 February Iris Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide Old Flour Mill, 13 Mundy Street, Port Adelaide 10 - 12 artists, pseudoscientists, technicians and geeks from around Australia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand will gather in a RESEARCH LABORATORY environment to examine sound technologies and online networks. Many techniques have been found to be appropriate in previous investigations of such things, and CTL2000 has amongst its goals the appraisal of such techniques and the collection of these experiences into a coherent form; in some sense a "Net Collaboration HOWTO."   A BROADCAST window each evening, connects participants in the physical space with participants online. Issues at stake here address the problems that are common to the network collaborations possible outside large corporate or governmental structures. How can significant collaboration be achieved without massive investment in up to the minute hardware, software and connectivity? What tools are readily available for experiments? How can technological hurdles be smoothed without reducing the collaborator to a mere "user?" The manifestations of this research will be presented at a SOCIAL LABORATORY at the Old Flour Mill in Mundy Street, Port Adelaide on 12 February, and BROADCAST online.

PHASE 2: BIOMACHINES LABORATORY 9 - 12 March BIOMACHINES, Old Flour Mill, 11 Mundy Street, Port Adelaide CTL2000 will culminate its activities during the Adelaide Festival, at the BIOMACHINES event. BIOMACHINES is an autonomous entertainment area, comprising robots, machines, fire and sound. It is devised and curated by Julianne Pierce, David Cranswick and Tim Boykett. For four nights the Port Adelaide docklands will become home to some of the world's leading industrial sound and machine artists.       CTL2000 is produced with the assistance of the South Australian Government through Arts SA and the Media Resource Centre, with additional support from the Australian Network for Art and Technology, PATU, Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, and Virtual Artists Pty Ltd.   For more information, please contact: Time's Up: tim@timesup.org http://www.timesup.org r a d i o q u a l i a: honor@va.com.au http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au