Initiated in May 2007 during a workshop at the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland, Æther9 is a collaborative art project exploring the field of realtime video transmission.

Developed by an international group of visual artists and collectives working in 9 different locations (disseminated in Europe, North and South America) and communicating solely through the Internet, Æther9 has become a functional framework for collaborative video performance.

Making use of available software protocols (extended html, Java, Pure Data and Max/MSP), the system functions as an open platform for participants of any technical level, to transmit imagery in real-time and interact on the background of structured narrative performances questioning the issues of presence/absence, identity and intimacy in the context of the electronic space.

Resources:
project website