P r e / a m b l e: A 2 day festival of Art and Psychogeography NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2003 Home Festival Overview Participating Artists Schedule of Events About Join the Mailing List Contact PRESENTED BY: Western Front Upgrade 2.0 Special Airplane Kate Armstrong Year Zero One OTHER LINKS: What is Psychogeography? Algorithmic Psychogeography Guy Debord's Theory of the Derive Why Psychogeography? Social Fiction Glowlab Psychogeography.net	Sharilyn Neidhardt E V E N T : Human Scale Chess Meet at the Western Front Date: Sunday, November 2, 2003 Time: 2 - 5 pm **IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING AS A CHESS PIECE, PLEASE EMAIL Sharilyn Neidhardt.** **OTHER SPECTATORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO DROP IN AT THE WESTERN FRONT ANYTIME BETWEEN 2 - 5 TO OBSERVE THE CHESS GAME IN PROGRESS.** On Sunday, November 2, human chess pieces will be moving from block to block on a grid in the City of Vancouver. Moves will be transmitted to them via mobile phone from the Western Front where two chess experts go head to head. Participants: Each person will be playing the part of a gamepiece in a giant lifesized game of chess, carried out in the SoMA (Main Street) neighborhood of Vancouver. Game moves will be transmitted from the chess masters at game HQ to participating gamepieces via cellphone. Each gamepiece must provide a reliable cellphone number. A map of the board will be provided. There will be thirty-two gamepieces at the beginning of the game. A knowledge of chess is not required. Gameboard: A neighborhood will be chosen for play where each block intersection represents a square of the chess board. Players representing bishops, rooks, knights, and especially queens should prepare for a fairly athletic couple of hours. Pawns and kings will have a more relaxed game. The Game: Experienced players will be playing a realtime game of chess at game HQ. Each move will be transmitted to the pieces via cellphone. We anticipate that the entire game will take about 2 hours. Game Headquarters: The players making the actual chess moves will be stationed at game HQ (Western Front, 303 Eat 8th Avenue, Vancouver), transmitting the moves to the gamepieces via cellphone. Captured gamepieces will return to game HQ. Pieces captured early in the game will have the option to assist in documenting the project. There will be a post-gameplay party at game HQ for players and pieces to discuss their experiences of the project. If you are interested in participating as a chess piece, please email Sharilyn Neidhardt. Spectators are encouraged to attend the event at the Western Front, where they may observe the chess game. BIO: Sharilyn Neidhardt is a Brooklyn-based artist whose psychogeographic work explores different approaches to the game of chess. 'Teach/Learn' was a part of the Frankfurt Free Manifesta in June 2002, where Ms. Neidhardt gave beginning chess lessons for one week in the cafe of the Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Germany. 'Human-scale Chess', where humans play the roles of chess pieces and are notified of the moves via cellphone, began as a part of the psychogeography conflux in May 2003. The third human-scale chess game will be played in Vancouver in November 2003. Ms. Neidhardt is a founding member of the Williamsburg Chess Club for Wayward Men and Ladies, meeting in Brooklyn every Monday evening. Human Scale Chess