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Among Immortals
Oudeis, an Internet Odyssey
On June 26th 1997, the Sala Terrena of Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria, will become the hall of Olympian Zeus, a place of joyous festivity surrounded by the oceanic waves of the Internet. On this occasion, the world-wide oudeis team will gather together in virtual space for the creation of a global theatrical production of part of Homer's Odyssey.

L. H. Grant is author of numerous plays and books. In oudeis, he is responsible for Text Realisation and Design.
Santiago Pereson studied piano and composition and is oudeis´ choros leader.
Monika 
Wunderer works in oudeis as

Using the medium of the Internet, translations of Homer's words in German will be sent into virtual space and come back as a multilingual translation framed by original musical compositions as the story of Odysseus, his wanderings, his companions and his opponents are created and presented. Also, the audience will be invited to participate and influence this act of collaborative creation.
During the course of this 
evening, works of Argentinean
composer Santiago Pereson, Austrian costume designer Ulli Nö and American playwright L.H. Grant are presented in a performance conceived by L.H. Grant and Monika Wunderer.
Members of the world - wide oudeis team (including Jim Terral from B.C., Dan Zellner from Chicago, Georg Leyrer from Vienna and Andrew Garton from Melbourne) will participate in the performance via the Internet and in the mirror event in ATHEMOO.
dramaturge. Her master thesis dealt with ”Theatre and the Internet”.
Ulli Nö is an

Existing Oudeis
In October 1995 the idea of oudeis was conceived in an open air restaurant in Austria. Since summer 1996 a creative team comes together on a mailinglist and in regular online meetings / by Monika Wunderer

Austria based costume designer and stylist and designs the looks of oudeis.

Jim Terral teaches writing at BC college. 
The aim of the team is to have a theater performance in 1998. In the development and in the work on realization, oudeis started to exist long before the actual performance. In the communication environment of the Internet, problems can be discussed and solved easily, and strategies for bringing an experimental theater performance like oudeis to life can be raised. ”Among Immortals” will not only retell the story of Odysseus as told by Homer, it will also tell the story of a collective creation of a theatrical work disregarding geographical and cultural borders.
09:00 PM Vienna - 12:00 Noon Los Angeles - 02:00 PM Chicago - 09:00 AM Honolulu 
04:00 PM Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro - 05:00 AM June 27 Melbourne
Three Ways Of Attending	
Attending physically: We warmly welcome you to the summer party of the Museum of Modern Art in the Palais Liechtenstein, 9, Fürsteng. 1, in Vienna, Austria.

	Attending audiovisually: With a webbrowser, shockwave and real audio plug ins, point your webbrowser to http://www.oudeis.org/ MMK, and you’ll be able to listen to the original musical compositions by the Argentinean composer Santiago Pereson and watch the story
of Odysseus confronted with Polyphem, making love to the nymph Calypso and coming home to his faithful wife Penelope.
Attending communicatively: The world-wide oudeis team gathers together in virtual space for the creation of a global theatrical 
production of Homer's Odyssey. The creative members of the world-wide oudeis team are introduced, come and be with us in ATHEMOO (telnet://moo. hawaii.edu, port 9999). Once you are connected, type @go oudeis and you will enter the Hall of Zeus in a textbased space.

	Among Immortals Credits	
A performance conceived by  	L. H. Grant, California, and 
	Monika Wunderer, Austria
Music	Santiago Pereson, Argentina
Screen Design 	Santiago Pereson & exm,
	Argentina
Costumes 	Ulli Nö, Austria
Offsite / Online Producer 	Jim Terral, Canada
Master of Ceremony 	Michaela Stankovsky, Austria
MOOMaster of Ceremony 	Georg Leyrer, Austria
Participants from all around the world	Jeff Croff, Michigan / Andrew Garton, 
(oudeis-idea Team) 	Melbourne / Cat Hebert / Boris
are connected via ATHEMOO, a virtual	Karnikowski, Germany / Matthew W.
space existing on-line for real time	Mitchell-Shiner, Twyla Mitchell-Shiner,
discussion and interaction	California / Nina LeNoir, Texas / Felippe
	Rosenburg, Brasilia / Dan Zellner, Illinois
network and computers	Rainer Fügenstein, Austria
light and sound equipment 	Hans Holler, Austria
public relations 	Karin Mayer & MMKSLW, Vienna
connected from Croatia by an Ericsson	Gernot Lechner,
cellular phone	kis.productions, Austria
ATHEMOO	designed by Dr. Juli Burk, Hawaii; supported by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Association of Theatre in Higher Education

webspace 	
real space 	Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna