IN HUMAN FORMAT AT ELEKTRA 2007Bent Object will be performing In human format at the Elektra festival on friday 11th of May 2007 at the Usine C in Montréal. The full festival line-up is now online at the Elektra website.
'In human format' is the collaboration between Bent Object's music and FoAM's visuals. Brussels-based artists Peter Van Hoesen, Susanne Bentley (Bent Object), Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney (FoAM) present an intense audiovisual language. They draw the spectator into a world where sounds and patterns
shift and blend organically into each other. Music as collage, sound as experiment. ‘In human Format’ offers a dense musical
composition linked to an even more intense visual layer. FoAM stretches our visual imagination beyond the average digital landscapes. Organic textures collide with byte-based forms, linked to sounds through changing aesthetic tactics: at times evenly matched, at times side-stepping and attaching themselves to different musical events.
VJ THEORY CHAT SESSIONS:LETS CHAT
Cimatics likes to invite you to participate on the discussion/chats VJ Theory is organizing.
For this project, six of VJ Theory contributors moderate six chats online. Each chat last one hour and has as subject a specific theme within the area of real-time interaction. There is one in the morning (10AM/London) and another one in the evening (7PM/London), from the 4th until the 6th of April. Check WorldClock for time at your geographical position.
04.04.2007: Authorship - Michael Betancourt04.04.2007: Technology - Federico Bonelli05.04.2007: Networks and Collaboration - Magda Tyzlik-Carver05.04.2007: Narrative - Paul Mumford and Lara Huston06.04.2007: Politics and Ideology - Bram Crevits06.04.2007: Performer - Mark Amerika
You are welcome to join and contribute with your ideas to these conversations:http://www.vjtheory.net/lets_chat/lets_chat_ok.htm
BETWEEN ART & POP
Title Safe WLTRVRDN (TS limited edition DVD box out May 2007)
Without adhering to the rules of either discipline, Walter Verdin unites image and sound, explores the boundaries between art and pop culture, and brings about unexpected synergies. By virtue of his many years as an audiovisual artist, composer and performer, his work now already fuses both cult and classic. Cimatics is therefore very pleased to present the TITLE SAFE DVD box including the work of 27 visual artists, video and film makers, as well as quite a number of musicians.
With his reference to the technical video term ‘title safe area’’, Verdin creates a metaphor for conformity, one which he immediately denies and transforms into a non-conformist refuge for audiovisual artists. It is Cimatics’ essential aim to create just such a refuge: safeguarding an experimental space for the apparently fast evolving though fairly young audiovisual culture from the perspective of the relation between image and sound...
SYNKEN - A VISUAL MUSIC FILM
by Transforma & O.S.T. - in theater
An evolving, resonating journey through splintering landscapes and mysterious characters. Abstractions and forms are reverberated in fragile soundscapes of chaotic planes and unsettling arrhythmic patterns. Is it film or an improvised VJ cut-up? Is it visualized music feeding back into images, or images generating music? Synchronized sinking as SYNKEN is Transforma and O.S.T.’s collective creative experience. SYNKEN pushes the limitations and restrictions of genres and steps across new ground in digital art. With a mix of abstract images, graphic animation, digital image effects and complex film sequences, SYNKEN creates a fantastically spaced out, darkly romantic image-world. Forests filled with distorted organic forms are contrasted against an architectural abyss, as strange and fantastic characters try to make sense of their surroundings. A mysterious vagabond works as a medium between these parallel worlds, transporting artefacts that become recurring symbols in the dual system and means of communication between the creatures which inhabit them. Produced in parallel to the images, O.S.T.‘s arrhythmic crackling electronic 5.1 surround soundtrack bathes the images in an eerily hypnotic flow. As sound and image merge and fall apart again over time, they form a synergy that opens up subtle leads which can never be read only as linear. As plot fragments refract and reoccur, SYNKEN continuously confronts the viewer with a modular narrative that can be potentially combined to create any number of interpretations. in the live performance version, Transforma and O.S.T.‘s real-time decisions will use this potential to develop further one-off versions of SYNKEN.
VJ: AUDIO-VISUAL ART + VJ CULTURE
Published by Laurence King © 2006Compiled by D-Fuse / 192 pages, 260x240mm300+ colour images & exclusive DVD
The first wide-ranging guide to the global phenomenon of audio visual art + VJ culture. Featuring over 130 global contributors + an extensive hardware and software resource section. The book includes a free DVD featuring documentaries, live performances and videos form the featured artists with contributions of Cimatics.
Overview–
This book will be the first to document VJing as a global culture, providing an indepth look at the artists and cities at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience. Combining how-to, showcase and reference elements, it will appeal to VJs and video artists, graphic designers, students and musicians.
A/V VJING + AUDIO VISUAL ART book has been structure into five sections that feature cutting edge practitioners and address numerous areas of the VJ arena: VJ Overview, VJ Artist, A/V, VJ Resources and Index. The VJ Overview will give us a historical overview along with a current look at the global practice of VJ Culture today. The VJ Artist section will highlight 100 + artist across the globe from USA and Canada, Europe, Japan and China, Australia, Russia, Australia and New Zealand with the feature of 2 leading artist per country. The A/V section has been specifically dedicated to the discourse of contemporary VJ practice. In this section sound artist Scanner dissects the relationship between image and sound and gives us an inside look into what it takes to work with some of the leading VJ's today. VJ Resources will give in-depth visual tutorials on how to set up for a VJ performance and the tools it takes to make a dynamic and high impact experience for you and the audience. Finally, a Glossary to help everyone understand the terminology used within the VJ trade.
The book will include a DVD featuring a 30-minute documentary on VJs in Europe, live performances, VJ loops, How To Tutorials and Free Software Demos.
Content–
The book will feature an in-depth Introductory essay into the Culture of VJing by graphic designer and writer Adrian Shaughnessy . He is author of three books on ‘radical record cover design’ (the Sampler series) and is about to publish his latest book, ‘How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul’. He is currently creative director of virtual design company, ‘This is Real Art’. Followed by a Historical Overview by Cimatics. This book will feature the work of many of the most recognised VJ and A/V artists across the Globe such as DJ Spooky, Flora+Fauna,UVA, C-TRL, LightSurgeons and MMM.
These will be followed by exclusive essays on Video Art by Elliott Earls, Audio by Scanner and Tour Visual by Lisa Loco. Then an informational section of visual spreads showing equipment (hardware and software) by Bunzo Ono [Beck Vj] and a ‘How To’ stage set-up (explaining how to set up equipment, utilize space, create an environment that offers a good audience experience, etc.). There will be guidelines and tips on how to do your own performance.
The authors–
D-Fuse is a group of VJs, artists +designers from varied disciplines, who work across a range of creative media from Art + Architecture, to Live A/V Performances to Mobile Media, Web, Print, TV & Film. D-Fuse work in collaboration with a wide variety of musicians, ranging from Beck to electronic artists Scanner & Leftfield, to contemporary classical Ensemble Alter Ego. In 2001 D-Fuse received a Netmage/Diesel Award for the world VJing championships. Their work has been screened internationally, including Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero Festivals, Eyebeam [NYC], SFMOMA, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz] The Rotterdam Film Festivals, Lisbon + Valencia Bienniale + many others. D-Fuse have recently collaborated with Beck to create the groundbreaking ‘Guero’ DVD Audio/DVD Video and currently touring with Beck.
ALTITUDE 1000 DVD COMPILATION - OUT NOW !
Altitude 1000 focuses on Brussels-based artists who combine sound and image in a refreshing way: from vj's to new media hackers, performance artists to installation designers. The Altitude 1000 compilation DVD and accompanying festival in co-production with Recyclart are the first results of an exciting search through the unique, yet fragmented Brussels audiovisual landscape. Altitude 1000 takes this fragmentation as its starting point and aims to render the rare diversity of the Brussels scene visible.
Altitude 1000 is a joint project by Foton and Cimatics. Visit the Altitude 1000 website for detailed info.
All artists on this DVD compilation are available for live performances
RELINE 2
a DVD collection of 18 progressive audiovisual works
RELINE2 artists investigate modern mythology, examine environments, play with similes between machine and body, and explode form. Through the use of custom software, unique processing methods, and envelope- pushing applications of traditional production tools, these works push technical limits and the very boundaries of style and imagination. RELINE2 offers an insight into the current world and it's potential future as imagined through graphic re-interpretations, biotechnology, architecture, and the environment. RELINE2 features the music of: AGF, Anon, Brian Jackson, The Knobs, Lusine ICL, Jake Mandell, Otto Von Schirach, QDepartment, seed(), Sewn, Solvent, Twerk, and Venetian Snares ABOUT THE RELINE DVD SERIES The goal of the RELINE DVD series is to compile an array of work showcasing artists engaged in the creation of new visual forms deriving from experimental techniques and the re-orientation of high- end production processes. Part video archive, part work of art itself, the RELINE DVD series serves the dual goal of contextualizing and developing an emerging media form.
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