The 2008 ADA Symposium, 'Tending Networks' is happening in
Christchurch February 22/23/24 (that's 3 weeks away!)
Friday Night Kicks off with 'Séance for Nam June Paik', a screening/
performance event curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark
Keynote Speakers are Adam Hyde and Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Panels:
Curating and exhibiting Digital Art
Building Community Networks
Producing and Collaborating
Plus a wide range of artist's project and research presentations.
Registrations: $30/50
Please email symposium(a)aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz with 'Symposium
Attendance' in the subject line to let us know you're coming.
Registration fees will be collected at the event.
*
To Leonardo Organisational Members and Advisors
From: Leonardo Space Arts Working Group.
New Cultural Initiative tied to the Indian Chandrayaan 1 and 2 space
missions
to the Moon
Leonardo is working on a collaboration with the Srishti Art and Design
School in Bangalore, the National Institute of Advanced Study in
Bangalore, and Arts Catalyst of London, UK.
It is a proposal for a cultural 'vehicle' containing an exhibition, a
publication and public
artworks on India's Moon mission in 2008, Chandrayaan 1. 'Moon
Vehicle' will be
a method of transmitting the cultural and philosophical meanings of the
moon in India's
culture and will initiate a dialogue about the public perception of
space exploration in
an Indian context.
They have set up a discussion group set up called the Bangalore Space and
Culture Working Group set up on Leonardo Education Forum
http://artsci.ucla.edu/LEF/node/127
We are using this for general news and info related
to the moon and culture.
You need to register to LEF and then sign up for the group
and if you want to get email sign up for that option
If you are interested in being involved, or already have a project
related to the moon please post information on the web site.
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Roger Malina Is in USA
510 853 2007
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Faculty of Arts
Room 127 John Medley East
The University of Melbourne
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Australia
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Subject: [microsound] Self confindence in art
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:57 +0100
From: reSet Sakrecoer <sakrecoer(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: microsound <microsound(a)hyperreal.org>
To: microsound <microsound(a)hyperreal.org>
After reading alot of peoples frustration about being an artist and having
to eat from crapjobs, inside and outside microsound, and seeing the deadline
of the microsound project approaching, i thought i'd too would push some
energy into this list:
*Believe in yourself and your inner Revolution
Believe in yourself and your inner Evolution
Believe in yourself and your inner Melody
Believe in yourself and your inner Harmony
When you walk, trust your tempo.
When you talk, trust your tempo.
When you play, trust your rhythm.
Be arrogant to some, self confident to others.
Make hits and tubes, let it be a noise hit: don't ever clank down on your
creation.
Use tools, don't let them use you.
Use advice, don't let it possess you.
Be wrong, it will show you what is right.
Be fair, it will show you what is wrong.
Keep on dreaming
**it is the source of art, **it helps framing reality
Keep on working.
It is only finished when you decide to.*
It might sound realy stupid, but my special technic is cultivating my love
for small beauties and store them in a simple equation that goes:
love=n! where n=imagination
May my words be good to some and rubbish to others.
--
Set Hallström
AKA
reSet Sakrecoer
+34 697 903 606
http://reset.mxx.ch
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damian stewart | +351 967 797 263 | damian(a)frey.co.nz
frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz
hello & happy 2008 everyone : ) i hope you have all had at least a
little holiday & are starting the new year with renewed energy!
We are delighted to announce that the 070707 show "Freeze, Flight or
Fight", by Igneous (Suzon Fuks & James Cunningham), will be performed
again on February 20 and 21. This show is notable for its great use
of Flash animations within the UpStage environment, as well as for
its humour and audience interaction.
February 20th at 9pm in Brisbane, Australia
find your local time here:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_AU-QLD.aspx?y=2008&mo=2&d=20…
February 21st at 6am in Brisbane, Australia
find your local time here:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_AU-QLD.aspx?y=2008&mo=2&d=21…
Please come 10-15 minutes earlier to load the stage:
http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/rejection
And - the next open walk-through in UpStage will take place on
Wednesday 6 February. We haven't decided on the time of the
walk-through yet - it will be announced imminently, but if you would
like to attend and have a time preference, please let me know.
helen : )
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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen(a)creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.avatarbodycollision.orghttp://www.upstage.org.nzhttp://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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THE AUDIO FOUNDATION IN COLLABORATION WITH VIT S PRESENT
THE FIRST 2008 ALT.MUSIC EVENT
THE NECKS
FEB 29TH, 8 PM, $25.00
THE CIVIC WINTERGARDEN
Corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland
Tickets through Ticketek
Free workshop TBC
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“For those unfamiliar with The Necks… their approach is to take a
musical idea, sometimes a seemingly inconsequential musical idea,
with a short life expectancy, and develop it, slowly transform it,
roll it around for approaching the hour mark, riveting your attention
throughout”
The Wire - David Stubbs
Chris Abraham (piano), Tony Buck (drums), and Lloyd Swanton(bass)
conjure a chemistry together that defies description in orthodox terms.
These three musicians are among the most respected and in-demand in
Australia, working in every field from pop to avant-garde. Over 200
albums feature their presence individually or together, but the music
of The Necks stands apart from everything else they have done.
Featuring lengthy pieces which slowly unravel in the most
intoxicating fashion, frequently underpinned by an insistent deep
groove, The Necks stand up to listening time and time again.
The deceptive simplicity of their music throws forth new charms on
each hearing. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient,
nor jazz, the music of The Necks is possibly unique in the world today.
“Australia's the Necks defy conventions about making and listening to
music. Each performance … is an hour of unbroken improvisation, each
one different to the last. So if you are a Necks fan, you cannot be
sure you will hear your favourite Necks moment again. After 20 years,
there are no "greatest hits", only what is next.”
The Guardian – John L Walters
Organised by the Audio Foundation, Alt.music is an ongoing series of
audio events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary
and avant-garde sound art from around the world to New Zealand.
Previous Alt.Music artists include Keith Fullerton Whitman, Peter
Rehberg, Pauline Oliveros, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez,
Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi, Metamkine, Richard Nunns and the Dead C.
Vitamin-S was devised as a place where those interested in
'improvised music' could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and
generally interact with, all aspects of this complex and largely
misunderstood art form
The Audio Foundation and Alt.music is supported by Creative New
Zealand, ASB Trust, THE EDGE® and STAMP, and VIT S
http://www.thenecks.comhttp://www.audiofoundation.org.nzhttp://www.myspace.com/altmusicfestivalhttp://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/
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SHARE FESTIVAL e 02L > OUTSIDE STANDING LEVEL @ TRANSMEDIALE FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 presentano:
- THE SPECIAL PLAYER, interactive live set
- THE SHAIDON EFFECT dj set EVENT SESSION AT C-BASE BERLIN
[Tue 31/01/08 22:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER Public beta
[Fri 01/02/08 21:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live temple show )
Presentazione, performance e party
[Fri 01/02/08 24:00]: THE SHAIDON EFFECT DJ SET
[Sat 02/02/08 17:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live set )
[Dom 03/02/08 17:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live set )
Location: c-base rungestrasse 20 - 2. HH - 10179 Berlin
THE SPECIAL PLAYER
THE SPECIAL PLAYER è una performance interattiva che farà parte del Festival Transmediale 08 - Conspire. THE SPECIAL PLAYER esplora una narrazione "cospirativa" molto inquietante , coinvolgendo in un sofisticato ambiente di motion tracking, quattro ballerini di danza contemporanea e il loro pubblico.
Durante la performance l'ambiente digitale costruisce intorno ai ballerini una complessa aura digitale, che svela una trama nascosta all'ovvietà. Evocando ancestrali paure dell'uomo, The SPECIAL PLAYER trascina i visitatori proprio al centro di una sinistra cospirazione. Utilizzando un algoritmo segreto di analisi del movimento, The SPECIAL PLAYER seleziona ogni singolo visitatore dotandolo di poteri schiaccianti.
IO SONO TE: THE SPECIAL PLAYER
The SPECIAL PLAYER è il risultato di un progetto di cooperazione interdisciplinare tra coreografi internazionali, danzatori contemporanei con il gruppo di interactive live set 02L> Outside Standing Level, la berlinese Picamotics / piattaforma ATTOMAAKU e libavg, una infrastruttura multimediale open-source di alto livello che si dedica in particolare alle installazioni interattive.
Chi Siamo
2L> Outside Standing Level Picamotics e, in collaborazione con Picamotics / ATTOMAAKU, C-base, Torino Share Festival e Planb hanno creato un gruppo multidisciplinare di progettazione internazionale.
designer, artisti, musicisti, programmatori, giornalisti, ballerini si daranno appuntamento sul filo della sperimentazione a Transmediale 08, il tuo personale SPECIAL PLAYER. Tu stesso!
Links:
http://transmediale.dehttp://www.02l.nethttp://www.libavg.de/http://picamotics.comhttp://www.c-base.orghttp://www.toshare.it
Contatti:
The Special Player: thespecialplayer(a)02L.net
Share Festival: info(a)toshare.it
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SHARE FESTIVAL & 02L > OUTSIDE STANDING LEVEL @ TRANSMEDIALE FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 presents:
- THE SPECIAL PLAYER, interactive live set
- THE SHAIDON EFFECT dj set EVENT SESSION AT C-BASE BERLIN
[Tue 31/01/08 22:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER Public beta
[Fri 01/02/08 21:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live temple show )
Presentation, performance and party
[Fri 01/02/08 24:00]: THE SHAIDON EFFECT DJ SET
[Sat 02/02/08 17:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live set )
[Dom 03/02/08 17:00]: THE SPECIAL PLAYER ( interactive live set )
Location: c-base rungestrasse 20 - 2. HH - 10179 Berlin
THE SPECIAL PLAYER
THE SPECIAL PLAYER is an interactive performance in the context of the festival transmediale 08 - conspire. Involving a sophisticated responsive motion tracking environment, four contemporary dancers and its visitors, THE SPECIAL PLAYER explores a massively disquieting conspirative narration.
In the performance, the ambient digital environment provides the dancers with a complex 'Digital Aura', which reveals the network behind the obvious. Relaying to the ancient human fears, THE SPECIAL PLAYER throws its visitors right in the center of a sinister conspiration. Using a secret motion analysis algorithm, THE SPECIAL PLAYER selects single visitors and equips them with overwhelming power.
I AM YOU: THE SPECIAL PLAYER
The SPECIAL PLAYER is a result of an interdisciplinary cooperation project between international choreographs, contemporary dancers, the interactive live set group 02L > Outside Standing Level, the Berlin-based Picamotics/ATTOMAAKU-Platform and libavg, an open-source high-level multimedia platform with a focus on interactive installations.
WE ARE
02L > Outside Standing Level and Picamotics, in collaboration with ATTOMAAKU,
c-base, Torino Share Festival and Planb created an international and
multidisciplinary projectual group.
Designers, artists, musicians, software programmers, journalist, dancers will
join and find together through the edge of experimentation, your personal Special
Player. YourSELF !
LINKS:
http://transmediale.dehttp://www.02l.nethttp://www.libavg.de/http://picamotics.comhttp://www.c-base.orghttp://www.toshare.it
CONTACTS:
The Special Player: thespecialplayer(a)02L.net
Share Festival: info(a)toshare.it
SHARE FESTIVAL
Experiences in digital cultures
www.toshare.it
Kia ora Ada,
I hope this email finds you well and enjoying
your summer. Here there is a howling gale
outside and it is sub-zero, so enjoy your warm
summer days! ;-)
Please find below the programme announcement for
AV Festival 08: Broadcast in the North East of
England.
The AV Festival <http://www.avfestival.co.uk/> is
a biennial international festival of electronic
art, moving image and music.
The next festival takes place 28 Feb - 8 March 08
and is on a topic very close to my heart -
broadcasting! It features Marko Peljhan
(Slovenia), Harun Farocki (Germany), Tetsuo
Kogawa (Japan), Autechre (UK), Joyce Hinterding
(Australia), Yuko Mohri (Japan), Jean-Jacques
Perrey (France), Chris Watson (UK), People Like
Us (UK) and many many others.
I have included an announcement about the festival below.
The full programme can be downloaded or viewed
from the AV website: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
A fully searchable version of the programme will
be online by the end of the month.
I would be delighted if some of you would
consider attending the festival. if ou happen to
be visiting Europe during February/March, I
would be honoured to welcome you here in the
North East of England.
I would be very happy to help design an itinerary
for anyone of you who wished to attend. Please
do not hesitate to let me know if you want more
information about the festival.
Sincere apologies for cross-posting!
Very best wishes
Honor Harger
Director, AV Festival 08
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
AV FESTIVAL 08 - PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT
AV Festival 08
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
28 February - 8 March 2008
The AV Festival <http://www.avfestival.co.uk/> is
a biennial international festival of electronic
art, moving image and music. AV Festival 08:
Broadcast will take place across the three urban
areas of NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland &
Middlesbrough, 28 February - 8 March 2008.
The theme of the festival is broadcast. The UK
has begun to switch off analogue television
signals, paving the way for television to become
entirely digital. At the same time the internet
and mobile networks have created opportunities
for us to 'broadcast ourselves' in entirely new
ways. As the landscape of broadcasting changes
irrevocably, AV Festival 08 will be a catalyst
for debate about the future of broadcasting, and
an event to celebrate a century of on-air and
online transmission.
AV Festival 08: Broadcast features of over 100
new commissions, exhibitions, screenings,
concerts, workshops and events, including:
- a new performance of John Cage's Variations VII
performed by :zoviet*france: & Atau Tanaka
- a newly commissioned outdoor performance by Marko Peljhan
- a contemporary version of the famous radio War
of the Worlds radio play, directed by Joanna Read
- performances by Autechre, the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Broadcast,
Disinformation, Long Range & many others
- a newly commissioned sound installations by
Chris Watson, Marcus Coates, People Like Us and
others
- exhibitions by Joyce Hinterding, Harun Farocki,
Staalplaat Soundsystem, Yuko Mohri, Sonia Boyce,
Ryota Kuwakubo and others
- a major new touring exhibition, Broadcast
Yourself, featuring Bill Viola, Chris Burden,
Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie & others
- a conference featuring Atau Tanaka, Douglas
Kahn, Brandan Labelle, Heidi Grundmann, Andreas
Broeckmann, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec & others
- workshops lead by Tetsuo Kogawa, Raitis Smits, Caitlin Jones and others
- a screening programme of bold and innovative television
- 3 FM radio stations, including Resonance FM
broadcasting from mima in Middlesbrough
___AV Festival 08: theme
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/introductions/honor_harger
We have just entered the second century of
broadcasting. And it finds us on the apex of
massive change. The switch off of analogue
broadcasting has now started. Information and
entertainment which has been sent via the
airwaves since the beginning of the 20th century
is going digital.
What does this mean for the future of
broadcasting? Does the switch to digital create
greater possibilities for cultural and community
participation in broadcasting? Or will the
switch create more complex regulatory frameworks,
which disempower potential broadcasters? Will the
airwaves fall silent after the switch off? What
is the fate of the part of the spectrum that
radio and television use now? Will this valuable
natural resource be opened up for public use? Or
will these frequencies be sold to mobile
telephone companies or the military?
The answers to these questions may define our
entertainment culture for the next decades, and
will provide the backdrop for AV Festival 08.
At the same time as traditional broadcasting
faces transformation, the internet has emerged as
a key network for the distribution of audiovisual
material. It seems that the webcasting
revolution promised at the end of last millennium
is just beginning to bear fruit. Then, artists
such as Van Gogh TV, Active Ingredient and Nina
Pope & Karen Guthrie (Broadcast Yourself, Hatton
Gallery Newcastle) used technologies such as
videophones and streaming media to create
channels for artistic broadcasting. Now, the
immense popularity of user-generated audio and
video online networks, such as MySpace and
YouTube, are creating a parallel universe of
radio and television on the internet. We'll show
how a new generation of student filmmakers are
inhabiting and shaping these online spaces, in
AV:IRAL, which will be screened online at our
YouTube channel, and on site during the festival
(The Design Centre, 5 March).
Broadcasting is also on the move. Podcasting is
enabling our favourite internet radio and
television programmes to become mobile,
downloaded to our media players. The mobile
telephone companies who paid so dearly for a
slice of the high-speed 3G network will soon
begin to fulfill their promise to deliver audio
and video services.
Thus the landscape of broadcasting is changing
irrevocably. Not only is there a clear need to
debate the form of broadcasting in its second
century, but also to reflect on the past century
of radio and television. How did it originate?
How has it changed our lives?
For AV Festival 08, artists, filmmakers and
musicians have created works which illuminate all
aspects of broadcasting. Policy-makers,
researchers and activists will discuss the switch
off and speculate about the future of radio,
television and the spectrum (The Television will
Not be Revolutionised, 6-7 March & Community
Radio Night, 4 March). Engineers, technologists
and hobbyists will give hands-on workshops in
transmission technology (Radio Craft Lab &
Waygood's Radio Rally). Concerts and events will
commemorate broadcasting accomplishments and
celebrate a century of the airwaves (Variations
VII, 29 February, Radiophonia, 1 March, and War
of the Worlds, 5 March).
At AV Festival 08, we will discover that ever
since the first experiments in wireless
transmission by Nikola Tesla, broadcasting has
been a mechanism to enact social change. The
power of broadcasting to shape public behaviour
was graphically portrayed in 1938, by dramatist,
Orson Welles, in his now legendary adaptation of
War of the Worlds. The broadcast blurred the
factual format of newscasting, with a fictional
story of alien invasion and sparked panic amongst
radio listeners. We celebrate the 70th
anniversary of this crucial moment in
broadcasting history, with a new version of the
radio play staged by acclaimed theatre director
Joanna Read (Middlesbrough Town Hall, 5 March).
Broadcasting continued to witness and transmit
social history with images joining sound on the
airwaves, as television became part of public
life. AV Festival 08's screening programme TV at
the Cinema brings television to the big screen,
showcasing landmark programmes, such as Ken
Loach's pioneering drama Cathy Come Home
(Tyneside Cinema, 6 March), a graphic depiction
of homelessness which inspired real policy change
in 1960s Britain. Later political satire, such as
the incendiary Brass Eye (Tyneside Cinema, 8
March), showed how television had become a
platform to mock the political establishment. You
can voice your own opinion about television, by
voting for your favourite show online at our
Alternative Top TV poll
(www.avfestival.co.uk/toptv). The winning TV
show will be shown at a gala screening (Tyneside
Cinema, 7 March).
As broadcasting became increasingly ubiquitous,
it became not only a means of observing social
reality, but also increasingly a mechanism to
shape it. Harun Farocki's Videogram of a
Revolution depicts the so-called television
revolution in Romania in 1989, where broadcasting
played a critical role in the fall of Ceau_escu
regime. And politicians' ruthless manipulation of
television is vividly brought to life in Brian
Springer's Spin (both at Star and Shadow Cinema,
3 March).
AV Festival 08 will also ask what role have
artists played in shaping the trajectory of the
airwaves, showing how they have experimented with
elemental substance of broadcasting -
electromagnetism, radio waves and resonant
energy. These dark materials are evident in Yuko
Mohri's work Bairdcast (Discovery Museum,
Newcastle), which shows how the fabric of early
television can be transformed into contemporary
installation.
In our conference Music & Machines VIII (Culture
Lab, 29 February - 1 March), we will explore the
origins of artistic experimentation with the
airwaves showing how artists insisted on the
radio spectrum as a new landscape.
John Cage's philosophy of the radio spectrum as a
part of the physical environment is borne out in
his 1966 work Radio Happenings I-V, in which he
remarked, "all [radio] is making audible
something which you're already in. You are bathed
in radio waves". Cage furthered his
experimentation with radio and broadcast media in
his major 1966 performance for the 9 Evening
Theatre & technology series, Variations VII. We
will stage the first major UK performance of
Variations VII (AV Festival 08 opening gala,
Baltic, 29 February), and
The idea of radio as a pervasive medium, which
surrounds us and moves through us, is made
tangible in Joyce Hinterding's large-scale
antenna work (Aeriology, Reg Vardy Gallery,
Sunderland), which makes audible the very low
radio frequencies which resonate continuously
throughout space.
Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan has been creating
works that make the radio landscape perceptible
for many years. The latest of these is Scatter!,
a large-scale outdoor durational performance (AV
Festival closing gala, Baltic Square, 8 March)
which will audio-visually map the radio sky in
real time.
José Luis de Vicente & Irma Vilà's Atlas of
Electromagnetic Space (Institute for Digital
Innovation, Middlesbrough) also maps the
inscrutable topography that is the
electromagnetic spectrum, in this case through an
interactive data visualisation.
These and other artists at AV Festival 08, such
as Tetsuo Kogawa the founder of miniFM in Japan
(who will speak at Music & Machines and lead a
workshop at the Radio Craft Lab), Resonance FM
(who are in residence at mima, Middlesbrough),
and German radio artist Knut Aufermann (who will
lead AV Festival programming on NE1FM), all
survey the broadcasting landscape, and indeed
alter its topology with their projects.
These artists - and your presence - will ensure
AV Festival 08 becomes a catalyst for debate
about the future state of broadcasting, and also
a celebration of a century of on air and online
transmission.
Honor Harger
Director, AV Festival 08
___ AV Festival 08: programme
The programme can be downloaded or viewed online:
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme
New commissions & premieres include
- A Marriage of Shadows - by Michael Edgerton (concert, world premiere)
- Aeriology - by Joyce Hinterding (exhibition, UK Premiere)
- Atlas of Electromagnetic Space - (installation, co-commission)
- AV Festival on NE1FM - (radio station, commission)
- Bairdcast: A History of Machine Translation -
Yuko Mohri (exhibition, commission)
- Broadcast Yourself - Various artists (exhibition, co-commission)
- Deep Play - Harun Farocki (exhibition, UK Premiere)
- Now Hear This - Marcus Coates, Zoe Irvine &
People Like Us (outdoor sound works, commissions)
- War of the Worlds - directed by Joanna Read
(theatrical performance, commission)
- Radiophonia - by Broadcast, Dick Mills,
Jean-Jacques Perrey et al (concert, world
Premiere)
- Resonance FM at mima - (radio station, commission)
- Scatter! - by Marko Peljhan (performance, commission)
- Soundscape FM - (radio station, commission)
- Variations VII - :zoviet*france, Atau Tanaka (performance, commission)
- Waygood's Amateur Radio Rally - (event, co-commission)
- Whispering in the Leaves - Chris Watson
(installation & performance, co-commission)
Performances by:
- :zoviet*france: & Atau Tanaka - in Variations VII - 29 February
- Ars Nova Ensemble - in A Marriage of Shadows by Michael Edgerton - 3 March
- Autechre, with SND & Rob Hall - 2 March
- AV:ISIONs Club & lounge nights - various dates
- Broadcast, Brian Duffy, Dick Mills,
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - in
Radiophonia - 1 March
- Chris Watson - 6 March
- Disinformation & Strange Attractor - in National Grid - 5 March
- Long Range (Phil Hartnoll & Nick Smith) - - 29 February
- Mx (Marko Peljhan), Brian Springer, Nullo
(Aljo_a Abrahamsberg) & Delray (Matthew
Biederman) - in Scatter! - 8 March
- Staalplaat Soundsystem - 29 February
- Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec - 1 March
Exhibitions include:
- Aeriology - Joyce Hinterding
- Atlas of Electromagnetic Space - José Luis de Vicente, Irma Vilà & Bestiario
- Bairdcast: A History of Machine Translation - Yuko Mohri
- Broadcast Yourself - Various artists
- Deep Play - Harun Farocki
- For You, Only You - Sonia Boyce
- Now Hear This - Marcus Coates, Zoe Irvine & People Like Us
- Prepared Radios - Ryota Kuwakubo
- Slow TV - Various artists
- Variations VII documentation - John Cage & Experiments in Art & Technology
- Whispering in the Leaves - Chris Watson
- Yokomono - Staalplaat Soundsystem
Conferences, talks & seminars include:
- Artists' Talks by José Luis de Vicente & Irma
Vilà, Chris Watson, Jean-Jacques-Perrey, Yuko
Mohri & others - various dates
- At the Top of the Game: Jimmy McGovern - a talk
by the celebrated television writer - 4 March
- BBC Radiophonic Workshop - a talk at Radiophonia by Dick Mills - 1 March
- Broadcast Yourself in person & on-screen - a
seminar & screening event featuring Sarah Cook,
Kathy Rae Huffman, Shaina Anand, Karel Dudasek,
Active Ingredient & Maria Pallier - 2 March
- Desert Island TV - a very special event
featuring a leading light of British Broadcasting
- 2 March
- Music & Machines VIII - AV Festival 08
conference on broadcasting & art featuring Atau
Tanaka, Douglas Kahn, Brandan Labelle, Heidi
Grundmann and others - 29 February - 1 March
- Northern Screenwriters Conference 2008 - a
conference for screenwriters - 4 - 5 March
- The Television Will Not Be Revolutionised - a
2-day debate on broadcasting featuring Bill
Thompson and others - 6 - 7 March
Screening include:
- Works for Television, short films curated by
Gary Thomas including works by Matt Hulse, Clio
Barnard, Andrew Kotting, Patrick Keiller, Paul
Bush, Thomson & Craighead, Judith Goddard, Stuart
Hilton, Semiconductor, Mike Stubbs & others)
- AV:IRAL, the AV Festival 08 student short film programme
- TV at the Cinema - a retrospective screening
programme of television, including Abigail's
Party (Mike Leigh, BBC, UK, 1977, 120 mins), Boys
from the Blackstuff (Alan Bleasedale, BBC, UK,
1980-82, 50mins), Brass Eye (Chris Morris,
Channel 4, UK, 1997-2001, 25mins), Cathy Come
Home (Ken Loach, BBC, UK, 1966, 100 mins), Death
of a President (Gabriel Range, Channel 4, UK,
2006, 93 mins), Digital Stadium (Japanese TV
show, NHK) , Dr Who & The Daleks (Gordon Flemyng,
UK, 1965, 82 mins), Dr Who Special (BBC, UK,
2005-7, 45 mins), Fawlty Towers (BBC, UK,
1975-79, 30 mins), Life on Mars (BBC, UK, 2006-7,
60 mins), Not the Nine O'Clock News (John Lloyd,
BBC, UK, 1979-1982, 25mins), Radio Favela
(Helvecio Ratton, Brazil, 2002, 92 mins),
Scattered Frequencies (Micz Flor & Philip
Scheffner, Germany, 2002, 31 mins), Spin (Brian
Springer, USA, 1995, 57 mins), Shooting the Past
(Stephen Poliakoff, BBC, UK, 1999, 182 min), The
Life of Birds (David Attenborough, BBC, UK, 1998,
50 mins), The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan & George
Markstei, ITV, UK, 1967-8, 50mins), The Sweeney
(Ian Kennedy Martin, ITV, UK, 1975-78, 60 mins),
The War Game (Peter Watkins, BBC, UK, 1965, 48
mins) and Videogramme einer Revolution (Harun
Farocki & Andrei Ujica, 1992, 106 mins).
Workshops include:
- Anatomy of a Television Programme - TV workshop for students & adults
- Documenting New Media Art- workshop for professionals, lead by Caitlin Jones
- Introduction to Writing for Television - a 10
week course lead by Julie Blackey
- Media Routes workshops in animation & radio -
workshops for 13 - 19 years olds
- Radiophonia workshop - electronic music workshop lead by Brian Duffy
- Radio Craft Lab - a 5 day workshop for artists
lead by Tetsuo Kogawa, Raitis Smits, Joyce
Hinterding & others
- Thinking Outside the Goggle Box - a 10 week course lead by Ben Dickenson
- Write Your Own Radio Play - an intensive 2 day
workshop for 13 - 19 years olds
Radio stations:
- AV Festival on NE1FM - Knut Aufermann & friends
broadcast on Tyneside on 102.5FM
- Resonance FM at mima - the UK's only art radio
station broadcasts from Middlesbrough
- Soundscape FM - Sunderland's audio art gallery of the air
- Waygood's Amateur Radio Rally - ham radio
enthusiasts meet at Grainger Market in Newcastle
Download the full programme online: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme
___AV Festival 08: tickets
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/tickets
Tickets to all AV Festival events are on sale
from the AV Festival Box Office at the Tyneside
Cinema.
Phone: +44 191 232 8289
Email: bookings(a)avfestival.co.uk
** Tickets are already selling out for major
events such as Variations VII, so book now if you
wish to attend **
___AV Festival 08: organisation
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/about
AV Festival 08 is organised by Audio Visual Arts
North East and forms part of NewcastleGateshead's
world-class festivals and events programme
managed by culture10, based at NewcastleGateshead
Initiative.
___AV Festival 08: supporters
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/supporters
Arts Council England, North East, Newcastle City
Council, Gateshead Council, ONE NorthEast,
Middlesbrough Council, Sunderland City Council,
Tyneside Cinema, Northern Film & Media, UK Film
Council, European Regional Development Fund, V.
Event Supporters: Anime projects, Castle Keep,
Digista, The Leverhulme Trust, MAP, Media Routes,
Ormiston Wires, PRS Foundation, Triple Echo.
AV has developed close working relationships with
some of the region's key cultural organisations.
Our partners include alt.gallery, BALTIC, Centre
for LIFE, Centre for Excellence In Teaching and
Learning Music and Inclusivity (Newcastle
University), Cineworld, Cornerhouse, CRUMB,
CultureLab (Newcastle University), Design Centre
(University of Sunderland), Discovery Museum,
forma, IDI (University of Teesside), ISIS,
Locus+, mima, Media Centre (University of
Sunderland), Mobile Cinema, National Glass
Centre, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art,
NE1 FM, No-Fi, NOVAK, Northern Screenwriters
Conference, Reg Vardy Gallery, Resonance FM,
/slab, Star & Shadow Cinema, Sunderland Museum &
Winter Gardens, The Hatton Gallery, The Sage
Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Museums, Waygood,
Multistorey, White Hot Communications,
Velcrobelly & Evolve.
___AV Festival 08: contacts
For more information contact:
AV Festival
c/o Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town Hall
West Street
Gateshead
NE8 1HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 2328289, ext 112
Email: info(a)avfestival.co.uk
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
The AV Festival is run by Audio Visual Arts North
East. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered
in England No 06141603. Registered Charity Number
1120368. Registered Office: c/- Tyneside Cinema
at the Old Town Hall, Gateshead, West Street,
Gateshead, NE8 1HE, UK
Crude - sporadic contributor to this here list, presents a new work for the beginnings of 2008: Syringe/Insect.
Experimental electronic drones/moans,over-treated sound/crackle/dank myco-ambient/solemn snores ...you know the score.
This release is part 1 of a 15 part data dvd release scheduled for December '08. Part One is the only free offering connected to the release.
from the dewy hills of Otago,
Matt Middleon.
listen:
http://www.archive.org/details/Crude-Syringeinsect2008
08 dvd release info:
http://crude.co.nz/crude%202008.html
crude.co.nz
crude.co.nz
crude.co.nz
crude.co.nz
crude.co.nz
catalogue (pdf)
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Hello People!
Just wanted to let you all know about a new special topic Masters
paper on contemporary internet art being offered at the University of
Auckland's Art History Department over Semester 1 & 2, 2008.
Cheers,
Leon
ARTHIST 25 AB& (30 points)
Special Topic: Contemporary Internet Art

Can You See Me Now? by Blast Theory & the Mixed Reality Lab (2001,
2004, 2005)
This paper considers diverse virtual and mixed reality arts practices
and theories that are of special relevance to emerging generations
since the social internet. Whilst many theories and analyses of older
media and technological forms (and the cultural processes associated
with them) abound, this course focuses predominantly on internet art
in relation to recent and current techno-social developments (e.g.
the socialization of the web, participatory platforms such as Rhizome
and MySpace, improvements in artistic / creative software).
The paper covers theories relevant to a diverse range of internet art
projects and festivals. It involves extensive exploration of internet
art websites and provides opportunities for creative work involving
internet art curation and criticism.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/courses/coursedetail08.cfm?
CC=ARTHIST&CN=725&YR=2008
For more information, contact l.tan(a)auckland.ac.nz
