Art.on.Wires Media Festival 2011 :: May 25-29, 2011 :: Betong/Chateu Neuf, Oslo.

Art.on.Wires is is as an open laboratory, hacker space, and meeting point for artists, designers, creative media professionals, multimedia researchers, engineers, and Do-it-Yourself enthusiasts. As an annual event Art.on.Wires creates an interdisciplinary forum to explore the future of electronic arts and modern lifestyle. We invite professional artists, designers, architects, musicians, researchers, students and open-minded visitors to join a vivid and diverse group of experimenters to share, create, learn, play and be inspired by arts, science and technology.

Under the title make : create : invent : recycle : explore we promote education, collaboration, sharing and making of interactive and electronic arts, and the direct dissemination of latest developments from Multimedia IT research to the public. Over five days we arrange tutorials from leading artists and researchers, interactive installations and live performances.

Festival Program

* 4 themes: interaction, sound, visuals, and hardware hacking
* 13 high-class tutorials
* 3 evenings with live performances and DJ’s
* more than 30 world-class artists and researchers
* keynotes and presentations
* interactive arts installations
* a media and hardware hacker lab

Presenters at the festival are internationally successful researchers and artists, including Christian Jaquemin, Nick Collins, Brock Craft, Lisa Wymore, 5uper.net, and DKIA. Audio-visual live performances will be presented by Lars Graugaard, Jacob Korn, Jason Geistweidt, and many others.

Festival Highlights

Swarm Cubes Tutorial
DKIA, Austria
Thu, 26 May 10-17h

Shaders for Advanced Graphical Rendering in OpenFrameworks Tutorial
Christian Jaquemin, France
Fri, 27 May 10-13

Networked Dance: Collage Study #1 – Where Here Meets There
Lisa Wymore, UC Berkeley and Liv Hanne Haugen, Norway
Fri, 27 May 14-17

Interactive Network Music Performance Tutorial
Alain Renaud, UK and Alexander Carot, Germany
Sat, 28 May 14-17

Kinect Tutorial
Lars Graugaard, Dan Overholt and Aalborg University Art+Technology Students
Sun, 29 May 10-13