Upgrade! Eindhoven: Tetsu Kondo (Japan) :: March 14, 2010; 8:00 -10:30 pm (doors open 7:30) :: Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The next Upgrade! Eindhoven presents Albert van Abbe and MAD Artist in Residence, Tetsu Kondo discussing Kondo’s work and vision. Kondo is an artist, musician and researcher whose work includes drawing, installations and musical instrument design. He is currently teaching at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

Kondo will also demonstrate his Dendraw, a software instrument he developed, that transforms the beauty of visual programming into live interactive sound performances. The Dendraw generates specific sine waves depending on screen position. Continue reading

Greg J. Smith of Serial Consign writes: Toronto-based Derivative software is teaming up with Richie Hawtin to organize a contest so that fans can design visuals for the Plastikman 2010 tour. Essentially they have bundled a custom version of their TouchDesigner software with four Plastikman tracks and are allowing fans to make visualizations which may be included in his tour dates this year - this collaboration is made possible by a bridge to the Ableton Live. Full info about the contest is here - the endeavour is quite similar to the Nine Inch Nails crowdsourced concert video. Continue reading

d-CLIC Danse + Danse numérique + Performance audiovisuelle :: Vendredi 19 février 2010 à 21h :: Théâtre de Verdure & Salle de cinéma, Institut français Léopold Sédar Senghor, 89 rue Joseph T. Gomis, Dakar, Sénégal.

Danse numérique: Une pièce chorégraphique dirigée par Andréya Ouamba, avec 15 danseurs africains et 3 artistes du collectif RYBN (Paris), issue d’un atelier de création basé sur l’exploration, l’expérimentation et l’appropriation des technologies numériques (captation, interaction, temps-réel, vidéo, son, lumière). Cet atelier est organisé en février 2010 à Dakar par Trias Culture et l’Association 1er Temps. Continue reading

Upgrade! Paris: Art of Failure presents Corpus on the occasion of the “Corpus” exhibition opening :: January 7, 2010; 6:30 pm :: Théatre Molière - Scène d’Aquitaine / OARA, 33 rue du temple, Bordeaux, France.

Corpus is a set-up which uses sound, architecture and multimedia technology to stage objects, furniture, architecture or a place and set them into pulsating vibration. The various elements which compose the inherent identity of place thus become active or ‘living’ and breathe life into sounds specific to their personality. The selected place becomes the instrument on which the duo of musicians play, offering their audience a unique physical experience of place at once richly sensorial and other-worldly. Continue reading

Malice in Sonderland — a real time audiovisual performance reflecting the contemporary relevance of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland by Korhan Erel and Alexandra Reil :: January 19, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (MAK), Säulenhalle / MAK Columned Main Hall, Stubenring 5, A 1010 Vienna.

Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance the sound composer Korhan Erel, Istanbul, and the media artist Alexandra Reill, Vienna, work with the original material of Norman Z. McLeod’s feature film Alice in Wonderland shot in 1933. With experimental digital methods they research the theme and plot of the complex fairy tale and in the framework of the MAK NITE© perform a phantasmagoric live interpretation, an improvisation composed of digital worlds and abstract sound collages. Continue reading

Fibreculture Journal # 15: What Now? The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix :: From the Editorial:

It became a minor phenomenon during 2007. By September 2009 it was a virus out of control. Described in Wired as a “popular internet meme” (Wortham, 2008), the obsessive serial mash-up of a key sequence from Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2004 film of the last days of Adolf Hitler, Der Untergang (The Downfall), is suggestive of the cultural logic of the contemporary formation known as remix. Remix culture is comprised of what could loosely be termed amateurs and professionals engaged in the practice of creatively re-using found material. The distinction is useful in identifying the aesthetic and material differences between dedicated intermedia remix artists (Negativland, Martin Arnold, Craig Baldwin, Soda_Jerk), artists who incorporate elements of remix into a broader audiovisual practice (Philip Brophy, Candice Breitz, Christian Marclay, John Zorn) and the vernacular audio-visual mash-up/remake/dub/scratch aesthetics associated with a broad range of online practices. Continue reading

Upgrade! Zagreb: Crtić za laku noć Pajama Party :: November 26, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Nano Gallery, Gajeva 26, Zagreb, Croatia.

Projekcije kratkih filmova koje je izabrala kustosica Basak Senova. Radovi su djela mladih umjetnika i studenata novih medija iz Munchena, Vancouvera, Istambula i Zagreba. Teme selekcije su: Priče, Tragovi i Mjesta. Crtić za laku noć su dio Upgrade! Zagreb ciklusa događanja za promociju novo-medijske umjetnosti.

‘Crtic’ for good night: Projection of short movies made by young artists and students of new media arts from Munich, Vancouver, Istanbul and Zagreb.

Fluid New Media Laboratory V.2 — Closing Celebration :: November 22, 2009; 4:00 - 9:00 pm :: Queens Museum of Art, NYC Building at Flushing Meadows Corona Park (Trolley back and forth from Willets Point 7 Train Station & Museum).

Fluid is a new media movement that focuses on the potential of emerging audiovisual artists, without consideration of genre or where they come from. Fluid, in its second edition, made an open call to collect audiovisual pieces and ideas to be presented at El Museo del Barrio, Local Project, Queens Museum of Art, and the 3rd Ward Moviehouse. Fluid opens the scene to a new movement of audio visual & performing arts in educational and screening spaces that have cultural programming. Continue reading

Opening Celebration of The Laboratory at Harvard - Experiments in the Arts and Sciences :: November 8, 2009 :: Exhibition: 6:30 pm @ Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford Street :: Performance of Ryoji Ikeda’s datamatics [ver.2.0]: 9:00 pm @ Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Cambridge, MA.

THE LABORATORY, conceived around the model of the art and design center Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, opens with a catalogue and text installation developed through a recent Laboratoire experiment V≠L — between the Japanese digital composer Ryoji Ikeda and the Harvard mathematician Benedict Gross. Continue reading

Program e.V and Berlin China Cultural Bridges presents THERE IS NO I IN TEAM brings together cutting-edge Chinese video, live audiovisuals and performance art and creative communities from both China and Berlin.

The event is structured around the idea of making a live radio show focusing on rhizomatic networks stretching out from China to Berlin. The guests for THERE IS NO I IN TEAM belong to the same network of people who create their artistic projects on an individual basis but yet become public through a team of people who provide the necessary context.

A radio program created around the existing project THERE IS NO I IN TEAM installs itself in an exhibition space where the video works of Meiya Lin and Jin Shan raise questions about the role of the individual, hierarchy, power, migration, public space, market strategies and capitalism. Continue reading