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BAS VAN KOOLWIJK
Video and audio artist Bas van Koolwijk analyses the disturbances produced by video, transforming them into numeric code, in order to produce a visual and acoustic sequence in which sounds and images vigorously interact.
His video works can be seen as an aggressive attack on the illusion of video itself.
Next to producing single screen works and installations, Van Koolwijk makes performances with realtime audio/video applications, solo as well as with others. He has been performing at numerous festivals and events including MUTEK (Montréal), Netmage (Bologna), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Avanto (Helsinki), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Dissonanze (Rome). Recent collaborations include projects as SYNCHRONATOR with Gert-Jan Prins, N-collective's SKIF++ and YOKOMONO/VIDEO with Staalplaat Soundsystem.
CLAUDIO SINATTI
Claudio Sinatti is a video and multimedia artist based in Milan, Italy.
His work focuses on video performances and projection designs.
He started his career in 1996 as a director of music promos for Italian pop bands and in 1999 he founded the audio-visual collective Sun Wu-Kung.
Since then he has produced collaborative projects with musicians such as Christian Fennesz, Ulrich Troyer, Andrea Gabriele, Sergio Messina, Retina.it, Pierpaolo Leo, Iris Garrelfs, Scanner, Stefano Tedesco, Marco Messina.He is member of the audio-video bands Pirandèlo, Kyo, Crop and Symbiosis Orchestra.
He holds frequent lectures and workshops and teaches video design and live mixedmedia at the European Institute of Design in Milan.
Claudio is collaborating with Stephan Mathieu for the [of] project.
COH
His work is distinguished by the somewhat emphasized emotional content of the sound forms as well as a certain level of humor in both concepts and execution. He has collaborated with artists Coil, Cylobe, Annie Anxiety, and Richard Chartier.
COH has performed at numerous festivals/events across Europe and North America including 20 to 2000 (Volksbeuhne, Berlin), ARS Festival (Linz, Austria), Rotterdam International Film Festival, MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), Frequenzen/Shirn Kunshalle (Frankfurt, Germany), Wien Modern Festival (Vienna, Austria), and Acces(s) (Pau, France).
DAVID MUTH
His approach to making things combines the conceptual and the experimental and is informed by his background in architecture. His projects range from responsive installations and technology driven performance environments, through video and experimental documentary, to composition and performance of music.
David’s work has been shown on numerous occasions internationally, with venues and events including the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal, the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Ars Electronica in Linz and ISEA2006 in San Jose. He also teaches at the Royal College of Art.
David is collaborating with Hiaz for the [of] project.
DOMENICO SCIAJNO
From 1992 he has been present in some of the most important festival as musician improviser or composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene and some of his work is documented by worldwide independent labels of experimental and electronic music.
The wide spectrum of his experiences brings him very close to the concept of performance, where he use texts and electronics in combination with a coreografic use of the scene space and the projection of visuals made by himself.
In 1994 he became assistant and collaborator of the american composer of electro-acoustic music Alvin Curran, nowaday this relation developed in an intense artistic collaboration.
Since 1999 he lives in Palermo. In 2002 Steim (center for developement of interactive systems for the performance located in amsterdam, Holland) commissioned him a composition for a multi channel spazialization system offering him a composition residency.
He made Interactive Sound installations for art galleries and exhibitions (among these the remarkable Espiral premiered at the Stuttugart FilmWinter festival 2004).
Activist in the developement of experimental arts, in 1995 founded the association Antitesi, from 1995 and 1998 organized concerts and little festivals (Antitesi in musica ‘95/‘96, Folk it out! ‘97, i(n)terazioni ‘98, Inaudito! ‘99), in 1997 he collaborated to give birth to the Fringes record label, in 2003 started toghether with other musicians the label Bowindo and founded the national collective iXem (italian eXperimental electronic music).
In the edition 2004 of Prix Ars Electronica his work OUR UR in collaboration with Alvin Curran has been prized with an honorary mention.
EVELINA DOMNITCH
& DMITRY GELFAND
The primary impetus of their installations is the study of wave form phenomena.
Their works have been exhibited at White Box and Diapason Galleries (New York City), Mains d'Oeuvre (Paris), The Museum of Dreams (St. Petersburg, Russia), Interferences New Media Festival (Belfort, France) The Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (Ogaki, Japan), Dissonanze Electronic Arts Festival (Rome), The Minsk Planetarium (Minsk, Belarus), and The Museum of Contemporary Art, (St. Louis, USA).
ERIKM
He is certainly one of the better equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience.
eRikm is collaborating with U-Sun for the [of] project.
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin.
His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Described as „abstract analogue pointillism“, „ambience for spaceports“ or „hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat“, Bretschneider‘s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfectly translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.
After studying fine arts and publishing several graphic editions, he began to satisfy his obsession for electronic music in 1984 by starting his first tape experiments and running a cassette label. With the founding of AG. Geige in 1986 – a successful and influential band which came out of East Germany‘s musical underground – he began to explore the possibilities of an exchange between visual art and music through various means such as film, video or computer graphics. After the fall of the wall and the split of the band Bretschneider continued producing music and in 1996 he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999. Since then he has released his work through several record labels including 12k, Mille Plateaux, Quatermass, Staalplaat or Whatness and has contributed to some well received compilations like Clicks & Cuts on Mille Plateaux or Raster-Noton‘s 20' To 2000 series. He has performed at music- and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, OFFF, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale and Ultima. As a remixer he has worked for Richard Chartier, Ekkehard Ehlers, Hauschka, Meat Beat Manifesto and Rechenzentrum. In addition to his solo work he has cooperated with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden and Ralph Steinbrüchel. With Olaf Bender and Carsten Nicolai he is part of Signal, another Raster-Noton project. And recently Bretschneider entered new territories when he was invited to collaborate with Copenhagen based contemporary music ensemble Contemporánea..
JASON GRAHAM
Jason Graham (b. 1974) is a film/video artist working and residing in Queens, New York and Miami, Florida. Since 1999, he has been creating a body of work exploring the themes of chance versus fate, nostalgia and internal political turmoil. Experimenting with various formats (35mm, 16mm, 8mm, HD and MiniDV), Jason has focused visually on capturing intimate moments in their natural light; examining specifically the emotional impulses generated from color, movement and temperature. His numerous projects have been enhanced by the collaboration of various sound artists and musicians, including Whitehall (Out of Mind – 2002), TeZ and Kim Cascone (Raindrops No. 7 - 2006) and Rene Barge (White on White - 2007). In between projects, Jason works as an Assistant Director on feature length films, throughout the United States. Over the last seven years, he has worked alongside such acclaimed filmmakers as Allison Anders, Larry Clark, Wai Keung Lau and Michael Haneke.
.Jason is collaborating with Kim Cascone and TeZ for the [of] project.
KAFFE MATTHEWS
Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new electro-acoustic music since 1990.
She is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of live electronic composition, making 50 performances a year worldwide, most known for her live site-specific performances using self-designed software-based matrices, microphones, a theremin, and feedback within the space. It is this practice she relocated into sonic furniture building, with Sonic Bed_London(2005) (Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica, 2006) and the worldwide bed projec, directing the music for bodies research project. Kaffe was awarded a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship in 2004.
Kaffe has a substantial record of collaborative work with a variety of people, things and processes. From working with NASA astronauts making the BAFTA-awarded Weightless Animals, with the weather on Scottish islands or the Australian outback, through to the innovativeRadio Cycle, a concept and works for maps, bicycles and radios. She also established and runs the label Annette Works which has released 6 solo cds of her work.
KANTA HORIO
Kanta Horio studied acoustics and sound art at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka.
He presents audio/visual performances using programming software and assorted self-built gadgets, electronic devices, kinetic objects and musical interfaces.
Recent performances have utilized electromagnets, motors, contact microphones and a video camera to generate audio/visuals. His machines are based on physical phenomenon and some actual sounds.
Since 2001, he has performed widely in both galleries and clubs throughout Japan, and overseas in Barcelona, Mexico, Montreal, and Toronto. Alongside his performance activities, he organizes events with Kazuhiro JO, exonemo, such as "dorkbot tokyo - people doing strange things with electricity."
KIM CASCONE
Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City.
In the 1980's, after moving to San Francisco and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.
Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the company in early 1996 to pursue a career as a sound designer and went to work for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. After a two year stint at Headspace he worked for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he oversaw sound design using algorithmic synthesis for video games.
Since 1984, Kim has released more than 30 albums of electronic music and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, and Pauline Oliveros among others.Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list which focuses on issues concerning digital music and laptop performance (http://www.microsound.org) and has written for Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Artbyte Magazine, Contemporary Music Review, Soundcultures and Parachute Journal.
KURT HENTSCHLAGER
New York based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates performances and environments. The immersive nature of his work reflects on the metaphor of the sublime and the human condition.
Trained as fine artist, he began to exhibit his work in 1983, building surreal machine-objects, and then video works, computer animation and sound. Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively as a part of the duo Granular-Synthesis. Employing large scale projected images and drone like sound-scapes, his performances confronted the viewer on both a physical and emotional level, overwhelming the audience with sensory stimulation. His current solo work further researches the nature of human perception and the accelerated impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.
Hentschläger is a recipient of numerous prizes and large-scale commissions. He has represented Austria at the 2001 Venice Biennial and has shown his work internationally for two decades. Selected presentations include the Milllenium Museum, Beijing, Staedelijk Museum Amsterdam, In the Anchorage - Creative Time, Inc., New York, MAC - Musee d`Art Contemporain Montreal, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, National Museum for Contemporary Art Seoul, Ars Electronica Festival Linz, ICC Inter-Communication-Center Tokyo, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Palacio de Bella Artes, Mexico City
His recent performance “FEED” premiered at the 2005 Venice Theatre Biennial and is currently touring and the procedural installation “KARMA / cell” was commissioned in 2006 by Le Fresnois, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France.
LIA
Lia is an early pioneer of software art and Internet art. Since 1995, her work is concerned with the artistic possibilities of code, digital video, on-line methodology and user-specific application - seemingly different activities that she manages to bind together trough her unique approach to creativity and production. In a painterly, conceptual manner, Lia creates live-performances, real time sceneries, projections and installations in public spaces.
Lias works have been presented internationally in numerous festivals. She has received numerous awards and honors, and she exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.
Over the last few years she has taught at the Fachhochschule Joanneum in Graz, Austria, the École Cantonalle d'Art de Lausanne, Switzerland, and the University for Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway.
She is a founding member of the Crónica label.
Lia lives and works primarily in Vienna.
Lia is collaborating with @c for the [of] project.
MARCEL WIERCKX
Marcel Wierckx (Canada/Netherlands, b. 1970) studied instrumental and electronic music composition in Canada (BMus. University of Manitoba, MMus. Composition McGill University) before moving to the Netherlands in 1999. There he continued his studies in electronic music composition at the Utrecht School of Music Technology, where he graduated with honours in 2001. Since then he has been active as a sound and video artist as well as composing instrumental and electronic music for concert, film, theater and dance.
Recent projects include the soundtrack for the film Tussenland (Sleeping Rough), which received the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the installation Reis (Journey) which was commisioned by the NPS Radio for the 400th anniversary of the Dutch East Indies Company, and the internet-based installation War Memes for the 2005 European Capital of Culture project in Cork, Ireland.
Marcel is a founding member of MorphoDidius, a performance group which specializes in multimedia productions where technology plays a vital role. He created the music and video images for their dance productions Voyeur, Voyou, Voyant and Entropy, and the co-production Mensa Secunda with Jorge Isaacs which was awarded the Jur Naessens Prize in 2005.
Marcel gives performances and workshops at festivals and schools across Europe and the world, including Palmela (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey), St. Petersburg (Russia), Cork and Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He also teaches Music Technology, Software programming and Composition at the Utrecht School for the Arts.
MATHIAS GMACHL
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Mathias Gmachl (aka Hiaz) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. He is a founding member of farmersmanual, a pan-European, multisensory disturbance conglomerate that presents a stream of constructions since 1995, continuously expanding their practice from music concerts to interdisciplinary cultural, aesthetic and political experiments. Opposed to companies shifting the balance of fundamental rights and liberties he is using alternative collaborative structures based on sharing information, skills and resources among the partners.
Venues, festivals and museums Mathias presented include: Ars Electronica (1997, 1999), Sonar Festival Barcelona (1998, 1999, 2002), NTT/ICC Tokyo (1999), Montreal Festival for Film and New Media (1999, 2001), Centre Georges Pompidou (2000), What is Music? Festival Sydney (2001, 2002), The Venice Biennale (2001), Avanto Festival Helsinki (2000, 2001), Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt (2002), CCA Kitakyushu (2001, 2002).
Mathias is currently developing a sound research program together with Jon Wozencroft and Len Massey at the Royal College of Art. Mathias sees to further the understanding of the relationships between arithmetic, geometry, music (harmony) and astronomy (cosmology) which are the universal languages of humankind.
Hiaz is collaborating with David Muth for the [of] project.
MARTIJN VAN BOVEN
The work of Martijn van Boven (1977, the Netherlands) lies in the field of experimental film and computer art. Combing the techniques and possibilities of modern image processing and creation within the context of the experimental film and early computer generated films. As well the abstract films of Stan Brakhage and computer art have an influence on his work and thoughts about the creation of abstract images in relation to film.
Martijn van Boven studied at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague ( Holland), at the Image and Sound department. His work comes in a wide variety of video-installations, films, collaborationswith composers and Live Cinema performances.His work has been shown at numerous festivals world-wide such as: IFF Rotterdam, State X New Forms, Sonic Acts, Holland Festival, Five Days Off, FICCO (Mexico City, Mexico), RIKZ (Riga, Latvia),SKIF-9 (st. Petersburg, Russia) and Transmediale (Berlin, Germany).
Since 2000 Martijn van Boven works as a free-lance film and video curator. Focusing on the avant-garde film and abstract cinema. Martijn van Boven teaches audio-visual Design at the Art Academyof Arnhem (the Netherlands). In 2003 he co-founded the new media art center <>TAG (the Hague, Holland). He lives and works in The Hague Holland.
MODULATE
Modulate are a UK collective exploring experimental sound and audio visual. They design multispeaker sound environments, make abstract audio visual, host performances, talks and residencies, and modulate spaces. The collective have come together from varied creative backgrounds, members include electronic music producer Bobby Bird / HIgher Intelligence Agency, graphic designers / sound composers Mark Harris & Mark Bunegar, abstract cosmonaut Joseph Potts, curator and sonic-visualist Scylla Magda.
Their collaboratively authored 'Modulate 5.1' DVD, released late in 2006 has been shown in a number of locations including New Forms Festival. Canada, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Texas, Optronica Festival London, Exploding Cinema U.K., Optofonica / 5 Days Off Festival Amsterdam, Mediateca Caixaforum Barcelona and Sounds Electric Festival Ireland.
Modulate also curate and produce events, and have invited nternational artists including Fransisco Lopez, SKIF++, Vladislav Delay, Karl Kleim , Jan Jelinek, Monolake, and Fluxion, to their home town of Birmingham.
OTOLAB
Otolab was born in 2001 in Milan as an affinity group made up of musicians, djs, vjs, videoartists, graphic/web designers and architects drawn together by the need to confer a common focus to their projects.
Otolab evolves through laboratory, seminar and workshop activities which rely on mutual exchange and support within projects; it actively supports the free dissemination of knowledge and explores the non-conventional usage of technology.
Otolab's vision is to advance beyond pre-conceived schemes through a minimal approach to audiovisual works, both in live performances and studio productions.
Otolab's sounds and visions are the lights and shadows which escort our fellow travellers on an experiential journey. Otolab's products are educational instruments for exploring the inner self. Otolab is a self-financed, self-produced, non-profit organization and therefore exists thanks to the voluntary work of its participants.
PAUL PRUDENCE
Artist and real-time visual performer working with generative/computational systems, audio responsive visual feedback and processed video.
Writer, researcher and lecturer in the field of visual music and computational synaesthetic Art.
Recent Shows: ‘NODE08’ – Frankfurt | ‘Tomorrow Now’ – Venice | ‘Code in Motion’ – Turin | ‘Playgrounds’ – Holland | ‘Hacktronic’ – Boston, US
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QUAYOLA
Quayola is a visual artist based in London. His work simultaneously focuses on multiple forms exploring the space between video, audio, photography, installation, live performance and print.
Quayola creates worlds where real substance, such as natural or architectural matter, constantly mutates into ephemeral objects, enabling the real and the artificial to coexist harmoniously. Integrating computer-generated material with recorded sources, he explores the ambiguity of realism in the digital realm.
Shows and Commissions include:
Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Yokohama Art Centre (Japan), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Le Cube (Paris), Centre d’ Art Contemporain (Geneve), Beijing Film Academy, Millennium Galleries (Sheffield), Cimatics, Lovebytes, Onedotzero, MTV, Optronica, NEMO, Faster Than Sound, ROJO, International Digital Art Project, Optofonica.
Quayola is collaborating with Autobam for the [of] project.
AUTOBAM
Autobam is a solo electronica act by Italian based musician Simone Lalli. Has previously released his solo work under Leerraum (CH), Unlabel (UK) and Beatpick (UK). Besides he is currently running various projects in the field of audio-visual interaction for screenings, a/v performances, installations and commercials and he cooperate or has cooperated with graphics and visual artists like Ogino knauss, Tibor Fabian and Quayola.
Selected Appearence/Exhibition:
Optronica Exhibition – Le Cube – Paris
Videomedeja - Museum of Vojvodina - Novi Sad
Cimatics07/AV/Festival - Brussels – Belgium
Terrain 07 - Theater am neumarket - Zurich
Terrain 07 - Auditorio Buenos Aires – Argentina
NIME Festival - Galapagos art space – NYC
Faster Than Sound - Bentwaters Airbase – London
Optronica Lounge - IMAX – London
Tomorrow Now - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa – Venezia
Space and Empty - Teatro Junghans – Venezia
Tende a Infinito - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa – Venezia
Leerraum opening exhibition - Progr – Bern
Klangomat - Art Museum - Bern
Autobam is collaborating with Quayola for the [of] project.
RAY_XXXX
RAY_XXXX is the newly formed duo of Alain Thibault (audio) and Matthew Biederman a.k.a. DelRay (imagery). For PULSE, their first collaboration, they seek to induce a series of psychological states through improvised compositions of tightly coupled pulsations of light and sound. The performance is entirely live; no pre-recorded video segments are used - they are instead, synthesized in real-time via Biederman's custom software written specifically for the performances. Through a system loop, the sound data can trigger visual processes and video data is, in turn, converted to audio and also processed in real time. The first version of PULSE was premiered in 2006 at the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, and the duo is already scheduled for several more upcoming performances in 2007.
Matthew Biederman (US/CAN) writes custom interactive software to engage with issues of media politics and continues to search for the ultimate in synaesthetic cohesion, producing installations, performances, and single channel-videos. His work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including Arte Video Electronica in Lima, Futuresonic, Nuit Blanche, Mutek, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, LaBatie and the list goes on.
More at: www.mbiederman.com
Alain Thibault (CAN), as an electronic music artist, has also collaborated with a wide range of multimedia, video, dance and theatre productions. His work received an honorable mention at Ars Electonica in 1998 and has been presented at many festivals around the world including Transmediale, MixedMedia, Dissonanze, ISEA Japan, and TransArt, to name just a few. He is also the Artistic Director and founder of the ELEKTRA Festival, a series of digital arts events presented annually since 1999 in Montreal.
More at: www.alainthibault.com
Robert van Heumen
Robert van Heumen works with sound: electronic, experimental, improvised, structured, composed.
As a musician Van Heumen uses STEIM's live sampling software LiSa and real-time audio-synthesis software SuperCollider, controlled by various physical devices. His soundworld is a mixture of digital crackles, heavy distortion, melancholic melodies, environmental sounds, voices and sounds from kitchen appliances, some of the time smashed beyond repair. Live sampled source sounds are gesturally manipulated and reworked within open ended narratives, exploring cycles of repetition beyond episodic improvisation.
Recent fixed-media works include the compositions Stranger and Fury, which are performed in multichannel and semi-improvised environments. Fury was presented at ICMC08, and Stranger premiered as a diffused work at Culturelab in Newcastle (UK). Both compositions are available on Creative Sources Recordings. In the fall of 2008 Van Heumen constructed the radioplay No Man's Land, commissioned by the CEM studio at WORM in Rotterdam, NL.
Van Heumen is performing regularly with the audio-visual trio SKIF++ (with Jeff Carey & Bas van Koolwijk), Shackle (working with electro-flutist Anne LaBerge on restriction), ABATTOIR (with cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen) and Whistle Pig Saloon (with guitarist John Ferguson deconstructing the guitar). He is a founding member of the N Collective and has shared the stage with dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit), Michel Waisvisz, Richard Barrett, Sakata Akira, Nicolas Collins, Oguz Buyukberber, Luc Houtkamp, Guy Harries, Tom Tlalim, Nicolas Field, Morten J. Olsen, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock, Nate Wooley a.o.
Van Heumen is Managing Director of the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam, curator of the Local Stop concert series and member of STEIM's Artistic Committee. In a previous life mathematician, trumpet player and software programmer. He still reads L.E.J. Brouwer.
RYAN JEFFERY
Based in Portland Oregon, Ryan Jeffery has been creating short films for the past six years. Ryan's work naturally draws from his verse in drawing, photography and sculpture above all focusing on the dialogue between sound and image. The interest in this dialogue has led Ryan to collaborate with sound artists and musicians such as Ethan Rose, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) and the multi media band Small Sails. Ryan's films have been screened in galleries and in such festivals as the Festival Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada), Peripheral Produce (Portland, OR) the Bumbershoot festival (Seattle, WA) and The Leuven International short Film Festival (Leuven, Belgium) along with his representing gallery PDX Contemporary.
Ryan is collaborating with Scanner for the [of] project.
RYOICHI KUROKAWA
Ryoichi Kurokawa is audiovisual artist living in Osaka. His works take on multiple forms such as screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. Kurokawa composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. Kurokawa accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition.
Born in 1978 in Osaka, Japan. In 1999, started creating video and sound works and presenting audiovisual work, video installation, and screening in various art, music and film festivals. At the same time, started performing audiovisual live and released CDs and DVDs. And also performed live-visual for other musicians such as Sketch Show(ex.YMO, Haruomi Hosono + Yukihiro Takahashi) at Sonar[ES] and Cybersonica/ICA[UK], and HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE(Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto) at SONAR 2004[ES]. After 2005, Kurokawa is invited to numerous noted international festivals and museumsn in Europe, US, and Asia including ARS ELECTRONICA[AT] and MUTEK[CA] for exhibition, screening or audiovisual concert, and he progresses to carrying out an international activity.
SCANNER
British artist, Robin Rimbaud - creates absorbing, multi-layered soundscapes that twist technology in unconventional ways.
From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.
Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon.
Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. He has performed and created works in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London.
His work has been presented throughout the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe.
Scanner is collaborating with Ryan Jeffery for the [of] project.
SEMICONDUCTOR
Semiconductor make Sound Films which reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999 UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt have been exploring many processes of digital animation to produce experimental films and live animation. Central to these works is the role of sound, which becomes synonymous with the image, as it creates, controls and deciphers it; exploring resonance, through the natural order of things. Finely crafted digital work is combined with analogue processes that tailor the randomness and errors within computer systems as co-conspirator.
Semiconductor have recently returned to Brighton, U.K. since completing a series of fellowships at; The NASA Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, California US, Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-Upon-Tweed UK and Couvent des Récollets, Paris, France. Past and future exhibitions include; Venice Biennale, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, ICA London, San Francisco International Film Festival, Careof Gallery Milan, EMAF Osnabruck, and Beaconsfield Gallery London. They are currently developing a U.K. touring exhibition of work made during their Space Sciences fellowship and have recently released a new DVD, Worlds in Flux with Fat Cat records.
SKOLTZ_KOLGEN
SKOLTZ_KOLGEN IS A PLURIMEDIA WORK CELL BASED IN MONTREAL, COMPRISING DOMINIQUE [T] SKOLTZ AND HERMAN W KOLGEN.
RIGOROUS AND RAUCOUS CREATORS,THEIR ARTISTIC PURSUITS PLUMB THE INTEGRAL LINKAGES BETWEEN SOUND AND IMAGE. LIBERATED BY DIGITAL MEDIA THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSUME NUMEROUS POSITIONS, INHABITING A SPACE BETWEEN FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AUDIO ART, AND INSTALLATION.
ARCHITECTS OF WORLDS, SKOLTZ_KOLGEN PENETRATES THE EPHEMERAL SKIN BETWEEN SOLID MATTER AND THE UNSUBSTANTIATED, THE INTIMATE AND THE OBJECTIVE, THEIR WORK CONJURES BEWITCHED WORLDS THAT GESTATE BETWIXT ACCIDENT AND INTENT.
// // — CARTOGRAPHY :: VENICE BIENNALE, MOCA, ARS ELECTRONICA, ISEA, MUTEK, ELEKTRA, TRANSMEDIALE, TRANSART, MUSÉE DE QUÉBEC, MUSEO TAMAYO, BIENNALE DE PRAGUE, NYIIFVF, NEMO, NETMAGE, SENSORALIA, CIMATICS, NY EYEBEAM, NEW FORMS, SEND & RECEIVE, IXEM, MAZ . // // — CD ON 12K, LINE, MUTEK // // —
STEPHAN MATHIEU
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Stephan Mathieu works in the field of digital art, mainly as a composer and performer of his own music. He creates audio installations, works as a hobbyist photographer and graphic designer, and taught Digital Arts and Theory at the HBKSaar University of Art and Design in Saarbrücken and as a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts in Göteborg, the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Merz-Akademie in Stuttgart between 2000 -2005.
Since 1999 his music has been released on 16 albums and several compilations on numerous international music labels, most notably on Häpna, Orthlorng Musork, Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Fällt, Headz, Cronica and Lucky Kitchen. In addition to his solo work he cooperated with Akira Rabelais, Douglas Benford, John Hudak, Aleksander Kolkowski, Ekkehard Ehlers and Janek Schaefer.
Mathieu's music, based on recordings of acoustic, mainly old instruments, which are transformed by digital and analogue processes, has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, and described as "... slowly shifting washes of sound (...) are simply gorgeous. The predominantly acoustic origins of the source material, however camouflaged and extruded beyond recognition by the software, imbue Mathieu¹s music with a warmth and richness of timbre often lacking in the overpopulated world of contemporary electronica".
Since 2005 Mathieu works exclusively with realtime processed shortwave radio signals and performs Radioland, an audio-visual piece, live.
His new CD will be released in Spring 2007 on Touch.
Stephan is collaborating with Claudio Sinatti for the [of] project.
TELCOSYSTEMS
Gideon Kiers, David Kiers and Lucas van der Velden are the founding members of Telcosystems. Lucas van der Velden (1976, Eindhoven) lives and works in Rotterdam. Gideon Kiers (1975, Amsterdam) lives and works in Rotterdam and Reykjavik. Both studied at the Interfaculty Image and Sound, a department at the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague. David Kiers (1977, Amsterdam) studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He works and lives in The Netherlands, Germany and Iceland.
Telcosystems researches the relation between the behavior of programmed numerical logic and the perception of a conversion of this behavior into the physical world, seeking for its own narrative in the world of abstract spatial image and sound. The hallmark of their work is its lucid and restrained aestheticism, which is closely related to the technology they use.
They produce films, video clips, live performances, installations, software, soundtracks, and prints. Their work has been shown at film- and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica (Linz), IFFR (Rotterdam), .MOV festival (Tokyo), EMAF (Osnabrück), Sonar (Barcelona), Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen, Airwaves (Reykjavik), Short Film Festival Hamburg, Ctrl-Alt-Del (Maastricht), Abstraction Now (Vienna), De Appel (Amsterdam), The New York Digital Salon, Mu (Eindhoven), Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and Künstlerhaus (Vienna).
TINA FRANK
The works of Tina Frank cannot be reduced to a singular area: she is a »visual artist« – her name is internationally known as a synonym for experimental design as well as visualisations of music/for music.
In 1995, Tina Frank started up her own business as a designer and was soon referred to as one of Austria’s shooting stars in web design. She designs »packing« for music. Many of her cover designs, espcially those for music labels Mego (Austria) and Idea Records (USA) have been published in numerous design reference works and are considered influential. The book »Graphic Design for the 21st Century« elected her as sole Austrian among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Tina Frank has taught various multimedia-related subjects at Austrian universities of applied science.
Parallel to graphic design the topic »video« (moving pictures) plays an important role. »One of the most prominent pioneers of new experimental video in Europe« (quote from Avantofestival 2003). The DVD »Fuzzy Motion – Pictures without legs 1995-2002« was published in 2002 at Gas in Japan. In 2006 a DVD will be released with the legendary music label Asphodel in the USA. Performances and contributions to exhibitions, such as Ars Electronica, Linz; Centre Pompidou, Paris; or ICC, Tokyo, and many interviews in magazines are evidence of Tina Frank’s activities as a design and video artist. In 2003, the ICA – New Media Centre, London, devoted an individual exhibition to the work »Kidds Fuzz«. In 2005, the festival »sync – Electronic Music & Digital Arts« in Athens presented a major work exhibition with 25 large format prints & videos. The video chronomops receives fi rst price in 2006 at »diagonale 06« for best innovative, experimental-, animation- or short film 2005/2006.
Tina is collaborating with COH for the [of] project.
ULF LANGHEINRICH
Born in 1960, Wolfen - Sachsen Anhalt, Germany Ulf Langheinrich lives and works in Accra (Ghana).
Before he moved to Western Germany in 1984 he conducted audio-experiments using pipe organs, harmoniums and multiple tape machine environments. Relocated in Vienna, from 1988 to 1991, he devoted himself to regular painting and drawing, and put out a catalogue of his work. These years testify to a rich and productive artistic diversity, involving photography, design of musical sound- scapes for the film- and video-projects as well as experimental concerts. During this time, he was also involved in the founding of the multimedia group PYRAMEDIA and had joined the board of directors of the independent cultural organization WUK for two years.
In 1991 he and Kurt Hentschlaeger founded the Media-Art collaboration GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS and since then they have been realizing a number of international large scale projects including, “MODELL5”, “NOISEGATE” and “POL”. They exhibited and performed at the Museum for applied Arts ICA London, Hull Time based Art, MAK Vienna, Museums of Contemporary Arts of Lyon, Montreal and Seoul, The Stedelijk Museum, Kunstverein Hanover, ISEA Montreal and Liverpool, ICC Tokyo, Creative Time New York and the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2001. Their work is published on a number of DVDs including “REMIX/INDEX” (Austria) and “IMMERSIVE WORKS” (ZKM/Cantz)
Since 2003, Ulf Langheinrich has started to realize various large scale solo projects including DRIFD and HEMISPHERE.and collaborats with Japanese Dancers Akemi Takeya and Toshiko Oiwa. He was “Featured artist” at Ars Electronica 2005 with a Siemens stipendium, Guest Professor at HGB University for Graphics and Book design Leipzig, department for New Media, Guest Artist and Lecturer of audiovisual design at the FH Salzburg, Multimedia department, at the RMIT in Melbourne and at the China University of Art in Hanzou.
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UNTITLED SOUND OBJECTS
Pe Lang and Zimoun focus on creating sound architecture with an organic feel, investigating properties of sound, materials, resonance properties and generative systems. Their works «Untitled Sound Objects» are created by using small machines and robots comprised of computer-monitored and programmed electromagnetic lifts, electro magnets or vibrating motors, in combination with different materials which are used as sound sources. The works are presented as sound installations (exhibitions) and as live performances (audio/visual concerts).
«We are interested in a selective mix between living structures continuously generated or evolving by chance and chain reactions on the one hand, contrasting with specifically delimited and contained space, in which these events are allowed to happen. Our compositional intentions are manifesting themselves through our deliberate containment and cautious monitoring. Thus, we are not busying ourselves with chance factors and generative systems in order to discover unexpected results, but rather to attain the vitality aspired in the compositions.»
U-Sun
U-Sun works in the fields of audio-visual composition, arts and architecture and is currently based in London. Her interest lies in biomimetic design, whereby these aesthetics are incorporated into her visual work. Since 2002, her work has been shown in Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada, among others at VideoEx in Zurich, Seoul Fringe Festival, Ars Electronica Linz and at Cut and Splice, Sonic Recycler in London, Interplay tour in Amsterdam and with Cinefeel at Le Cube in France.
U-Sunis collaborating with eRikm for the [of] project.
@C
Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela have been working as @c since 2000, regularly collaborating with Lia in live audiovisual trio performances, installation or video pieces. Their work has been released in labels as Crónica (pt), Al-ga (es), Falsch (de/at), Fuga Discos (ar), Grain of Sound (pt), IndexDVD (at), Lanolin (at), Ristretto (pt), Silence is not Empty (ir), Sirr (pt), Sonic Acts (nl) and ZKM (de). They have performed in such venues as Ausland (Berlin), Casa da Música (Porto), Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa), EME (Setúbal), Festival Alternativa (Santiago de Compostela), Hörbar (Hamburg), Künstlerhaus (Wien), Lovebytes 2003 (Sheffield), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Santiago de Chile), Museu do Chiado (Lisboa), Museu de Serralves (Porto), Netmage (Bologna), Offf (Barcelona), Phonotaktik (Wien), Sónar (Barcelona), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), t0 (Wien), Transmediale (Berlin), VideoZone Festival (Tel Aviv), Zemos98 (Sevilla).
@c are collaborating with Lia for the [of] project.
VILLALOGICASONORA~
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VillaLogicaSonora~ is a project initiated in 2005 by Wim Jongedjik and Maurizio Martinucci with the aim of constructing aural environments which would trigger peculiar visual analogies in the psyche of the listeners.
Audiovisual dutch artist Wim Jongedijk has an established background as an artist, filmmaker and producer of community artworks (www.villalogica.nl). Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) collaborated with Wim on several multimedia productions and composed a multichannel surround soundtrack for his movie "Sub_Sectio".
In 2005 they conceived the quadrophonic piece "WATERSCAPE~" and performed it on the Mercatorplein in Amsterdam as a 6 hours live piece.
In 2006 they produced an audiovisual installation based on EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) simulation with the ambition to render works that sustain particular systems of belief. They're now experimenting with multichannel sound compositions that physically revitalize and transform abandoned filmstock and found foootage.
Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) is an italian multimedia artist and producer, living and working in Amsterdam (NL) since January 2002. In 1995 he established the multimedia research laboratory "SUb" in Rome involved in audio-visual experimentations with digital media for interactive applications and artworks. He has always been interested in using technology as a means for exploring synesthesia and, in particular, the relationship between sound and images. In 1990 he attended a school for Computer Music Programmers with many of Italy's most reknown specialists in electronic and contemporary music. He participated in workshops at the "Centro di Sonologia Computazionale" of the University of Padova, and at the "Tempo Reale" institute in Florence directed by Luciano Berio. Since the late eightes TeZ has been composing electronic music. He released several records with various projects (M.S.B., DoseZero, Nukleus, TeZ). His live-electronics performances have always included visual support realized with different original digital techniques. His work is now focusing on generative compositions and various experimental audiovisual projects, including Generative Live Cinema, FilmWare, video-scenographies and sound installations.
With PHILIPS ReSearch and SUbMultimedia Lab TeZ is now conducting a research project for an interactive generative painting as a follow-up to the "PROTOQUADRO".
Tez's most recent works include collaborations with international artists Scanner, Kim Cascone, Taylor Deupree, Luca Spagnoletti, Ivan Pavlov and Francisco Lopez.
TeZ is the ideator and artistic director of the OPTOFONICA project.
JANIS PöNISCH
Janis Pönisch is working as an interdisciplinary designer and artist.
His field of work ranges from interior architecture in assignment through autonomuos interactive installation and objects to visual imagery. After finishing Abitur in Munich, Germany he produced a series of unique furniture prototypes. In the year 2000 he started his study on the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam specialized in the field of architectonic Design. In that period he worked out architectural concepts, maquettes and interactive interfaces and animations. During the study he worked as an intern at the company Yens & Yens that is specialized in the field of production of electronic art, exhibition design and software development. In the summer 2005 he graduated from architectonic design with winning the Rietveld design prize.
Janis Pönisch is now working as a free artist and designer in Janisland searching for new forms and spatial infrastructures.
He is visualizing three dimensional phantasies with the means of various media. The work has a focus on the relation between body and environment and perception. His motivation has an origin in the fact that humans create their own surrounding as an essential architectonic idea. Doing this in a concious way can only result in a wonderful world resulting in materialized desire.
Janis is co-designer with TeZ of the [of] Capsule.