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http://www.therelaxationcompany.com/cd3690.html > Message du 10/02/06 00:41 > De : "Eric Kluitenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : [spectre] fwd: Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art - > Amsterdam, February 23 - 26, 2006 > > Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art > > 23 – 26 February 2006 – Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The February Issue of The Wire , sent to all subscribers, includes a > special Sonic Acts XI DVD including more than three and a half hour > of contemporary computer art, made by almost forty artists from all > over the world. The DVD is also available during the festival. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Sonic Acts website is almost complete and contains a lot of > information on the different programmes, the artists and who does > what when and other relevant information, like changes in the > programme. http://www.sonicacts.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The most important changes in the programme: Rutger Wolfson (NL), > Casey Reas (US) and Arjen Mulder (NL) will moderate the conference, > Rob Young (UK) will replace Gerard Walhof (NL) . Erich Berger (AT) > cancelled his performance, Fe-mail (NO) is confirmed. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The eleventh edition of the Sonic Acts Festival will be held from > Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th February 2006 in Paradiso and De Balie > in Amsterdam. Entitled Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art, > the festival will include a three-day international conference, three > evenings and nights of live performances, an extensive film programme > and an exhibition. A DVD and a book on the festival theme will also > be published to coincide with it. > > The three-day conference will provide a multifaceted and penetrating > overview of computer art. International speakers from computer arts, > film, the fine arts, music, the academic world, literature and art > history will, from the perspective of their own background, discuss > the historical developments, present the current position of computer > art, and consider its future. Jasia Reichardt (UK) opens the festival > at February 23 2006 with a Keynote lecture. > > Reichardt is writer and curator and made history in 1968 with the > exhibit Cybernetic Serendipity. Speakers at the conference include > Lillian Schwartz (US), pioneer in the field of computer-generated art > and computer films; Curtis Roads (US), composer and author of the > influential Computer Music Tutorial; Stephen Wilson (US), professor > of conceptual design at the SFSU and author of the authoritative > Information Arts, Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology; > Joost Rekveld (NL), artist, produces abstract films and kinetic > installations since 1991; Ben Fry (USA), artist, who's current > research involves the visualization of genetic data. With Casey Reas > he is developing the open source programming environment Processing; > Manfred Mohr (US), computer artist since 1968 and considered as one > of the pioneers; Frieder Nake (DE), professor interactive computer- > graphics in Bremen and one of the three artists in the first computer > art exhibitions (1965, Stuttgart). A key-person in the field of > computer art and information aesthetics since then; Andreas > Broeckmann (DE), artistic director of the international media art > festival Transmediale in Berlin. In texts and lectures he deals with > post-medial practices and the possibilities for a 'machinic' > aesthetics of media art; Matthias Weiss (DE), studied art history and > philosophy and is considered an authority in the field of net-art; > John Oswald (CA), composer and sound-artist. Became famous in 1990 > with his Plunderphonics; Rob Young (UK), editor for the music > magazine The Wire; Golan Levin (US), artist, composer, performer and > engineer, develops new forms of interaction with audiovisual systems; > Joan Leandre (ES), also known as Retroyou, artist working with > modified games; Wolf Lieser (DE), curator and founder of the Digital > Art Museum; Erik van Blokland (NL), designer and co-founder of > Letterror. Arjen Mulder (NL), Casey Reas (US) and Rutger Wolfson (NL) > will moderate during the conference. > The festival will start with performances by Granular Synthesis (AT) > and Curtis Roads & Brian O'Reilly (US). Granular Synthesis, renowned > for its monumental and impressive audio-visual performances and > installations, will perform Areal. Curtis Roads & Brian O'Reilly will > perform their international acclaimed octaphonic audiovisual piece > Point Line Cloud. > > The Friday programme is being compiled in collaboration with Jace > Clayton (a.k.a. DJ/rupture), founder of Negrophonic and Soot Records, > and will include: The Bug feat. Ras B (Rephlex, UK), Beans (Warp, > US), Ghislain Poirier (Chocolate Industries, CA), Vex'd (Rephlex, > UK) , DJ /rupture & No Lay & G-Kid (Unorthodox, UK), Team Shadetek > presents: Heavy Meckle feat. Matt Shadetek, Sheen, Jammer & Skepta > (Warp / Jah Mek the the World, UK/US), Hrvatski (Planet Mu, US), > Aaron Spectre (Death$ucker, US), Ove-Naxx (Adaadat, JP), Scotch Egg > (Wrong Music, JP), Doddodo (Adaadat, JP), Drop the Lime (Tigerbeat6, > US), Filastine (Soot, US), Nettle (theAgriculture, ES), 2/5 BZ > (Gözel, TU), Gustav (Mosz, AT), Planning to Rock (Twisted Nerve, DE), > Toktek & MNK (NL). > > On Saturday Performances by: Matthew Dear (Spectral Sound, US), > Reinhard Voigt (Kompakt, DE), Ada (Areal records, DE), TBA (Max > Ernst, DE), AGF & SUE.C (Orthlorng Musork, DE/US), Portable (Scape, > ZA), Fe-mail (NO), NotTheSameColor (AT), Akuvido (UA), SKIF & Bas van > Koolwijk (US/NL), Moha! (NO), OfficeR(6) (NL/US/NO), Jason Forrest > (Cock Rock Disco, US), TinyLittleElements (AT/DE), Anne Laplantine > (FR), Boris & Brecht Debackere (BE), Erich Berger (AT), Nancy Fortune > (Viewlexx, FR). > > The film programme will look at purely digital film art with a number > of historical overviews, documentaries and contemporary computer > films. Work will also be shown from the archive of the Institut > National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches des Images. In two > programme series work will be shown from filmmakers such as: Raymond > Hains, Jacques Brissot, Nicolas Schöffer, Caroline Laure, Marie > Claire Petris, Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade and Piotr Kamler. Much > of this material has never been seen before in the Netherlands: it > offers a wealth of historical material related to abstract film and > musique concrête. There are two filmmaker in focus programmes: > Lillian Schwartz and John Whitney; there is one programme with very > early computer films by filmmakers like Chuck Csuri and Stan > Vanderbeek; there is a programme with early ‘computer aided design’ > works and there is a programme with works from SIGGRAPH. > > The exhibition will include a number of key-works from the pioneers > of computer-art, including works by Ben Laposky, Manfred Mohr, Edward > Zajec, Frieder Nake, Tony Longson and Vera Molnar. Also works will be > shown from the Sonic Acts 2006 DVD, by artists such as: Bart Vegter, > Semiconductor, Effekt, Telcosystems & Jason Haas, Martijn van Boven, > C.E.B. Reas, Meta, Driessens & Verstappen, Karl Kliem, Chris > Musgrave, Peter Luining, reMI, Scott Pagano & Keepadding, Kurt > Ralske, George Issakidis and Daniel Perlin & Dj /rupture. > > > Sonic Acts XI > Thursday February 23 - Sunday February 26 2006 > Paradiso, Weteringschans 6 - 8, Amsterdam, +31206264521 > De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam, +31205535100 > > Conference passepartout: € 45,00 (Thursday February 23, doors 20:00, > start 20:30, location: Paradiso; Friday February 24, Saturday > February 25 & Sunday February 26, doors 12:30, start 13:00, location: > De Balie) – The passepartout is also valid for the performance > programme & the Keynote lecture on Thursday February 23. > > Live Performances: € 12,50 incl. (Thursday February 23, doors: 20:00, > start 20:30, Friday February 24 & Saturday February 25 doors: 20:00, > start 21:00, location: Paradiso) > > Films: € 6,25 (Thursday February 23, 19:30 & 21:00, Friday February > 24, 19:30 & 21:00, Saturday 25, 16:00, 19:30 & 21:00) > > Conference tickets are available from January 7 2006 via De Balie > (+31205535100 between 14.00 and 17.30 during weekdays), AUB and > online via: http://www.amsterdamsuitburo.nl/dsp_productie.cfm? > prodid=90F7423E-AAC1-924F-FF8B049630F4DE16 > > Live Performance tickets are available from January 7 2006 via AUB > and online via: > http://www.ticketmaster.nl/html/searchResult.htmI?keyword=sonic > +acts&l=EN&x=0&y=0 > > Film tickets are available from January 14 2006 via De Balie > (+31205535100 between 14.00 and 17.30 during weekdays) > > For more information: www.sonicacts.com > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > > ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
