donderdag, september 14, 2006

Gogbot festival 2006

Gogbot festival 2006
14-19 september


GOGBOT festival EnvironMental Arts, Media and Technology is de 3e aflevering van een PLANETART kunstmanifestatie dat plaats vindt op en rond de Oude Markt in het centrum van Enschede. Met de cafe’s en terrassen rondom de van oorsprong 12e eeuwse Grote Kerk is het oude stadscentrum een ideale omgeving voor cultuurbeleving, ontspanning en amusement. Dit sluit goed aan op de doelstelling van het festival om een breed publiek te bereiken met een inspirerend en confronterend programma. Daarnaast heeft de stad Enschede wetenschap en technologie hoog in het vaandel staan, met onderwijsinstellingen als de T.U. Twente, AKI kunstacademie met de vakgroep Mediakunst en de Saxion Hogeschool met de vakgroep Kunst en Techniek. Bovendien is de huidige ontwikkeling van de technologie in toenemende mate van belang voor de massamedia, die ons dagelijks leven steeds meer bepalen.

GOGBOT EnvironMental is dan ook een festival waarin multimediale kunst centraal staat die veelal geïnspireerd is door massamedia. De kunstenaar heeft in de loop der tijd een andere (economische) verhouding gekregen met reclame, film, muziek, clips en internet. De grenzen tussen kunst en massamedia zijn steeds moeilijker aan te geven. Op wat voor manieren heeft de kunstenaar tegenwoordig nog maatschappelijk belang? En is dit belang noodzakelijk? Steeds meer nadruk wordt gelegd op het bereiken van publiek via kunst(festivals) buiten de traditionele musea. Ook PLANETART heeft als doelstelling multimediale kunst toegankelijk te maken voor een breder publiek, maar worstelt tegelijkertijd met de grenzen tussen amusement en engagement. Is kunst in een andere omgeving andere kunst en maakt ze een andere indruk? Is zij toegankelijker? Zo ja, waarom is dat zo? En moet kunst als entertainment gebracht worden om haar toegankelijk te kunnen maken of mag ze ook confronterend en principieel zijn? Wat is toegankelijke kunst en heeft deze nog wel wat te zeggen? Worden mensen verrast, gaan ze anders naar de/hun werkelijkheid kijken of fungeert kunst meer als ‘brood en spelen’ met als enig doel tijdverdrijf? Mediakunst is steeds vaker interactief. Dit spreekt met name jongeren aan, maar op wat voor manier? Is kunst die met een hoop spektakel of interactie mensen trekt, zoals Architects of Air, toegankelijker dan de teksten van Mieke Gerritzen die minder mensen aanspreken en die men, fysiek gezien, op een passieve manier ondergaat? Of doen de werken in mentaal opzicht ieder op hun eigen manier iets met het publiek? Op deze en andere vragen wil GOGBOT anticiperen met het tentoonstellingsprogramma en het lezingenprogramma met debat.

Informatie op www.gogbot.nl

maandag, september 11, 2006

todaysart

todaysart is the annual international multidisciplinary modern creativity festival in The Hague.
22 and 23 september 2006 in The Hague

The festival offers a programme at 20 venues (in- and outdoor) in the city centre with more than 200 artists from over 25 countries, all presenting their creative vision about what Art is Today in terms of music, video and visual arts, film, photography, fashion, performing arts, theatre, contemporary dance and other disciplines and crossovers.
Expect unique and custom-made productions and performances by the world's most creative artists

Information at
www.todaysart.nl/2006/index.php

zondag, september 03, 2006

STRP festival 2007 Eindhoven en aanverwante info

The date picked for STRP-2:
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 of May 2007



CALL FOR PROJECTS STRP-2007

- Deadline 20 Oct. 2006
(please forward this message to anyone who might be interested)

After a successful first edition, the STRP festival, which took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands at the end of March 2006, is launching a call for projects for its next edition, which will be taking in May of 2007.

The focus of the festival is the common ground created at the intersection between art, popular culture and technology. The first edition which welcomed over 10 000 visitors, and received very positive attention from the press, made use of performances, installations, lectures, films, etcetera in order to convey this crossroads.

STRP takes place on Strijp-S, the 'holy' ground of the forbidden city of Philips, where in the 20th century numerous technological innovations were made which changed the world. A place where Einstein once worked, the first complete electronic music album was created and the collaboration between le Courboisier and Varese resulted in one of the most interesting amalgamations between art and technology; Le Poeme Electronique for the World Expo in Brussels (1958).


FOR THE 2007 EDITION

STRP is looking for projects, installations, or proposals that concern themselves with interactive art, robotics and/or Live Cinema (in the live cinema category we are looking for projects that rely on both performance and technology in order to become an audio-visual whole). All of the above in a context in which the artistic side is furthered by technology. This year we will also be paying special attention to projects, which involve light in their concept, composition, and/or execution.

The application forms are available in
PDF format - http://downloads.strp.nl/strp-call06.pdf
RTF format – http://downloads.strp.nl/strp-call06.rtf

To find out more about the 2006 edition of the festival, including a full line-up, press-releases and photographs please take a look at: http://www.strp.nl

If you have further questions please contact us at info@strp.nl



The upcoming weeks are filled with interesting events you might be interested in. Here is our shortlist:


* TodaysArt festival

22 & 23 September 2006, various locations (indoor & outdoor) The Hague, Netherlands.

todaysart is the annual international multidisciplinary modern creativity festival in The Hague.
The festival offers a program at 20 venues (in- and outdoor) in the city centre with more than 200 artists from over 25 countries, all presenting their creative vision about what Art is Today in terms of music, video and visual arts, film, photography, fashion, performing arts, theatre, contemporary dance and other disciplines and crossovers. Expect unique and custom-made productions and performances by the world's most creative artists.

Headliners:
Unit Moebius (Den Haag)/ The Orb (London,UK) / Venetian Snares (Winnipeg, Canada) /Legowelt (Den Haag) / Kubus (Zwolle) & BangBang (London, UK) / Jean-Jaqcues Perrey (77 jr., Evian-les-Bains, France) / Pips:Lab / United Visual Artists (London, UK) / Akufen (Montreal, Canada) / Gudrun Gut (Berlin, DE) / Nederlands Dans Theater II (Den Haag) / C-Mon & Kypski (Utrecht) / Club Transmediale (Berlin, DE)

Tickets & Info
Ticket presale via the Hague's Uitburo, online @ www.haagsuitburo.nl and via telephone (0900-828 29 99). Daypass € 17,-. Weekendpass € 26,-. All-in Package (2 nights in a hostel incl. breakfast + weekendpassepartout) € 60,-. Luxury packages also available.


» Check for the complete program, latest news, live streams during the festival and more digital stuff the festival's website at www.todaysart.nl




* Regional ArtBots Gent 2006 Call for Works

ArtBots Gent: The Robot Talent Show, an art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place in Gent, Belgium on December 2-3, 2006.

Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show. Proposals and works-in-progress are welcome, provided a detailed production timeline and samples of previous work are included in the application. The deadline for entries is October 15, 2006.

We follow the traditions of the annual international ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show.(see http://www.artbots.org for more information)


The ArtBots Gent curators are: nMn, dorkbot Gent.
ArtBots Gent is supported by Nieuwpoorttheater and de Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

Please see http://artbots.org/gent for more information and entry instructions.




* State of the Image Festival 2006 presents: Visual_Active:

8 + 9 sept. Arnhem, The Netherlands.
http://www.stateoftheimage.nl/content_home.html

Visual_active presents an adventurous live event with a strong
emphasis on audio-visual performance, Vj-ing and live media-art.
Main target is to present innovative approaches to interactivity
within live sound and image.

Many artists nowadays start to explore the relation between image and
sound, and like to challenge live interaction on stage. Because technology
has become increasingly userfriendly, artists can now develop their
own tools to use in live performance. These technological
and artistic innovations enhance the creative industry, and help to
create a vibrant art-community worldwide.

For State of the image, a selection of international media-artists
has been invited. Artists that have been recognised for
their artistic achievements, and still participate actively
in the contemporary media-arts.

Visual_Active will present the audience with an
eveningfilling outdoor program full of adventurous twists...!

Programme:

Visual_Active_Stage/ Saterday september 9/
Arnhem/Citysquare // 21.00-00.15 hrs.//FREE ENTRANCE!

- Peter Greenaway (UK) + DJ Radar (NL): The NoTV Tulse Luper VJ Performance:
- Scanner + D-Fuse (UK) : Light Turned Down:
- Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP) : Crossmedia Audiovisual concert:
- Eric Vloeimans + Michel Banabila (NL) +
Visual.Girlbot.Facility (CRO/NL): Exploring.Urban.Nature:


Visual_Active_CLUB@ Max Brothers.
21.30 hrs - 04.00 hrs. FRIDAY September 8 2006

- Martijn Van Boven (NL) - Globule SI14 -
- Bas van Koolwijk (NL) - FDBCK/AV -
- Stanzacrew + Lomechanik (NL)
- VJ Anyone + Motorboy (UK) - GHOSTHACK:
- Tofa feat. MC Massiw le Ghaza (GER)
- dj Nicklebeat + VJ Oxygen, Eirenah (NL/CRO)



Visual_active_CLUB@ Max Brothers.
00.15 hrs - 04.00 hrs. SATERDAY September 9, 2006

- Videoboxing / SXNDRX (NL)
- Funckarma + Videotroopers (NL)
- Ben Sheppee (LightrhythmVisuals, UK/Japan)
- DrifterTV (NL)
- RickRobiN.tv (NL)




* Up2DATE

From 18th August until 17th September Stichting Idee-fixe organizes the exhibition UP2DATE. An exhibition in which a personal view is given on the current video- and other media art in Western-Europa. Since more than fifteen years Stichting Idee-fixe is a platform for visionary art, with an active role of the public. In its projects, always full of imagination, surprise lies just around the corner.

In this exhibition the artists work with the power of the moving image. Confronting worlds that stimulate all senses are created with modern video and computer techniques. Fourteen works/installations can be seen in which video or sound play the lead. Those media are used in many different ways and can be seen as a tool of the mind of the artist. The computer helps to execute his or her idea.

The international artists come from different countries, some of them are working already for many years. Furthermore we have selected young talents who recently graduated from several Dutch art schools. Those youngsters, six in total, get a chance to introduce themselves to a bigger audience and to exhibit together with more experienced artists.

In this way UP2DATE wants to surprise you with rotating video images, interactive sound installations and video stories from different angles.

http://www.up2date.idfx.nl http://www.up2date.idfx.nl





TRANSMIT by D-Fuse @ MU

Live VJ & soundperformance by D-Fuse & guests at De Effenaar on Septembre 8 form 20.30 till 04.00 hours. Opening of Exhibition D-Fuse at MU from September 9 till October 8, at 20.00 hours

D-Fuse is a London-based collective of international (sound)artists, designers and architects working in a broad range of media. Their work varies from live VJ- performances to multimedia installations and from filmprojects to printed matter. This fall their book VJ Culture and Audiovisual Art, one of the first international overviews of this artscene will be published by Laurence King in Londen.
Central to their first international solo-exhibition @ MU will be the installation SmallGlobal, in which the viewer sees the world as a huge living organism.

Projected onto four big screens SmallGlobal shows us a datadriven impression of globalistic processes like the explosive growth of mobilephones and McDonalds and the slow but also constant deterioration of rainforrest and the gorillacommunity in Congo.

Besides this installation D-Fuse has also build a new light and soundwork Phosphorescense specially for MU that will be a 3 dimensional translation of their spatial vj shows. Other aspects will be large prints of their newest project Undercurrent, about the massive socio-economic changes in rivercities in both modern

China and post-industrial Britain, and a multiplescreening of their 2004 dvd D-Tonate and visuals for Beck’s Guero tour.

The exhibition will be launched with a live performance in which D-Fuse will stage their Light Turned Down performance with soundartist Scanner and a line-up of other international guests, amongst whom are Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit, Visualkitchen VJ Oxygen and ACTOP that also feature in their VJ-book.