ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE and DESIGN ALLIANCE

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:16:00 -0400

USE, MAKE, LEARN, SELL, CHANGE, COPY, MANUFACTURE, MASS PRODUCE, IMPROVE, DOWNGRADE, UPGRADE, REDISTRIBUTE, DO ABSOLUTELY WHATEVER YOU WANT

OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. The proposed solution with it is a label in the sense of a non-registered trademark. The label will connect the 4 FREEDOMS with any kind of physical device through OHANDA and make the openness visible to everyone.

*/ Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose

*/ Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it do what you wish. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

*/ Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).

*/ Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE and DESIGN ALLIANCE

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:15:32 -0400

USE, MAKE, LEARN, SELL, CHANGE, COPY, MANUFACTURE, MASS PRODUCE, IMPROVE, DOWNGRADE, UPGRADE, REDISTRIBUTE, DO ABSOLUTELY WHATEVER YOU WANT

*/ Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose

*/ Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it do what you wish. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

*/ Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).

Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson run Feel Good Lost, a creative...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:01:28 -0400

Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson run Feel Good Lost, a creative production house working out of Cork, Ireland. They make films and visuals to music we love. They also perform our own brand of live visuals. Their videos have been displayed on some of the biggest music websites in the world such as Pitchfork, XLR8R, MTV, The Fader, Prefix, Gorilla Vs Bear to name a few. The one directed for AMBASSEDEUR’S M.O.P.E. has absolutely blew our minds off with each dreamy visual conceptualism! N-Joy!

LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING 2012 // CALL FOR WORKS IS NOW OPEN

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:02:05 -0500

LPM will take place from 31st May to 3rd June 2012 at MACRO TESTACCIO,Contemporary Art Museum in Rome, and from today THE CALL FOR WORKS IS OPEN! The registration form is available only on-line and the subscriptions will be accepted until the 12nd March 2012.

The venue of LPM 2012 ROME is the MACRO - Rome Contemporary Art Museum, a location that perfectly fit the needs of the Meeting, but also informs the event with a prestigious ‘touch’, both at national and international level.

LPM mantains the 4 days formula and, as usual, proposes a spectacular, innovative and engaging programme, and you too will have the chance to make our edition unique: send us your best project or performance, and come join the biggest live video event worldwide!

And you, VJ! If you think to have talent enough to compete in the VJ Contest, subscribe and show us what you can do! If you wish to participate to the Meeting, but you don’t want to perform, subscribe anyway as you will have the incredible opportunity to meet hundreds of live video artists, experts and practitioners, so to further your knowledge of the hottest topics related to live video performance.

The aim of LPM is to promote and diffuse the free circulation of ideas, knowledge, techniques and languages related to LIVE VIDEO practice, which will be the main focus of the Meeting. Languages, techniques, cultural derives, innovative technologies: these are the themes that we want to discuss during our seminars and workshops.

Send your proposal for a talk, a presentation or a workshop and help spreading knowledge!

Visit the official website & stay always up to date with the latest news!

Follow LPM on Twitter: twitter.com/liveperformers

Or, if you are a Facebook addicted: http://www.facebook.com/LPM.LivePerformersMeeting

LPM is produced and organized by Flyer Communication, with the support of the European Commission Culture Program.

ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL INTRODUCES LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING // 2012 PREVIEW

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:05:05 -0500

Athens Video Art Festival consists of a living cell of the community by which it gets daily inspired and within which it quickens. By developing a wide network of collaborations with relevant international organizations and with the aim of continuous expansion of its fields of interest, it overcomes any geographical or other limitation.

In the context of exploring diverse «meeting points» between arts and technology, the year 2011 was the starting point of its relationship with the Italian organization of Live Performers Meeting (LPM). During 2012 it introduces the festival to Greece by hosting a series of activities in conjunction, under the support of the European Commission Culture Program.

Occasioned by the announcement of the official call for entries of the eleventh edition of the Italian festival that is scheduled to take place in May 2012 in the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Athenian public will have the opportunity to view a comprehensive showcase of the history as well as the potentials of Live Performers Meeting (LPM).

The event is planned to include workshops, audiovisual performances, DJ sets, products/projects presentations on the 18th and 19th of February at the venue of Tora K44 (Konstantinoupoleos 44, Gazi).

Collaboration between: Multitrab Productions & Flyer communication

With the support of: European Commission Culture Program

VJ TORNA: THE ANNUAL VEEJAYING APPOINTMENT RETURNS! DON'T MISS IT!

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:31:27 -0500

VJ Torna is world touring VJ contest which offers an inspiring and entertaining experience both for visual pros and both for the general audiences. The first competition was organized in 2004 in Budapest, Hungary with the aim of gathering and stimulating video artists from the local and from the international VJ scene.

The success of the event has been confirmed by the recent collaborations born worldwide: in the past twelve moths, VJ Torna went to Sao Paulo (Brasil), Budapest (Hungary) and Rome (Italy). In the next twelve it is planned to land in Berlin, Barcelona (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Bogotá (Colombia), Sao Paulo (Brasil) again and hopefully in Mexico City (Mexico).

After fulfilling a super-sized compo in Rome, the year 2012 still hasn’t come to an end as we’ll step on land of German in October to do our favorite thing in Berlin and November Mexico City. We carry on with the fruitful co-operation between Live Performers Meeting and VJ Torna to evolve to something bigger. Again, we’ll be having fierce duels for three days between VJs coming from distant countries, and besides our part of the show, there’s the ever morphing, organically hiving Italian live video meeting to give the frames.

The Vj Torna International has a new category in 2012. After the champion, battle and online categories, we have now the BEST LIVE MAPPER category.

There are 1 home-production and 2 live tournament categories you can choose to enter. In the live mapping category we’re looking for applications from those who would like to make out- or indoor show.

The jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial judgment on the performance of each competitor. They are 3 to 5 industry professional and visual aesthetics masters originating both from the host country and from other parts of the world.

For more information about the concept and rules of VJ Torna, please visit our website at www.vjtorna.org

More info on the categories:

VJ Torna: Championship

VJ Torna: Battle VJ Torna:

Pre-Production

VJ Torna: Live-Mapping(rules coming soon)

PARTICIPATE NOW

NEW CODES */ AVAF 2012

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:26:27 -0500

Athens Video Art Festival (AVAF) is an annual digital arts and new media festival taking place in Greece, mainly Athens. Being part of an international art network, it reflects a wide range of ideas and developments in the art world.

It aims at bringing together experimental projects of contemporary artists and at promoting free expression, exchange of ideas, and creative interaction while exhibiting new media and new technologies application in arts.

Through a variety of creative forms, it presents alternative ways of “viewing” urban landscape and of perceiving art, and new codes of interaction between art and contemporary societies.

2012 EDITION

In a spirit of renewal and reorganization that is dictated by the new social conditions of our time and the consequently changing social role of new media, AVAF renews its program based on the concept of new codes, while retaining an important number of its structural components.

By helping create new perspectives in digital arts’ presentation and their perception by society, this new code constitutes a powerful tool for redefining AVAF in its entirety.

NEW CODES

The units forming a whole create, by the use of symbols, codes and languages, in order to perceive, understand, and communicate with each other. A whole, a code, a language or communication in general must begin with the formation of a sequence of cohesive meaning.

The innate need of human beings, as units forming a whole, to express themselves leads them to discover a code, whose starting point is their perceptive ability. Every code as an active structure, a communication system, influences the social structure, while the transient nature of society causes the continuous development of new codes and the redefinition of existing ones.

The artistic medium is condusive to the development of the code: through creative dialogue it enriches the sensory experience of the viewer. The recorded material resulting from the artistic activation of space and/or appropriation of the body is filtered and forms a new language, new communication potential. The exploration of the new communication code then brings together, in an original way, artist and viewer, and forges a two-way relation between them, as demanded by the times.

Athens Video Art Festival is a living organism created and developed within the contemporary art and society environment to address a wide range of artistic and social issues. It aims at contributing to the strengthening of the ties between audience and artists, on the foundation of a multipurpose program seeking to enhance artistic and social awareness and understanding.

The New Codes concept establishes an alternative view of digital arts history and of their relation to an ever changing everyday life, thus reintroducing AVAF.

Maxsin Dodzo, Renay Phillips and Dean Stimpy Stewart are...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:11:09 -0500

Maxsin Dodzo, Renay Phillips and Dean Stimpy Stewart are FUNKYSTEPZ, and here at the Athens Video Art Festival districts WE LOVE FUNKY!

Enjoy their edit of The Weeknd’s Rolling Stone or catch up with their weekly radio show on Rinse!

We have recently noticed Zach Saginaw’s work because of a...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:30:00 -0500

We have recently noticed Zach Saginaw’s work because of a Samiyam’s remix of And we gonna track taken from the former’s Full Circle album.

Detroit/Ann Arbor born Saginaw picked the drums early in his childhood and started funking driven by his native area music tradition in soul and jazz music. Right after graduating from high school he moved to New York and London, where he studied jazz acquiring an obsession with electronic music. Moving back to the homeland he adopted the moniker Shigeto (to grow bigger in Japanese) and started recording electronic beats making his peers to take notice of his talent.

The video showed here is a teaser for his 2010 Full Circle LP under the imprint of Ghostly International.

Track Shigeto through the web and your local record stores enjoying his music.

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LV is a UK based producers’ trio that is scheduled to...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:38:34 -0500

LV is a UK based producers’ trio that is scheduled to participate in the 1st anniversary of Audio Doughnuts at Found alongside Rustie, Koreless, Kuedo and Lando Kal. The above minimix welcomed us right after our return from Volos in the northern part of Greece. Beautiful as an autumn sunrise and fat as hell!

For downloading it and finding more info about Found: Audio Doughnuts 1st BDay you could always track them down across facebook pages. N-Joy!

Ghostpoet :: Survive it (Koreless Rmx)

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:21:00 -0500

Ghostpoet :: Survive it (Koreless Rmx)

23-27 NOVEMBER: ONEDOTZERO_ADVENTURES IN MOTION 2011

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:33:05 -0500

We are just under three weeks away until onedotzero_adventures in motion festival launches at BFI Southbank in London! 2011 sees onedotzero celebrate 15 years championing the progression of digital culture and innovation in motion. Read on for a festival overview and be sure to download the festival brochure for planning what not to miss at this year’s onedotzero_adventures in motion.

FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

Teaming up with BFI Southbank for the fourth year running, onedotzero_adventures in motion festival will pack a diverse array of the latest artistic endeavor into five days via a series of curated compilation screenings, feature films, installations, live audio-visual performances, bar nights, education, presentations and debate.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE

Tickets are on sale now and are selling fast and some events are beginning to sell out so hurry and book now!

SCREENING PROGRAMMES + FEATURE FILM PREVIEWS

Presenting a collection of special curated compilation programmes explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos and more. Celebrated favorites including wow + flutter, wavelength and extended play. Watch the first teaser trailer of wow + flutter 11 on our vimeo channel here Special feature film preview events include The Spirit of Apollo, an in-depth documentary of the making of N.A.S.A.’s [North America/South America] globetrotting. Plus part fiction, part biopic, Tatsumi pays tribute to artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. More

INSTALLATIONS [FREE]

Spilling out from the screen into the open spaces of the BFI Southbank with a selection of free interactive and screen-based moving image installations throughout festival dates. Destinations in their own right this will keep BFI visitors and festival goers more than occupied in between screenings, encouraging play, interaction and reactions. More

LIVE AUDIO-VISUAL EVENTS

Exploding into the live arena with a series of live audio-visual events in various spaces across the festival from bar to cinema to event spaces including Holotronica and Musicity. More

ONEDOTZERO_ADVENTURES IN MOTION 2011 FESTIVAL MOTION IDENTITY

onedotzero are thrilled to announce that their 2011-12 adventures in motion festival visual identity has been created by the internationally acclaimed United Visual Artists (UVA). UVA have created all the elements of the motion identity entirely from light, with typographical sequences reflecting the ephemeral nature of their installation work. Photographed by James Medcraft with specially commissioned sound, created by BAFTA and PRS award winning music and sound designer Nick Ryan.

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival, this...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:26:35 -0400

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival, this interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements. As our identities become deliberately constructed and broadcast commodities, our projected personae increasingly enmesh and define us. Cell acts as a virtual mirror, displaying a constructed fictional persona in place of our physical form.

Composed from keyword tags mined from online profiles, these second selves stalk our movements through space, building in size and density over time. The resulting forms are alternate, technologically refracted manifestations of the body, revealing the digital aura while simultaneously allowing us escape from our own constructed identities. Cell uses Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect to track visitors as they interact with the installation. It was built in openFrameworks, an open-source toolkit originally built to teach artists and designers creative coding. Microsoft have supported the project from the early stages, working with Brighton based company Matchbox Mobile and the openFrameworks community to build a new code library (or addon) specifically for cell that supports the Kinect For Windows SDK. This is an important development in the field of interactive art. Providing openFrameworks users easy access to the official Kinect For Windows SDK, places the technology directly into the hands of a large international community of interaction designers and new media artists. The library will be made available for free online, along with the source code for the installation.

RUSTIE :: ULTRA THIZZ :: GLASS SWORDS LP (WARP)

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:32:00 -0400

RUSTIE :: ULTRA THIZZ :: GLASS SWORDS LP (WARP)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:51:00 -0400

Black Athena & Six D.O.G.S present EGLO the III

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:59:56 -0400

Having been firing on all cylinders throughout 2011 Black Athena & Six D.O.G.S are very pleased to be able to welcome London’s EGLO crew back to the Greek capital on Friday the 28th of October!

Joining Black Athena and Six D.O.G.S on the night will be the label’s head honcho Mr. Alexander Nut of RINSE FM fame – a DJ renowned for some of the most upfront, eclectic and quality across the board sets taking in all of the best aspects of underground soulful, bassy beats, whose previous visits to the Greek capital have seen him wowing roadblock crowds new to his sound and delighting solid fans of his regular RINSE broadcast.

Alongside Mr. Nut the inimitable Funkin’Even will be bringing his brand of funk infused crispy acid inspired sounds, unique versions of his own productions and a high tempo party energy as displayed in recent dancefloor slayers such as Roland’s Jam, out earlier this summer on EGLO.

And finally the night would not be complete without the sweet soulful vocal addition of Ms. Fatima, hosting, performing live and displaying her outstanding talent on the mic as evident from her work with Floating Points, Shafiq Husayne & Dam Funk to name but a few. Following in the footsteps of classic UK soul divas such as Soul II Soul’s Caron Wheeler or Massive Attack’s Shara Nelson, this diminutive young woman’s gigantic vocal skills will blow minds and move feet! Warming up on the night Athens’ own Black Athena will take to the decks to kick off proceedings!

Friday the 28th of October

Six D.O.G.S.

6-8 Avramiotou Street, Monastiraki, Athens

Doors: 11pm

Our grandmas used to advise us that we ought to always remember...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:16:31 -0400

Our grandmas used to advise us that we ought to always remember those that have supported us no matter what the daily circumstances are. It is always a pleasure when our friends ask us to support them, especially when one can figure the high aesthetics of their activities.

This Friday the Black Athena collective in collaboration with Six D.O.G.S proudly present the return of EGLO’s crew back to the Greek capital.

The Athens Video Art Festival squad will be there to dance their feet off.

Don’t miss it!

18 - 23 October: onedotzero x 2morrow festival, Moscow

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:19:31 -0400

onedotzero heads to Russia for screenings of citystates 10 and onscreen, its curated programme of linear moving image installations. More

ONEDOTZERO_ADVENTURES IN MOTION 2011 - TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:39:00 -0400

With onedotzero_adventures in motion 2011 just over a month away, now is the time to check out the programme and start booking tickets! As ever the festival is dedicated to showcasing the most progressive new short film from around the world, feature film previews, playful interactive installations, startling live audiovisual performances, talks, workshops and educational activities. Not to be missed! More

Africa Hitech :: Light the way :: Hitecherous EP...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:48:00 -0400

Africa Hitech :: Light the way :: Hitecherous EP (Warp)

(Samplin’ Sun Ra’s When there is no sun)