28th-29th december 2009 // 26th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin)
DJs/Live/Visuals Lounge
24C3
Lounge Might
Program 15:00 – 5:00 Fnord
Opening 27.12. @ 15:00 Uhr
Closing 30.12. @ ~ 20:00 Uhr.
Visuals visualberlin.org
Auderoseselavy & Flavie / Raquel Meyers / e / Servando Barreiro / oigovisiones / Jorgk / Steffen / fRED
19th December 2009// NWEAMO @ ALTAVOZ HITS VENICE with 8 BIT MUSIC, PIXEL ART VIDEOS AND LIVE ENERGY PERFORMANCES
SNAX+GOTO80+RAQUEL MEYERS
www.nweamo.org
CSO RIVOLTA, Via Fratelli Bandiera 45, Marghera, Mestre, IT
PLAYLIST. PLAYING GAMES, MUSIC, ART
CURATOR: Domenico Quaranta
DATES: 18.12.2009 – 17.05.2010
VENUE: Mediateca Expandida de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación
Industrial (Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón – Asturias)
MORE INFOS: LABORAL Centro de Arte y Creación industrial
ARTISTS:
Paul B. Davis (UK), Jeff Donaldson / NoteNdo (DE), Dragan Espenschied (DE), Gino Esposto / Micromusic.net (CH), Gijs Gieskes (NL), André Gonçalves (PT), Mike Johnston / Mike in Mono (UK), Joey Mariano / Animal Style (US), Raquel Meyers (SP), Mikro Orchestra (PL), Don Miller / No-carrier (US), Jeremiah Johnson / Nullsleep (US), Tristan Perich (US), Rabato (SP), Gebhard Sengmüller (AT), Alexei Shulgin (RU), Paul Slocum (USA), Tonylight (IT), VjVISUALOOP (IT).
CATALOGUE:
Texts by Matteo Bittanti, Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz, Ed Halter, Domenico Quaranta. Music CD included.
Along the Twentieth Century, music has often been the driving force behind crucial innovations in visual arts, and the starting point for many artists. Without forgetting the role played by music in the development of abstract art, it was mainly during the Sixties that music provided a fertile ground for new approaches, new theories, new art forms, new aesthetics. John Cage was a musician working with artists and engineers. The very first performance (the Untitled Event at Black Mountain College in 1952) was a musical event, such as many Fluxus events during the Sixties. Furthermore, Fluxus adopted music notation for its peculiar “scores”. It was thinking to music that Umberto Eco first introduced the concept of “opera aperta”. And at the very beginning of Video Art lies the manipulation of the electronic signal, first experimented by Nam June Paik in music.
PLAYLIST is an exhibition that wants to explore the role played by music in the adoption and manipulation, since the mid Nineties, of obsolete, digital as well as analogue, technologies: vinyls, old computers, game platforms and alikes. It’s our feeling, on the one hand, that electronic music culture has been of great importance for the development of low-tech, home-based media art; and, on the other hand, that – such as for the early Video Art – the manipulation of the digital stream is mainly grounded in musical research.
The core of PLAYLIST will be the exploration of the “8bit movement”, spread out from the manipulation of obsolete game technologies in order to create new instruments to play music. The show will demonstrate that the retrogaming phenomenon in visual arts can be considered an outfit of a pretty musical phenomenon, that in a bunch of years spread out all over the world through festivals and clubs, occasionally influencing mainstream musicians; and that visual and musical research progressed on parallel paths, in the quest for lo-res sounds and aesthetics, synthetic colors and notes. For the first time, retro-gaming will be explored through the lens of musical production and distribution, displaying not only tracks, but instruments, tools, softwares and hardwares, skins and graphics, but also discographies, platforms and communities. Thus, PLAYLIST will serve as a starting point for an archive / collection of materials produced by artists and musicians, and as a relational context where visitors can practice with tools produced by artists, and take part in workshops, lectures, improvised performances.
Furthermore, PLAYLIST will try to provide a context for this kind of research, not necessarily game related, selecting seminal projects and artists that helped forging the conceptual frame in which retro-gaming took place.
BILBAO ARTE – NEW YORKen
December 15, 2009 – February 9, 2010
Location: The Gabarron Foundation-Carriage House Center for the Arts
149 E 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
www.gabarronfoundation.org
Group Exhibition
Judas Arrieta, David Cívico, Naia del Castillo, Mikel Eskauriaza, Amaia Lekerikabeaskoa, Alberto Albor, Carlos Irijalba, Iñigo Tena, Zuhar Iruretagoiena e Ibon Garagarza, Abigail Lazkoz, Kepa Garraza, Eduardo Sourroille, Elssie Ansareo, Inazio Escudero, Fermín Moreno, Arturo Artal & Fermín Hernández, Raquel Meyers, Pablo Pérez and Txuspo Poyo.
New York, NY. November 16th, 2009. The Gabarron Foundation in New York is pleased to present “BILBAO ARTE – NEW YORKen”, a group exhibition which will feature some of the creative offerings by artists who have carried out their projects over the period 1998– 2008 at the Bilbao Arte Foundation. The exhibition will start with an opening cocktail reception on December 15, 2009 at 6pm.
“BILBAO ARTE – NEW YORKen” is a representative exhibition of projects performed by resident artists at the Bilbao Arte Foundation from 1998 to 2008. This exhibition, which marks the 10th Anniversary of the foundation, includes a series of works which represent some of the most consolidated trends within young Basque art and highlights the variety of the modes, techniques, forms, themes, etc. used by the artists who have given shape to their creative projects in the Centre over these years.
The result is a show of the immense plurality of the creations that have seen the light of day in the installations of Bilbao Arte, a plurality that is also that of contemporary Basque art and of which this exhibition is but a small demonstration.
The Bilbao Arte Foundation is an artistic production centre belonging to the Culture Department of the Bilbao City Council. It provides young creators with the means and infrastructures required to develop their artistic ideas, such as the availability of studio spaces, engraving and silkscreening workshops, digital imaging, sculpture, photography, a film set, documentation centre and projection rooms.
The Gabarron Foundation-Carriage House Center for the Arts is a non-profit institution and an exclusive international center specialized in art exhibitions and other cultural activities. Since 2002, we have achieved to be an excellent platform in the United States to spread Spanish culture, above all, contemporary art. At the same time our organization has promoted the exchange and understanding between Spanish and American cultures, providing a space for interaction and enhanced appreciation of emerging and established cultural figures from both countries.
Veinte jóvenes creadores muestran el futuro del arte vasco en Nueva York
Press release ‘El correo digital’ (spanish)
:NÄ: (A-li-ce + Mectoob) en concert
- le 12 décembre au squat 59 Rivoli, Paris
- le 19 décembre, IRL, Centre Mercoeur, Paris
Nouveau morceau / New track !