Jose Luis Espejo wrote an interesting entry on the Mediateletipos website connecting 12_series to Renaissance architecture and symbolic spaces. Read the entry here. For an English version use the language selection button found above the article.
We are very happy to announce the exhibition of our 12_series installation as part of this years International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Our twelve thunderous image and sound generating machines will open up the vast pitch-black architecture of the former Rotterdam dockside warehouse Pakhuismeesteren. Inspired by the principles of evolution and decentralized autonomous decision making, the machines produce an endless improvisation based on audiovisual imitation, mutation and recombination, aiming for the emergence of captivating complexity from a vocabulary of rudimentary shapes, sounds and logic.
The exhibition is located at Pakhuismeesteren, Wilhelminakade 52-58, and is opened daily between 12:00 and 20:00 from January 27th until February 5th 2011.
Pakhuismeesteren is one of the forty extra festival locations accessible with the XL pass. During the festival the pass can be bought at the central box office at the Doelen or at the festival location LantarenVenster down the street from the Pakhuismeesteren.
12_series at IFFR 2011 is made possible with the generous support of DKC Rotterdam.
For more on the XL programme click here.
For more on the Pakhuismeesteren location click here.
On Thursday the 25th of November at 21:00 we will present our 5.1 surround Live Cinema performance Mortals Electric at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven. Our friends Herman Kolgen and Purform are also presenting works this evening.
For more information about the program click here.
Scape_Time will be screened during the Sensexperiment festival in Córdoba, Spain, as part of the Optofonica Surround Cinema program on the 19th of October, at 18:00h and 21:00h, in the Filmoteca de Andalucía.
For more information click here.
We are very happy to announce the Dutch premiere of our 12_series installation at the upcoming Flux/S festival in Eindhoven. The festival runs from september 9th until september 12th at the former Philips site STRIJP-S.
For more information on the festival click here.
Paul Prudence, the artist behind the fascinating blog dataisnature.com wrote kindly about our latest publication and installation 12_series. Read the entry here, and check out Paul’s work at www.transphormetic.com .
On thursday the 27th of May Sessions_03_rev03 will be screened at Filmhuis Lumen Delft, as part of the program Joost Rekveld presenteert 80 jaar Nederlandse abstracte films. The program features very special films, some are very seldom screened, like Keep on Turning (Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz), Gyromorphosis (Hy Hirsh) and Uit het Rijk der Kristallen (J.C. Mol, 1928!).
More information here .
We’ll be performing our live set Mortals Electric at the VIDEOEX festival, a festival for experimental film and video in Zürich, Swiss, on Saturday the 29th of May, at 22:30 in the Festivalzentrum Kunstraum Walcheturm.
On friday the 28th of May, at 20:15, Loudthings and Sessions_03_rev03 are screened as part of the program Visual Music from the Netherlands, curated and presented by Joost Rekveld.
“From an eight-legged seductress to a piano playing chess: experimental film is very different to what it was a few years ago. […] New makers have appeared with new strategies.” That is the opening sentence of film³ [kyü-bik film] the book that accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.
Through eleven in-depth interviews Anna Abrahams, filmmaker and head of our Dutch distribution office Filmbank, spotlights young Holland based filmmakers and visual artists who have enriched or renewed the language of film, who see outside the framework of the flat cinema screen and add an extra dimension to the presentation of their work.
Films are increasingly screened outside cinemas which is leading to the development of a new cinematic language. The ‘cubic films’ by the new generation of film artists are made to walk around or are augmented by live music or performance art. Cubic film is too arty for the cinemas and too cinematic for museums. How do filmmakers manifest themselves in this era of YouTube and Flickr? How do they use the latest computer technology in their work?
For more information on the book click here.
The Optofonica DVD, published by 12k’s offshoot Line, presents immersive environments created by 42 artists from 13 different countries, inciting a unique multi-sensory awareness of both physical and mental (imagined) space.
Some works directly examine the slipping contours of kinetic phenomena, involving magnetism (Kanta Horio), fluid dynamics (Skoltz Kolgen), or acoustic levitation (Domnitch/Gelfand/Chartier). Others have invented an impossible phantom spatiality, stemming, for example, from brain wave interference (Ulf Langheinrich) or stereoscopically rendered interferential video signals (Bas van Koolwijk). All the pieces entail a search for hidden, transitory spaces that crosswire the perceptual spectrum.
After being presented worldwide (Sonic Acts, Elektra, Sonar, Nemo…) in the form of Surround Cinema as well as in the Optofonica Capsule (a tactile audio installation), this body of work, spanning 3 years, has been painstakingly archived, preserving as much as possible the intricacies of each composition.
For more information on the DVD click here.
