In the early days of cinema "Live cinema"
referred to a silent movie projection accompanied
by live music. This tradition has recently had a bit of a
revival as proves the “Silent Films and Live Music”
series in London this year. Furthermore, in the live cinema
performances of today visuals and audio are created -- or
at least performed –simultaneously in real-time. The
new generation of software allows more possibilities than
ever to mix, process or generate visuals and many artists
find this practice attractive for multi-disciplinary projects.
The possibilities seem endless: Theatre creates real-time
cinema with live cameras; AV-group performs documentary; VJ
as a storyteller; musical-visual system. In short: Alternative
audiovisual experiences for cinematic conventions. But what
kind of stories or contents can be shown in real-time? What
kind of narrative structures, if any, are suitable for real-time
performances? What are the real-time codes for visuals? How
can we combine performance and cinematic experience? How are
digital technologies changing the audiovisual scene? This
selection presents a variety of explorations in the realm
of contemporary real-time audiovisual performances, in search
for the answers to these questions. The works are recordings
of unique moments in time and space where audio meets image
to have an interesting dialogue and where artists meet their
public to create a connection.
Digital Art à la Carte 2008 shares and extends the
content of Sonar’s cinema content, focusing on some
of the new spheres of audiovisual production and distribution
that have cropped up in recent years. To explore this further,
the first day the festival’s Conferences and Debates
section will feature the curators of the exhibitions, who
will analyse these new frameworks of audiovisual formalisation.
17:00 Talk Mia Makela
18:00 Talk Erich Berger
19:00 Talk Bigas Luna
20:00 Talk Jonathan Caouette
LARM
commissioned Kate, Hildur and Mia to give a performance at
Fylkingen
as part of Mottagning event. The artists met first time in
April 2008 in Reykjavik where they started their collaboration
with the prehistorical-lunar experience of Blue Lagoon.
Through
”Mottagning”, LARM initiates collaborations between
artists to cooperate and experiment during this spring with
sound, image, voice, text, music and space. “Mottagning”
will be the space for the first performance of these collaborations.
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Participating artists: Hildur I. Gudnadóttir (ISL/DE),
Mia Makela (FIN/ESP), Kate Pendry (UK/NO) and Nina de Heney
(SE), Lisa Ullén (SE).
Mia
Makela and Marko Kosnik:
Discussion on live cinema and videoinstrumentalism
What do the two artists have in common? The most obvious connection
point in their biographies is the fact they both have performed
live video performances for the opening of Transmediale in
Berlin (Makela 2004, Kosnik 2008), and though they belong
to different generations, they do share quite an arsenal of
the same or comparable tools, be it in software or hardware.
The insiders from the scene could probably name many more
connections, not to forget the long term experiences collected
in practical and theoretical work. The open saloon discussion
in Alkatraz on Wednesday will surely have to relate the definition
of “live
cinema” used by Makela and the one of “videoinstrumentalism”,
developed by Marko Kosnik
The ever lasting urge to reflect own pioneering in the field
might lead the two protagonists to provide us a backstage
in-view rarely accessible in more official forms of presentation.
Marko Kosnik, polymedia artist from Slovenia, started his
carrier in 80's as concept developer for several alternative
groups. Since the beginning of his collaborative projects
he was producing creative environments, open labs and media
platforms, dealing with synchronization of authors from different
backgrounds and self organization. He acts as performer, writer,
installation artist, musician, producer and video instrumentalist.
http://web.mac.com/marchegon
Mia
Makela is finnish artist based in Barcelona, who devoted her
activities in the last decade to live performances with visuals,
which she defined as “live cinema”. Beside numerous
stage appearances solo and in collaboration with musicians
and live video artists, numerous workshops and installations
worldwide, she is engaged in theoretical discourse in the
field of “live cinema”, resulting in the texts
published in several publications. On May 16 she performed
the opening performance for the Festival
pomladi in Ljubljana and is currently finishing her residency
stay in Slovenia.
For the final evening of her recent stay in Slovenia Mia Makela
and Marko Kosnik invited each other for a public chat on the
topics of live video, kindly hosted by Jadranka Ljubicic,
the curator of Alkatraz
gallery, where the event will take place on Wednesday,
May 28, 20.00.
Mia
Makela- SOLU will open the Festival on 16th May in the Town
Museum, She will perform a live cinema act consisting of four
sets of her recent works- Ramscapes I and II, Naturology and
Kaamos. SOLU will also give an intensive weekend audiovisual
workshop on 17th and 18th May.
SOLU's
Kaamos Video screened @ Late at Tate Britain
As
part of Late at Tate Britain audiovisual collective NE1CO
present a very special ambient edition of London's leading
audiovisual event, the AV Social, including installations,
performances and screenings from some of Europe's finest VJs
and audiovisual artists. Rod Maclachlan and Jem Noble from
Black Out Arts will be performing a live audiovisual work,
Bopa and Bruno Tait present a collaborative slide and video
installation using moving head video projections and video
works from artist Hiraki Sawa.
There is also a film screening and presentation curated by
the Narrative Lab with selections from the editors of the
VJTheory book alongside works from artists Solu, Visual Kitchen,
Girrafentoast, Ben Sheppee, Visualnaut, Oxygen, ZooZooZoo,
Spark and Lucidhouse.
Club
Society special by Barcode Cross
media storytelling : messing with the narrative
Film,
theatre, music, visual art: they are all in search of new
forms of storytelling. Club Society looks at these forms and
researches them through a live talk show about art, culture,
media and society. With concrete examples, innovative ideas
and performances.
PARTICIPANTS:
Annemaike Mertens, Dr. Chiel Kattenbelt, Vincent Meelberg,
Philemon Mukarno, Martine von Gleich and Mia Makela (SOLU).
+ two interactive installations by media technology students
of Leiden University.
Solu will participate to a
workshop on sustainable video technologies for public space
1. Environmental requirements
for displaying video in public spaces
2. Recycling of consumer technologies, car screens, mpeg-decoders,
etc
3. Beamers and screens, how to handle the emission of light
in enviroments
4. Controllers, sensors, scripting, synchronisation etc
5. Legal aspects, the commercial and political society as
gatekeepers
1. Background and trajectory of live cinema
2. Contemporary genres of live cinema
3. introduction to realtime working methods
4. Basic concepts of realtime performance
5. Introduction to realtime video
6. General introduction to tools
7. Introduction to Isadora software
8. Production of a small realtime performance/installation
and it's presentation at Mbar
El
10 de noviembre pretende ser una noche de debate,
acción y performances en la Fundación
Caixaforum dentro del marco de I-Dissabtes. Tres grupos
locales con diferentes enfoques audiovisuales presentarán
su trabajo en vivo.
La
colección de dvds en el marco de “live
cinema” en Mediateca pretende ofrecer una cartografía
de este campo efímero y también ofrecer
un archivo sobre él. Durante las 2 semanas
de proyecciones en el mes de noviembre, el público
podrá descubrir los diferentes aspectos del
“live cinema”.
