Art.on.Wires Festival 2010

  • Isadora Workshop 2010Mark Coniglio

  • Presentation 2010echa

  • Preparing DJ Set 2010Jacob Korn

aow festival poster 2010The first Art.on.Wires Festival was organised as a four-day event from May 10-13 2010 at Kanonhallen, an old industry hall in Oslo. The founder, Alexander Eichhorn, arranged together with Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Ulli Dibowski an event in spirit of 9 Evenings, the first large-scale collaboration between artists, engineers and scientists organised by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver in New York in 1966. Our mission was to explore space and interaction in networked mixed-reality environments. We focused on exploring ways to integrate Vision, Sound and Motion technologies into a space for artistic performances to find out how future media technology could best support artists in multimedia performances, especially in remote interactions between distant locations. An interdisciplinary group of researchers, artists and practicioneers populated the festival site and joined an international and intercultural dialogue. Contacts and collaborations between people from different fields still exist and already lead to successful collaborations and projects.

We equipped Kanonhallen with latest sound, light, video and motion capturing technology which came mostly from research facilities at Simula Research Laboratory, the University of Oslo and the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. Over 70 international artists, researchers and students from 9 countries around Europe attended Art.on.Wires and helped making it a big success. Our laboratory days were packed with exciting keynote talks from Mark Coniglio (TroikaRanch) and Atau Tanaka (Newcastle University), workshops and hands-on expericene sessions. Workshop topics included telematic performance, digitally informed music, interactive environments, motion capturing, hardware hacking, circuit bending and tutorials on Isadora, VVVV, Ableton Live, as well as OpenFrameworks. In the evenings we arranged concerts with Alexander Carot (performing live over Internet with two musicians in Germany) and Cenizero. Live electronic music was performed by Jacob Korn and Lars Graugaard together with Aki Asgeirsson and Atau Tanaka. Thanks to the FeM Streaming Team from TU Ilmenau we streamed live video from all events to the Internet. We are particularly happy about the many cross-disciplinary contacts that emerged for all participants from Art.on.Wires. Certainly, the creative and relaxed atmosphere helped to make first Art.on.Wires Feistval a great experience for everyone.

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Here is the overview of our 2010 festival schedule:

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Keynote Talks

  • Tue 11/5, 14-15h: Mark Coniglio, Troika Ranch
  • Wed 12/5, 14-15h: Atau Tanaka, Chair of Digital Media, Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle University
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Contributors

The Art.on.Wires Festival 2010 was visited from over 70 international artists, researchers and students from 9 countries around Europe. Here is a list of contributors who helped to make the festival a great success.

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Workshops

Art.on.Wires is structured into guided workshops which happen at the beginning of the festival, followed by spontaneously organised free workshops where people can gather to work on an idea or concept. See the workshop page for details.

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Dorkbot Talks

Mon 10/5, 20-23h: The purpose of dorkbot talks is to give all Art.on.Wires participants and local artists from Oslo a platform for informal presentation of their work. The evening is open to everyone and there is no entrance fee. Talks are strictly limited to 10min and 2min for questions afterwards. Talks must be registered on-site between 18h00 and 19h45 on Monday 10th.

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Live Concerts and Experimental Performances

  • Tue 11/5, 20-23h: Alexander Carot (networked concert), Cenizero
  • Wed 12/5, 20-23h: Jacob Korn, Lars Graugaard + Aki Asgeirsson + Atau Tanaka, DJ Rainer W, DJ Subway
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Open Laboratory

Thu 13/5, 14-18h: On the last day we open the doors of our laboratory space to everyone. In particular, we invite children and families to visit us, explore the installations we've designed and watch the performances we've created.