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The Art.on.Wires Media Festival has officially started with a welcome note (PDF) from Alexander Eichhorn and Ulli Dibowski. Day 1 is filled with talks from invited artists and researchers who willtalk about their recent work and innovations. Watch our live video streams at mms://streaming-internet.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/aow. They are kindly provided by FeM, Forschungsgemeinschaft Elektronische Medien, Ilmenau.

Festival for Media Arts and Digital Culture
25-29 May 2011

The Art.on.Wires Festival creates an interdisciplinary forum to explore the future of electronic arts and modern lifestyle. Art.on.Wires is best described as an open laboratory, hacker space, and meeting point for artists, designers, creative media professionals, multimedia researchers, engineers, and Do-it-Yourself enthusiasts. As an annual event Art.on.Wires will this year take place at Chateu Neuf in Oslo from 25th – 29th May 2011. Under the title make : create : invent : recycle : explore we promote education, collaboration, sharing and making of interactive and electronic art, and the direct dissemination of latest developments from Multimedia IT research to the public. Over five days we arrange tutorials from leading artists and researchers, interactive installations and live performances.

We invite professional artists, designers, architects, musicians, researchers, students and open-minded visitors to join a vivid and diverse group of experimentors to share, create, learn, play and be inspired by arts, science and technology. Presenters at the festival are internationally renowned researchers and artists, including Christian Jaquemin, Nick Collins, Brock Craft, Lisa Wymore, 5uper.net, and DKIA. Audio-visual live performances will be presented by Lars Graugaard, Jacob Korn, Jason Geistweidt, Nick Collins and many others.

Program Overview

• 4 central themes: interaction, sound, visuals, and hardware hacking
• 13 high-class tutorials
• 3 evenings with live performances and DJ’s
• more than 30 world-class artists and researchers
• keynotes and presentations
• interactive arts installations
• a media and hardware hacker lab

Highlights

• Swarm Cubes Tutorial, by DKIA/Austria on Thu, 26 May 10-17h
• Shaders for Advanced Graphical Rendering in OpenFrameworks Tutorial, by Christian Jaquemin/France on Fri, 27 May 10-13
• Networked Dance: Collage Study #1 – Where Here Meets There by Lisa Wymore/UC Berkeley and Liv Hanne Haugen/Norway on Fri, 27 May 14-17
• Interactive Network Music Performance Tutorial Tutorial by Alain Renaud/UK and Alexander Carot/Germany on Sat, 28 May 14-17
• Kinect Tutorial by Lars Graugaard, Dan Overholt and Aalborg University Art+Technology Students/DK on Sun, 29 May 10-13

Duration and Opening hours

Wednesday 25 – Sunday 29 May 2011, daily 10am – 17pm and on most evenings

Venue

Betong Club, Chateu Neuf
Slemdalsveien 15
0369 Oslo

Tickets

Festival tickets are available for 750/1250 NOK (100/160 Euro), day tickets cost 350 NOK (45 Euro) and evening tickets 100/150 NOK (12/20 Euro). As special bonus to all 5-day tickets sold before May 15 you can bring one friend to the festival for free.

We thought a long time about how to continue with the Art.on.Wires idea that created so much interest among participants of the first festival. Now, I’m happy to announce that we have started the Art.on.Wires society as a non-profit organisation here in Norway. This gives us much more flexibility in arranging our next arts and technology festival and we will be opening a permanent arts and media laboratory in Oslo soon. Our goal is to establish a platform where creative people can learn and cooperate to explore innovative ideas. The society is open to everyone who is interested in arts and technology.

We are currently in the search of partners from industry, academia and cultural institutions who believe that creativity is the driving motor of our society, and multidisciplinar cooperation is a manifest means for boundary-crossing, exciting and innovative work. If you are interested please contact us at info@art-on-wires.org.

The Art.on.Wires laboratory has ended and I’m very happy about the success. We had more than 70 participants and invited guests from more than 10 countries working together for 4 days. I would like to thank everyone who helped making this happen and especially all the people who came from abroad. Thank you so much :) We will publish all videos from the laboratory and more pictures soon.

I hope the dialog which started during the laboratory days continues. Feel free to use this blog to post interesting news about and around Art.on.Wires and related topics. If you have ideas about how to improve the organisation or someone likes to complain, please drop me an email.

Since many people asked … YES, we will arrange a second Art.on.Wires laboratory next year. Date and location are not clear yet. Feel free to drop me an email if you have any suggestions.

CGI by Wendy Ann Mansilla

Croma Space is an interactive installation with 3D visuals and ambisonic sound that explores the potentials of human color perception stereopsis. We envision a synthetic space in muted palettes, depriving each rendered frame with the richness of colors. With carefully chosen palettes to only direct the sensations of the spectator, entering Chroma Space, the performer finds him or herself influencing the behaviour, colors and presentation of the virtual objects. Muted colors that are temporally interacting and communicating to our senses. Virtual objects moving in harmony with colors and sound. This is the abstract world that defines Chroma Space. The installation serves as a platform for experimenting the novel usage of affective colors and interactivity by employing computer vision and ambisonic 3D technology. It demonstrates the effective impacts of using stylistic yet primitive approach to address emotional sensations: by manipulation of colors in virtual space.

Croma Space is the second winner of an artistic scholarship award at Art.on.Wires 2010.

photo by Sebastian Daume

Phonolux#03 is an interactive installation from Veronika Mayerböck for a dancer/performer on stage who is becoming the “sensor” and “interactive element” in the same time. Along the dancer’s body is a sort of tracking system installed, measuring the various intensity and colours of light via sensors on selected points along the body surface (joints, head, torso, etc…) and translating it into an acoustic output. The dancer is passing different light situations according to movement in space, plasticity of his body and different lighting ambiances by the lighting designer.

The sensors are measuring the different light intensities and ambiences all over his body surface and translate it into an acoustic output with each sensor creating a different tone. It’s like an orgue of movement, but what you hear is a direct translation of light into sound.
As if someone is playing the piano, the dancer is playing the “space” with his body like an instrument. Finally the performance on stage becomes a 3dimensional improvisation between the lighting designer and the dancer on a visually seen acoustic soundscape.

With Phonolux#03 Veronika Mayerböck won an artistic scholarship award at Art.on.Wires 2010.

The final day of Art.on.Wires is starting. Yesteday we had a great and amazing evening with live electronica performed by Jacob Korn, experimental electronic music performed live by Lars Graugaard, Aki Asgeirsson and Atau Tanaka, and Minimal with Rainer W and drum’n'bass with DJ subway. If you missed the live stream yesterday, no worries, we recorded it and will publish it soon.

Today we continue our GetConnected workshop and in the afternoone we will have presentations from our artistic scholarship winners. Here is the schedule:

• 10h – Get InterConnected Workshop
• 14h – Artistic Scholarship Presentations (Veronika Mayerböck, Jordi Puig & Wendy Ann Mansilla)
• 15h – Rigging down

Here is the line-up for Wednesday evening. We have two live performances and two DJ sets throughout the evening. Doors open 19h30 and the performances start at 20h.

Jacob Korn

Jacob Korn was born in Germany in the early 80’s. His sound is influenced by Kraftwerk and the sound of 90’s techno and house music. After a decade of sowing different musical seeds Jacob Korn is back in the straight 4/4-domain. Given his history in glitch inspired electronica and hiphop, he continually experiments in new recording styles and production techniques, while developing his own music tools for cross media arts and interactive performances.
He played live or as a DJ in clubs and at festivals in Canada (RBMA-Toronto), Spain (Sonár Festival-Barcelona), Netherlands (Picnic at Night-Amsterdam), Sweden, Switzerland (Formbar-Bern), Austria and Germany (Cookies-Berlin).

http://www.jacobkorn.de/

Lars Graugaard and Aki Asgeirsson

Lars from Mars is the multi-faceted musician, researcher and organizer Lars Graugaard. He has worked with electronic music since the late ‘80s in a wide range of styles, and holds an MA in performance and a PhD in the artistic and technological challenges of interactive music. In recent years he has gradually incorporated innovative techniques and concepts from music research to create appealing and remarkable experimental electronica. His music has been used in stage productions and films, including by renowned film director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa).

http://www.myspace.com/larsandmars
http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/marsism.htm
http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/psychoacoustic-evergreens.htm

Aki Asgeirsson was born 1975 in Keflavik, Iceland. Studied composition and electronic music in Iceland and in The Hague, Holland with Martijn Padding and Clarence Barlow. Aki’s music often involves traditional instruments with new technology. He has also built and modified musical instruments to use in his compositions. Currently Aki lives in Reykjavik and enjoys composing, teaching, programming, organizing and performing. Áki is a co-founder of the Icelandic composer group S.L.A.T.U.R. as well as forming various underground bands and institutions.

Rainer W

http://www.myspace.com/rainerw
http://www.hoerschaden.de/

DJ Subway

http://djsubway.net/ Anwar Bitar aka. DJ Subway har spilt drumandbass ute på klubber i 14 år nå,
men har fortsatt samme ideologi om DJing som da han startet; det å få mennesker til å oppdage ny og spennende musikk med mer substans og trøkk enn det de får fra Topp20 listene! Han spiller hardere enn de fleste, og dette har gitt ham kallenavnet The Dark Soldier! Han er for tiden resident DJ på The Villa (kåret til verdens 54 beste klubb i DJ Magazine), med drumandbass klubbkveldene Room 101 of Riot Club. Han spiller også ofte i utlandet, da sammen med Vikings Champion Sound.

Man made the machine, then the machine made Subway!

We restructured our schedule to give more Art.on.Wires attendees the chance to participate in as many workshops as possible. Here it is:

Tuesday 11/5

• 10h – Interactive Environments Workshop – Part 1, Johanna Roggan, Marko Ritter, Valerie Vogt, Jacob Korn
• 10h – Telematic Interaction Workshop, Alex Carot
• 10h – Playful Spaces Workshop, DAAL/DKIA
• 14h – Keynote from Mark Coniglio
• 15h – Isadora Workshop, Mark Coniglio
• 15h – Bobo Gadgetto Workshop, DAAL/DKIA

Wednesday 12/5

• 10h – Interactive Environments Workshop – Part 2, Johanna Roggan, Marko Ritter, Valerie Vogt, Jacob Korn
• 10h – Systematic Understanding of Music – Part 1, Lars Graugaard, Anders Friberg, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Øyvind Hauback, Aki Asgeirsson
• 10h – Bobo Gadgetto Workshop, DAAL/DKIA
• 14h – Keynote from Atau Tanaka
• 15h – Systematic Understanding of Music – Part 2, Lars Graugaard, Anders Friberg, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Øyvind Hauback, Aki Asgeirsson
• 15h – Motion Capture Systems and Techniques, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kristian Nymoen and Ståle Skogstad

The live video streams are running. You can access them with VLC, Windows Media Player or Quicktime at http://streaming-internet.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/aow. Tune in for keynotes every day at 14h, for workshops between 10h and 18h and for live concerts after 20h.

Alexander Carot

Besides a practical training in programming and electrical engineering, Dr. Alexander Carôt has actively been playing bass and the NS-chapman-stick in several rock, pop and jazz ensembles. In 2004 he received a german engineering diploma within an interdisciplinary study program in order to combine the arts and technology. Motivated by the passion for remote music performances with musicians in different places, he completed his PhD in computer science in 2004 at the University of Lübeck/Germany. In this context he developed the “Soundjack” software (http://www.soundjack.eu) which has been used in numerous network music performances all over the world. Apart from valuable collaborations with CCRMA/Stanford, SARC/Belfast and IRCAM/Paris he is continuously improving “Soundjack” in terms of signal latency, quality and user friendliness. Currently he´s playing in the avant-garde-jazz project “Triologue” (http:/www.triologue.de), and in his recent research activities he’s focusing on novel delay-optimized transmission approaches for network music performances.

http://www.carot.de/

Cenizero

Cenizero is like making love to a blender. You enjoy it, but at the same time it hurts your senses. Afterwards, sounds you used to love just sound shabby. Inspired by Lauren Bacchanal, pilgrims whipping themselves in penitence, and the NATO’s understanding of peacekeeping, the band’s signature sound is that of a gang of drunk convicts bare-knuckle-boxing on grand pianos. Listeners are lead by shaked up and fine grounded by a combination of punchy bass lines and unpredictable rythm patterns, and push, pulled or slapped on their faces by guitars that either cut through each other or sound like the rush hour traffic madness. But Cenizero can also be calypso-like music, that peculiar feeling of anxiety that takes you when driving the 15th hour in a row through a desert landscape at night, interrupted pop melodies, art-punk irreverence, a teenager’s tongue-in-cheek impudence. More than a quartet, a desease and a treat for your hearing. Ever asked yourself “Where did that strange sound come from…”?”