www.electrofringe.net a festival of electronic arts.
Electrofringe presents an annual festival and year round program of experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills development and artistic exchange. The program focuses on uncovering emergent forms and has an emphasis on encouraging exchange between emerging and established artists.
Electrofringe Festival 2008 is the festival’s eleventh year and will be held over five days from 2nd - 6th of October 2008. The program presents workshops, panel discussions, masterclasses, presentations, exhibitions, screenings and interventions.
Full program at: http://www.electrofringe.net/
Electrofringe artist’s presentations
iCinema // Immersive Interactive Cinema
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An overview of Interactive Cinema Projects from the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at University of New South Wales.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: The Playhouse
When: Thursday 2nd October, 16:00pm - 18:00pm
Who: Matt McGinity (Sydney) - on behalf of Volker Kuchelmeister (Sydney)
Boxed Voices
Performance utilising collaboratively built electronic instruments for voice, followed by a discussion of the techniques, technologies, and concepts for extended instruments and collaboration.
What: Artist Presentation
When: Friday 3rd October, 12:00pm - 13:00pm
Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]
Who: Kusum Normoyle (Sydney), Lachlan Colquhoun (Sydney)
Bad Doctor Face - Midi Controlled Animatronics
Keep this appointment with the Bad Doctor Face project: a midi controlled animatronic penis mask. A MIDI CONTROLLED ANIMATRONIC PENIS MASK.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]
When: Friday 3rd October, 13:00pm - 14:00pm
Who: Joshua Head (Sydney)
Pig & Machine - The Osaka Scene
Noise/breakcore artists Pig & Machine discuss the vibrant Osaka scene that has produced a host of new and amazing artists in recent years including Maruosa and DJ Scotch Egg.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Festival Club
When: Friday 3rd October, 13:30pm - 14:30pm
Who: John Harte (Melbourne/Osaka, Japan), Yuka Harte (Melbourne/Osaka, Japan)
Saxophone Video
Meet an as yet un-nameable Melbourne-based live AV duo. In parallel time, Rosalind is continuously playing against herself while constructing herself on screen.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm
Who: Rosalind Hall (Melbourne), Marco Cher-Gibbard (Melbourne)
Speaking at Wall
Speaking at Wall is an interactive video installation which utilises real-time voice as a control source for manipulation.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Playhouse
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm
Who: Chiara Passa (Italy)
The Daniel Green Tribute Show
Daniel Green Tribute Show
A performance and discussion of his current artistic practice which currently involves exploring popular culture through musical numbers; an attempt to discern if deliberately boring people is the best way comment on contemporary moving image culture.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette
When: Saturday 4th October, 17:30pm - 18:30pm
Who: Daniel Green (Sydney)
In conversation with The Green Eyl
Giant eyes projected live from skyscrapers and massed orange stickers as interactive community art. Berlin’s Green Eyl collective aim to explore the dynamics of unconventional interaction between people, their environment and technology, using various design techniques and installation tactics.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm - 17:30pm
Who: Willy Sengewald/The Green Eyl (Berlin, Germany)
ACID
An overview of projects emerging from the Australian Center for Interaction Design, with presentations by two artists currently involved.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Saturday 4th October, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Who: Colleen Morgan (Brisbane), Yang Wong (Brisbane), Sherwin Huang (Brisbane)
Hidden Village
Using explorative, obsolete and circuit-bent technologies for sound performance. The Hidden Village duo draw upon an eclectic collection of retro game consoles and recently developed sound software to create their electronica performance.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]
When: Saturday 4th, 12:00pm - 13:30pm
Who: Lauren Sutter (Adelaide), Seb Tomczak (Adelaide)
Angelo Plessas // Interactive simplicity
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A showcase of Angelo Plessas work, which consists of simple interactive animated drawings that exist on the internet. Themes involve femininity and strange portraits that become subtly personal, often inspired by vintage advertising aesthetics. These internet pieces often “cover” the real world as objects like murals, installations, collage drawings and prints.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]
When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm
Who: Angelo Plessas (Athens, Greece)
Alison Currie // Artist Presentation
A live solo dance performance blended with a pre-recorded video projection. Followed by a discussion on the work plus other site specific and installation dance works.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: The CRACK House
When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 15:00pm
Who: Alison Currie (Adelaide)
Live Electronics -> Live Processing -> [ Composition Improvisation]
Italy’s Domenico Sciajno will explore the actual limits & hidden potential of electronic sound production and composition, in the peculiar area where borders between the academic and the non-academic scene are blurred.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]
When: Saturday 4th October, 16:00pm - 17:30pm
Who: Domenico Sciajno (Italy)
Maruosa
Japan’s Emperor of Elongated Harshcore will present and discuss his own music and Renda Records.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]
When: Sunday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:30pm
Who: KK Null (Tokyo, Japan)
Improvised Sound Poetry
Kim and Jim talk discuss their collaboration exploring their notions of sound physicality (on various instruments including guitar, saxophone and flute, plus electronics) and spontaneous interaction.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Playhouse
When: Saturday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:00pm
Who: Kim Myhr (Norway), Jim Denley (Sydney)
Bricolage: local and emergent technologies, custom built interfaces and the vanity apocalypse
Nancy Mauro-Flude - Glitchmaker
*Paraphernalia* is a set of self-crafted electronic-performance tools for
a live performance. The project opens a pathway for a larger theme related
to my practice where I ask asks; What are the ways in which we can
engineer interfaces that validate the circulation of subjugated
knowledges, in meaningful sets and settings? We pick up the threads and
traces from this momentous pile of knowledge around us, we are continually
articulating and weaving these threads together in new combinations. This
approach can be found in the notion of bricolage, widely acknowledged and
validated by Claude Levis-Strauss.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: Playhouse
When: Sunday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:30pm
Who: Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania)
CAVE
Jessica Coughlan presents her work, including bicycle-powered projection video pieces.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]
When: Sunday 5th October, 12:30pm - 13:30pm
Who: Jessica Coughlan (Newcastle)
Marco Bresciani
An insight into Computer Vision techniques utilised in projects such as MirrorD - a digital mirror which randomly morphs and distorts its reflections.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: The Playhouse
When: Sunday 5th October, 13:30pm - 15:00pm
Who: Marco Bresciani
Beyond Culture Jamming: Xtine
Influencing consumers on the web … xtine compares tactics of culture jamming with her web projects, Delocator.net and YourNeighborsBiz.com.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]
When: Sunday 5th October, 14:30pm - 16:00pm
Who: Xtine Burrough (Los Angeles, USA)
Birchville Cat Motel & Antony Milton
A high-speed collision between high-brow and low-brow music: think Black Flag plays ‘Music For Airports’. Drive way outta town and check into this one-man experimental group from Wellington, New Zealand. Birchville Cat Motel, aka. Campbell Kneale, also operates the labels Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: City Hall Ground Floor - Banquet Room
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 16:30pm
Who: Campbell Kneale (Wellington, New Zealand), Antony Milton (Wellington, New Zealand)
Information Aesthetics
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Data from mundane sources - traffic noise, a dusty library, the weather - visualised. Andrew Vande Moere is the editor of Information Aesthetics (www.infostehtics.com), the outstanding weblog dedicated to exploring the art & science of the dynamic representation of information. Furthermore he is an educator at University of Sydney where he outlined the innovative IDEA Master degree for Electronic Art & Interaction design for 2009 which will set the benchmark for postgraduate eduaction in Electronic Art & Interaction Design in Australia. For more information please read this interview of Vande Moere.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: The Playhouse
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 16:30pm
Who: Andrew Vande Moere
Auto Electro Quartet
Auto Electro Quartet is an acoustic mechatronic ensemble for the unplugged live performance of electronic music. Electric sound without loudspeakers; a chamber recital for robots.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]
When: Sunday 5th October, 16:30pm - 17:30pm
Who: Matt Hoare (Sydney)
Rok That Uke
Controversial when it first premiered, ROCK THAT UKE is the now classic documentary about the alternative and post-punk ukulele subculture. Funky, funny and philosophical.
What: Artist Presentation
Where: The Playhouse
When: Sunday 5th October, 16:30pm - 18:00pm
Who: Rose Turtle Ertler (Melbourne)
Ben Byrne & Ivan Lisyak
On collaborating, improvising and buffer rub core. Explored via their laptop doom-grind project, Machine Death, and other performances.
What: Artists Presentation
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Saturday 4th October, 15:30pm -17:00pm
Who: Ben Byrne (Melbourne), Ivan Lisyak
Electrofringe workshop:
Solder Girls
Solder Girls is a soldering circle with a whiteboard, for those who got a doll instead of a physics kit for Christmas. Come and learn the basic principles of electronics that will get you making and repairing your own cables opening up any box that takes a battery. Soldering irons provided.
What: Workshop
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Thursday 2nd October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm
Who: Sarah Davies (Sydney), Alicia Miller (Sydney) and you.
Introduction to Electronic Music Making
This hands-on workshop will explore Abelton’s LIVE software. Suitable for new users looking for more in-depth knowledge or those who have always wanted to make electronic music.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Thursday 2nd October, 14:00pm - 18:00pm
Who: Julian Knowles (Brisbane) and you.
dyne:bolic - the hacktive media workshop
dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux bootable operating system shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! This is optimized to run on slower computers, turning them into a full mediastations. Please bring your Windows PCs along - sorry Macs won’t work.
More information available at: www.dynebolic.org
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 11:00am - 14:00pm
Who: Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania), Scot Cotterell (Tasmania) and you.
Down & Dirty with The Green Eyl
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This Berlin based collective explore the dynamics of the unconventional interplay between people, their environment and technology. A hands-on workshop will explore the techniques behind The Green Eyl’s installation and exhibition work.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Friday 3rd October, 11:00am - 14:00pm
Who: Willy Sengewald (Berlin, Germany) and you.
Hidden Village - Considering All Eight Bits
Car-boot treasures and back-of-the-cupboard discoveries finally put to use: exploring the use of obsolete and circuit-bent video game systems for artmaking.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 17:00pm
Who: Lauren Sutter (Adelaide), Seb Tomczak (Adelaide) and you.
POOL
pool.org.au is a new ABC website providing a space for Australian artists and media makers to present their work, discuss issues and collaborate. Learn how to set up and utilise your own Pool website space.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 16:00pm
Who: John Jacobs (Sydney), Kate Gauld (Sydney) and you.
Windmills workshop
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Lock-up and Electrofringe artist-in-residence Chris Poole presents a hands on workshop exploring self powered and sustained micro-projectors. Learn to use wind power for guerilla style public art. Chris will also demonstrate and explain his innovative laser based projector.
What: Workshop
Where: Lock-up - Exercise Yard
When: Friday 3rd October, 13:00pm - 15:00pm
Who: Chris Poole - Facilitator
Interactive Narrative
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Janice Caswell
Call out for the Interactive Narrative Co-lab at this years Electrofringe, see details here
Overview
Interaction designers and media artists often have great ideas for non-linear interactive story-telling frameworks, but they lack the writing skills to produce truly compelling work.
On the other hand, writers have no shortage of skills when it comes to storytelling, but are left a little confused when it comes to the technological expertise required to implement an online or interactive project.
This Co-lab is aimed at bridging that gap by connecting writers and interactive specialists. It will create a platform for discussing and implementing innovative interactive story telling frameworks, and act as a catalyst for the creation of exciting new work. We would like to explore everything from traditional game-play scenarios and multi-faceted video works through to avant-garde non-linear writing techniques with state of the art interaction methodologies.
Workshop
Electrofringe and the National Young Writers’ Festival are presenting an interactive narrative workshop at the 2008 TiNA festival. The session will be held in the Process Space on Friday 3rd October from 4-6pm, and is free and open to all. It will be the first meet up session to kick-start the process. Writers will be teamed up with interactive specialists and form groups for future collaboration. Following the initial workshop, the project will further organise frequent meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne where collaborators can show their work and exchange ideas.
The project’s online home will be the ABC’s new POOL platform (www.pool.org.au), which will permanently form the goto and exchange place for people to post ideas and work in progress, and discuss projects as they unfold.
Participate
To participate in this Co-lab, simply send the following details to electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com
Name:
Contact details:
Artform(s) (fiction / playwriting / video / web development / flash development / interactive media / artist / etc):
Any projects or ideas you’re working on, concepts, scripts, proposals, areas of interest or obsession. We will then put you in contact with people that have a complementary skill set. Alternatively you can simply come down to the EF / NYWF session at the festival. Ideally you should be able to attend this session in Newcastle, but if you can’t come please feel free to still submit and participate through the POOL platform.
Contact
Elmar Trefz: electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com
Nicolas Low: nic@dislocated.org
www.electrofringe.net
www.youngwritersfestival.org
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm - 18:00pm
Who: Elmar Trefz (Sydney/Berlin, Germany) , Nic Low (Melbourne) and you.
Dorkshop 1: Nibbler
Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The Nibbler is an audio pattern generator and noise maker. Through the use of 7 knobs and 1 switch, the user is able to create a variety of different sounds and noises.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Saturday 4th October, 10:00am - 14:00pm
Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart (Sydney) and you.
Introduction to Reaktor
Reaktor allows musicians to design & create their own instruments & effects in a relatively easy & musical format. Learn the basics of the ‘other’ patching software.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm - 14:00pm
Who: Toby Burvill
Computer Vision - Machines That See
A hands on session on Computer Vision - exploring ways computer based systems can interpret, track and relate movement through a camera.
What: Workshop
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm
Who: Marco Bresciani (Melbourne) and you.
Introduction to Quartz Composer
Quartz Composer (QC) is a powerful tool for digital video creation and propagation. QC can access a wide range of file formats and network resources, then process and display with hardware rendering. This means realtime manipulation of live data, at high frame rates and resolutions.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 17:00pm
Who: Luke Toop (Adelaide) and you.
Dorkshop 2: WävRuta
Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The WävRuta (that’s Wave Rooter) is an audio effects box designed to demonstrate the power and simplicity of micro-controller design. It is provided as a counter-point and contrast to the Nibbler circuit. The WävRuta can be used in conjunction with the Nibbler’s audio output.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Sunday 5th October, 10:00am - 14:00pm
Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart (Sydney) and you.
Concepts of Software Art // “Poetry on the Web”
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This workshop on software-based art - Poetry on the Web - introduces notions of creating interactive flash animations for online engagement.
We take open source scripts that we find online from online web libraries and we work on them.
The themes of these pieces should be inspired by local signage. This can either be a drawing, a logo, a crest. (for example an old city emblem)
We can evolve these pieces with sounds and then place them on urls.
The workshop will be scheduled like this:
- Introduction to my work with a demo
- Divide people in short groups so they can handle few things at the same time.
- Propose ideas of the local signage.
- Start implementing the idea in Flash.
- Uploading every piece on a URL and a server
- insert it in Facebook as an application
Relevant Links: www.angeloplessas.com/work.html, www.neen.org/demo.html
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Sunday 5th October, 11:30am - 15:00pm
Who: Angelo Plessas (Athens, Greece) and you.
Going Green: Solar Power for Electronic Arts
Learn about benefits of solar power for artists, media makers, researchers and others involved in electronic arts and culture. Get equipped with all the information you need to assemble an environmentally responsible and creatively liberating solar power system.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 17:00pm
Who: Greg Simmons and you.
Introduction to PD
PD is a completely free, cross platform patching software that can create audio instruments and effects. First time users will be guided to get their head around this exciting software.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:30pm - 17:30pm
Who: Ben Byrne (Melbourne)
Voice Synthesis for Installations // Chiara Passa
How-to hands-on Interactive Sound and Voice Synthesis for Media Art installations.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Monday 6th October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm
Who: Chiara Passa (Italy) and you.
Full program at: http://www.electrofringe.net/
