Press release

Live cinema event "Visual_Active" at State of the Image festival
Arnhem - On September the 7th, the Live cinema event Visual_Active, is taking place at the interactive media festival State of the Image. This event is organised by Dutch media-artist Olga Mink (VIDEOLOGY.NOW!)

The current audio and visual media-arts are rapidly developing. As a consequence a new movement called ‘Live Cinema’ has started to evolve. The main starting point of this new art form is the combination of live images and sound. The boundaries between music and visuals have become increasingly blurred, and created a new synergy between both disciplines.

During Visual_Active media-artists from the Netherlands and abroad will demonstrate their live performance in the field of music and sound. An important theme during this evening is experimentation trough old and new media by means of digital techniques.

Telcosystems will give an audiovisual performance. This art-group from Rotterdam started Telcosystems in 2001 to discover new aspects of audiovisual media. Characteristic of Telcosystem’s work is the clear and restrained aestheticism which is closely related to the computer technology they use as their tool. Rechenzentrum from Berlin is constantly in search of new developments in the music and video scene. They describe their project as a “band” in which audio and music are equally important. Ilan Katin will perform his realtime made drawings as a live video performance, and provide a lecture about his favorite tool; the Modul8 vj-software.
Visualnaut(Paul Mumford) from London will show his outstanding creations in his audiovisual project called "Autometa". His nonlinear storylines are characteristic for contemporary media-art today. His lecture on the Narrative Lab will take place on thursday, and focus on these non lineair storylines in 'live cinema performance'.
Throughout the evening PINIPINI and Ckoe will play records and draw live animations under the name ‘Stripjocken’.

In addition to these performances Solu will make an appearance as well. Mia Makela (Solu) is a Finnish media artist living in Barcelona.
Besides her live cinema performance, Solu will give a workshop on Isadora, a live interaction peroformance software created by Mark Coniglio. This workshop will be concluded with a short presentation and a lecture on ‘live cinema’ on Thursday.

Please send an email to info@stateoftheimagecom for more information on the costs and conditions for the workshop. (be very quick, places are running out!)

State of the Image will take place from 3- until the 8th September in the area around Roermondsplein in Arnhem.
See http://www.stateoftheimage.nl for more information
on the programme of State of the Image 2007.