Since it first opened in 2019, the ELEKTRA Gallery regularly hosts exhibitions. Located in the heart of the Mile-End, this new venue supports the artistic community, focusing on originality and embracing contemporary aesthetics in research and experimentation.

www.audiovisalcity.org/elektra

This is a call for projects for digital contemporary artists who wish to exhibit works between September 2020 and June 2021. The selected projects will be part of the gallery’s official program.

To submit an exhibition proposal, please send the following elements to zhamila@elektramontreal.ca:

• Artists’ curriculum vitae
• Description of the project and the artistic approach (maximum 2000 words)
• Technical rider of the artwork
• Up to 10 images and/or videos of your art project or closely related projects

The gallery offers professional technical assistance to set-up and has limited but high-quality equipment. Works with audio content can only be presented with headphones.

ELEKTRA pays artist fees for each selected exhibit.

The ELEKTRA Gallery is located at the Pôle de Gaspé at 5445 avenue de Gaspé #104, Montréal, QC, H2T 3B2.

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A dialogue about the role of human beings in relation to all forms of life on earth and beyond is more relevant than ever because of what is happening in the world right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The festival will continue online while also working on rescheduling the rest of the STRP Festival 2020 program later this year.  

Livestream: STRP Scenario #6

Join the dialogue! With STRP Scenario #6 a possible future will be explored where humans are not superior to plants, animals, rivers, microbes and other intelligence. The live stream on 2 April starts at 20.00h.   

Live radio: STRP x JaJaJaNeeNeeNee   

In collaboration with JaJaJaNeeNeeNee, STRP is organizing an intense listening night with music and performances.

The Corona Essays

From 2 to 5 April we STRP will publish two essays every day, written by eight writers and philosophers who reflect on new scenarios for the Post-Anthropocene in relation to our current corona crisis.

The writers of the STRP Corona Essays are: philosopher and writer of Dark Ecology Timothy Morton, designer Pupul Bisht, philosopher Pius Mosima, curator of the Van Abbemuseum Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide & ‘climate justice creative’ and media consultant Suzanne Dhaliwal, archaeologist and ‘Dr. Space Junk’ Alice Gorman, Marshmallow Laser Feast designer Ersin Han Ersin and writers of Radical Botany Antonia Szabrezi & Natania Meeker.

STRP book club: Donna Haraway’s ‘Staying with the Trouble’

The STRP reading group will come together online on April 23rd to discuss Donna Haraway’s ‘Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene’. Sign up before April 6 and read along with us.

 Assignment for pupils and students  

For all young people and students who were planning to visit STRP Festival in Eindhoven next week: STRP has not forgotten you!

The festival will be launching a hands-on assignment next week for secondary education pupils and MBO students. Pupils and students can independently complete these assignments at home. Teachers will be offered the tools to brief the assignment and to reflect on it afterwards. Make sure you are registered for the STRP Education Newsletter if you want to receive these assignments. 

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Formed in 2012, The Colour Project is a UK based Motion Graphics and 3d Design studio specialising in video projection mapping.

TCP design shows and  visual content for, events, launches and epic architectural mapping shows. We produce original graphics, animations and bespoke video content to tell compelling stories and amaze audiences.

 
They’ve created shows internationally and at home, from galleries to World Heritage sites. Our audiences range from hundreds to tens of thousands and we work with brands and cultural organisations to create spectacular live events and installations in public spaces.

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Tving Stage Design creates animatic scenography and new vision of audio-visual culture using 3D mapping performances on buildings / objects and VJ.

Transforming every form of idea / sound to motion graphic shapes. Our performances and installations are metaphysical experiences… picture + sound, people + time = Visual Experience.

Tving Stage Design was originally founded by Thomas Gawroński in 2010. In 2013 Patrick Zimończyk joined the team.

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19th April 2016. LiveSoundtracks: Poetry in the Darkness, Kyoka

What is Poetry in the Darkness?

LiveSoundtracks is a platform with the aim of exploring the intersection between visual arts, film and experimental music. With its series ‘Poetry in the Darkness,’ LST wants to pay tribute to the synergy, and ideas that are undertaken to find beauty within the darkness. Creativity that combines sound, moving image and storytelling, along with performance that blurs the boundary between cinema and live music. These are the core ingredients of Poetry in the Darkness.

You can listen to the playlist here.

Kyoka (Japan – Raster Noton)

Rhythm, and pop-beat create order within chaos. Kyoka’s work is a direct response to harsh industrial sounds, her musical approach forms the basis of experimental danceable rhythm of the performances of the Japanese composer who lives between Berlin and Tokyo and is on the record label, Raster Noton.

For this session of Poetry in the Darkness, Kyoka presented us with a series of animations by Joung Yumi. Yumi, born in Korea in 1981, has a very delicate and sensitive approach to animation, using thin strokes and clear facial expressions in her characters to convey her surreal stories, such as that of ‘Dust Kid,’ which she wrote in 2009. This animation has been screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and over 50 other international film festivals, and received more than 10 international awards. ‘Dust Kid’ has so far been broadcast by Arte TV and Televisió de Catalunya, and screened at theaters in France. It has also been screened at several art museums, sometimes in altered formats. 

In 2010 Joung wrote and directed the short animation, ‘Math Test’, which was invited to the official short film competition section at Berlin International Film Festival, and to several other international film festivals.

Kyoka, however, really brings Yumi’s animations alive, with an incredible ability to time and mix sounds to create an exquisite ambient atmosphere and a sensual experience for the audience. The choice of Livesoundtracks organisers to reduce the brightness of the projection and maintain Sala Hiroshima’s theatre as dark as possible, only serves to add to the unique intimacy created between the public, projection and sound.

Photo by Hayley Cantor

I personally find the overall concept of Poetry in the Darkness to be somewhat novel, particularly in a cosmopolitan city such as that of Barcelona, where more often than not, the audiovisual experience is often guided through nightlife and visuals are regularly seen as a by-product of music. LiveSoundtracks, however, has managed to turn this concept on its head and present us with an artistic scenario in which projection guides sound, creating an entirely different dialogue in audiovisual performance.

It was fascinating to discover that, upon congratulating Kyoka on her performance, it had been in fact the first time she had done anything like this before, and judging by the excitement on her face, surely not the last either.

Congratulations to all the organisers at LiveSoundtracks for your dedication to providing our city with quality cultural events and in being openminded enough to try something new. I’ll leave you with a mini photo reportage of the night.

All photos by Hayley Cantor

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Llull Machines is an art group.

These artefacts are neither “live animation”, nor “live drawings with the music accompaniment”, nor “visuals to accompany electronic music”. Our means of work are surprisingly similar; we both use all ten fingers.

In the manner of its operation Tagtool resembles an electronic music instrument – part synthesizer, part sampler. Everything is created in real time, no templates or preparations are used, Grundik’s setups and approaches are as painterly or sculpturally as musical. Occasionally, we collaborate with video artists or other musicians. And so, new dimension arise. We explore. We evolve daily. We are alive.

Danil Gertman primary see himself as a traditional painter, but he also works on installations, performances, animation, design, architecture and various combinations between them. In 2008 he was awarded Young artist Prize in Art and Design by Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport of Israel. Nominee of European festivals for visual effects and animation art.

http://gertmanru.wix.com/ danil-gertman

Grundik Kasyansky is a London-based musician who works in experimental improvisation, live installation, audio collage, and designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He wrote poetry before switching to electronic music and it deeply influenced his current practice. He is a founding member of the pioneering Israeli experimental electronic duo Grundik and Slava.

http://grundik.tumblr.com/

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Tilburg, November 2-6 2015

Playgrounds Audiovisual Arts Festival is a festival for innovative and creative digital art. A 5 day showcase and celebration of digital arts across the board with a programme of films, documentaries, animation, graphic design, artist talks, performances.

Presenting the best and brightest of contemporary animators, vfx artists, game developers, sound & graphic designers.

Follow workshops and witness performances. Attend screenings and meet the makers. See groundbreaking and breathtaking stuff and have a great day.

Playgrounds Festival 

WillemIIstraat 49

5038 BD Tilburg, The Netherlands

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They offer a wide range of services catering for clients within the music, corporate and entertainment industries.

As highly skilled team with over 8 years of experience and academic degrees in 3D animation, multimedia design, and illustration they have both the technical know-how and creative flare to create some truly breath taking visual spectacles.

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Based in Aberdeenshire, Fiona Soe Paing is an experimental electronic music artist

The live shows are a surreal, “live cinema” experience, combining projected animations with the electronic soundtracks and a live vocals performance.

The show “No Man’s Land” has been presented in cinema, theatre and gallery spaces, including Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Moving Image Centre, and the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, and their music videos have been screened on The Arts Channel on Sky TV New Zealand, as well as festivals including NEON digital arts Festival Scotland and the London Independent Film Festival.

In 2012, Fiona was granted funding through Creative Scotland to make new audio/visual collaborative work, and these new pieces form part of the live show, as well as being included on the latest audio release, the “Tower Of Babel” EP, which was released in Nov 2012 on the Black Lantern Music netlabel.

“Stylish, elegant and sinister…obscure electronica, minimal beats and exotic voice merge seamlessly with animated visuals to evolve into a multi-media artwork.” (New Zealand Herald).

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