Event: Gdansk, 4 – 5 September 2020

Are you a creator of generative art and would like to present your art project to a wider audience?

You are invited to participate in the Open Call for In Progress 2020 Immateriality.

You can submit your audiovisual projects incorporating generative art. Projects should use real-time audio and video tools.

Among the submitted propositions, the jury will select two finalists who will perform during one of the festival days. As a reward winners will receive a remuneration of PLN 1000 gross.

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THE HAGUE, September 19-22 2019

From a festival organization to an international platform for trans-disciplinary creativity: ever since the launch of its first edition in 2005, TodaysArt has been bringing artists, thinkers, and audiences together in an ever-changing, yet inspiring setting.

Inspired by relevant political and artistic topics, TodaysArt aspires to promote and foster innovation and creativity as well as public interest for current developments within arts, culture, and society.

The network specializes in the presentation and development of emerging digital culture and contemporary visual and performing arts. By doing so, TodaysArt connects local and international talent to established creators and pioneers to collectively explore new possibilities and forms of expression.

The festival is known for its surprising settings: every year, the festival travels through the city of The Hague before temporarily finding its niche in a wide array of unconventional public spaces and venues.

Over the past thirteen years, TodaysArt has built up an impressive international profile by presenting and producing works that are developed in collaboration with some of today’s leading creators. TodaysArt’s key activity is the annual TodaysArt festival in The Hague. Besides this, the network organizes and participates in a variety of international events, exhibitions, and acts as a co-producer for the development and distribution of artists and projects in The Netherlands as well as abroad. (See the program here)

TodaysArt

The Hague, Netherlands

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SIGNAL is a relatively young event but made a huge impact on the audiovisual culture since the very beginning.

The festival has a great offer of video mapping, interactive installations, and generative art. The last edition attracted around 600.000 people.

Every year, SIGNAL puts together an audiovisual journey across the beautiful backdrop that is the city of Prague. It gives the chance to locals and international visitors to really discover the city under a new light.

It goes without saying that the whole team has been fantastic and they have taken such good care of us! This is what we saw during our visit.

Guillaume Marmin – Rococo

Rococo is a totem made of 124 projectors shooting light beams. As soon as viewers step in, they are bombarded by powerful audiovisual inputs.

The the beautiful ‘Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace’ is immediately turned into an ever-changing space.

The immersive soundtrack makes you progressively forget where you are, bringing you in a captivating trance as you stare at the beams.

Post Bellum – Memory of the Nation

Groundbreaking use of video mapping projection to document among the darkest moments in the last one hundred years of European history.

Avoiding the spectacularization, ‘Memory of the Nation’ enthralled the viewers, thanks to clever use of real video and audio footage

3dsense – Erebus

3dsense offered an impressive projection with two synchronized screens. It showed a creatively put and well-thought-out black hole’s gravitational field in the universe.

The whole combined with an intense soundtrack displayed a complex unity that immerses you into the piece.

Chevalvert – Stratum

A wonderful piece of interaction design, where the users had the chance to create their own lighting performance by the simple motion of their hands.

Highly involving and easy to approach, it created an instant connection with the audience and the art.

_STROY – Sssssspace

_STROY is a multi-creative studio based in the Czech Republic. In their pioneering project, they combine graffiti with video mapping and sound art.

Aesthetically astounding and captivating, they’re taking video mapping to a whole new level.

Hotaru Visual Guerrilla – Biofilms

Quite new to the scene, the AV collective Hotaru Visual Guerrilla managed to capture the viewers’ senses from the first instant.

An amazing 3D video mapping, dragging us in a future world where microorganism, bioforms, breathes and expands from the façade of the surrounding space. A must-see in the audiovisual culture.

Hyperbinary – Wave

Hyperbinary proposed a very mature and cutting-edge video mapping made of pure lights.

The building Kooperative has been animated from the inside instead of being projected on it using LED strips.

A thoughtful investigation about how particles are set in motion and spread across the space creating energy. The result is a calm and monumental wave.

ruestungsschmie.de – Nucleus3

On the Church of St. Ludmila, ruestungsschmie.de delivered a video mapping masterpiece empowered by a stunning sound design by Sound Selektor.

Every single element of the façade came alive under the audiovisual thunderstorm. Our senses were constantly tickled and moved restlessly following the projected narrative across the facade.

XYZ – Watch 2,1/18

‘Watch 2,1/18’ is an ambitious and innovative art piece picturing a dystopian future under constant surveillance.

The immersive installation used moving lights across the Vinohrady square to track the viewers. Microphones recorded their sounds to eventually combine them with an eerie soundtrack. No matter where you moved, you were always watched.

Simona Chládková & Matyáš Skalický – Gateway

Simona and Matyáš are two students of ‘the Czech Technical University’. They created an LED interactive gateway connecting the train station to their university.

Enjoyable and effective. We hope to see more from these young and upcoming artists.

Struny Signalu – Organik

Organik triggers an intense dialogue between new media, art, music, and architecture, in the beautiful Salvator church.

The Gothic constructive elements are gradually revealed and enhanced by the moving lights, while the compelling music from the organ surrounds the viewers. Our senses are fully absorbed in this powerful audiovisual symphony.

Romain Tardy – Future Ruins

Future Ruins, a beautifully crafted video mapping triggering a dialogue with the LED installations scattered around the park.

It decomposes the architectural elements of the Neo-Romanesque church of St. Cyril and Methodius.

Ruins of a dystopian future lie upon us and come back to life through the use of lights and video mapping.

SOFTlab – Iris

An interactive installation with mirrors following the viewers, bouncing their reflection across the space together with the beautiful decorations of the ‘Mirror Chapel’.

Tomáš Dymeš – Touch Project

A buoyant interactive piece immediately connects with the audience of all ages and backgrounds.

Marpi Studio – Aquarium

An interactive simulation that shows the sea life under a microscope. It’s a never-ending generative art project.

Richard Loskot and UAII studio – Sky on the earth

An interesting representation of the natural elements using new media. A piece with stormy clouds made of foam, lights, and sounds.

An overall high quality and several innovative art pieces, setting new trends and standards in audiovisual culture. Congratulations to the organizers and see you next year!

SIGNAL Festival

Interviews to the artists of SIGNAL 2018

Interview to the SIGNAL CEO

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Since 2000, he has been teaching and conducting research in media art and design, in universities in Portugal, Finland, and the UK.

He is currently Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Greenwich. Nuno holds an M.Sc in innovation management (with a thesis on digital media) from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) and a Doctor of Arts degree in New Media from Aalto University (Media Lab Helsinki), with the thesis “Interactive Audiovisual Objects“.

He was a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London (EAVI Group), leading the project “Enabling Audiovisual User Interfaces”. Previously, he has worked at the design consultancy Fjord(Accenture), including consulting work for Nokia/Microsoft and HP.

Nuno’s work has been presented in more than 20 countries, in such festivals and venues as ACM Multimedia – Interactive Arts (Scottsdale), Electro-Mechanica (St. Petersburg), FILE (São Paulo), ISEA (Istanbul), Le Cube (Paris), Mapping (Geneva), NAME (Lille), Optronica / British Film Institute (London), PixelAche / Kiasma (Helsinki) and SXSW (Austin).

Nuno’s projects have been featured in CreativeApplications.Net, Create Digital Motion, The Creators Project, Leonardo Reviews and Digicult, among other specialized media.

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BELGRADE, April 18-21  2018

Held each year in Belgrade, Serbia, the festival lasts for six days and provides an overview of the current situation in the fields of music, visual arts, and digital culture. Guest artists, lecturers, and other participants are chosen to represent the cutting edge of the contemporary creative industry in the world.

Their mission is to bring together distinguished, world-class artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

Resonate Festival

Dom Omladine,Dečanska

Belgrade, Serbia

news@resonate.io

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Resonate

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Vision Nocturne is a graphic designer,

He is passionate about Digital Art and Real Time motion graphics. This work explores the relationships between the image, the architecture, and sound. He combines vector abstraction with warm and color shades.

When Vision Nocturne takes the reins of a visual performance during an event (nights, installations, festivals, and so on), what takes place is a world of creative paradoxes that explodes on the screen in a complete and joyous chaos of complementary images.

mike@visionnocturne.be

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Vision Nocturne 

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ROME, 7-10 June 2018

Born in 2004, with the aim to answer to the need for creating a space-temporal referential field where to meet, know each other and share vjing related experiences, LPM is now an international meeting dedicated to artists, professionals and passionates of veejaying, visual and live video performance.

LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by more than 400 artists, professionals and video passionate from 40 countries presenting over 150 projects who will offer an unrepeatable and unique event.

LPM considers the experimentation a cornerstone of its ideology, and all the recovered funds are therefore allocated to finding the most desirable and innovative technologies to support the event and the research in the live visual field.

The event features a full program of live video performances open to the public, applied in combination with the most varied forms of artistic expression, and a number of initiatives particularly for guests of the meeting.

Program foresees more than 150 activities and aims at exploring different themes through new audiovisual languages, techniques, and technologies, i.e. workshops related to Live-Coding, LED mapping and stage design for events, gestural control of music and bodily musical performance; presentations of platforms, tools, locals VJs communities from 5 different continents, a conference on AV Audience Development; video installations related to politics and cultural ensemble, interactive cameras catching and transforming bodies and faces in animated gif, personal and metadata tracing, and many more…

Thanks to the contribution of the European Community, in the latest years the LPM project was brought aboard, to produce many foreign editions as in Xalapa (MX), Minsk (BY), Mexico City (MX), Cape Town (SA), Eindhoven (NL) and Amsterdam (NL) in addition to those held Rome (IT). Since 2004, we hosted more than 4600 artists, 2625 amongst performances, workshops, and showcases, recording an overall amount of 72 participant countries and welcome more than 1.500.000 visitors.

LPM is produced and organized by Flyer Communication, Linux Club and FLxER.net, thanks to the cooperation of important international partners.

LPM

Amsterdam, Netherlands

info@liveperformersmeeting.net

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LPM: Live Performers Meeting

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Planeta is a product studio focused on

Their sister entity, OONI, is a virtual reality studio with expertise in photography and art. And their Space in the East Village of Manhattan is an active performance venue. Projects:

FIELDS: Fields is a spatial sound creation tool that uses augmented reality to turn your surrounding space into a sonic canvas. It features a gallery of 3D works by Matmos, Robert Lippok, Matthew Patterson Curry (Safety Scissors), Nils Berg Cinemascope, Ami Yamasaki, and Chris Maier.

DROPS: NYC product studio Planeta has just released the virtual reality experience Drops, a cross between a drum machine and a zen garden that diverges from traditional music interfaces and enables the organic composition of complex rhythms and melodies.

INFINITY: Our VR viewers serve as an effort to provide an interface with human experience that satisfies aesthetically as well as functionally.

PLANETA

info@planeta.cc

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Since 2013, this anti-disciplinary meeting gathers in Barcelona leading artists, creative technologists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, makers and hackers to participate in a carefully commissioned program with the aim at inspiration and networking.

TALKS

Creators, artists and industry leaders gather at the Sónar Think Tank to address the impending issues of the digital ecosystem. Exclusive access for delegate pass holders.

WORKSHOPS

The workshops are organized with leading Spanish and international institutions and companies, and are the practical context of Sónar+D, and designed to explore and develop skills and techniques. They are aimed at both makers and professional. Only for Delegate Pass holders. You can book your appointment through the Networking App.

DEMOS

Technology companies take the stage to provide demos and presentations of their products and applications.

MARKET LAB

This is the nerve centre of Sónar+D. It is a space where the creators of the year’s most outstanding technology initiatives present the projects that they have developed in creative labs, media labs, universities and companies. A place for trying out innovations that explore new forms of creation, production and marketing, and which in turn fosters relationships between professionals in the creative industries and the general public.

INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Sónar+D Innovation Challenge (SIC) co-organized by the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, is an online & onsite platform for the creative minds that want to be one step ahead and experiment with the future of technology. It brings together innovative tech companies and creators, collaborating to solve challenges that will lead to disruptive prototypes showcased in Sónar+D.

START UP GARDEN

The Startup Garden is the space dedicated to the entrepreneurial ecosystem related to creative technologies. Unlike other startup contests, Startup Garden is an innovative concept where only 30 startups are selected and will benefit from a program of activities designed to boost their promotion, networking and investment opportunities. These activities include the Startup Competition, Mentoring for Startups and Meet the Investor, “one on one” sessions to connect investors with entrepreneurs.

REALITIES +D 
A selection with the year’s most disruptive audiovisual content and technological platforms, that opens up new storytelling possibilities and creates potential for content distribution and production.

TECH SHOWS

Sónar+D draws on talent and the Sónar musical line-up. The shows with the +D tag are live ideas arising from the interaction between creativity, music, technology and innovation.

Sónar Calling GJ273b Control Room by ABSOLUT

Un espacio diseñado para descubrir los aspectos artísticos y científicos del viaje de 12,5 años luz que transportará una representación de la mejor música electrónica actual al exoplaneta Luyten’s Star b.

SONAR 360° BY MEDIA PRO

Is a space dedicated to fulldome audiovisual work. The pieces presented here are immersive experiences where the audience is completely surrounded by 360° image and sound.

THE ZERO GRAVITY BAND

The Zero-Gravity Band is a sonorous-luminal creation in a 360° immersive environment that aims to induce the public to feel similar sensations to those they have outside the planet Earth in conditions of zero gravity. The experience takes place inside an 11-meter diameter dome that has unprecedented 3D sound characteristics. TZGB also includes an exhibition featuring prototypes for making art and musical creations in zero gravity and smart “space” suits. The installation runs in a 5-minute loop.

MEET THE EXPERT

One-on-one professional coaching meetings for 10 minutes with renowned experts from creative industries. Only for Delegate Pass holders at Sónar+D. You can book your appointment through the Networking App, an exclusive service for delegate pass holders.

ARTISTS WANTED

Sónar+D offers the possibility to artists registered at Sónar+D to present demos (or on-going projects) to a selection of renowned producers and record labels searching for new talents, in 15-minute one-to-one sessions. Registration is required thourgh our Networking App. Limited places. Only for delegate pass holders.

Meet & drink by Estrella Damm

On Thursday and Friday, at 8pm, a company or institution will invite delegates and Sónar+D participants for drinks at the ‘Networking Bar’ meeting point. This will be the ideal place to relax, unwind and enjoy a cold beer – courtesy of Estrella Damm- after the day’s various performances, lectures and activities, as well as sharing experiences and meeting other professionals attending the daytime format. Only for delegate pass holders.

Networking Dinner 

The first day of Sónar+D closes with an informal dinner that will gather the delegates and participants around a big paella. An opportunity for networking in a relaxed setting in the heart of Sónar by Day.

Barcelona Tech City Breakfast

On Thursday at 10:30 AM all delegates are invited to the Barcelona Tech City Breakfast. A great opportunity to start the day networking with other professionals and participants. The breakfast will be served at the Networking Bar.

Info Point ME by Meliá

ME by Meliá will be at MarketLab with a space to welcome and provide you with privilege information about Sónar+D and how to have a true Barcelona experience.

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Interdisciplinary art festival ‘LOOM’ presents a panoramic view of Immersive Art by means of performance, audio-visual and interactive installation.

In the era of Big Data and Connected Individualism the audience will be transported into a fictitious world blending the lines between artistic disciplines simulating Utopia, Dystopia, Futurism, Technology, Control, Freedom, Reality and Fiction in a contemporary landscape. Ten rooms will be transformed into an interactive path through Utopia126​.

Comprised of works from over twenty artists belonging to different disciplines, and sponsored by the cultural patronage platform Artsy by Movistar​, the first edition of Movistar Loom Festival will take place on the 19th of May 2018 in the installations of the modernist factory Utopia126​ located in Poblenou, Barcelona.

Movistar Loom Festival ​was the winner of the Artsy Festival 2017 contest and has been developed by Loom Collective​. With headquarters in Barcelona, the platform and multicultural-interdisciplinary collective was born with the intention of promoting Barcelona’s artistic underground scene.

MOVISTAR LOOM FESTIVAL

Barcelona, Spain

collectiveloom@gmail.com

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