The collective of Marcel Weber and Lucy Benson, MFO (vimeo.com/mfo) create and direct audiovisual performances, installations, video and image works. Intense and distinct aesthetics define their work. Concept takes priority over technique, the meaning defines the method. New and old media forms, technology and illusionary devices are employed equally. MFO aims at the subconscious over the conscious, emotion over intellect, ambiguity over well-defined.

MFO are resident visual artists for multiple event series focused on the exploration of contemporary electronic music in Berlin and internationally. Performances and installations have featured at festivals such as CTM and Transmediale (Berlin), Unsound (Krakow), TodaysArt (Den Haag), as well as various events across Europe, USA and Australia. Recent collaborations include audiovisual performances with the likes of Kode 9, Roly Porter and Oni Ayhun. Additionally MFO contributes video design to high culture productions, having worked with the Opera national de Paris, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin and the Brut theatre in Vienna. Larger projects are realised with an extended network of artists, MFO seeks constantly to collaborate, inform and evolve.

Thorsten Fleisch (fleischfilm.com) was born 1972 in Koblenz (Germany). He made his first film experiments with his dad’s Super 8 camera when still in school. Later he studied experimental film with Prof. Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Thorsten Fleisch works with digital and analogue film. With materials such as the body, crystals, fire and electricity, he worked directly on 16 mm film strips. Crystals are grown on the film and 30,000 volts burn through photo paper. The results are poetic and abstract visual systems with references to catharsis, cosmos and the universe. In 2003 Fleisch received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria) for his computer animated film Gestalt. High voltage is the centre of his work Energie! for which he has won international acclaim. His films received several awards and were shown at festivals worldwide like: New York Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Film Festival, Videoex. Among other clients he has worked for Gaspar Noé (electric titles for Enter The Void) and Basement Jaxx (live visuals for Jump and Shout). He lives and works in Berlin.

The mixed-media collective Sansculotte (sansculotte.de) will present their 2-players live video patch and talk about visions, technology, aesthetics and how to spend a lot of time building universes that fall apart 99 seconds later.

Along the way will be mentioned: pure data, glsl, digital cut-up, appropriation and information overload.

http://scopesessions.org/2012/02/01/session-11-february-9/

June 09 / NOCTURNAL EMMISIONS / MOLOCH / LAST DOMINION LOST

July 12 / IMPROCIDE II

Call me if the door is closed. Dont forget bring my nr.
017620626386 Farah

Pure Data users in Berlin at NK (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) – Elsenstr. 52, 2HH 2Etage.

For more information, look up
http://puredata.info/community/organization/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group.

We also encourage you to take an active part, and put up suggestions for topics you want to talk about / topics you want to be talked about.

Doors are open from 20h-20h15. After that they’ll be closed, and you will have to call someone from the Pd-meeting to get in. To get a telephone number to call or confirm assistance you can write to info_at_minitronics.net

These sessions are divided in 2 parts: presentations / free exchange.

Presentations:

each person has 3 minutes to present their patch
after a group of 5 persons, there is a small Q+A round
the next group of 5 comes in, and so on
Free exchange

all authors that presented something are now in the room, and anyone is free to go to them and ask more detailed questions
If you want to take part in these meetings, please send a mail to puredata [dot] berlin [at] googlemail [dot] com stating:

your name
very few words explaining the purpose of your patch
a couple of tag words that categorise your patch
Multiple submissions are possible. List your slots/patches in order of importance – in case there are too many persons speaking, we might have to make a selection.

A beamer and a stereo PA will be available for the presentations.

FULL INFORMATION HERE :

http://www.uni-weimar.de/m​edien/wiki/PDCON:Start

Relationships are kept in a delicate balance between clarity and obscurity. Are visible behaviours triggered and controlled by sound, or do their behaviours create sound? Are we listening to their actions, or are we watching them respond to the sounds of their environment? This projected universe operates on its own laws; familiar, but somehow elusive. These laws appear to be based in sound, or to emit sound: objects turn; the projected world turns… while sound events strike, scurry past, or resonate…

James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a performer and a composer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic composition and performance, improvisation, sound installation, and sound recording. He is a founding member of improvisation and new music quartet The Rank Ensemble and of the sound collective Resonator Helsinki, and one half of the audiovisual performance art duo Plucié/DesAndes. He has performed in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Italy and Canada, and his works have been performed in Finland, Norway, Russia, Portugal, Canada and China.

Merja Nieminen is a Finnish visual artist who currently lives and works in Helsinki. Her studies include architecture studies in the University of Technology, Helsinki, and media art studies in Medialab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. She works in collaboration with artists from diverse fields including electro acoustic rhytm music, classical music, dance and new circus. Current projects include collaborations with Tuomas Norvio, James Andean, Defunensamble, Mikko Kallinen Company, Circo Aereo and Meidän Orkesteri. Her works include abstract animations for audio visual performances and installations.

Dancing on Ashes is a multimedia performance series mixing live music and projected narrative texts. An attempt to create a new approach to literature by transposing it into the field of performance arts, it is the backbone of the Angel Meat transmedia project conceived by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes.

Dancing on Ashes performances are based on fictional characters and situations that you will find in several other mediums – novel, posters, videos, blogs… – gathered in Angel Meat. Each performance is both a new chapter in a big narrative and an experiment in the staged literature medium.

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) is a performance-installation staging self-playing music instruments. It tells the story of Yu, a dancer who decides to join the Dancing on Ashes cabaret show.

Dancing on Ashes (Circle) is a music + text performance with Bertram Dhellemmes playing electronics, that will premiere in NK. You will learn about the Triangle Circle, a group of friends to which belong Skullface, one of the main protagonists of Angel Meat.
More information on www.angelmeat.com

The Memefest exhibition: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” with selected visual communication works and critical content from all over the world.
An event for interactive participation to emancipate, reinterpret and act!

www.memefest.org

Vernissage Friday 6.5. 18-01 Uhr
Finissage Thursday 12.5 18-12 Uhr

Christian Zöllner from VR/URBAN presents the project SMSlingshot – one of the winners of this years Memefest friendly competition.

SMSlingshot is an extension of VR/URBAN´s digital intervention activism. The installation features a handheld digital slingshot device for spreading information on public screens. The SMSlingshot is a truly tangible interaction device for linking digital data with real urban space.

Deutsch

Loesje, Mašta und Trial&Errror präsentieren:

Die Memefest-Ausstellung: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” mit ausgewählten
Werken der visuellen Kommunikation und kritischem Inhalt aus der ganzen Welt.
Eine Veranstaltung für die interaktive Teilnahme an Emanzipation, Neuinterpretation und Aktion!

6.-12. Mai 2011 12-16 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung
Vernissage am Freitag, den 6. Mai 18-01 Uhr
Finissage am Donnerstag, den 12. Mai 18-12 Uhr

“The Color of Pomegranates” of Sergei Parajanov
79min Armenia (SU) 1968
Orginal (no dialoges)

Trailer

Synopsis:

One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov ‘s “Color of the Pomegranate”, a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet’s life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova ‘s life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov’s imagination and Sayat Nova’s poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. Sofiko Chiaureli plays 6 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work void of any dialog or camera movement.

The director had claimed his inspiration was “the Armenian illuminated miniatures. I wanted to create that inner dynamic that comes from inside the picture, the forms and the dramaturgy of colour.”