AVmotional

Partner: Czech Center, Bucharest

CARPETS CURTAINS
Combining live audio “micro-improvisations” (refined by architect Ivan Palacky) with live video manipulations (by visual artist Filip Cenek aka VJ Vera Lukasova), Carpets Curtains express an engaging and nuanced interplay of audio and visual material. With live visuals being based on improvised memory re-edits in which emphasis is placed on ambiguous “narration” whilst VJ software errors are used to reach new amoebic image qualities, the result is a principle or method of remaining fixed to moving images while vacating the essential aspects for building concrete meaning. Such visual approaches find parallel in Palacky’s delicate musicalities, in which found objects and minimal electronics are fused to create elegantly small sound mixtures.

Ivan Palacky – amplified knitting machine Dopleta 160
Ivan Palacky, b. 1967 in Uherské Hradiste, has (in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s) played with various groups and taken part in several music projects. He was a member of the guitar-doublebass-bassoon group “Slede, zive slede” (Herring, live herring) – and currently performs in a duo with Jennifer DeFelice called “Tilko” (Singlet) and audiovisual project “Koberce, zaclony” (Carpets Curtains) with Filip Cenek. He “writes” a sound diary from his journeys – collects excerpts of stories, weird sounds and various “acoustic mistakes”. He likes to take part in one-shot improvisational groups or duos (with Cremaster, Ruth Barberán and Margarida Garcia, Will Guthrie, Andrea Neumann among others) as well as playing solo performances. Since 2005 his main interest has been to “dig out” sounds from an amplified Dopleta 160 knitting machine from the 70s.

Filip Cenek aka VJ Vera Lukasova – real-time image manipulation in interaction with sound (live re-edits)
Filip Cenek, b. 1976 in Jeseník, is educated projectionist, graduated from the Brno Faculty of Fine Arts, Video Studio (Keiko Sei), where he currently teaches. From 2004 he is a postgraduate student at the FAMU Centre of Audiovisual Studies in Prague. He is the author of several short films and animations presented at various fine art exhibitions and film festivals (Centre Pompidou, Paris; L’immagine leggera, Palermo; EMAF, Osnabruck; Wardrobe, Leeds; Parker`s Box, New York; MNAC, Bucuresti; among others). He is represented in the National Gallery Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art in Prague and Marek Collection. He is holder of the Tranzit Award (2004) for his work in the field of visual media which allowed him to realize “Carpets Curtains” DVD-Video disc (Errant Bodies, Denmark/USA 2006), documenting his cooperation with a musician Ivan Palacky. He also makes the visible part of Midi Lidi project and works as a co-curator for FreshFilmFest (Theatre Optique section) and NewNew! Festival.

http://carpetscurtains.fiume.cz

www.palacky.org

www.fiume.cz

Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental

terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing,

multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional

ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone

conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of

the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden

meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations 

of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration 

from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and

has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians

Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and

Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers 

Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, 

Derek Jarman, Steve McQueen, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon.

Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing

concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass

Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal

(1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of

contemporary electronic music. In 2004 his Sound Surface work was the

first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission and in 2006 he produced

Night Haunts for Artangel whilst sound-designing a new car horn for

the USA.

2007 began with a new commission for choreographer Shobana

Jeyasingh’s Faultline and sound design for new British horror film

‘Reverb.’ His collaboration with filmmaker Steve McQueen,

 Gravesend,

was premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennial. He recently scored the hit

musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba with Wayne McGregor in Lyon and

Paris, and is designing sound environments for the Coney Island

Aquarium in New York. His avant pop band Githead continues to tour

and record globally.

He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most

prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London,

Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow,

Tate Modern & Tate Britain London and the Royal Opera House London.

His work has been presented throughout the United States, South

America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

http://www.scannerdot.com

http://www.myspace.com/robinrimbaud

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinrimbaud/

“He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound

which is not usually used for music…he has a good sense of

atmosphere.”

Karlheinz Stockhausen - BBC

Scanner -  British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental

terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing,

multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional

ways. A true renaissance artist of digital pop culture, from his

earliest controversial work using found mobile phone conversations,

through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern

metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and

missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental

terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others,

Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

   Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing

concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass

Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal

(1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of

contemporary electronic music. He has performed and created works in

many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA,

Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Tate Modern & Tate

Britain London, Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille, Kunsthalle Vienna,

Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Hanoi Opera House Vietnam and the Royal Opera

House London.

Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and

has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: Bryan

Ferry, Laurie Anderson, Carsten Nicolai, Radiohead, The Royal Ballet,

Random Dance, Neville Brody, Hussein Chalayan, Shelley Fox, Douglas

Gordon, Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, Luc Ferrari, Mike Kelley, Orlan,

Mike Hodges, Derek Jarman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lorraine Hunt and

Peter Sellars, amongst others.

His works continually seek to break new ground: in 1994 he pioneered

one of the first experimental ezines, I/O/D, in 1998 he performed

Surface Noise on a London Bus around the city, in 2000 he performed

over 20 KM of beach in Italy on the public speaker system, re-

soundtracked Jean Luc Godard’s seminal film Alphaville, and

infamously played 16 concerts in just one evening with a series of

look-alikes across the globe. In 2003 he became the first electronic

artist to ever perform in Vietnam, and in 2004 his Sound Surface work

was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission. From 1994-2000

he curated the pioneering Electronic Lounge club at London’s ICA

presenting new electronic music and media monthly.

In 2005 he composed Europa 25, a newly commissioned National Anthem

for Europe, soundtracks for The Royal Ballet’s Qualia and E:vent with

legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham, and Flower Echoes work to

open the Guangzhou Triennial in China. In 2006 he presented Night

Haunts and NightJam with Artangel, produced a four-hour performance

across the mountains of North Wales, and designed a new car horn for

the US.

2007 began with a new commission for choreographer Shobana

Jeyasingh’s Faultline and sound design for new British horror film

‘Reverb.’ His collaboration with film-maker Steve McQueen,

 Gravesend,

was premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennial. He recently scored the hit

musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba with Wayne McGregor in Lyon and

Paris, and is designing sound environments for the Coney Island

Aquarium in New York. His avant pop band Githead continues to tour

and record globally.

Selectia de lucrari audiovizuale si video clipuri din editiile 2005 & 2007 ale Festivalului Optronica; durata: 180 min

Brain-child of audiovisual artists/producers Addictive TV and new-media curators Cinefeel, both who have championed live AV and the art of the VJ for over a decade, Optronica is the London based visual music festival organised in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Optronica is currently on the road, touring selections of audio/visual delights abroad. AVmotional Platform is pleased to welcome Optronica to AVion_06 to present their cinema programmes of contemporary visual music animations and cutting-edge music videos.

Optronica’s cutting-edge fusion of music and cinema
offers a dazzling vision of the future. TIME OUT

How can you not attend something with a name
as cool as Optronica? THE GUARDIAN

http://www.optronica.org/

http://www.myspace.com/optronica

PLAY STUDIO I prezentare multimedia interactiva

We see a boundary we eat a boundary. And wash it down with a cup of icy violet blood. Let’s play.”
www.playstudio.ro

HOLOPIX I prezentare multimedia

Proiectii pe mediu volatil / fluid.
www.lights.ro

THE MOON I prezentare & concert AV
Proiectul audio-vizual lui Sorin Paun porneste de la imagini lucrate in penita&tus reprezentand
texturi lunare si muzica noise minimal ambiental. Atmosfera sa sterila si rece
proiecteaza privitorul/ asculatorul in orbita satelitului pamantului.
www.myspace.com/leftblanktransmissions

Colectivo Anatomico a amanat venirea sa in Romania
si implicit participarea in cadrul evenimentelor AVion
din Platforma AVmotional pentru anul viitor, din cauza
unor probleme interne.

EMOTIQUE [ Colectivo Anatomico] is a platform of investigation dedicated to
the creation of new tools to give support to complex systems multimedia.
It was born of the necessity to interrelate artistic and technical disciplines,
but adding common creativities and not subordinating one to the others.
A land of common investigation taken to both fronts simultaneously and
of almost indisociable way.
The group is formed by different profiles: computer science engineers,
multimedia engineers, multimedia creative, infographics, designers and
videocreators. All of them with restlessness on existing software in the
market for the media’s mixture and with a long trajectory in the world of
visual developments. The deficiency in the market of one more functional
tool, cradle in the modularity of open systems gave as a consequence the
development of the new software. ROTTEN was the first experience in
which this type of management multimedia is gotten up successfully.

EMOTIQUE works from 2005 in the creation and production of technological
artistic projects. His first project was ROTTEN and was first presented in
Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona. During 2005 and 2006, EMOTIQUE has
done a national and international tour in Europe, Australia, Xile, Colombia,
Brazil, Peru, Morocco and Burkina Faso and has done conferences,
workshops and concerts in collaboration with festivals, theatres,
universities and cultural centers.

EMOTIQUE has presented seven projects in the last three years: ROTTEN,
WAX, RAW, Lecture-Concert, FASO 05, VIRGO MA49-100/04 and ENaNaS.
Now we are preparing our next multimedia show: PANIC MOTEL. In all
these projects, we have worked through an interactive system we have
created in relation with different media and tools as body extension and
related with the body movement.

www.emotique.com

http://emotique.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/emotique

ftp://prensa:prensa@emotique.homeftp.net