The Anthology of Computer Art

Sonic Acts XI: Anthology of Computer Art–23 ­- 26 februari 2006,­ Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam. Live Streaming: For those of you who won’t be able to make it to the festival, the performances at the festival nights will be streamed live through FabChannel. The conference will be streamed through de Balie.

Day 2: Friday 24-02-2006, Conferences:

Stephen Wilson - Artists at the Frontiers of Research [US]; 13:00 - 13:45 / Balie big hall: Stephen Wilson is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implications of new technologies. The presentation is based on material from his MIT Press book, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.

Andreas Broeckmann - Image, Process, Performance, Machine. Aspects of an Aesthetics of the Machinic [DE]; 13:45 - 14:30 / Balie big hall–Andreas Broeckmann has been the Artistic Director of transmediale - international media art festival, Berlin since 2000. In texts and lectures he deals with post-medial practices and the possibilities for a machinic aesthetics of media art.
Matthias Weiß - Provides a micronanalysis of computer code fruitful insights on Computer arts? [DE]; 15:00 - 15:45 / Balie big hall–Matthias Weiß is specialized in computer art and net art, subjects on which he wrote various texts. The lecture provides an analysis within the realm of the micro-structure of each work will be presented, in order to discover the level of awareness of aesthetic problems, depicted via the means of programming language and programming itself as an artistic practice.

Ben Fry - Computational Information Design [US]; 15:45 - 16:30 / Paradiso small hall–The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, yet our ability to understand it remains constant. To gain better understanding Ben Fry proposes the solution that the individual fields be brought together as part of a single process which he calls Computational Information Design.

Rob Young - We are Dancing Mechanik: Computers, Pop and Embedded Chips [UK] 17:00 - 17:45 / Balie big hall–Rob Young is Editor at Large of the English music magazine The Wire. In his lecture he will speak about the role of the computer in pop music.

Discussion - moderated by Rutger Wolfson [NL]; 17:45 - 18:30 / Balie big hall–Rutger Wolfson is director of the museum for contemporary art De Vleeshal in Middelburg (NL). In 2003 he edited the book ‘Kunst in Crisis’, which gave rise to quite a bit of debate in the Dutch contemporary arts world.

Films: Concrete Cinema from the Groupe de Recherches des Images - part II [VAR] 19:30 - 20:30 / Balie small hall– This compilation of short computer graphics films from the 1960’s and early 70’s is particularly interesting in that the filmmakers were heavily involved in designing both the hardware and the software that was used to create the images. Many of them were made in academic or scientific research facilities such as Bell laboratories, IBM or the National Research Council of Canada.

John Whitney in close-up [US]; 21:00 - 22:00 / Balie small hall–The computer pioneer, programmer and film-animator, John Whitney seamlessly combined these disparate disciplines for the journey of discovery which he called ‘The Complementarity of Music and Visual Art

Live Performances

20:30 - 04:00 / Paradiso small hall and Paradiso big hall. The Friday programme is being compiled in collaboration with Jace Clayton (a.k.a. DJ/rupture), founder of Negrophonic and Soot Records. Jayce Clayton about the programme: I’m proud to say we’ve put together a Very Strong Lineup… a wildly international group of men & women responsible for some of the most exciting sounds in recent memory, from grime/dubstep to bellydance punk to mutant hiphop to ragga, breakcore, to accordeon+voice electronica.

grime / dubstep
Vex’D (UK - Rephlex)
Earz & Jammer (UK - Jah Mek the World)
DJ/rupture (US - Tigerbeat 6)
& No Lay + G-Kid (UK - Unorthodox)
Shadetek & Sheen (US - Warp)

dancehall / mutant hiphop
The Bug ft. Ras B (UK - Rephlex)
Beans (US - Warp)
Ghislain Poirier (CA - Chocolate Industries)
Filastine (US - Soot)

breakcore / jungle / freakstep / gabba
Hrvatski (US - Planet Mu)
Drop the Lime (US - Tigerbeat 6)
Aaron Spectre (US - Death$ucker)
Ove-Naxx & Doddodo (JP - Adaadat)
Scotch Egg (JP - Wrong Music)

bellydance punks / militant orientalists
Nettle (ES - theAgriculture)
2/5 BZ (TU - Gözel)

electronica / improv
Gustav (AU - Mosz)
PlanningtoRock (DE - Twisted Nerve)
Toktek & MNK (NL)
Andy Moor (NL - The Ex)

with additional visuals by
Daniel Perlin (US)
MNK (NL)

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