This morning was marked by two conferences and a performance in De Bali.
The first conference “The Diorama Revisited”, presented by Erkki Huhtamo, treated about Diorama and many “ama” ending words (like panorama, diaporama, futurama…) history.
You can find here videos from the performance “Digit”, done by Julien Maire, where Maire printes sentences passing his finger over white paper. He uses the words as lines to draw.
The third morning conference was a round table about yesterday’s drone performance. The participants were with Stephen O’Malley, Joachim Nordwall and CM von Hausswolff, moderated by Mike Harding.
The afternoon started with the conference “INTERACTIVITY AND IMMERSION” held by Jeffrey Shaw and Marnix de Nijs.
Jeffrey Shaw presented different technologies to produce images providing an immersion experience and the ways to interact with this devices. He mainly focus his conference around the iCinema center. He presented Cave immersion (projections on the wall, roof and floor) and cylinder immersion environment (the viewer is in the center of a cylinder, the images are projected on the cylinder wall’s) and spherical modular video cameras (cameras that films 360°).
Marnix de Ni presented some of his works:
Exercise in immersion is a 3D immersion experience game where the user wares a suit to travel inside a virtual world superimposed over the real space. The player is free to move around, interactivity is controlled by it’s movements.
Beijing accelerator is an interactive installation with a rotating video projection. The viewer sits on a rotating chair with a joystick (that controls the chair rotation). The objective is to syncronize the chair with the image.
Run motherfucker run is an interactive installation inviting the visitor to run within one of the 25 scenes mostly shot at night in the Rotterdam area. The device, a roller carpet, tends to slow you down by increasing running resistance. This piece is about adrenaline and the expirience of speed.
You can find this post http://www.sonicacts.com/wordpress/?p=109 too.
Sonic Acts opening night
Today, February the 21st 2008, was the opening night for the 12th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival, in Amsterdam – Netherlands. The festival takes place in 4 different localizations: the Netherlands’ Media Art Institute, also known as Montevideo; the Melkweg, the Paradiso and the De Balie.
The night started at Montevideo, where we could enjoy the exhibition opening. In there, we can see the instalations from Ulf Langheinrich (Soil – 2005 – and OSC – 2006)
Julien Maire (Low Resolution Cinema – 2005 – and Exploding Camera – 2007)
Boris Debackere (probe)
and Kurt Hentschläger (Scape – 2007).
After that, in De Bali, we could watch Stan Brakhage’s film Dog Star Man (1961-1964,73’00), in parallel we could experience the live performance done by the Drone People(Joachim Nordwall, Mika Vainio, Hildur Gudnadöttir, C. Spencer Yeh, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Stephen O’Malley and BJ Nilsen). The live performance is a 4 hours succession of individual performances. No rules were defined except to be alone on the stage and to end like the beginning.
Sonicacts XII (2007) – Here I go
Coming weeks, I will be following as a volunteer blogger the 12th edition of the Sonicacts festival… I’ll be publishing posts here in my blog and in the festival’s site.
