MediaScape Biennale Zagreb
30. September – 23. October 2012
mediainmotion.de received confirmations by the co-curators:
On 1st of November we will start the preparation phase of TACTICAL TOPICS – TOPICAL TACTICS
While the city or the urban area is regarded as the area of development, fast progress, and in addition the absent-minded, superficial and disconcentrated perception, the area of the “landscape” is in contrast the place of peace, collection and leisure. In the countryside outside the city the perception of space and time win other values.The landscape encourages for curving: the view, the hearing, the smell and the thoughts win perspective, which the area of the landscape opens. This leads also to a slowing down and a sensory perception, to a concentration, which is another as those of the city.The area outside of the city or outside of the life sphere of humans generally is not characterized by civilization, but by natural conditions: Apparently ordinary: the brook, the tree, the meadow appear in new light, the murmuring water, the noise of the wind kidnap urban humans into another reality. In the countryside there is still a horizon. Here prevails a liberty of view over the restricted city view. The city has structure, pictogram forests, a silhouette perhaps, but no horizon. In the landscape however the horizon is always there and lures into the distance. The horizon is everywhere, has 360° and more. Novigrad is a town, but circled by an immense countryside and great perspectives of the Adriatic Sea.The connection of this reality with the possibilities of current art work, the bridging between nature and civilization and between technology and art is the starting point of Media-Scape 2008.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Region of Istria-office for education, culture and sport City of Novigrad
Media Scape Novigrad is part of the collaborative project X-OP: eXchange of art Operators and Producers. Project is partly funded by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture, Culture Programme
First Announcement for the MediaScape Biennale Zagreb
Topical Tactics – Tacticle Topics
30. September – 23. October 2012
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” *
Hrvatsko drustvo likovnih umjetnika (HDLU) Zagreb, in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) Zagreb, Museum of Technic (Tehnicki muzej) Zagreb, Festival 25 FPS, Zagreb and others
Multi-Media exhibition, performances, concerts, screenings…
After the successful 20th year of Media-Scape in Zagreb, (www.mediascape.info/2010) we will continue this manifestation as a Biennal. In 2012 exhibition of media and multimedia installations, holography, photography, objects, video and animation will take a place in the “Ring” Gallery of HDLU, performance in the Museum of Technic, Video screenings in the frame of 25 FPS International Festival
of Experimental Film and Video and in Museum of Contemporary Art concerts in the theatre of “Gorgona” and media-facade screenings at the building facade.
Date: 5/09/2011 until 14/10/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
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Festival of microtonal music 2011
5 September: Nora-Louise Müller, Germany
12 September: Bernhard Mikuskovics, Austria
15 September: Jens Mügge, Germany
14 October: Rdeča Raketa, Austria
5 September
Nora-Louise Müller (Germany) has collaborated with numerous well-known composers in her intense occupation with contemporary music, including performing in the Composer in Residence program at the contemporary music festival chiffren – Kieler Tage für Neue Musik.
In 2007, she began working with an extraordinary instrument: the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet which uses a (very!) different harmonic tone system. As one of only five clarinetists worldwide who perform on this particular instrument she was invited to enrich the first Bohlen-Pierce conference in Boston, Massachussetts in 2010 with her performances, and will be playing this radical instrument in festival DaNes.
12 September
Bernhard Mikuskovics (Austria)
“Just as the manifold beauty of light reveals itself in the spectral colours of a rainbow, we experience the manifold beauty of a single tone in the sound colours of its overtones.”
Overtone singer and multiinstrumentalist Bernhard Mikuskovics started to research on ethnic instruments after graduating from a school for graphic design & printing processes and has been working since then extensively on various eclectic art projects surrounding music, painting and literature.
15 September
Jens Mügge, Germany
Jens Mügge sang as a child in various choirs. He started to play traditional folk songs and melodies on the jaw harp. At that early period he did not know that jew’s harp playing is a kind of overtone music. Additionally he began to learn didgeridoo and was introduced to overtone singing 2001, developed his style of overtone singing on his own, and increased his knowledge of polyphonic harmonic singing by Wolfgang Saus in 2004. Now he accompanies his overtone singing with guitar, Jew’s harp, tambura, sansula, kalimba, springdrum, shrutibox, singing bowls and indian harmonium.
14 October
Rdeča Raketa, Austria
MAJA OSOJNIK and MATIJA SCHELLANDER, Austria are a critically acclaimed multiinstrumentalist duo performing electronic music far from the rigidity of inherited forms.
Vienna based musician Maja Osojnik is an acknowledged (SKE-Publicity Award 2007; 3rd Prize and Composition Award of ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’ 2003, 1st Prize with Ensemble MIKADO 2004 for “Voices” – Jazz Fest Vienna Award 2005; Bank Austria Artist of the Year 2008/09 …) composer, vocalist, and recorder player, performing all over Europe in various contexts. Matija Schellander studied computer music and double bass and works in the field of improvised & contemporary composed music and has collaborated with Marco Eneidi, Franz Hautzinger, Michael Bruckner, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong/JSX, Wolfgang Schiftner, Akemi Takya… and many more.
Come immerse yourself in some fascinating sounds – bass paetzold recorder, cassette recorders, toys, electronic devices, modular synthesizer, computer
Selector Cameron Bobro
More InformationInternational art|tech festival featured exhibitions, performances, lectures, debates, workshops and screenings focused on the theme of DATAPOLIS. Artists and researchers addressed emerging interactions of media technologies, novel visualization practices and urban realities. Join us to discover the moods and the rhythms of our cities, bodies and planet and innovatively mash both visible and invisible data that re-present individual and collective lives and actions.
More InformationDate: 25/02/2011 until 26/02/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
This year’s edition of MED festival is again being established as a platform to enable crossing the divisions between the acoustic and electronic music expression on the one hand, and the exploring and playful aspect of making music on the other. As the form of a festival is considered one of the best options to make new cultural contents directly available and raise interest in them, it is also very contributing to the situation in the local environment. This is because we have been working towards merging alternative approaches to music, and at the same time trying to increase the visibility of establishing a comprehensive scene of such creativity on a local basis.
Programs:
25. 2. Friday
23:00 … TOLOUSE LOW TRAX
00:00 … GREIE GUT FRAKTION
01:00 … AGO TELA + PETER MIHELIČ
26. 2. Saturday
23:00 … LO-HI-FI
00:00 … TSAR POLOZ
01:00 … DUŠKO JANEVSKI
Kibla photo archive (Photo: Boštjan Lah)
CIANT is pleased to co-present “You can’t hide it all”, interactive installation by Czech media artist Prokop Bartonicek.
The installation will be on show February 2-5, 2011, as part of A MAZE:UNITED, the official satellite exhibition of transmediale 11 festival. systM gallery, Torstraße 68, 10119 Berlin, www.systm-berlin.com
Opening times: Venue 18:00 – 22:00, Bar 18:00 – 02:00
Vernissage: 2 February, 18:00 | Finissage: 5 February, 18:00
by Aljoša Abrahamsberg
video about pixxelpoint festival. thema of this year festival was triple conjunction:magic-myth-mutation. it was curated by heiko daxl and ingeborg fulepp. festival is every year located in nova gorica(slovenia) and gorizia (italy). town once divided between two regimes now united.
More InformationFor more info (only in Czech), please visit the official festival website on: http://www.platforma-reset.cz/
December 2 – 4, 2010, Prague
Symposium MEDIA – PERFORMANCE – MEMORY
Thursday 4pm, December 2, 2010, Theatre Komedie (Jungmannova 1, Prague 1)
More InformationDate: 18/11/2010 until 28/11/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Kibla has gradually transformed one of its oldest festivals from a purely technological festival into a festival of arts and education domain. Transforming Kiblix festival will continue and we intend to establish it into one of the most relevant arts festivals in following years, based on open source solutions, and place it on the European and global map. Open Source for the visitors, campaigns, performances and installations, interactive events, robots, software art, art hardware, wireless systems, security and control are just some of the backgrounds of art, which raises the issues of human freedom, freedom of speech and expression, free flow of information and knowledge, free exchange of data and is searching for answers instead of all those who are closing their systems and are locking themselves in digital fortress, under the disguise of copyright protection – and in such different environments and ways – limiting all mentioned above, in most of most cases, banal reasons to earn more profit, but often from sheer desire to control and manipulate society by the masses.
More InformationExcerpt from the 3 channel-video for the LED -facade (100 by 10 meter) of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
In the frame of “The Year We Make Contact”, Media-Scape 2010 www.mediascape.info/2010
La Neige du Temps from Media in Motion on Vimeo.
by Heiko Daxl, October 2010
www.msu.hr
Triple Conjunction: Magic, Myths and Mutations
A triple conjunction is an astronomical event, where two planets or a planet and a star meet each other three times in a short period either in opposition or at the time of inferior conjunction, if an inferior planet is involved. The visible movement of the planet or the planets in the sky is therefore normally prograde at the first conjunction, retrograde at the second conjunction and again prograde at the third conjunction.” (Wikipedia)
More InformationInternational Centre for Art and New Technologies CIANT invites artists and researchers to apply for a short-term residency to be carried out in Prague during November 2010 and to result in a participation at RESET FEST 2010 to be held in Prague December 2 – 4, 2010.
More Informationwww.mediascape.info“
The Year we Make Contact”20 Years of Media-Scape (dedicated to Pierre Schaeffer*)
Program:
09. – 29. October Exhibition, Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, www.hdlu.hr
08. October 6 p.m. opening with performance
28. October 6 p.m. video Screenings:
29. October 20 p.m. closing with performance Screenings, Media Facade of Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, www.msu.hr0
AVAMAA is a 5 Day art symposium which includes: – artistic workshops and artistic projects +1 Day final exhibition and “Honey for the Ears” live concert and performance evening. This year AVAMAA will be produced in cooperation with X-OP, a gradually growing network of artists, researchers, operators, producers and cultural institutions with the aim to establish an European platform for the creation of art.
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