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25TH VIPER | INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL FÜR FILM VIDEO UND NEUE MEDIEN
PERFORMANCES

PABLO RIBOT (ES)
MIRA CALIX (UK)
NTSC (AT)
FUSS (E/D)
SVEN KÖNIG (CH)

PABLO RIBOT | NEXT IMAGE | KUNSTHALLE BASEL | 16. MÄRZ 2006 | 21:30 UHR

ALEXANDER'S ANNEXE | MIRA CALIX | KUNSTHALLE BASEL | 16. 2006 | 23:00 UHR

NTSC | KUNSTHALLE BASEL | 17. MÄRZ 2006 | 21:00 UHR

FUSS! | LIVE PERFORMANCE | GARE DU NORD BASEL | 18. MÄRZ 2006 | CA. 21:30 
UHR

SVEN KÖNIG (CH) | sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! | GARE DU NORD BASEL | 18. MÄRZ 2006 | 
CA. 23:00 UHR


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The anniversary edition of VIPER | INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR FILM VIDEO AND 
NEW MEDIA will open with the live-performance NEXT IMAGE by the Argentine 
Artist Pablo Ribot (*1968, Buenos Aires). Ribot studied music and Applied 
Arts at the National University, La Plata in Buenos Aires. In 2000 he 
received a grant of the Xavier Corberó Foundation in Barcelona, where he 
lives today. As a composer and video artist Pablo Ribot is an international 
insider tip, having received an extraordinary reputation with distinguished 
performances in America and also increasingly in Europe. 25TH VIPER presents 
Pablo Ribot for the first time in Switzerland - the artist performs a 
composition of electronic music and film. Against the setting of computer 
generated as well as orchestrated sound backdrops, Ribot creates impressive 
image sequences and, from the rather contrasting principles of the loop and 
the random generator, fascinating image/sound compositions..

Long-term warp-artist Mira Calix (Chantal Passamonte,*1970) hits the road 
with her new live-project "Alexander's Annexe". The project resulted from 
the ground-breaking cooperation between Mira Calix and the London 
Sinfonietta. Calix creates works that address the tradition of musical 
boundaries and that examine entirely new performance possibilities, 
permanently focusing on improvisation within clearly defined structures. In 
the context of 25TH VIPER, Mira Calix performs for the first time in Basel.
http://www.miracalix.com

The duo dieb13 (Dieter Kovacic (*1973) und Billy Roisz (*1976) live and work 
in Vienna. They perform world-wide in the context of avant-garde festivals 
(Sonar Barcelona, Tampere Filmfestival, Image Forum Tokyo). The artists use 
audio/ video hardware and signals as instruments and distort these through 
physical interaction and feedback processes. With self-constructed mixers, 
synthesizers and computers and by utilising custom-made linux-based 
software, the duo succeeds in transforming the abstraction of the technical 
signal into visual/acoustic frescos of bizarre beauty.
http://ntsc.klingt.org

AMBIENTADOR is a machine for generating and performing audio-visual 
compositions in real-time. With the AMBIENTADOR the performance group FUSS! 
(Raul Marco Padilla, Guillermo Lopez, Timo Daum) has constructed an ultimate 
sampling machine - the flash-based multimedia application serves during the 
performance as an instrument and can be used via the internet or as an 
individual installation. During 25TH VIPER FUSS! performs live and 
demonstrates that even the perfect machine needs to brought to life for an 
extraordinary audiovisual experience.
http://www.fuss.cc/
http://www.ambientador.de

The Switzerland-based media artist Sven König (*1975) pushes with his 
installation and performance sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! the fragile nature of digital 
information storage to the limit. "Copyright-abusing-machine" and creative 
intelligence instrument at the same time, sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is described as a 
bastard between database and solo tool that allows the artist as a sensitive 
composer for radical plagiarism.