[spectre] Final program of "Machinista-2004" in Glasgow, UK

[Sergey Teterin]

Dear friends,

Here is the final program of "Machinista-2004" arts & tech festival
in Glasgow, UK, 6 - 9 May 2004.

cheers,

Sergey Teterin, David Bernard and Robb Mitchell
email: teterin at pisem.net

Machinista 2004 Festival
art from the machine # artists against machinic standards
# full screen robovision
http://www.machinsta.org


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WELCOME TO THE SECOND EDITION
OF THE MACHINISTA FESTIVAL!
Glasgow 6-9th May 2004

www.machinista.org.uk

PROGRAMME :

Thursday 6th May:
Machinista 2003 review@ CCA
19:00 - 20:30
Sergey Teterin, Danya Lebedev, Danja Vasiliev, Sonia Mavzalevskaya.
A multi-media presentation from the organisers of the first Machinista
Festival. View the key works and hear how artists from Perm brought
worldwide attention to a new festival.
Presentation: Movie Mincer (S.Teterin 2004), an old soviet mincer used
as a laptop-connected device to manually generate video streams.

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Friday 7th May:
Festival Opening @ CCA
17:30 - 20.30, free
Category supervisors' review of highlights from the 2004 online exhibition:
Art from the Machine: Gleams of the Inhuman - James Coupe (UK)
+ Roman Arefiev (KAZ)
Artists Against Machinic Standards - Maria X (UK) + Rustam Sabirov (RU)
Full Screen Robovision - Vadim Epstein (RU) and David Bernard (UK)

8-bit Cabaret @ CCA
22:30 - 03:00
Audio and video artists against machinic standards return to the lo-tech
aesthetics of blocky ASCII graphics and crunchy digital sounds, typical
of C64 & ZX Spectrum 8-bit processors.

Audiovisual sets by:
Videohometraining (NL / USA) : 2-D micromusic & AV gameshow
Viewmysourcecode + Spoonbender (UK) :  robotic biofeedback
synchro mix in 8-bit AV
Mr Electron (UK) : distorted dinner party muzak for androids
Ignorant (UK) : experimental needles meets gameboy
Idealword (SP) : Enrique Radigales' Copyleft ASCII image environment
Terra Rotatum (UK) : Peter Hofer's spinning TV & camera relativity sculpture

Screenings: Machinista DVD, Georg Muehleck, the C-Men, Notendo, Beflix
Sound system / audio engineering by Mungo's Hi-Fi

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Saturday 8th May:
Machinista Seminar @ Glasgow Science Centre
17:00 - 20:30, free admission but limited capacity
email seminar at machinista.org.uk for reservations

AI, A-Life & artistic practices discussed by the Machinista platform
contributors:
Teresa Dillon (Nesta Futurelab), Josh Hale (Glasgow Uni), James Coupe (South
Bank Uni) Dr Ciaran Wills (R & D, Framestore CFC), Adam Nieman (Nesta
Futurelab) and Sergey Teterin ( Machinista founder). Arrive early for
a breathtaking visual 3-D presentation by the Science Centre's Virtual
Science Theatre team.

Machinista Club @ Glasgow School of Art
22:30 - 03:00, < 0:00 >
Sounds and Art from the Machine in 3 clubs:

Eskrima - experimental electronica in the Main Hall featuring:
Solar X & EPS (RU) : Russia's premier electronic musician & the country's
leading VJ  |  ap02 (UK) : baroque modular AV performance by self-coding
hardware network

Screenings :
D-fuse (UK) : manipulated sonic visualisations of hidden online data flows
TelcoSystems (NL) : algorhythmically-generated audiovisual organics

Divine - in the Vic Bar with Sci-Fi soul installations: Trails #2, ASCIIcam

The Freakmenoovers - in the Vic Gallery showcasing robotic hiphop with:
eJK (USA) : optical vinyl-to-video scratch mixing using the world famous EJ
turntable- Sponsor of the Machinista Club.

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Sunday 9th May:
Street Performance @ secret city-centre location 14:00 - 15:00, free
Richair 2030 (UK/USA/TWN/RU/LAT/AUS) : renegade rollergirls take over
the streets for a live audiovisual performance in this wireless
post-netcrash scenario.

Wind & solar powered sound system by Ray-Mundo.

FOSS Cafe @ Mono 15:00 - 17:30, free
a meeting point and workshop for the Free Open Source Software community
organised by Simon Yuill. Speakers:James Wallbank (Lowtech), Bob Kerr
(ELUG), Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum- India)

Machinista Festival Finale @ The Arches 16:00 - 0:00
A diverse and adventurous chillout bonanza packed with an inspiring blend of
music, screenings, performances, installations and interactions.

Richair 2030 (UK/USA/TWN/RU/LAT/AUS) : renegade rollergirls' dancemix
Prometheus (GR) : Y. Melanitis' mythic suspension ritual with hexapod robot
Avatar Body Collision (UK/NZ/FIN/SER) : globally dispersed cybertheatre demo
Z-Lab (FR) : multilingual cybernetic presentation showcasing miniature
DIY-robots  |  Ablab (UK) : one-fingered musician generating florid
labyrinths of sound and colour  |  The Inner Machine (UK) : multiple
homemade lab machines & audio-visual performance  |  Feedback Society (NL) :
video vortex-generation from drill-mounted wireless camera  |  T. Dillon +
I am the Mighty Jungulator (UK) : live self-generative AI / aLife AV mix  |
24-7v2 (UK) : Ben Dembroski's post-industrial ping-pong system
Hell's Angles (sic) (UK) : Martin Parker's sonic environment for virtual
motorbikes  |  Foveola (UK) : neuromorphic shape-recognition software demo
Rob Kennedy (UK)

Screenings: Machinista DVD and entries from Georg Muehleck / Barbara Rauch /
Karin Krog, Gail Wight, Mark Amerika / Trace Reddell / Rick Silva, Regis
Ferguson Collective, France Cadet, David H. Schwarz, Vicki Bennett (People
Like Us), La lacono and Em_space.

Sound system / audio engineering by The Unit

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Monday 10th May:
Wireless workshop @ CCA
14:00 - 18:00, Free
By performance artists and Freenetwork activists Richair 2030.

Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery
Performances of kinetic sculptures (50 min)
Tuesday and Thursday 7pm
Matinee for families with young children (40 min) - Sunday @ 3pm

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MORE INFORMATION:
www.machinista.org.uk