[spectre] Optronica festival 2007_Digicult&VjCentral.it:Italians Do It Better DVD

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OPTRONICA FESTIVAL
14th - 18th March 2007
BFI Imax, BFI Southbank, ICA - London
http://www.optronica.org

Optronica returns!  Once again, bringing visual music to the big screen, the 
hybrid film and music festival takes place in London from 14th - 18th MARCH 
2007 and promises to be a must-see spectacular 5 day celebration of the 
fusion of music and visuals. Optronica explores and celebrates the 
convergence of music, visuals and the changing shape of cinema. It will 
inspire its audiences t o get involved, experiment and be creative. The 
festival will take place at the BFI IMAX and the newly renovated National 
Film Theatre, which will be re-launched as BFI Southbank in March .

This year's line-up includes the World premières of new shows from a 
fantastic range of artists including Fred Deakin & Nick Franglen of Lemon 
Jelly, prolific designer and musician Trevor Jackson, Austrian electronic 
music pioneer Christian Fennesz with renowned New York video artist Charles 
Atlas, plus the UK première of Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper VJ performance 
and a special World Cinema remix set from current #1 AV artists Addictive 
TV.  Also on the bill are Japanese audiovisual artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, the 
brilliant Berlin-based Rechenzentrum with a brand new AV show and the highly 
innovative Spanish team behind Reactable.  Saturday 17th, London's ICA hosts 
an audiovisual club night headlined by Speedy J & Scott Pagano and, just 
confirmed, a rare and exclusive audiovisual set from EBN's Gardner Post and 
Brian Kane.

Plus screenings, installations and illustrated talks - including from Cindy 
Keefer from the LA based Center for Visual Music, Optronica will deliver an 
incredible selection of aural and visual treats for both connoisseurs and 
newcomers alike.

Presented as part of the PlayStation® Season, Optronica is organised by 
artists/producers Addictive TV and new-media curators Cinefeel and in 
partnership with the British Film Institute.

More infos:
Francoise Lamy
http://www.optronica.org

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DIGICULT AND VJCENTRAL.IT
Italians Do It Better
Installation @ Optronica Lounge
The DVD is curated by Digicult (Marco Mancuso) and Vjcentral.it (Silvia 
Bianchi)
http://www.digicult.it/idib.asp

Digicult and VJcentral.it have curated for Optronica "ITALIANS DO IT 
BETTER", an overwiew of some of the most innovative Italian audiovisual 
artists working on the concept of AV experimental electronic synesthesia and 
the eclectic use of codes and softwares. The artists presented are: Elec, 
Kinotek, Mylicon/En, Tez, Quayola and Otolab.

In the last years, the Italian situation of audiovisual and multimedia live 
performances is radically changed. From the first pioneers to a wider range 
of electronic musicians, graphic designers, digital animators, djs and vjs, 
the state of the art is at the moment very interesting and internationally 
renowed. Many new events, festivals and club nights is emerging all over the 
country, following the new trend around new media and digital art and 
communication forms. At the same time, many of these artists, for many 
inside reasons, have not many chances to show their projects and works 
outside of Italy, in the main international festivals and contests. We are 
not speaking about some few and spot chances of course, but of a whole and 
radical movement that in the last years grown up, had its experiences, 
shared its contents and that is now ready to show itself internationally.

The DVD for Optronica festival 2006, is made of 6 different videoclips, 
created by 6 different Italian audiovisual artists. Each videoclip will last 
about 4-5 minutes, so the DVD will last about 30 minutes globally. Each 
videoclip will be focused on the whole and radical link between audio and 
video, with an approach both minimal/graphic and narrative.

In IDNLNY by Elec, visual objects are programmed in actionscript while the 
audio signal is converted into numerical values that function as 
oscillators.  In Kinotek's Linfa, the artist developed his own software for 
real-time video processing and sound analysis and in Portobeseno, artists 
Mylicon/En play with all manner of video stills, photographs and Super8 
movies.  CF#1_1 by Tez calls his work a "procedural video composition" in 
which custom software generates an ever-changing videopainting that reacts 
in real time to a multi-channel sound composition. 151.05 by Quayola is a 
video in which each layer of the 126bmp audio track has it's own specific 
animation.  Finally, Otolab's Field is a generative video in which the 3D 
space is formed from short-wave signals and interferences.

Digicult is an Italian cultural project promoting digital culture and 
electronic art; it's a 2.0 web platform, a magazine, a podcast and a 
newsletter service. VJcentral.it is the official portal of the Italian VJ 
community; the website is home to a huge community of artists working in the 
Italian live-media and visual scene.

www.tez.it
www.otolab.net
www.elec.it
www.quayola.com
www.myliconen.it

More infos:
Marco Mancuso / Digicult
http://www.digicult.it
Silvia Bianchi / VjCentral.it
http://www.vjcentral.it