[Spectre] Digicult presents: Otolab: Circo Ipnotico_Live at Sonic Acts XII

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Digicult, in collaboration with Sonic Acts XII, presents:

Otolab: "Circo Ipnotico"
Audiovisual Improvised Session
23.02.08 - Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Sonic Acts XII - The Cinematic Experience

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"Circo Ipnotico" is an audiovisual improvised session with an open performer
lineup. The score is given by dub architectures made by a crossing work of
synths and laptops.The audiovisual journey evolves from here and the
performers (from 3 to 6) use very different tools: from Girello, a rotating
support supplied with different surfaces featuring shapes, colours and
materials which are modified in real time using paint, to Pepposcopio a
Moduli Digitali, to software interventions by other performers.

"Otolab" is an Italian collective of musicians, djs, vjs, video artists,
video makers, web designers, graphic designers and architects who embarked
on a common path within electronic music and audiovisual research. Otolab
projects evolve through laboratory, seminar and live-set activities
following principles of mutual exchange and support, free dissemination of
knowledge and experimentation. The work-group is composed of individual and
collective projects ranging from dj-ing/vj-ing sets up to live media and
interactive installations, always investigating a symbiotic relationship
between sounds and images. These three years of life have seen Otolab being
invited to national and international festivals where it has presented its
live sets, project presentations and installations, besides having promoted
self-managed cultural initiatives. Otolab is today a cultural association
which lives off its self-produced livesets, installations, audio and
audiovisual productions.
http://www.otolab.net/
http://www.vimeo.com/tag:otolab

"Digicult" is a cultural project involved in digital culture and electronic
arts. The DigiCult project is directed by Marco Mancuso and based on the
active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the
first wide Italian network of journalists, curators, artists and critics
working in the field of electronic culture and digital art. Translated in
English, DigiCult is today a web portal updated daily with news and
informations, but it's also the editor of the monthly magazine DigiMag,
discussing with a critic and journalistic approach, about net art,
hacktivism, video art, electronica, audio video, interaction design,
artificial intelligence, new media, software art, performing art. DigiCult
produce the electronic music and audiovisual podcast DigiPod and the
newsletter international service DigiNews. DigiCult in finally involved in
side activities like media partnerships for festivals and exhibitions,
curatorial projects and special productions, and is now working for Italian
artists international promotion through the new born art agency DigiMade.
www.digicult.it
www.digicult.it/digimag
www.digicult.it/podcast
www.digicult.it/credits

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Sonic Acts XII - The Cinematic Experience

Sonic Acts XII takes place between 21 - 24 February 2008 in Amsterdam. The
twelfth edition of this festival is devoted to The Cinematic Experience and
includes an international conference, a wide range of concerts and
performances, an exhibition and a diverse programme of films. The 2008
edition promises a comprehensive overview of the cinematic experience.
Recent technological developments in digitalisation, higher-definition
imagary and sound, ever-faster communication networks and new types of
portable video players make it necessary to re-address the question of what
cinema actually is. Developments such as experiential spaces, immersion and
sublimation in contemporary music and visual arts add to the urgency of this
question.
http://www.sonicacts.com
http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/SonicActs.asp