[spectre] electrofringe a festival of electronic arts. 2nd - 6th of October 2008 Newcastle.

[Chiara Passa]

Electrofringe a festival of electronic arts, Press release.

Electrofringe presents an annual festival and year round program of
experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills
development and artistic exchange. The program focuses on uncovering
emergent forms and has an emphasis on encouraging exchange between
emerging and established artists.
Electrofringe Festival 2008 is the festival's eleventh year and will
be held over five days from 2nd - 6th of October 2008. The program
presents workshops, panel discussions, masterclasses, presentations,
exhibitions, screenings and interventions.

Full program at: http://www.electrofringe.net/

Electrofringe artist's presentations

iCinema // Immersive Interactive Cinema

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An overview of Interactive Cinema Projects from the iCinema Centre for
Interactive Cinema Research at University of New South Wales.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: The Playhouse

When: Thursday 2nd October, 16:00pm - 18:00pm

Who: Matt McGinity (Sydney) - on behalf of Volker Kuchelmeister (Sydney)
Boxed Voices

Performance utilising collaboratively built electronic instruments for
voice, followed by a discussion of the techniques, technologies, and
concepts for extended instruments and collaboration.

What: Artist Presentation

When: Friday 3rd October, 12:00pm - 13:00pm

Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]

Who: Kusum Normoyle (Sydney), Lachlan Colquhoun (Sydney)
Bad Doctor Face - Midi Controlled Animatronics

Keep this appointment with the Bad Doctor Face project: a midi
controlled animatronic penis mask. A MIDI CONTROLLED ANIMATRONIC PENIS
MASK.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]

When: Friday 3rd October, 13:00pm - 14:00pm

Who: Joshua Head (Sydney)
Pig & Machine - The Osaka Scene

Noise/breakcore artists Pig & Machine discuss the vibrant Osaka scene
that has produced a host of new and amazing artists in recent years
including Maruosa and DJ Scotch Egg.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Festival Club

When: Friday 3rd October, 13:30pm - 14:30pm

Who: John Harte (Melbourne/Osaka, Japan), Yuka Harte (Melbourne/Osaka, Japan)
Saxophone Video

Meet an as yet un-nameable Melbourne-based live AV duo. In parallel
time, Rosalind is continuously playing against herself while
constructing herself on screen.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm

Who: Rosalind Hall (Melbourne), Marco Cher-Gibbard (Melbourne)
Speaking at Wall

Speaking at Wall is an interactive video installation which utilises
real-time voice as a control source for manipulation.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Playhouse

When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm

Who: Chiara Passa (Italy)
The Daniel Green Tribute Show

Daniel Green Tribute Show

A performance and discussion of his current artistic practice which
currently involves exploring popular culture through musical numbers;
an attempt to discern if deliberately boring people is the best way
comment on contemporary moving image culture.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette

When: Saturday 4th October, 17:30pm - 18:30pm

Who: Daniel Green (Sydney)
In conversation with The Green Eyl

Giant eyes projected live from skyscrapers and massed orange stickers
as interactive community art. Berlin's Green Eyl collective aim to
explore the dynamics of unconventional interaction between people,
their environment and technology, using various design techniques and
installation tactics.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm - 17:30pm

Who: Willy Sengewald/The Green Eyl (Berlin, Germany)
ACID

An overview of projects emerging from the Australian Center for
Interaction Design, with presentations by two artists currently
involved.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Saturday 4th October, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Who: Colleen Morgan (Brisbane), Yang Wong (Brisbane), Sherwin Huang (Brisbane)
Hidden Village

Using explorative, obsolete and circuit-bent technologies for sound
performance. The Hidden Village duo draw upon an eclectic collection
of retro game consoles and recently developed sound software to create
their electronica performance.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]

When: Saturday 4th, 12:00pm - 13:30pm

Who: Lauren Sutter (Adelaide), Seb Tomczak (Adelaide)
Angelo Plessas // Interactive simplicity

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A showcase of Angelo Plessas work, which consists of simple
interactive animated drawings that exist on the internet. Themes
involve femininity and strange portraits that become subtly personal,
often inspired by vintage advertising aesthetics. These internet
pieces often "cover" the real world as objects like murals,
installations, collage drawings and prints.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]

When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 15:30pm

Who: Angelo Plessas (Athens, Greece)
Alison Currie // Artist Presentation

A live solo dance performance blended with a pre-recorded video
projection. Followed by a discussion on the work plus other site
specific and installation dance works.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: The CRACK House

When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 15:00pm

Who: Alison Currie (Adelaide)
Live Electronics -> Live Processing -> [ Composition <-> Improvisation]

Italy's Domenico Sciajno will explore the actual limits & hidden
potential of electronic sound production and composition, in the
peculiar area where borders between the academic and the non-academic
scene are blurred.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]

When: Saturday 4th October, 16:00pm - 17:30pm

Who: Domenico Sciajno (Italy)
Maruosa

Japan's Emperor of Elongated Harshcore will present and discuss his
own music and Renda Records.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]

When: Sunday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:30pm

Who: KK Null (Tokyo, Japan)
Improvised Sound Poetry

Kim and Jim talk discuss their collaboration exploring their notions
of sound physicality (on various instruments including guitar,
saxophone and flute, plus electronics) and spontaneous interaction.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Playhouse

When: Saturday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:00pm

Who: Kim Myhr (Norway), Jim Denley (Sydney)
Bricolage: local and emergent technologies, custom built interfaces
and the vanity apocalypse

Nancy Mauro-Flude - Glitchmaker

*Paraphernalia* is a set of self-crafted electronic-performance tools for
a live performance. The project opens a pathway for a larger theme related
to  my practice where I ask asks; What are the ways in which we can
engineer interfaces that validate the circulation of subjugated
knowledges, in meaningful sets and settings? We pick up the threads and
traces from this momentous pile of knowledge around us, we are continually
articulating and weaving these threads together in new combinations. This
approach can be found in the notion of bricolage, widely acknowledged and
validated by Claude Levis-Strauss.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: Playhouse

When: Sunday 5th October, 12:00pm - 13:30pm

Who: Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania)
CAVE

Jessica Coughlan presents her work, including bicycle-powered
projection video pieces.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]

When: Sunday 5th October, 12:30pm - 13:30pm

Who: Jessica Coughlan (Newcastle)
Marco Bresciani

An insight into Computer Vision techniques utilised in projects such
as MirrorD - a digital mirror which randomly morphs and distorts its
reflections.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: The Playhouse

When: Sunday 5th October, 13:30pm - 15:00pm

Who: Marco Bresciani
Beyond Culture Jamming: Xtine

Influencing consumers on the web … xtine compares tactics of culture
jamming with her web projects, Delocator.net and YourNeighborsBiz.com.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Round Theatrette [UNH G.9]

When: Sunday 5th October, 14:30pm - 16:00pm

Who: Xtine Burrough (Los Angeles, USA)
Birchville Cat Motel & Antony Milton

A high-speed collision between high-brow and low-brow music: think
Black Flag plays 'Music For Airports'. Drive way outta town and check
into this one-man experimental group from Wellington, New Zealand.
Birchville Cat Motel, aka. Campbell Kneale, also operates the labels
Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: City Hall Ground Floor - Banquet Room

When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 16:30pm

Who: Campbell Kneale (Wellington, New Zealand), Antony Milton
(Wellington, New Zealand)
Information Aesthetics

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Data from mundane sources - traffic noise, a dusty library, the
weather - visualised. Andrew Vande Moere is the editor of Information
Aesthetics (www.infostehtics.com), the outstanding weblog dedicated to
exploring the art & science of the dynamic representation of
information. Furthermore he is an educator at University of Sydney
where he outlined the innovative IDEA Master degree for Electronic Art
& Interaction design for 2009 which will set the benchmark for
postgraduate eduaction in Electronic Art & Interaction Design in
Australia. For more information please read this interview of Vande
Moere.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: The Playhouse

When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 16:30pm

Who: Andrew Vande Moere
Auto Electro Quartet

Auto Electro Quartet is an acoustic mechatronic ensemble for the
unplugged live performance of electronic music. Electric sound without
loudspeakers; a chamber recital for robots.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38]

When: Sunday 5th October, 16:30pm - 17:30pm

Who: Matt Hoare (Sydney)
Rok That Uke

Controversial when it first premiered, ROCK THAT UKE is the now
classic documentary about the alternative and post-punk ukulele
subculture.  Funky, funny and philosophical.

What: Artist Presentation

Where: The Playhouse

When: Sunday 5th October, 16:30pm - 18:00pm

Who: Rose Turtle Ertler (Melbourne)
Ben Byrne & Ivan Lisyak

On collaborating, improvising and buffer rub core. Explored via their
laptop doom-grind project, Machine Death, and other performances.

What: Artists Presentation

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Saturday 4th October, 15:30pm -17:00pm

Who: Ben Byrne (Melbourne), Ivan Lisyak


Electrofringe workshop:

Solder Girls

Solder Girls is a soldering circle with a whiteboard, for those who
got a doll instead of a physics kit for Christmas. Come and learn the
basic principles of electronics that will get you making and repairing
your own cables opening up any box that takes a battery. Soldering
irons provided.

What: Workshop

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Thursday 2nd October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm

Who: Sarah Davies (Sydney), Alicia Miller (Sydney) and you.
Introduction to Electronic Music Making

This hands-on workshop will explore Abelton's LIVE software. Suitable
for new users looking for more in-depth knowledge or those who have
always wanted to make electronic music.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Thursday 2nd October, 14:00pm - 18:00pm

Who: Julian Knowles (Brisbane) and you.
dyne:bolic - the hacktive media workshop

dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux bootable operating system shaped on the
needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool
for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound
and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using
only free software! This is optimized to run on slower computers,
turning them into a full mediastations. Please bring your Windows PCs
along - sorry Macs won't work.

More information available at: www.dynebolic.org

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Friday 3rd October, 11:00am - 14:00pm

Who: Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania), Scot Cotterell (Tasmania) and you.
Down & Dirty with The Green Eyl

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This Berlin based collective explore the dynamics of the
unconventional interplay between people, their environment and
technology. A hands-on workshop will explore the techniques behind The
Green Eyl's installation and exhibition work.

What: Workshop

Where: TAFE Workshed

When: Friday 3rd October, 11:00am - 14:00pm

Who: Willy Sengewald (Berlin, Germany) and you.
Hidden Village - Considering All Eight Bits

Car-boot treasures and back-of-the-cupboard discoveries finally put to
use: exploring the use of obsolete and circuit-bent video game systems
for artmaking.

What: Workshop

Where: TAFE Workshed

When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 17:00pm

Who: Lauren Sutter (Adelaide), Seb Tomczak (Adelaide) and you.
POOL

pool.org.au is a new ABC website providing a space for Australian
artists and media makers to present their work, discuss issues and
collaborate. Learn how to set up and utilise your own Pool website
space.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm - 16:00pm

Who: John Jacobs (Sydney), Kate Gauld (Sydney) and you.
Windmills workshop

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Lock-up and Electrofringe artist-in-residence Chris Poole presents a
hands on workshop exploring self powered and sustained
micro-projectors. Learn to use wind power for guerilla style public
art. Chris will also demonstrate and explain his innovative laser
based projector.

What: Workshop

Where: Lock-up - Exercise Yard

When: Friday 3rd October, 13:00pm - 15:00pm

Who: Chris Poole - Facilitator
Interactive Narrative

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Janice Caswell

Call out for the Interactive Narrative Co-lab at this years
Electrofringe, see details here


Overview

Interaction designers and media artists often have great ideas for
non-linear interactive story-telling frameworks, but they lack the
writing skills to produce truly compelling work.

On the other hand, writers have no shortage of skills when it comes to
storytelling, but are left a little confused when it comes to the
technological expertise required to implement an online or interactive
project.

This Co-lab is aimed at bridging that gap by connecting writers and
interactive specialists. It will create a platform for discussing and
implementing innovative interactive story telling frameworks, and act
as a catalyst for the creation of exciting new work. We would like to
explore everything from traditional game-play scenarios and
multi-faceted video works through to avant-garde non-linear writing
techniques with state of the art interaction methodologies.


Workshop

Electrofringe and the National Young Writers' Festival are presenting
an interactive narrative workshop at the 2008 TiNA festival. The
session will be held in the Process Space on Friday 3rd October from
4-6pm, and is free and open to all. It will be the first meet up
session to kick-start the process. Writers will be teamed up with
interactive specialists and form groups for future collaboration.
Following the initial workshop, the project will further organise
frequent meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne where collaborators can show
their work and exchange ideas.

The project's online home will be the ABC's new POOL platform
(www.pool.org.au), which will permanently form the goto and exchange
place for people to post ideas and work in progress, and discuss
projects as they unfold.


Participate

To participate in this Co-lab, simply send the following details to
electrofringedirectos08 at gmail.com

Name:

Contact details:

Artform(s) (fiction / playwriting / video / web development / flash
development / interactive media / artist / etc):

Any projects or ideas you're working on, concepts, scripts, proposals,
areas of interest or obsession. We will then put you in contact with
people that have a complementary skill set. Alternatively you can
simply come down to the EF / NYWF session at the festival. Ideally you
should be able to attend this session in Newcastle, but if you can't
come please feel free to still submit and participate through the POOL
platform.


Contact

Elmar Trefz: electrofringedirectos08 at gmail.com

Nicolas Low: nic at dislocated.org

www.electrofringe.net

www.youngwritersfestival.org



What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm - 18:00pm

Who: Elmar Trefz (Sydney/Berlin, Germany) , Nic Low (Melbourne) and you.
Dorkshop 1: Nibbler

Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The Nibbler is an audio pattern
generator and noise maker. Through the use of 7 knobs and 1 switch,
the user is able to create a variety of different sounds and noises.

What: Workshop

Where: TAFE Workshed

When: Saturday 4th October, 10:00am - 14:00pm

Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart
(Sydney) and you.
Introduction to Reaktor

Reaktor allows musicians to design & create their own instruments &
effects in a relatively easy & musical format. Learn the basics of the
'other' patching software.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm - 14:00pm

Who: Toby Burvill
Computer Vision - Machines That See

A hands on session on Computer Vision - exploring ways computer based
systems can interpret, track and relate movement through a camera.

What: Workshop

Where: Civic Arcade

When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm

Who: Marco Bresciani (Melbourne) and you.
Introduction to Quartz Composer

Quartz Composer (QC) is a powerful tool for digital video creation and
propagation. QC can access a wide range of file formats and network
resources, then process and display with hardware rendering. This
means realtime manipulation of live data, at high frame rates and
resolutions.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm - 17:00pm

Who: Luke Toop (Adelaide) and you.
Dorkshop 2: WävRuta

Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The WävRuta (that's Wave Rooter) is
an audio effects box designed to demonstrate the power and simplicity
of micro-controller design. It is provided as a counter-point and
contrast to the Nibbler circuit. The WävRuta can be used in
conjunction with the Nibbler's audio output.

What: Workshop

Where: TAFE Workshed

When: Sunday 5th October, 10:00am - 14:00pm

Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart
(Sydney) and you.
Concepts of Software Art // "Poetry on the Web"

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This workshop on software-based art – Poetry on the Web – introduces
notions of creating interactive flash animations for online
engagement.

We take open source scripts that we find online from  online web
libraries and we work on them.
The themes of these pieces should be inspired by local signage. This
can either be a drawing, a logo, a crest. (for example an old city
emblem)
We can evolve these pieces with sounds and then place them on urls.

The workshop will be scheduled like this:

- Introduction to my work with a demo
- Divide people in short groups so they can handle few things at the same time.
- Propose ideas of the local signage.
- Start implementing the idea in Flash.
- Uploading every piece on a URL and a server
- insert it in Facebook as an application

Relevant Links:  www.angeloplessas.com/work.html, www.neen.org/demo.html

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Sunday 5th October, 11:30am - 15:00pm

Who: Angelo Plessas (Athens, Greece) and you.
Going Green: Solar Power for Electronic Arts

Learn about benefits of solar power for artists, media makers,
researchers and others involved in electronic arts and culture. Get
equipped with all the information you need to assemble an
environmentally responsible and creatively liberating solar power
system.

What: Workshop

Where: TAFE Workshed

When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm - 17:00pm

Who: Greg Simmons and you.
Introduction to PD

PD is a completely free, cross platform patching software that can
create audio instruments and effects. First time users will be guided
to get their head around this exciting software.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Sunday 5th October, 15:30pm - 17:30pm

Who: Ben Byrne (Melbourne)
Voice Synthesis for Installations // Chiara Passa

How-to hands-on Interactive Sound and Voice Synthesis for Media Art
installations.

What: Workshop

Where: Process Space

When: Monday 6th October, 12:00pm - 15:00pm

Who: Chiara Passa (Italy) and you.


Full program at: http://www.electrofringe.net/





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