[spectre] Call - Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen

[Marius Watz]

[Online version of this call: http://www.generatorx.no/gx20]

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CTM.08 ­ Unpredictable
Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, Berlin
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Call for participation

Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen
Workshop / Exhibition / Performance

24 January ­ - 2 February, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse / [DAM], Berlin
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Generator.x in collaboration with Club Transmediale and [DAM] presents 
Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the screen, a workshop and exhibition about 
digital fabrication and generative systems.

Digital fabrication (also known as “fabbing”) represents the next step 
in the digital revolution. After years of virtualization, with machines 
and atoms being replaced by bits and software, we are coming full 
circle. Digital technologies like rapid prototyping, laser cutting and 
CNC milling now produce atoms from bits, eliminating many of the 
limitations of industrial production processes. Once prohibitively 
expensive, such technologies are becoming increasingly accessible, 
pointing to a future where mass customization and 
manufacturing-on-demand may be real alternatives to mass production.

For artists and designers working with generative systems, digital 
fabrication opens the door to a range of new expressions beyond the 
limits of virtual space. Parametric models apply computational 
strategies to the analysis and synthesis of space, producing structures 
and surfaces of great complexity. Through fabbing these forms may be 
rendered tangible, even tactile.

"Beyond the screen" explores these new types of spatial constructs in a 
hands-on workshop, bringing together artists and designers working with 
code-based strategies for producing physical form. The workshop will 
feature public presentations bringing the topics of the workshop to a 
broader audience, culminating in an exhibition of fabbing works at the 
[DAM] gallery. In a continuation of the Generator.x concert tour, 
"Beyond the Screen" will also include an evening of concerts, showing 
the use of generative systems in audiovisual performance.


Call for participants
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We are looking for 15 artists, designers and architects who have an 
existing practice based on generative systems and custom software, and 
who are interested in investigating physical formats through digital 
fabrication. The workshop will be practical in nature, and will produce 
a selection of works that will be included in the exhibition at [DAM]. 
Participants will have access to an on-site laser cutter, and an 
introduction to this technology will be part of the workshop.

The workshop is free of charge, but we will not be able to provide 
support for travel or accomodation. Participants are expected to have 
experience with programming software that will allow them to produce 
work suitable for production, such as Processing, VVVV or any other 
system capable of producing vector output. Previous experience with 
laser cutting or digital fabrication technologies is a bonus, but not a 
requirement.

Applications must be in PDF format and should including a CV and a short 
statement of intent, describing why you want to participate in the 
workshop and how fabbing relates to your existing practice. You should 
include a maximum of 5 images of relevant work, with a total file size 
of 2 megabytes. Feel free to provide links to web sites containing 
documentation such as videos or downloadable software, but please don’t 
send such content by email.

Please submit applications by email to generatorx [at] 
clubtransmediale.de. The deadline for application is December 21, 2007, 
accepted participants will be notified at the beginning of January 2008.


Generator.x & Club Transmediale
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Generator.x is a platform for generative strategies in art and design, 
founded in 2005 to produce the conference Generator.x: Art from Code at 
Atelier Nord in Oslo. Other events have included a travelling exhibition 
as well as a series of audiovisual concerts. The Generator.x blog 
promotes code-based work of an experimental nature, bringing a critical 
discourse to the field of generative art.
http://www.generatorx.no/

Club Transmediale 2008 is the 9th edition of this international festival 
for adventurous music and realted visual arts, and takes place in Berlin 
under the theme “Unpredictable” concurrently and cooperatively with the 
transmediale ­ international festival for art and digital culture. It is 
a prominent festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and 
experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities 
in the context of sound and club culture.

Characterised by the title Unpredictable, the 2008 festival investigates 
artistic concepts that imply the surprising and unforeseeable, 
accidents, mistakes and coincidences as a means to alter the dynamics of 
creative processes and to discover new aesthetic forms.
http://www.clubtransmediale.de

[DAM] Berlin has since its opening 2003 been a leader in the field of 
digital art, showing pioneers of new media as well as emerging 
contemporary artists.
http://www.dam-berlin.de/


Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the screen is supported by The Office for 
Contemporary Art Norway. We also thank our partners, Institut HyperWerk 
HGK FHNW and Lasern.

-- 
Marius Watz

Work: http://www.unlekker.net/
Blog: http://www.generatorx.no/
Play: http://www.evolutionzone.com/