[spectre] Coded Interference at argos festival 2003

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argos Festival Brussels

Coded Interference
More than a mere sequence of ones and zeroes, new media and
electronic arts        garble the conventional codes - a generic term
for various forms of        prearranged expressions - into a new mode
of producing and reading        artworks. The new media segment of
the argosfestival Coded        Interference , curated by the
Dutch-Belgian Nat Muller, investigates,        through discourse as
well as through presentation, precisely those        moments when
something goes wrong with that 'code', when the system is
inhibited by (external) circumstances. This area of tension is
elucidated by artists, scientists and designers with a symposium in
the        Kaaitheaterstudio's. Navigating between being committed
and keeping        critical distance, they discuss, refute and
question theory as well as        practice. With the audio-visual
Life's A User Manual by        Michelle Teran and the performance
installation Little Solar System by Icelandic Haraldur Karlsson,
Coded Interference comprises        multimedia performances as well.
In conclusion Dutch Edwin van der Heide        presents his new
installation Sound Modulated Light #1 at Kanal        20 -
/foam/tmp/, a monumental interactive audiovisual work
consisting        of, among other things, dozens of (fluorescent)
lights and a seething        soundscape.

Kaaitheaterstudio's, 25 October: symposium Coded        Interference

Recyclart, 23 and 24 October: performances

Kanal 20 - /foam/tmp/, 17 October - 2 November: exhibition Edwin
van        der Heide



Each year the argos festival offers a stage forms of artistic
expression within the domain of audio-visual media. In 2003 the
festival will unravel its web throughout the capital once again.
Seven cultural locations in the city - Cinema Nova, the Filmmuseum,
Recyclart, Kaaitheaterstudio's, Žtablissements d'en face projects,
Kanal 20 -/FoAM/tmp/ and argos - offer room to film and video,
concerts, exhibitions, lectures and debates, performances and
encounters.

The programme alternates between themed components, brought together
by curators, and retrospectives. Hereby the attention does not go out
exclusively to international arts trajectories. In Belgian Focus
productions realised in our own country are brought to the notice,
and it is remarkable how these often engage in a cross-fertilisation
with the international work.
     Four themed programmes constitute the backbone for the hybrid
programme. The film and video component Nations, Pollinations and
Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas gives an
account of the dire and often harrowing current issues seething
around the borderlands on the American continent. Politics of Noise,
a concert and performance series, bringing up for discussion the
social impact of sound through sonory extremes, concentrates on the
friction between racket, 'noise' and music. Flashing into the
Shadows: The Artist's Film in America 1966-1976 investigates how the
artist's film closed the gap in the sixties and the seventies between
the modernist categories of 'art' and 'cinema'. In Coded
Interference, performances, an exhibition and a symposium around new
media, the attention goes out to creative possibilities on that
boundary where (external jammers) disorganize codes.
     Retrospectives elucidate on the work of the German essay
filmmaker Harun Farocki, the French artist Pierre Huyghe and the
Dutch artist's duo Jeroen De Rijke and Willem De Rooij: each every
one of them artists who oppose the common convictions of the spirit
of the age and whose work has an unruly quality to it.
Apart from work outlines for Claudio Pazienza, Jo‘lle de la
Casinire, Franciska Lambrechts and HonorŽ d'O Belgian Focus focuses
on the recent domestic audio-visual art production.


Information about the interdisciplinary program, dates, venues and
much more can be found on
<http://www.argosarts.org/festival>www.argosarts.org/festival. We
hope to meet you there.




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