[spectre] techno² ---- media art program during 5 days off, amsterdam

[Marieke Istha]

The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents in cooperation with the 5 days off festival
 
techno²
 
July 9-23
 
Opening Friday July 8, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
 
Participating artists: Bad Radar, Nathalie Bruys, Candela 2, Farmers Manual, Grønlund Nisunen, Edo Paulus & Robert Jan Leegte, Jan Peter Sontag and Telco Systems
 
Under the title techno², during 5 days off there will be eight spectacular sound installations and twelve performances to be seen (and heard) at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The thread running through techno² is the way in which the techno and alternative electronic music culture has influenced the visual arts and media art, which in turn have been influential on the development of techno and electronic music.
 
Numerous aspects from techno and electronic music are to be found in the installations and five performance evenings of techno²: the spatial qualities of music and sound; temporary escape from everyday reality; the search for boundaries, in which it becomes unclear whether the source of the image or music is human or machine.
 
The Finnish duo Grønlund Nisunen presents Ultrasound, an installation in which only localized sound can be heard, sound in the form of a beam. >From the international group Farmers Manual, visitors can borrow helmets which send meditative ultrasound waves through your head. A Momentary Lapse by the German duo Candela 2 permits the viewer to make his or her own audio and visual sculpture. Nathalie Bruys will be making an entirely new installation, and the new installation by Telco Systems will have its world premiere.
 
The exhibition is open Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Admission free.
 
LIVE PROGRAM techno²
 
July 13 - 17 
 
In the live program of techno² a procession of various Live Cinema acts and alternative sound performances comes through. Codespace (Switz.) takes you along on a hypnotic journey over virtual slopes and through crystal structures arising from algorithmic processes. The performance of Aymeric Mansoux (France) and Tom Schouten (Belgium) is a growing process. The four men from Institut für Feinmotorik (Germany) are strictly analog, with eight turntables without needles. 
 
Live program:
 
Wednesday, July 13 
- ZTB1.2, Martijn van Boven                                www.474746.org
- Resonancity, Derek Holzer, Sara Kolster                  www.sarako.net/resonancity.html
- Marc LeClair with an experimental dj set
 
Thursday, July 14
- Candela2                                                 www.candela2.net
- Bas van Koolwijk                                         www.umatic.nl/info_bas.html
 
Friday, July 15
- Aymeric Mansoux                                          http://320x200.goto10.org
- Marloes de Valk                                          http://no.systmz.goto10.org                   
- Do we really need metadata?, Tom Schouten                http://zwizwa.goto10.org
 
Saturday, July 16 
- Gert Jan Prins                                           www.gjp.info
- Institut für Feinmotorik                                 www.khm.de/~flw/feinmotorik
 
Sunday, July 17 
- Codespace                                                www.kat.ch/jasch/codespace.html
- Fo.am                                                    www.fo.am
 
All live performances last about 25 minutes and take place between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. in the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Live program is open Wednesday, July 13 through Sunday, July 17, from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Admission: EUR 4,00; holders of passes or tickets for evening programs at the Melkweg, Paradiso or Heineken Music Hall can enter for free.

During 5 days off the program NOISE CABIN will be taking place in De Melkweg. Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars) is making a new design for the club space, in both a spatial and a musical sense. Werner is working together with the internationally operating artists Django Hernandez, Rosa Barba and Anne Pholmann. More information on Noise Cabin: De Melkweg +31 (0)20 531 8181

 
Netherlands Media Art Institute 
Montevideo/Time Based Arts 
Keizersgracht 264 
1016 EV Amsterdam 
The Netherlands
T +31 20 6237101 
F +31 20 6244423 
info at montevideo.nl 
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