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> Objet : [spectre] fwd: Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art - Amsterdam, February 23 - 26, 2006
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> Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art
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> 23 – 26 February 2006 – Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam
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> The February Issue of The Wire , sent to all subscribers, includes a  
> special Sonic Acts XI DVD including more than three and a half hour  
> of contemporary computer art, made by almost forty artists from all  
> over the world. The DVD is also available during the festival.
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> The Sonic Acts website is almost complete and contains a lot of  
> information on the different programmes, the artists and who does  
> what when and other relevant information, like changes in the  
> programme. http://www.sonicacts.com
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> The most important changes in the programme: Rutger Wolfson (NL),  
> Casey Reas (US) and Arjen Mulder (NL) will moderate the conference,   
> Rob Young (UK) will replace Gerard Walhof (NL) . Erich Berger (AT)  
> cancelled his performance, Fe-mail (NO) is confirmed.
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> The eleventh edition of the Sonic Acts Festival will be held from  
> Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th February 2006 in Paradiso and De Balie  
> in Amsterdam. Entitled Sonic Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art,  
> the festival will include a three-day international conference, three  
> evenings and nights of live performances, an extensive film programme  
> and an exhibition. A DVD and a book on the festival theme will also  
> be published to coincide with it.
> 
> The three-day conference will provide a multifaceted and penetrating  
> overview of computer art. International speakers from computer arts,  
> film, the fine arts, music, the academic world, literature and art  
> history will, from the perspective of their own background, discuss  
> the historical developments, present the current position of computer  
> art, and consider its future. Jasia Reichardt (UK) opens the festival  
> at February 23 2006 with a Keynote lecture.
> 
> Reichardt is writer and curator and made history in 1968 with the  
> exhibit Cybernetic Serendipity. Speakers at the conference include  
> Lillian Schwartz (US), pioneer in the field of computer-generated art  
> and computer films; Curtis Roads (US), composer and author of the  
> influential Computer Music Tutorial; Stephen Wilson (US), professor  
> of conceptual design at the SFSU and author of the authoritative  
> Information Arts, Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology;  
> Joost Rekveld (NL), artist, produces abstract films and kinetic  
> installations since 1991; Ben Fry (USA), artist, who's current  
> research involves the visualization of genetic data. With Casey Reas  
> he is developing the open source programming environment Processing;  
> Manfred Mohr (US), computer artist since 1968 and considered as one  
> of the pioneers; Frieder Nake (DE), professor interactive computer- 
> graphics in Bremen and one of the three artists in the first computer  
> art exhibitions (1965, Stuttgart). A key-person in the field of  
> computer art and information aesthetics since then; Andreas  
> Broeckmann (DE), artistic director of the international media art  
> festival Transmediale in Berlin. In texts and lectures he deals with  
> post-medial practices and the possibilities for a 'machinic'  
> aesthetics of media art; Matthias Weiss (DE), studied art history and  
> philosophy and is considered an authority in the field of net-art;  
> John Oswald (CA), composer and sound-artist. Became famous in 1990  
> with his Plunderphonics; Rob Young (UK), editor for the music  
> magazine The Wire; Golan Levin (US), artist, composer, performer and  
> engineer, develops new forms of interaction with audiovisual systems;  
> Joan Leandre (ES), also known as Retroyou, artist working with  
> modified games; Wolf Lieser (DE), curator and founder of the Digital  
> Art Museum; Erik van Blokland (NL), designer and co-founder of  
> Letterror. Arjen Mulder (NL), Casey Reas (US) and Rutger Wolfson (NL)  
> will moderate during the conference.
> The festival will start with performances by Granular Synthesis (AT)  
> and Curtis Roads & Brian O'Reilly (US). Granular Synthesis, renowned  
> for its monumental and impressive audio-visual performances and  
> installations, will perform Areal. Curtis Roads & Brian O'Reilly will  
> perform their international acclaimed octaphonic audiovisual piece  
> Point Line Cloud.
> 
> The Friday programme is being compiled in collaboration with Jace  
> Clayton (a.k.a. DJ/rupture), founder of Negrophonic and Soot Records,  
> and will include: The Bug feat. Ras B (Rephlex, UK), Beans (Warp,  
> US), Ghislain Poirier (Chocolate Industries, CA), Vex'd (Rephlex,  
> UK) , DJ /rupture & No Lay & G-Kid (Unorthodox, UK), Team Shadetek  
> presents: Heavy Meckle feat. Matt Shadetek, Sheen, Jammer & Skepta  
> (Warp / Jah Mek the the World, UK/US), Hrvatski (Planet Mu, US),  
> Aaron Spectre (Death$ucker, US), Ove-Naxx (Adaadat, JP), Scotch Egg  
> (Wrong Music, JP), Doddodo (Adaadat, JP), Drop the Lime (Tigerbeat6,  
> US), Filastine (Soot, US), Nettle (theAgriculture, ES), 2/5 BZ  
> (Gözel, TU), Gustav (Mosz, AT), Planning to Rock (Twisted Nerve, DE),  
> Toktek & MNK (NL).
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> On Saturday Performances by: Matthew Dear (Spectral Sound, US),  
> Reinhard Voigt (Kompakt, DE), Ada (Areal records, DE), TBA (Max  
> Ernst, DE), AGF & SUE.C (Orthlorng Musork, DE/US), Portable (Scape,  
> ZA), Fe-mail (NO), NotTheSameColor (AT), Akuvido (UA), SKIF & Bas van  
> Koolwijk (US/NL), Moha! (NO), OfficeR(6) (NL/US/NO), Jason Forrest  
> (Cock Rock Disco, US), TinyLittleElements (AT/DE), Anne Laplantine  
> (FR), Boris & Brecht Debackere (BE), Erich Berger (AT), Nancy Fortune  
> (Viewlexx, FR).
> 
> The film programme will look at purely digital film art with a number  
> of historical overviews, documentaries and contemporary computer  
> films. Work will also be shown from the archive of the Institut  
> National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches des Images. In two  
> programme series work will be shown from filmmakers such as: Raymond  
> Hains, Jacques Brissot, Nicolas Schöffer, Caroline Laure, Marie  
> Claire Petris, Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade and Piotr Kamler. Much  
> of this material has never been seen before in the Netherlands: it  
> offers a wealth of historical material related to abstract film and  
> musique concrête.  There are two filmmaker in focus programmes:  
> Lillian Schwartz and John Whitney; there is one programme with very  
> early computer films by filmmakers like Chuck Csuri and Stan  
> Vanderbeek; there is a programme with early ‘computer aided design’  
> works and there is a programme with works from SIGGRAPH.
> 
> The exhibition will include a number of key-works from the pioneers  
> of computer-art, including works by Ben Laposky, Manfred Mohr, Edward  
> Zajec, Frieder Nake, Tony Longson and Vera Molnar. Also works will be  
> shown from the Sonic Acts 2006 DVD, by artists such as: Bart Vegter,  
> Semiconductor, Effekt, Telcosystems & Jason Haas, Martijn van Boven,  
> C.E.B. Reas, Meta, Driessens & Verstappen, Karl Kliem, Chris  
> Musgrave, Peter Luining, reMI, Scott Pagano & Keepadding, Kurt  
> Ralske, George Issakidis and Daniel Perlin & Dj /rupture.
> 
> 
> Sonic Acts XI
> Thursday February 23 - Sunday February 26 2006
> Paradiso, Weteringschans 6 - 8, Amsterdam, +31206264521
> De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam, +31205535100
> 
> Conference passepartout: € 45,00 (Thursday February 23, doors 20:00,  
> start 20:30, location: Paradiso; Friday February 24, Saturday  
> February 25 & Sunday February 26, doors 12:30, start 13:00, location:  
> De Balie) – The passepartout is also valid for the performance  
> programme & the Keynote lecture on Thursday February 23.
> 
> Live Performances: € 12,50 incl. (Thursday February 23, doors: 20:00,  
> start 20:30, Friday February 24 & Saturday February 25 doors: 20:00,  
> start 21:00, location: Paradiso)
> 
> Films: € 6,25 (Thursday February 23, 19:30 & 21:00, Friday February  
> 24, 19:30 & 21:00, Saturday 25, 16:00, 19:30 & 21:00)
> 
> Conference tickets are available from January 7 2006 via De Balie  
> (+31205535100 between 14.00 and 17.30 during weekdays), AUB and  
> online via:  http://www.amsterdamsuitburo.nl/dsp_productie.cfm? 
> prodid=90F7423E-AAC1-924F-FF8B049630F4DE16
> 
> Live Performance tickets are available from January 7 2006 via AUB  
> and online via:
> http://www.ticketmaster.nl/html/searchResult.htmI?keyword=sonic 
> +acts&l=EN&x=0&y=0
> 
> Film tickets are available from January 14 2006 via De Balie  
> (+31205535100 between 14.00 and 17.30 during weekdays)
> 
>   For more information: www.sonicacts.com 
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