26 October – 6 November 2005

Cimatics 2005 will focus on ‘context’. Audiovisuals, as prominent expression of this age, are not only influenced by different contexts of production or reception. They are becoming or structuring more and more our world through massive content-production and sublime ways of social integration. They are both using and uncovering the building blocks of the virtual perspective on this world.

Cimatics wants to stimulate experimental explorations on this field. Therefore, the festival will invite different artists to collaborate in some well-defined projects: mobile audiovisuals, broadcasting, mass/high/sub-culture…

Cimatics is an initiative of different Belgian artistic organisations, artist collectives & curators: Les P’tits Belges vzw, Visual Kitchen vzw & Boups Radio.

Cimatics Festival 2005 archive page

Participants

LAb[au] (B), HFR-LAB (IT) , Matthew Biederman (US), Jeffers Egan (US), Visual Kitchen (B), Eavesdropper (B), Mika Vainio (FIN), Funckarma (NL), Vanno (B), Impulskontrolle (GER), Sehkombinat (GER), OB”srv (B), Steina & Woody Vasulka (US), Timo Novotny (AT), Markus Kienzl & Wolfgang Frisch (AT), Christopher Willits & Scott Pagano (US), Mat Steel/Mark Fell UK), Yvette Klein (GER), Richard Chartier/Ivan Pavlov (US/RUS), Mario Spiroglou (GR), bolwerK (B).

The festival will take place in several locations, including Cinema Nova, MAP, Mediaruimte, Place Sainte-Catherine and rue de Laeken. The festival not only brings thumping electronic party fun, but also audiovisual concerts and performances, ‘live cinema’-shows, interactive audiovisual installations, lectures and a special dedicated “Cineketje” workshop for kids.