Cimatics Festival 2006

Cimatics Festival 2006

16 – 18 November 2006 at Beursschouwburg, Brussels

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CIMATICS6AV\Festival is back this November, a month packed with plenty of activities for people who like to be dazzled by audio and visuals. After that, we’ll be back in December with Altitude1000, our Brussels AV coop with Foton, but that’s news soon to come…

At Cimatics, we’ve had quite a particular journey since last festival, not only because of the fire that destroyed the Matrix Art Project after last years Cimatics Video Club event, but mainly because we’ve been forging some promising alliances with artists and organizations that will enforce our future projects.

The most significant alliance was teaming up with Greatshare, putting us one step closer to the development of the Cimatics online exchange platform. In spring we already have set up some concerts at Chapelle de Boondael with greatshare and XLCC, also present at this years festival. From there on we’ve been working together on the festival identity and communications and without them we wouldn’t have had Murcof, The Leaflabel, Intifada Offspring or Build…

Cimatics also renewed its alliance with Beursschouwburg. Their new artistic direction will focus their programming (back) on media, performance and crossing borders, so that’s definitely a spot where you’ll find us more often in the future.

Cimatics’ main corporate partner, Pioneer and Pioneer ProDJ have spoiled us again with their fantastic gear: not only have they made it possible to gear up Exceeda’s DVJ master class at the Pianofabriek and the festival with the astonishing DVJ-decks, CDJ’s, Mixing consoles and plasma’s, we’ve also had the opportunity to stuff their top quality plasma screens at the Interieur06 fair with Jeffers Egan’s latest HD motion paintings.

Indirectly, Cimatics has got a splendid reward a few months ago, with LifeInLoops, Timo Novotny’s remix of Megacities getting the award at the Carlovy Vary film festival. Life in Loops is the film version of a live remix that was commissioned by Cimatics in 2003 for the Cinedays event on the Brussels ‘Grand Place’. It caused a small riot back then and as we’ve heard, it also caused one in the Czech Republic… So we hope you didn’t miss the film at the Int. Film festival van Vlaanderen in Ghent or the Live remix with the Sofa Surfers at Vooruit.

All these great alliances of course have an impact on the festival program. The approach to the festival idea has changed a lot: Instead of pushing everything into a well-packed festival week we’ve decided to focus on the specific aspects in separate periods and venues.

The groundbreaking, experimental, avantgarde or yet-to-be-discovered-AV performances are to be found at MediaRuimte, a significant partner since the early days of the Cimatics festival, who again got carte blanche to compose their part of the festival. MediaRuimte is probably the only place where you can combine algorithms, ATARi and cut’n paste sampling without being treated as a weird geek!

For the educational factor of Cimatics we teamed up with Exceeda (UK) and PioneerProDJ at Pianofabriek to work on a weeklong master class where DJ’s can expand their knowledge incorporating visuals in a live set. After this extensive week of working together, the DVJ scratch orchestra will present their first performance and if they prove to be any good, you can definitely expect them to turn up more in future.

The AV-performances, without any doubt the core business of the festival, are all concentrated at the Beursschouwburg during three consecutive days.

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Participants

Walter Verdin (BE), Arden (BE), The Massive Central (BE), Murcof (MX), The Light Surgeons (UK), Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Floris Van Hoof & R.O.T. (BE), Boris & Brecht Debackere (BE), Leaflabel DJ’s (UK), VJ Legoman (CH), DJ Nurse & Télésiège (BE), The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble (NL), Incite (GER), Scanner & TeZ (UK/IT), Gangpol und Mit (FR), DJ Elephant Power (BE), VJ theponeyexpress (BE), Carsten Nicolai (GER), Telcosystems (NL), D-Fuse (UK).

Interviews

with Nicolas Wierinck, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Chris Allen, Brecht and Boris Debackere.

Photos from Festival on Flickr

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