CIMATICS FESTIVAL
Advanced Beauty/ 18 sound sculptures
curated by Universal Everything & Freeform (UK)
| type: Screening | Entrance: 3 euro |
| venue: MediaRuimte | No presale |
| date: 28-29/11/2008 | (free with festival day pass) |
| time: 16:00 | |
| duration: 45 min |
About Advanced Beauty
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects. The first collection is a series of audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack. The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment. Using 1920 HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas, how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion.
About the contributors
Curator: Matt Pyke – Universal Everything Directors/contributors: 1 – Robert Seidel (Germany) 2minds.de 2 – Carl Burgess (UK) moresoon.org 3 – Karsten Schmidt (UK) 4 – Universal Everything / Minivegas (UK) minivegas.co.uk 5 – Mate Steinforth (USA) matesteinforth.com 6 – Robert Hodgin (USA) flight404.com 7 – Jelle Feringa (France) ezct.net 8 – Universal Everything (UK) universaleverything.com 9 – Marc Kremers (UK) tex-server.org 10 – PandaPanther (USA) pandapanther.com 11 – Thomas Traum (UK) thomastraum.com 12 – Paul Simpson (UK) realisestudio.com 13 – Maxim Zhestkov (Russia) zhestkov.com 14 – Tom Scholefield (UK) konx-om-pax.co.uk 15 – PandaPanther (USA) pandapanther.com 16 – Alex Peverett & Paul Emery (Japan/UK) main.softoceanhotel.net/ studioseen.co.uk 17 – PepperMelon (Argentina) peppermelon.tv 18 – Universal Everything (UK) universaleverything.com Music: Simon Pyke - Freefarm. freefarm.co.uk
VIDOS - world release
On Friday Nov 28 Cimatics presents the world-release of the VIDOS DVD. This release with videos to the music of ex-Funkstörung Michael Fakesch' album DOS will be part of the screening program and there will be a special dj/live concert by Michael Fakesch himself.
SHARE Brussels - launch
On Saturday Nov 29th, iMal in collaboration with Cimatics will launch SHARE Brussels. Share is an international movement for open jam sessions. This is an open call for participants to plug in.
